The nastiest risk your network faces: Users. They’ll go anywhere… open anything… and they couldn’t care less about protecting themselves till it’s too late.

As if that’s not bad enough, anytime you add any protection that infringes on their perceived freedom, they quickly turn ugly.

So what can a savvy Master of Domains do to protect the knotheads from themselves? Simple. Get rid of as much potentially dangerous content as possible before users get a chance to hurt themselves. Disable dangerous contents, like embedded scripts and HTML forms, in all messages. Delete executable attachments, as well as non-executable attachments containing viruses.

Side benefit: If you use a top-notch spam, virus and content filtering appliance to do the job, you’ll simultaneously lighten the load on your mail servers.

Finally, educate users by posting a message outlining the rules with empathetic explanations. After all, you’re trying to protect their computers and their privacy from outside evils.

Then hunker down till the storm blows over.