Email Encryption
Email is prone to disclosure of information. By design, it sends information across the internet in plain text, making the information readable by anyone monitoring the traffic across the network. Thus, if sensitive or confidential information is transmitted via email, it is vulnerable to snooping.
Email encryption is an effective means to achieve data security when transmitting sensitive or confidential information in the body of an email message, or in a file attached to an email message. WTS endorses the use of GPG4Win (Windows), GnuPG (Linux) and GPG Suite for MacOS for email encryption.
This page describes how to install these encryption tools, as well as how to use them as a means of protecting data transmitted via email.
It is important to know what types of data require protection when transmitted via email. For more information, consult Western’s official Data Classification Standard.
Email Encryption Software
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