Keep work email out of your personal accounts

It can be tempting to forward work email to a personal Gmail or Outlook.com account, to read it on the go or keep a copy. But once it leaves, the information is outside your organization's protections, and it may break your organization's data rules or client agreements.

Avoid

• Setting up automatic forwarding to a personal address
• Forwarding attachments to yourself to print or work on at home
• Adding your work account to a personal email app that isn't approved

Do this instead

• On your phone: use the Outlook app with your work account.
• At home: open files from OneDrive or SharePoint, or use Outlook on the web.
• Leaving the organization? Ask your manager what you can keep, rather than forwarding it to yourself.

Already forwarding? Turn the rule off in Outlook and let us know, so we can check nothing sensitive went out. Your organization may block automatic forwarding anyway.