Password Protect attachments

[bcholin]

Is there any way to password protect an attachment in Outlook other than
setting the password on the original document? I am trying to disable wrong
recipients from viewing an attachment without having to go through the
encryption/digital id process.

 

[Gordon]

Is there any way to password protect an attachment in Outlook other than
setting the password on the original document? I am trying to disable wrong
recipients from viewing an attachment without having to go through the
encryption/digital id process.

So how does password-protecting the original document allow wrong
recipients to view the attachment? Why do "wrong recipients" get the
attachment in the first place? It's FAR more secure to password protect
the document and then to email the "correct" recipient with the password
separately!

 

[bcholin]

Yes, that is the no brainer ---but, we have an office of employees handling
sensitive material for multiple clients. If they are doing their job
correctly, the suggestion would keep material from getting into the wrong
hands. The problem lies in the autofill address field. If they are not
paying attention, when a name pops up on the default list, it gets chosen and
off the email goes to the wrong "intended" recipient. If there were
passwords that we could implement to each client, the email going to wrong
"intended" recipient would not be able to open that confidential material.
Any other suggestions?

 

[Gordon]

bcholin wrote:
|| Yes, that is the no brainer ---but, we have an office of employees
|| handling sensitive material for multiple clients. If they are doing
|| their job correctly, the suggestion would keep material from getting
|| into the wrong hands. The problem lies in the autofill address
|| field. If they are not paying attention, when a name pops up on the
|| default list, it gets chosen and off the email goes to the wrong
|| "intended" recipient. If there were passwords that we could
|| implement to each client, the email going to wrong "intended"
|| recipient would not be able to open that confidential material. Any
|| other suggestions?
||
|| "Gordon" wrote:
||
||| bcholin wrote:
|||| Is there any way to password protect an attachment in Outlook
|||| other than setting the password on the original document? I am
|||| trying to disable wrong recipients from viewing an attachment
|||| without having to go through the encryption/digital id process.
|||
||| So how does password-protecting the original document allow wrong
||| recipients to view the attachment? Why do "wrong recipients" get the
||| attachment in the first place? It's FAR more secure to password
||| protect the document and then to email the "correct" recipient with
||| the password separately!

Are these "wrong" recipients inside the organisation or outside?

 

[bcholin]

The recipients are outside of the organization.

 

[Gordon]

bcholin wrote:
|| The recipients are outside of the organization.
||

Well that blows that idea away. I was going to suggest you had a look at
Rights Management, but I think that only works internally.