How To Encrypt Sign Presentation

How To Encrypt Sign Presentation

Julie: Hello, everyone and welcome to our webinar in securing e-mail with digital signatures and encryption. I'm Julie Olenski with the GlobalSign Marketing team, and I want to thank you all for joining us today. I'm happy to introduce today's presenter, Evan Wajda. Evan is one of our lead sales engineers at GlobalSign and is responsible for implementing advanced PKI solutions for our customers. He is an IT expert with a strong passion for sales and consulting. So please feel free to send any questions you have over to Evan so he can cover them during the Q&A portion after the presentation. If you have questions throughout the presentation, you can submit them using the questions box in your GoToMeeting control panel. We'll keep track and try to answer them all at the end of the webinar. You can also follow us on Twitter at @globalsign where we'll be sharing follow up materials after today's presentation. Here's a quick look at what Evan will be covering today. First, we'll do a quick overview of the growing risks of using e-mail, like phishing and data loss. Then, we'll go into how S/MIME helps mitigate those risks, how it works, and some examples of digitally signed and encrypted e-mails. He'll wrap things up with an overview of different certificate deployment options and now, over to Evan. Evan: Hello, all. Thank you for joining. Today, we're going to cover the growing risks of using e-mail. E-mail is an essential part of everyday life. Over 100 billion businesses, 100 billion e-mails are sent through businesses every day. These 100 billion e-mails often include sensitive and confidential data, leaving it vulnerable to falling into the wrong hands. In fact, a recent survey found 53% of employees reported receiving unencrypted, risky, corporate data via e-mail or e-mail attachments with 21% actually admitting they were guilty of sending unencrypted, sensitive information themselves. This highlights e-mail's potential to be a major vulnerability. One recent study found 22% of companies experience data loss through e-mail each year. It's clear that organizations need a solution that will let their users send sensitive information via e-mail but without the risk of it being intercepted. Sending e-mails from a forged sender address called e-mail spoofing is one of the most popular methods for carrying out a phishing attack. A hacker will forge an e-mail so it looks like it's coming from a legitimate company, like a bank or financial institution, usually with the intention of tricking the unsuspecting recipient to downloading malware or entering confidential information into a fake website or it can be accessible to the hacker. While these types of attacks are certainly calls for concern, I'm going to focus on attacks that target employees within an organization, with the hopes of gaining access to internal systems, receiving payment, or installing malware. This is often referred to as spear phishing. Often with spear phishing, an attacker will impersonate an individual or department from the organization. For example, you may receive...