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If you want to protect the personal data that you send and reduce the risk of a breach, you’ll want to encrypt your emails or use an email encryption service! Did you know that you can send encrypted emails without installing anything?
Why would you want to send encrypted emails?
You may think that encrypted emails don’t apply to you or they are a bit too “techy” to use. But, we’re making it simpler because hackers don’t care whether you’re techy or not. There are some other instances where you might want to send encrypted emails (for industries prone to email breaches check out our other article here.)
- If you’re a business owner or entrepreneur communicating about employee/subcontractor personal data, sharing sensitive information or ideas and secrets you want to protect.
- You’re sending attachments that contain personal information, e.g. recruiters sending CVs, accountants handling account data, members of the public sending copies of ID or official documents.
- Lawyers sending case-specific information
- Developers trying to create encrypted messages from their web portal
But, there are a few issues with the solutions that are out there at the moment:
- They require you to use a different email client entirely (and sometimes they aren’t user-friendly for beginners)
- The other person (recipient) can’t read the encrypted email if they aren’t on the same service
- You need to install an extension, app or program onto your computer (which many businesses won’t allow as it is directly on the network) in order to use them at all
How do you send encrypted emails without installing anything?
This is something we’ve developed. Encrypted emails as a service and it’s really simple. Anyone can use it (whether you’re techy or not). Simply:
- Write your email as normal
- Put “[email protected]” in the “To” field
- Add your recipient in the “subject” field
- Hit send
Test it right now:
- Write your email as normal
- Put “[email protected]” in the “To” field
- Add your recipient in the “subject” field
- Click Send
It works on mobile, MAC or PC as well as any existing platform you’re on. Here’s what the process looks like from a MAC:
What the receiver will see (and do) to read the encrypted email:
In Gmail
In Outlook
If you want to protect your emails and your data for free, check out My Protected Mail for more!
