How big is the U.S. government? It’s big enough that federal agencies transmit 1.89 billion email messages every day — an average of 47.3 million daily emails per agency. How confident are the agencies about protecting the sensitive content of those messages? In a recent survey, federal email managers and IT security experts expressed mixed views about email protection — with a significant majority worried about future breaches. Just 25 percent of the 203 respondents would give their agency email security programs an A grade.
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Feds Find Email Encryption Can Backfire
Posted by: John K. Higgins October 26, 2012 05:00 AMHow big is the U.S. government? It’s big enough that federal agencies transmit 1.89 billion email messages every day — an average of 47.3 million daily emails per agency. How confident are the agencies about protecting the sensitive content of those messages? In a recent survey, federal email managers and IT security experts expressed mixed views about email protection — with a significant majority worried about future breaches. Just 25 percent of the 203 respondents would give their agency email security programs an A grade.