At first glance, email seems like a perfect dinosaur among communications. But in fact, it is still the most frequently used means of transferring information for business. This includes project work, business documents, and product price lists. But not only that. 

Everyday millions of emails are sent from customers to suppliers and vice versa: contracts, invoices and important business documents are forwarded with simple, convenient and very fast emails all over the world. The only problem is that e-mail is not secure. And that is why encryption remains the number one topic in conducting secure business communications.

Email encryption can be done systematically and at a very high level. The experts at Reply have developed a guide to email with encryption and are sharing their knowledge on the subject. But we’ll return to the topic of our conversation – why encryption is so important and how to make it so that no one can harm your business.

Threshold-to-door protection: email encryption

Protecting your email with encryption tools is like protecting from the sender’s threshold to the recipient’s mailbox to the recipient’s door. In the electronic world, such protection is even better than in the analog world:

• it can be carried out in several stages and thus be virtually unbreakable;
• the quality of protection approaches that of high-level cryptographic samples;
• access to the technology does not require special education or special knowledge.

In addition, the cost of decrypting the content of the letter would be so high and take so much time that it simply does not make sense. But that’s the other side of the question. And we will talk first about a system which allows you to get a high-quality encryption of the letter from the point of sending to the point of receiving.

How do you encrypt email messages in email?

This is quite a hassle for the non-professional. However, professional data processing systems – corporate and commonplace – can easily handle the flow of data.

Even the most common and simplest encryption method-TLS technology-creates impenetrable protection for intruders along the data path. However, this encryption method, common to all basic email services, has a vulnerability. Where the data is stored and where the data is received, additional security is required. It is enterprise end-to-end encryption solutions that can fully protect the user from hacking and compromising data, including email addresses, phone numbers and other personal information.

Danny White