The Hillary Clinton email story probably looks arcane to outsiders, but for IT professionals, it’s enough to make them break into a cold sweat.

Primarily because they all know just how easily it could happen in their organization too. I’m pretty sure most of us have been guilty of making the same mistake at least once – using personal email for work and potentially exposing sensitive data. The thing is we rarely realize the potential risk for data breaches, and resulting embarrassment, legal action, and financial losses that could quite simply occur as a result…

How Hillary Got In Trouble

The New York Times broke the story in March that Clinton used personal instead of government email accounts while she was Secretary of State. Clinton said she used the accounts for convenience and didn’t break any laws. However, some officials and experts have said that she put those communications at risk by not using government-secured federal servers.

Should Hillary Clinton have used personal email accounts to transmit work-related information?

— Digital Endpoint (@digitalendpoint) November 23, 2015

Clinton maintained her use of the private server was legitimate. But the story gained new prominence in September when Clinton decided to apologize for using those personal email accounts for State Department business.

The unpleasantness Clinton had to go through could happen to anyone who uses personal email for work. It could have been avoided, too, if she only used her work server: the government system.

Help your CEO avoid embarrassing public apologies like this one – and possibly save your job — by making sure employees also don’t use private email accounts for business.

Employee Monitoring Software – Your best tool for keeping  teams safe from poor practices

But how do you know if your employees, like Clinton, have used personal email accounts to transmit work-related information?

Use employee monitoring software. It’s the best way to make sure employees use approved, secure email accounts for work-related information.

Top-quality employee monitoring software can:

• Track keystrokes
• Take screenshots
• Show who is accessing what websites and files.