Analysis of E-Mail Security Events and its Solutions
Pian Niu, Zheng Tao Jiang · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2014
With the rapid development of internet, E-mail has already been an indispensable tool of communication. However, because of some inherent technological insufficiencies, users’ weak sense of security and attacks from hackers, E-mail using is facing with many challenges such as virus-carrying E-mails and E-mail bombs, which results in severe consequences in terms of E-mail security. On the basis of studies of severe E-mail security events in recent years and with the application of technologies on information security, this paper attempts to give two kinds of proposals to solve problems concerning E-mail security from the perspectives of government, company, university and individual respectively. The first is a general proposal for all E-mail users and the second is a proposal on improving information security technology.