How To Increase Your Email Security

In this article you are going to get info on how to increase your Email security.

Strengthening the business email is a necessity these days as emails have become the prime route of communication and business.

Hey if you don’t know how to make a business email from cPanel then read this article.

Let’s move on with this topic.

As we all know hackers and malwares can come from any direction.

Even though you have great security plugins installed on your site and no matter how greatly secure your web hosts are you are still at a risk because of your email.

You can read this post to know how to increase your website security. Apart from website security we need email security as well. So in this post you are going to find out some ways to enhance your website email protection.

We do almost everything to increase our website security but always forget about Email security. If your business email is not secure there are chances your website will be attacked through the email route.

There are many ways hackers can hack your system and website and one popular method to hack is by hacking your Email.

Hacked Emails can be used to send unauthorized and spam emails from your account.

So it is always better to get your Emails secured as well. Here are some ways to enhance your Email security.

Ways To Enhance Email Security :

The very basic and normal way to strengthen your Email is through using anti viruses.

There are anti viruses that you can use for free like from Avast.

Avast gives you a free anti virus for email. This is going to scan all your emails and attachments so that malwares cannot get into the system through attachments.

Apart from using security from Avast there are some cPanel security features that you should know as well.

Here are some features you can use in your cPanel to increase security of your business Email.

cPanel Email Security Features :

cPanel is a very power tool that is used to control the tasks related to your website. cPanel is so powerful that if you properly use its features you will hardly face any security issues.

So let’s see some very basic and simple cPanel security features.

1) Enable SMTP restrictions :

SMTP is called Simple Mail Transfer Protocol which is widely used for Email delivery.

Since it is widely used there are always chances for attacks through SMTP route.

What SMTP restrictions does is that it deny users to bypass your mail server to send email.

It can be very useful mechanism to increase your Email security as bypassing is largely done by hackers.

This feature is so powerful that you strengthen your email security by 10 times when you enable this feature.

It is a super feature and make sure that it is enabled in your cPanel for greater email security.

2) Use stronger password :

A stronger password is a must.

Try to use all possible characters of your Key Board to form a strong password that is hard to guess.

Don’t use only numbers or only alphabets. Use a good unbreakable combination of all possible characters you can use from your key board.

Take your passwords seriously. If you are using simple and guessable passwords then there are chances bad bots will break it. In the your website will be at a high risk.

In the cPanel you can set passwords for almost each and everything and for emails also you have the option to set the password.

You can use password generator option as well to get a super complex password.

So all in all use stronger and complex passwords.

3) Enable cPHulk :

cPHulk is the feature that enables you to prevent Brute force attacks.

With cPHulk enabled you can expect to get the best security for sure. cPHulk is one of the most well known security features provided by your cPanel.

There might be certain web hosts who don’t give cPHulk feature in some plans. So if you upgrade plans you might get the cPHulk security feature.

There are web hosts like TMDHosting (Full Review), GreenGeeks (Full Review) , InterServer (Full Review), DreamHost (Full Review) give you the full control with your cPanel as per your requirements.

So while choosing the web hosts always make sure which cPanel features you are getting.

For better security always make sure that cPHulk is enabled.

Apart from cPanel there are certain plugins as well that can enhance your Email security.

So let’s see how some plugins can enhance email security.

Enhance Email Security with Plugins :

The most common way to protect your Email is not to show the email to public.

1) One way is that you not at all show your email address to public. So this is how hackers will have to waste their time after guessing your email and no one invest time after something that they don’t see in front of their screens.

2) The second way is to write your email in a certain way that bots cannot use it.

For example :

If you email is you@yourdomain.com then to show it publicly you may write it like you[at]yourdomain[dot]com so that at least malicious bots will not be able to use it.

3) Use Email encoder – Protect Email Addresses plugin for your WordPress website.

This plugin will protect your address from spam bots and other robots.

4) Email Address Security by WebEmailProtector : This is another email protector plugin used in WordPress.

This is a plugin that you can use to encrypt your Email address.

Conclusion :

Concluding this article the best way to protect your Email is through cPanel.

Through cPanel you just need few clicks to enable the security features.

Apart from that there are many Email security plugins and you can use anti viruses like Avast as well.

So this is it for Email security. Most of the security features and plugins are for free so don’t hesitate to use them.

I hope this article will be useful.