Computer hackers know everything about your personal information like credit card balance, security number, what you are doing, where you are— everything. Most of the crimes that a hacker does involving theft of personal information that do not come from hackers informing into personal computers. To reveal or stole your password hackers makes a trick some poor slob and make a phone call.
But in Outlook there is a feature that allow you to keep your secrets or personal information secret that make your identity more secure and be sure about the message received by you is sent from the known people. To advance these security features, you need to add small programs to Outlook, but once you have installed all the features then you never hassle with them again. If you are connect with defense industry, law enforcement, financial work etc., then security is the big deal to handle all these tasks. Many high technology companies provide you a system that confirming identity and message security, using eye scanner, fingerprint reader, and gizmos that recognize you or your face.
In this discussion, we mention about the security features that Outlook offer right out of box.
Getting a Digital ID
You probably receive messages from the unknown people every day that you never met. And you open that message without spending much time to think about whether the message come from the people they seem to be. If you know the sender personally than you simple make a call to verify that what they sent and what you received. But there is much faster approach uses high technology feature that is called as “Digital Signature”. Digital Signature contains tiny piece of secret code mixed with your message to prove 3 things:
- The message comes from that person who seems to have sent it.
- The person who sends the message is the person he claims to be.
- The person who sends the message sent it intentionally like putting your signature on a check; it shows that you mean to send a message.
If you want to get an advantage from Outlook security features, the first step to take is to get yourself a Digital ID. To get the digital ID of your own, get it from that companies that maintain and issue digital services by following these steps:—
1. Click on tools and then select Trust Center.
2. Click on words “E-Mail Security”.
3. Click on the button “Get a Digital ID”.
Sending Digitally Signed Message
Once you have your Digital ID, when you send a message to someone, a Digital Signature is going with that message. With this digitally signed message you can assure about your recipient that you are yourself no one else can send this message. To send a message with digital signature follows these steps after getting a Digital ID:—
1. When you are creating a new message, click on the Options tab from the top of the message screen.
2. Click on the icon showing More Options.
3. Click on “Security Setting” button.
4. Enable the check box “Add Digital Signature to This Message”.
5. Click on Send and the OK.
Received Digitally Signed Message
When you receive a message contains a digital signature. You need not to do anything when you get this type of message just view a little red icon looks like as prize ribbon at upper right corner of the message which verifies that the message really came from the person it claims to have come from.
Encrypting Message
When you are sending an encrypting message to someone, both you and the receiver to whom you are sending a message need to have obtained a Digital certificate. When you select this technique the system hikes the contents of your message which you want to send, so that only recipient can view and read you message. To send an encrypted message to whom you want to send follow the given mentioned steps:—
1. Click on the Options tab while you are creating a message.
2. Click the More Options icon from the right.
3. Click the “Security Settings” button.
4. On clicking, enable “Encrypt Message Content and Attachments” option.
5. Click on Send and Select OK.
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