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All government employees will be banned from connecting to commercial e-mail sites on their office computers starting Oct. 1 to prevent important government information from being leaked or hacked in the process of exchanging e-mails. Government employees can keep commercial e-mail IDs for their private use on their personal computers at home.
The cyber security management rule announced Monday applies to all e-mail services provided by domestic and foreign web portals, such as Naver, Daum, Nate, Yahoo, Paran, Empas, Google, Hotmail and MSN.
In their offices, government employees can use only "ID@korea.kr," an integrated government e-mail service provided by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, or "ID@....go.kr," a more secure e-mail service system provided by each government agency. For its own e-mail service system, each government agency should operate separate web and database servers with security functions.
The National Intelligence Service had stressed the need to overhaul the civil servants' e-mail system. As a result, the government reached the decision at a meeting of the cyber security strategy committee chaired by the NIS director on July 7.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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