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In my article Basic e-mail security tips, I discussed five steps everyone should employ to secure their email, regardless of the client they use. Here are five more recommendations. These tips focus on the ways users break their own security rather than on protecting against the predations of malicious security crackers. Security can be violated through careless acts more easily than by outside forces.

Note: These tips are based on an entry in our IT Security blog.

1. Turn off  automated addressing features

As communication software accumulates more and more automated convenience features, we’ll see more and more cases of accidentally selecting the wrong recipients. A prime example is Microsoft Outlook’s “dreaded auto-fill feature,” where it is all too easy to accidentally select a recipient adjacent to your intended recipient in the drop-down list. This can be particularly problematic when discussing private matters, such as business secrets.

TechRepublic has the details HERE!