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What we do (and a lot of companies do) is append [EXT] to the subject line of any incoming message from outside the org. Blocking external email by default will
by nvr219 8y ago
What we do (and a lot of companies do) is append [EXT] to the subject line of any incoming message from outside the org. Blocking external email by default will drive people to use their personal gmail for work.
- wwn_se 8y agoClearly denoting if the email is unsafe is great. If there is a lot of communication with a few outside orgs then a whitelist could be used
- carlmr 8y agoThis is a problem with a lot of security people. They want to forbid everything to make it safe. But you need to let people do what they want to do, otherwise they will find way more unsafe ways to do it. A friend of mine works in industrial safety. He sees this a lot. He told me the rule "Jedes Verbot braucht ein Gebot", which roughly translated means "Every thing that is forbidden should be accompanied by a permission". So you can't just forbid people to smoke somewhere, you have to find a place where they can smoke. Otherwise they might find one themselves.
- philwelch 8y ago> Blocking external email by default will drive people to use their personal gmail for work. But how? They could only email with other people who also used their personal gmail for work—they couldn’t book conference rooms or look up anyone they hadn’t emailed before.
- softawre 8y agoThey will use personal gmail to email external people only, and internal for internal.