Personal email accounts and data loss prevention

A few days ago, American Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's yahoo e-mail account had been compromised by hackers. Parts of the contents of the message were available to download. In addition to a number of personal photos, nothing makes Palin embarrassed. But news pointed out that Palin had consulted with public affairs via this personal email account, it may try to avoid the law. At present, a 20-year-old Democratic Tennessee state representative’s son is suspected and had relations with this. FBI may investigate with him soon.

Not only political figures, the executives of companies have also suffered from target attacks. For corporate governance, it is necessary to prioritize the policy for the usage of personal email accounts. If unable to control it, it had better to limit it to prevent employees from inadvertent forwarding of email containing product development or business plans to other personal email recipients intentionally or not. Cellopoint proposed that businesses or organizations can implement policies and control e-mail messages with auditing tools. Scan the contents and detect improper behaviors of incoming and outgoing messages. If employees may leak sensitive information to external email addresses, the auditing tool should instantly quarantine the email and notify the auditors or the manager. It results in good email leakage prevention.