The purpose of this policy is:
1) To ensure that any PHI being transmitted by email shall be contained in a password protected format.
2) To enforce generating a standard strong password for e-mail attachment. This will avoid random password generation for e-mail attachments.
3) To control the situation where people may send the password-protected attachments but forget to send the password itself in a subsequent e-mail.
4) To reduce network traffic.
Due in (days): 7