How to encrypt any email – in Outlook, Gmail, and other popular services [Video]

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Data privacy has become absolutely crucial for businesses. And some businesses go to great lengths to protect their data, files, and communications.

However, many consumers and smaller businesses continue to believe that adding extra security isn’t worth the extra work required. Wrong! Anyone who refuses or neglects to take the extra steps could find themselves on the wrong end of a data breach.

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Say, for example, you include sensitive information in an innocent email, only to discover that a bad actor intercepted the message, read the content of that email, and extracted the information for some nefarious purpose.

You don’t want that. Even if it does require an extra bit of work on your part, being safe is so much better than being sorry.

What do you do? You encrypt your email (or the email containing sensitive information).