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How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

August 8, 2014 By Nwosu Desmond 9 Comments

Emails are one of the most crucial business entity and misbehaving with it can lead any firm to the extent of risk (both legal and financial level). So, keeping emails more secure and confidential in Microsoft Outlook should be prime concern for users as well as any individual person if they have an internal communication structure using MS-Outlook.

Hence, Outlook deals with such things and provides an inbuilt feature called “Encryption” to its users so that they can make emails communication private. Email security is important as it protects data from being hacked, attacked, phished, and from other harmful scams over the internet.

So, if you are thinking about creating an email account with the motive of exchanging confidential and sensitive data to another party, then the utilization of “Encryption” can prove beneficial.

What is the meaning of Encrypting Emails especially in Outlook?

I am quite aware that the question which most bothers you is “What is Encryption?”. For a casual Outlook user, it could be difficult to understand the term Encryption.

So let’s first understand the term Encryption in simple words:

Encryption is a methodology to convert or code data as password protected or a secure form of structure modification or applying a digital password upon it. By using Encryption on Outlook emails, you can convert messages from, a readable form to a scrambled structure. Such emails can only be accessed or encrypted by a recipient having the respective password or private key. The encryption of emails helps establish a user to user communication, means no-one sneak in and read or edit the emails.

In Outlook, this task is executed by using the “Digital Signature” which allows a user to access emails.

Must Read: How to Setup Custom Domain Email on Outlook.com

How to Apply Encryption on MS-Outlook Emails

Applying encryption or password protection on emails while working with Microsoft Outlook is thoroughly easy. But, there is a need to follow a set of instructions to accomplish this task.

Encryption of Single Email:

1.) Start composing a new email and go to the “Option” tab.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

2.) Now click on “More Option” button under the “Option” tab.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

3.) A new window will appear on the screen, where you need to click on “Security Settings” button.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

4.) Choose the “Encrypt message contents and attachments” check box and click on “Ok” to do further activities on encrypted emails.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

Encryption of All Outgoing Emails:

1.) Go to “Options” by clicking on “File” tab.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

2.) Make a click on the “Options” tab and go to “Trust Center” tab.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

3.) After reaching on the “Trust Center” window, move cursor on the “Trust Center Settings” button and apply a click.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

4.) Now, you will see another window which shows various entities relevant to security under the encrypted e-mail section. Choose the “Encrypt contents and attachments for outgoing messages” option from it.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

6.) To do more changes or apply additional settings on the encryption, click on “Settings” button and start performing other required changes.

How to Encrypt Emails in Microsoft Outlook 2010 & 2013

In Conclusion:
Initializing the security by encrypting emails or message in Microsoft Outlook increases message authentication. So, always encrypt emails before sharing any important emails.

Must Read: How to enable 2-step authentication for YahooMail, Gmail and Outlook

This is a guest post by Peter Baris. He is the author of MS Outlook Tools, Peter has an experience of more than 20 years in the IT industry. He is now working with an expert data recovery firm. Having quality expertise in the Office products, especially in Microsoft Outlook he loves to solve user queries by providing excellently suitable solution.

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Filed Under: How-To, Internet Tagged With: Digital Signature, email, encryption, Microsoft Outlook, password, privacy, security

Comments

  1. Pankaj says

    August 8, 2014 at 9:21 am

    Hi Nwosu,

    Never thought about applying encryption on my outlook emails. But it is certainly essential to ensure security of your emails and now I’m going to do it by following your mentioned steps.

  2. Sunday says

    August 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    Hi Desmond and Peter,
    This tutorial about encrypting Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2013 is readily powerful.

    It guides marketers on the essence of Outlook and assures them that this email functionality could be trusted to secure messages.

    Personally, I have learned new thing although I never get to use Outlook. However, I love any facility that brings about increased protection of messages. I will consider using Outlook as my email marketing tool!

    This post “kingged” or upvoted in kingged.com where it was shared for bloggers,social marketers,and online marketers.

    This post “kingged” or upvoted in kingged.com where it was shared for bloggers,social marketers,and online marketers.
    http://kingged.com/encrypt-emails-microsoft-outlook-2010-2013/

  3. Nwosu Mavtrevor says

    August 9, 2014 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks Sunday for your wonderful contribution. I hope others can use this guide in protecting their messages.

  4. Akaahan Terungwa says

    August 10, 2014 at 5:49 am

    Hello Peter,

    It’s amazing reading your entry here at Netmediablog; Nwosu is doing a great job with the blog and it’s always fresh here.

    To your entry: though I don’t use Outlook, the tips you have shared here are smart, cogent and to the point. Compromising email communication (on whatsoever ground) could be suicide on more grounds than one.

    Be sure to make the day great!

    Always,
    Terungwa

    P.S.

    Any tips for secureserver.net users?

  5. Peter Baris says

    August 11, 2014 at 12:46 pm

    Hi Pankaj and Nwosu Mavtrevor,

    First of all, a great thanks for reading my contribution in this amazing platform. Yes, Encryption secures email from various kinds of fraud activities which are common in today’s time. In simple words, few steps can give you more privacy over email communication.

    Thanks & Regards
    Peter Baris

  6. Peter Baris says

    August 12, 2014 at 10:07 am

    Hi Akaahan,

    Many many thanks for reviewing my contribution in NetMediaBlog. I can not able to access your site on my browser ,so can you give me more bit info about your website? Secureserver.net is seems pretty awesome site like this one and i would always try to make such web platform more informative by providing them some useful knowledge.

    Hope to hear you soon!!!!

    Thanks & Regards

  7. April Gordon says

    October 13, 2014 at 7:17 pm

    Cool tip. Especially with all the privacy issues going around.

  8. réparation informatique rouen says

    November 3, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    thank you very nice tutorial thank for sharing.

  9. Bruno Linares says

    January 6, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    this is great for my company and we are going to try to use encryption for our emails. Security is everything nowadays.

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