This week in ISM3004 we had to use Microsoft Thunderbird to send e-mails that are electronically signed and encrypted. Several businesses use secure e-mail to exchange information and create business transactions over the Internet.
One of the businesses that does this is one of my favorites - Nike. In a Business Wire article, Nike announced that they purchased a worldwide license for its World Secure (TM) Server. By doing this, Nike was able to establish a "S/MIME Network" with its key trading partners in order to seamlessly and securely exchange proprietary and sensitive information over Internet e-mail.
I think this move to secure e-mail makes a lot of sense for Nike. I imagine they do so much business around the globe, especially China, and the best and fastest way to exchange business transactions is over secure e-mail. It is also interesting to note that his article was published in 1999 and it mentions how Nike can be a huge corporation setting the trend for secure e-mail in all businesses. I think it is very prevalent today in business, and I had to use it for my internship and sign things with PDF documents as well.
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