I work at home for Company H, and we are partnered with Company P on a particular contract. I use Outlook for email connected to my company's servers that face the public internet. I don't have to be logged in to my company's VPN in order to use my email (though I can be). Company P performs the systems side of our contract, and they host the Oracle development environment on their system. I log in through their VPN to use Oracle SQL Developer to do light data mining.
If Outlook is open when I connect to their VPN, I will usually receive a dialog box prompting me to close Outlook and re-open it, because it's lost connection to my company's server. Once I'm logged in to Company P's VPN, I can re-open Outlook, and it re-establishes connection with Company H's Exchange server.
My question is regarding data privacy. Are my emails sent when I'm accessing my email through Company P's VPN theoretically readable by Company P? I'm not sure if Outlook somehow encrypts email between the client and the Exchange server or if there are any other safeguards in place. Should I assume that Company P could (at least in theory) monitor email traffic sent while connected to their VPN, or is this not really possible?
Thanks in advance.
If Outlook is open when I connect to their VPN, I will usually receive a dialog box prompting me to close Outlook and re-open it, because it's lost connection to my company's server. Once I'm logged in to Company P's VPN, I can re-open Outlook, and it re-establishes connection with Company H's Exchange server.
My question is regarding data privacy. Are my emails sent when I'm accessing my email through Company P's VPN theoretically readable by Company P? I'm not sure if Outlook somehow encrypts email between the client and the Exchange server or if there are any other safeguards in place. Should I assume that Company P could (at least in theory) monitor email traffic sent while connected to their VPN, or is this not really possible?
Thanks in advance.