It seems that the more you try to keep someone out of your life or your house the more they want in. It’s the same with unauthorized access to your corporate email accounts. But what’s worse than someone trying to gain unauthorized access to your email accounts is some “thing” trying to gain access to your email accounts. The “something” that I am talking about is the following warning message:

“A program is trying to access e-mail addresses stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this?”

If you have Outlook 2002 deployed in your environment then you can implement some security features that will prompt a user or notify an administrator of attempted unauthorized access to email.

Some security features will notify you if an application attempts to access the Outlook address book. Such security features can also be configured so that access must be granted by a user or an administrator’s role. Logging of such events can also be turned on for historical purposes.

Some applications can be added as a trusted source and will require the Outlook Email Security Administrator Package from Microsoft. Other applications may need to be configured as trusted COM add-ins. Administrator assistance will most likely be needed as some changes will need to be performed on the Exchange server.

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