Secure Messaging ― A Guide to Protecting the Content of Internet E-mail Messages with Domino 6

摘要

Someone in management is sweating. She has just received a document detailing the requirements for a legal mandate, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Or maybe it's a corporate mandate from the legal department or the CEO. In addition to protecting data assets within the company, this manager now has to explain how she will prevent confidential business and customer data from leaving the company via e-mail. Her first thought might be, "Aren't we doing this now?" "I thought our e-mail environment was already secure!" "Didn't we get Lotus Notes for the added security it has?" Naturally, these concerns roll down to you, the administrator or manager of the Lotus Notes environment. Your organization's anti-virus, anti-spam, and firewall protection seem to be doing their jobs, but how are you going to protect business or customer secrets that might be sent via e-mail?