Is Our Domain Public or Private
One of my customers is a Title Company. Here is a question posed by one of their underwriters:
"One of the national title insurance underwriters that we represent is questioning if our .us domain is public or private. They are concerned about the interception of emails by crooks who change instructions for the bank account to have funds wired to. I think what they mean is our email service provider public or private. I assume something like gmail would be public but wouldn't MS 365 be considered private? Should we be concerned about security using 365? By being private, does that mean having your own exchange server?"
What do you interpret this to mean?
"One of the national title insurance underwriters that we represent is questioning if our .us domain is public or private. They are concerned about the interception of emails by crooks who change instructions for the bank account to have funds wired to. I think what they mean is our email service provider public or private. I assume something like gmail would be public but wouldn't MS 365 be considered private? Should we be concerned about security using 365? By being private, does that mean having your own exchange server?"
What do you interpret this to mean?
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John
Agree. Make sure the client does not post real email addresses in email format on their website. Make sure the client understands passwords need to be strong (most don't) and changed at least each 6 months.
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I didn't write the question. I simply copied and pasted. My take on the question was simple "is your email secure" because that is how they transfer funds. I guess they got the answers they were looking for.
FYI, I realize you didn't write the question -- sorry if I made it sound that way -- I was suggesting that you tell these people that the question isn't a valid one -- and by helping them understand how email works a bit, they may feel more confident with it.