---
id: 8369
title: "Email Uses and Security Liabilities"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/email-uses-and-security-liabilities/"
published_at: "2011-07-28T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["compliance", "email-security", "data-protection", "hipaa", "dlp", "pci", "user-training"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8369"
lang: en
---

# Email Uses and Security Liabilities

## Summary

A NetSPI post warns email has grown from a messaging system into a file transfer and storage platform, dragging HIPAA and PCI obligations with it; it urges user training, encryption and DLP controls.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2011-07-28T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/email-uses-and-security-liabilities/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8369