Is email a secure form of communication?
Sensitive information should NEVER be sent through email. As recommended in our Email Best Practices page email.ucdavis.edu/email/Email_Best_Practices_04_16_08_v4.php, we advise against sending sensitive information via email. There are a number of reasons for this: • Email could be intercepted and accessed by an unauthorized party. • Email could be shared inappropriately by the recipient. • Email could be compromised for as long as it is retained by you or the recipient. • There are no retention controls over the recipient’s system. • Accessing your email over an insecure network (i.e., Internet Cafe or open wireless network) can expose your user account information. • Although encrypted connections can mitigate the risks of having ones’ authentication credentials compromised, email itself is still plain text when traveling between the sender and the recipient and can be easily intercepted. • Regardless of the provider, email is not a secure method of communication. This applies to ou
Sensitive information should NEVER be sent through email. We advise against sending sensitive information via email. There are a number of reasons for this: • Email could be intercepted and accessed by an unauthorized party. • Email could be shared inappropriately by the recipient. • Email could be compromised for as long as it is retained by you or the recipient. • There are no retention controls over the recipient’s system. • Accessing your email over an insecure network (i.e., Internet Cafe or open wireless network) can expose your user account information. • Although encrypted connections can mitigate the risks of having ones’ authentication credentials compromised, email itself is still plain text when traveling between the sender and the recipient and can be easily intercepted. • Regardless of the provider, email is not a secure method of communication. This applies to our current campus email systems as well as most third-party email providers.
