Welcome to Email Security Zone. Here you will find a compilation of resources, information and recommendations to help you secure your email and internet facilities.
Access to the site is totally free, and will remain so in the future.
Email Security Awareness & Training
Most email related security breaches arise directly or indirectly from lack of awareness or knowledge. To address this, E-Aware have produced the E-Aware Email Security Kit
This comprises hundreds of foils covering everything from firewalls to digital signatues, and virus attack to message encryption. It is an excellent launch pad to learn about secure email.
Email Security Policies
The starting point for secure email and internet activity is surely to ensure that you have a detailed set of security policies. This is fundamental.
NEW: To assist, at the bottom of this page you will find links to a number of relevent policies extracted from the acclaimed RUsecure Security Policy Suite
Hushmail
Hushmail is the most well known provider of end to end encrypted email. It uses OpenPGP standard algorithms and is virtually transparent to the user. This is our recommended software product for end to end email security.
Cryptography/Software Solutions
Email Security World offer CipherPack. This is a point and click file encryptor with a difference... the encrypted package can be sent (eg: via email) to a remote location and decrypted without the receiver having any special software installed. This is our recommended software product for file encryption.
Email/Internet Security Policies
The policies below cover a wide range of email and internet security issues:
Downloading Files and Information from the Internet
Using and Receiving Digital Signatures
Sending Electronic Mail (E-mail)
Receiving Electronic Mail (E-mail)
Retaining or Deleting Electronic Mail
Setting up Intranet Access
Setting up Extranet Access
Setting up Internet Access
Developing a Web Site
Receiving Misdirected Information by E-mail
Forwarding E-mail
Using Internet for Work Purposes
Giving Information when Ordering Goods on Internet
'Out of the Box' Web Browser Issues
Using Internet 'Search Engines'
Maintaining your Web Site
Filtering Inappropriate Material from the Internet
Certainty of File Origin