Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk • Hacker News Board

Re: Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk

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Post by philwelch » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 4:41 PM UTC

EamonnMR wrote: post #65

philwelch wrote: post #59

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Possibly stupid question: Is there any fundamental reason your corporate email system couldn't, for example, just not interoperate with the rest of the Internet, at least by default? I understand if this doesn't work for people in sales or consulting or whatever, but 90-99% of my work email is entirely within the same company, and I think it would be less onerous and more secure to just block external email by defaul…

You might as well use IRC/Slack/HipChat rather than trying to set up your own isolated MX.

Unless you actually want email instead of chat.

Re: Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk

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Post by softawre » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

philwelch wrote: post #90

nvr219 wrote: post #67

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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 drive people to use their personal gmail for work.

> 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.

They will use personal gmail to email external people only, and internal for internal.

Re: Out-Of-Office Messages Are a Security Risk

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Post by MiddleEndian » Mon, Feb 04, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

mprev wrote: post #77

monochromatic wrote: post #47

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Still, I’d rather just forward my email to my assistant while I’m gone. If it’s urgent it’ll get handled. If not, it’ll wait.

Can we all forward our email to your assistant too?

And who assists the assistants?