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The issue of an employee using his official email account for personal purposes is something only the company can resolve. While it may or may not approve the practice, management has to establish certain rules that employees should know and agree to before they are allowed to use the company's network resources.

If you've been contemplating on this issue yourself, it will be fair to analyze it beginning with the premise that your business and personal affairs are two things that matter to you differently. Naturally, they should be treated differently as well. No matter how tempting it is to simply use one email account for all your online communications, don't. Your personal email should be treated differently from your business email and for this reason, you'll always want to keep them separate.

Examining the nature of business and personal communications will help you understand how far worlds apart your personal and business emails are. Business email, for sure, will need strict adherence to stricter rules on passwords. Business communications between you and your clients will also usually need encryption for more security. If sensitive or confidential corporate information needs to be sent, this can be sniffed or and stored on email servers when proper security techniques are not employed. If you work in government, the more communication will have to be secure and the more you have to adhere to even stricter rules. In other words, when dealing with business email, you have to submit to certain controls that have been put in place for a purpose that promotes the best interest of the company or entity you are associated with.

When you use your personal account for business purposes, official email communications will not be protected using such established controls set up by the company. Hence, there is significant risk of compromising the security of corporate information. Obviously, this is something you can get in serious trouble with as far as your relationship with management is concerned.

One thing that makes ordinary web users more susceptible to hacking is their negligence of the fact that the threat is real. People who do not know enough about the technical aspect of the Internet still tend to think that such threat exists only in movies and passwords are secure unless willfully revealed by the owner. The point is, passwords may be obtained without permission and this is possible through the genius of people we know as hackers. Unless one learns to accept this fact, he will remain to be unable to understand the reality of Internet threats.

As an employee, you will be incapable of appreciating protective measures that your company employs to secure its network. Hence, you will always tend to break rules, not necessarily because you want to put the company's safety on the line but simply because you think the consequences are not as serious as they are.

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