Secure E-mail

I didn't find a particular company that used a secure e-mail but I did find articles about banks using secure e mail data protection steps. The article is pretty much about how the banking business does so many transactions and activities online that it makes perfect sense for them to use a secure e-mail system. Or just any sort of security measurements that help protect data. The article talks about if data isn't secure then we can have viruses. Viruses are a major email security hazard that companies simply cannot afford to ignore. Over 11,000 different computer viruses exist to date and some 300 new ones are created each month. Their effects range from negligible to bothersome to destructive. The article also talks about information leaking, various studies have shown how employees use email to send out confidential corporate information. Be it because they are disgruntled and revengeful, or because they fail to realize the potentially harmful impact of such a practice, employees use email to share sensitive data that was officially intended to remain in-house. And one more important thing spam. About 90 per cent of email users receive spam - or unsolicited commercial mail - at least once a week, a survey conducted by the Gartner Group shows. The research results, issued in June 1999, revealed that almost half those surveyed were spammed six or more times a week. The study surveyed 13,000 email users. Banks do a lot of things via e-mail including reaching the customer, bill paying, checking balances, etc. And if the customer sees this kind of stuff they will be turned off and maybe just maybe move to another bank.

http://www.safetysend.com/secure_email.htm

Microsoft Access Project

This project was perhaps the most time consuming and troubling. It was really hard to do. I got confused in a lot of parts. But I really liked learning the part where you can import data in pretty much any format in to the database. You can share data between Access and Excel in many ways. You can copy data from an open worksheet and paste it into an Access datasheet, import a worksheet into an Access database, or simply load an Access datasheet into Excel using the Analyze it with Excel command. This topic explains in detail how to exchange data between Access and Excel by importing, exporting, or linking to data. I really liked the part where you had to create tables. I enjoyed that a lot and really learned a lot of new stuff. When you create a database, you store your data in tables — subject-based lists that contain rows and columns. For instance, you can create a Contacts table to store a list of names, addresses, and telephone numbers, or a Products table to store information about products. Because other database objects (database objects: An Access database contains objects such as tables, queries, forms, reports, pages, macros, and modules. An Access project contains objects such as forms, reports, pages, macros, and modules.) depend so heavily on tables, you should always start your design of a database by creating all of its tables and then creating any other objects. Before you create tables, carefully consider your requirements and determine all the tables that you need.

Excel Project

This project really brought that best out of me, it really got me involved. I think Excel is the most powerful program on the computer. If it is used right. It can do so much right in itself. Its perfect for the business world. I really enjoyed doing this project and learning a lot of new things. I didn't even know pivot tables existed, this was the first time i heard of them. I find excel very helpful, just not in the business world but also in everyday life. Excel can get as simple as 1,2,3 it can get as complex as statistics and what if formulas. You have to pay attention and look at everything in excel, it just doesn't come to you.



There were a few parts where I got stuck and had to watch the lecture videos again. But in the end all the information I gathered and learned were all worth it. It was not like this project something I was forcing myself to do, I really wanted to do it. Excel jjust has that persona to it and it gets me every time. Everyone needs to at least learn the basis of Excel. It comes in handy for everything. Another intriguing part to this project was learning the what if function. There is so much you can do with Excel, I hope Microsoft keeps upgrading this wonderful program every year.