Is email secure?
Developed far before the evolution of data protection legislation, our move to the cloud, and adoption of hybrid working, traditional email was never built to be secure.
As a result, standard email clients and security platforms focus primarily on incoming threats (e.g. phishing and malware) and fail to tackle the leading cause of data leaks – human error.
For example, in both Outlook and Gmail, the revoke function is inadequate, and neither platform offers functionality to ensure sensitive communications are protected after sending, such as multi-factor authentication or expiration controls. We also see many email providers retaining access to encryption keys, making them vulnerable to attacks, and many email clients fail to offer large file sharing functionality.
Instead of adopting security best practice, busy employees are becoming experts in how to navigate obstacles built into workflows – jumping into third-party environments such as file sharing platforms and unencrypted messaging applications to perform simple tasks.
IT leaders need to empower employees to share sensitive data compliantly with email security designed for today’s modern business environments.
Ensure GDPR compliance with 3rd-generation email security
We help organizations to meet GDPR requirements with smart technology and advanced encryption:
- Email logs — Automated data logging provides detail on email performance, including when emails were sent, received, and accessed. This helps organizations to manage a potential breach and acquire evidence of due diligence as it relates to GDPR.
- Recall you can rely on — If an email is sent to the wrong person, employees can quickly revoke access. Under GDPR, if the email or attachment is recalled without being accessed, you don’t need to declare a data breach.
- Contextual, intelligent error correction — Machine-learning powered error detection warns if sensitive information is included in the body and attachments of emails, or if an email is potentially being sent to the wrong address or to a large group of addresses.
- Multi-factor authentication — Empower employees to require recipients to verify their identity before accessing emails and files.
- Expiration controls — Set expiration dates for emails so that data is deleted after a set period.
- We don’t hold encryption keys – Only you and your recipient can access your data.
- Send large files – Rather than utilizing non-compliant third party file transfer sites, securely send up to 5TB from your email client.
Ensuring compliance shouldn’t be complex for organizations. In fact, sharing sensitive data securely should be nothing short of effortless.
Zivver seamlessly integrates with popular email clients including Outlook and Gmail, meaning employees don’t need to adopt new workflows to communicate securely.
Zivver: securing email communications and ensuring GDPR compliance
Our smart and secure email solutions support more than 10,000 organizations to strengthen their security and stay GDPR compliant.