Employees within an organization regularly use company e-mail for exchanging information with people both inside

and outside the organization. Because these e-mail messages use the Internet, they render the network vulnerable to external threats. The organization should incorporate e-mail security measures to address these threats.

For this Discussion, explain two important risks facing an organization by its employees using corporate e-mail (Microsoft Exchange, for example). What privacy safeguards and countermeasures would you suggest to the organization to protect e-mails going outside the company, and address junk mail, phishing attacks, and malicious links and attachments in incoming e-mail? Justify your selections.