Government and enterprise to regain control of email systems or risk information chaos. So warn consultants Nexor. Visit www.nexor.co.uk
The warning comes after Claire McDonald, a Devonshire schoolgirl, hit the headlines for receiving sensitive emails from the Pentagon and other government organisations for more than six months, despite repeatedly alerting the senders. This latest example of email indiscretion, say Nexor, follows other email blunders including: Jo Moores and Stephen Byers ‘bury news’; Cherie Blair and the Peter Foster exchange; Clair Swire and Mr Chait’s intimate exchange, Dell’s dismissal of an employee for wrongly directing an email and Chevron paying $2.2 million to settle a sexist email law suit.ÿÿ Cases such as these are currently being highlighted in a new BBC series entitled “Emails you wish you’d never sent”.
What they say
Humphrey Browning, head of technical consulting, Nexor, said: “We are not at all surprised that this latest error has occurred. Email is quite simply spiralling out of control. Cases like this highlight the immediate need to act now and put solutions and policies in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again.” Nexor deploys email solutions which set and define rules for who can send and receive information. Using labelling techniques it is also possible to check the content of emails and only allow messages to be sent/received if clearance for an individual has been authorised. ?This still relies on the correct information classification or label being selected, so there is still room for human error.ÿNexor’s formal messaging goes one-step further and enables organisations to calculate the classification of a message based upon the number and weight of hit/key words it contains, and to determine if the recipient has the appropriate classification clearance,? says Browning. Nexor has recently been assessed for and subsequently accredited to BS7799 Information Security Management Systems.
