Securing messaging services, like e-mail, has always been a challenge for business. There are many solutions to choose from including desktop based signing and encryption of mail messages to outsourced real-time e-mail encryption.

For instance, if your company sends and requests information from customers that contain financial, personal identification, healthcare, or other highly confidential information, you may be putting both your company and customers at risk of information disclosure. A good example of this would be an event that took place in south Florida recently. A healthcare employee accidentally sent information on HIV patients to a large distribution list. Non of those in this distribution list were the intended recipient. This kind of accident can be adverted by implementing certain forms of mail relay encryption solutions.

There are solutions to this problem. The challenge is finding which one is right for your environment.