Email isn't secure but it's here to stay, says Websense information security officer

Danny Palmer
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People dislike email but businesses are stuck with it, Neil Thacker tells Computing's Enterprise Security and Risk Management Summit

Email isn't a "secure method for communicating at all" but it's so engrained in the language of business that it's here to stay, and will carry on leaving holes for hackers and cyber criminals to e...

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