10 Email Security Lessons To Be Learned From Climategate Posted by l33tdawg on Friday, December 11, 2009 - 03:59 AM (Reads: 266)

Source: eWeek (Europe) As the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference, or COP 15, in Copenhagen, Denmark, gets under way this week, the summit has been muddied a bit by the details found in scientists' stolen emails. The emails contain information that has given those who believe global warming concerns are overblown a new lease on life. They are now supporting their opinions with those details. And all the while, the heated debate over global warming is becoming even more divided. But there are valuable lessons to be learned from the stolen emails. No, this won't be a discussion on global warming or climate change – that’s a debate for another day in another place. It will be a discussion on what can be learned from this incident to ensure that employees or consumers with sensitive information in their email won't fall victim to those planning to steal information. That said, it's important to note that no security plan will be absolutely effective. Sometimes, data is stolen. But the fact that scientists themselves didn't have proper security conditions in place to safeguard their email points to a dangerous trend: We just don't secure our email as well as we should. So let's take a look at some of the lessons learned from the stolen data and how we can protect our own email going forward.