There are increasing reports of email misuse, malicious use, mistaken use, and just plain bad implementations of email systems that allow the many threats out in the wild and woolly Internet, and the desperado insiders, to exploit vulnerabilities. It is most common for information assurance pros to be fairly diligent in trying to keep malware out of the enterprise network through scanning and filtering emails, and it is good to see that it is also becoming a growing trend to try and prevent sensitive data from leaving the enterprise by using scanning and encryption. However, there are many other mishaps and business damage that can occur through the use, or misuse, of email and email monitoring that can have legal implications.

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