End users must decide if they should be exploring ways to protect sensitive information through encrypted e-mail. It is even more important for e-mail messages sent among security personnel or from security to others be better protected, too.
Many vendors provide e-mail assessment services as an up-front way to introduce them and to help assess vulnerabilities in e-mail communications. Whether free or fee-based, an e-mail assessment can provide quantifiable statistics on the number of messages in a mail stream that contain sensitive information and need to be sent securely. They may also use content-filtering techniques that search for language specific to each specific industry.