What would you do if you were accidentally included in a confidential email chain?

For the most frequently asked confidentiality interview questions, emphasize that you'll keep everything private and get the problem fixed right away. You don't want to be in a situation where your job is on the line and you're worried about whether a chance recipient will act morally. Regrettably, given the existing state of data protection, that is how damaging misdirected email may be. Double-checking the recipient email address, the CC field, and the BCC field are the absolute minimal precautions you can take to protect yourself.

Also, you should examine any attachments carefully. Intelligent email data loss prevention (DLP) technology is the best way to completely eliminate misdirected emails. With machine learning, Egress Prevent can adapt to your unique behavior and assist you in identifying context-driven errors like adding the incorrect recipient, sending the incorrect file, or forgetting to use BCC instead of CC. Additionally, since they are only notified in real-time when an actual error has happened, the end user will find this to be much more acceptable.

Sample Answer:

A list of Christmas bonuses was sent to me in a previous job along with the company payroll information. I forwarded the email to payroll so they could retrieve it after I realized what it was, and I also deleted a copy from my inbox. Also, since everything I had seen was private information, I kept it all to myself.