There are nine common threats that affect the personal, private and confidential nature of Email communications.

Email Privacy Threats

Email Security Threats



The entire document is available in Adobe's pdf format Reducing Email Threats

Reducing Email Security Threats



Traditional Log Files

Traditional log files are text files written in plain English which are used to assist in diagnosing problems and spotting potential security breaches. However, they often contain various forms of information such as IP address, email addresses, and other potentially private and confidential information. To prevent such log files from becoming security breaches themselves, MyMailSM does not retain any log files for more than 72 hours, and those log files it does keep for the 72-hour period are kept securely with only the minimum amount of information necessary to perform standard diagnostic functions