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Final exam: Have you mastered the essentials of e-mail security?

14 Apr 2005 | SearchSecurity.com

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by Joel Snyder

Take this final exam to test your knowledge of e-mail security strategies and tactics. In order to successfully pass the exam, you will need to study Lessons 1-3 of E-mail Security School. Click on the link for the correct answer.


1.) When are digital signatures and footer stamping incompatible?
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2.) Putting message archiving functionality at the Internet gateway seems very efficient. But what is wrong with this picture?
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3.) Encrypted mail can't be scanned by a compliance checker. How do you resolve this issue?
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4) Policy says that you will accept 10 messages an hour from someone. What do you do with the 11th message?
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5) Identify the two most common errors associated with keyword searching across e-mail messages.
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