Monitoring Employee Emails

Learn more about employee email monitoring programs on the insurance blog. Find out how monitoring your employees' email can help keep company data safe online now.

You can reduce your company’s online risks by monitoring employees’ email. Risks that occur through email including downloading harmful viruses and malware, releasing proprietary information and making statements that leave the company liable.

Does Your Employees’ Email Put Your Company at Risk?

Lawsuits or security breakdowns could occur from your employees’ email activities. According to a recent survey done by Harris Interactive, almost 70% of American employees who use email have sent or received emails that could put their company at risk. The employees admitted that they had sent or received passwords and login details, videos, jokes and a number of other items through email that could put their employers at risk.

Implementing Employee Email Monitoring Protects Companies

Monitoring employee emails can help reduce the risk of online liability or security breaches. Despite the number of employees who regularly engage in email activity that could place a company at risk, very few U.S. employees polled felt that they had done anything wrong. 92% of employees in the email survey stated that they had never sent or received email that could pose a threat to their employer. That’s a big company security disconnect. Monitoring employee emails can help mitigate company risks. It’s critical that email monitoring practices are clearly stated in company email policies. The policies, which outline appropriate email usage and include information about email monitoring practices, should be distributed to all new and current employees anytime they are updated.

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