Your Emails Are Not Secure! (And What You Can Do About It)

Email is not a secure method of communicating information. It can often be intercepted and read in plain text. Even when encryption is used there are several weakness that could be exploited to let another person read your emails.
A new standard (MTA-STS) is gathering momentum and promises to solve some of these problems. This video explains what common techniques such as opportunistic TLS, enforced TLS, S/MIME and PGP can do to help, where these leave gaps, and how the MTA-STS standard can help plug them.

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Acronyms used:
TLS: Transport Layer Security
MTA-STS: Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security
S/MIME: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy

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Video timestamps:
0:00 - The Problem with Email
2:09 - Message Encryption
3:45 - Transport Encryption
6:10 - The Encryption Gap
7:54 - MTA-STS & Final Thoughts

#Email #CyberSecurity #Encryption