Security - Better safe than sorry

As a computer consultant specializing in security, I have always advocated the use of e-mail encryption techniques to prevent information leakage within the business community. Stop for one moment to reflect back to the Netscape vs. Microsoft wars, the eventual government hearings on monopoly then recall the leaked memos from Bill Gates and wonder if Bill wished he had used PGP encryption. If anyone is interested in this form, it is available in a commercial and freeware package.

Note: If you are presently using any of the commercial security packages available look into what you have before running out and purchasing others. You may have sufficient encryption available to you already.

I would bet that he would have given a few million of his easy-earned bucks to use his own NT encryption techniques let alone something along the lines of PGP or anything with blowfish encryption, much faster than DES Algorithm.

While I am on this subject, we can also add to his past plethora of ill wills the fact of washing any e-mail correspondence after a certain date. This would insure the company’s security and keep internal secrets safe from the prying eyes of industrial espionage. Their stored e-mail records provided many a silver bullet in the monopoly case when a simple wash technique would have kept them safe and out of court.

The hearings did have one thing going for it though, without them the world would have never learned that Gates rocks back and forth in some form of Zen trance whenever he is concentrating.

So with all of this useless information out in the open I would like to take a few moments to advise everyone within reading, listening or throwing distance – encrypt your personal and business correspondence!

We have a wide variety of encryption techniques available to us in today’s age of computers. I have provided a link to the site www.download.com to provide a brief overview of what is available.