Assessing Network Security

Chapter 25. E-Mail Threats

Almost everything you have can be categorized into the things you need and the things you don’t need. Food and water are a definite need. (It would be hard to survive more than a week without these.) Friends and family are needed too. A bald left-handed monkey, however, is something you don’t need. (Well, maybe you don’t need it.) E-mail, because of its widespread use, is a need for most if not all organizations. In fact, e-mail is relied on so heavily as a business tool and as a means of communication that to some organizations, it’s an absolute must have. If your organization’s e-mail system didn’t function, would the organization still operate efficiently? Like most other organizations in such a predicament, it probably ...