How to Avoid Your Own Email Crisis

Leaked Democratic Party email exposed a simple fact: People gossip. But in today’s cybersecurity environment, leaders would do well to recognize that a bigger crowd can listen.

At this point, you may be so tired of hearing about email that you’ve decided to stop using it—instead, you've thought about using smoke signals, telegraphs, semaphore flags, whatever unhackable communications method works. Considering the proliferation of hacks, that may not be the worst idea, actually.

Consider the latest high-profile incident. Last week, the Democratic National Convention was thrown off-message before it began by Wikileaks’ release of a trove of internal emails from Democratic National Committee staffers.