Rest assured that your State of Iowa Google Mail account is secure as all email is encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest natively using Google Mail. Email encryption is used to protect the data we send from being read by unintended recipients. There are additional secondary layers of encryption being used across the State as well.
GSecureMail is used by the vast majority of State government. The SecureMail offering can be triggered in your Google Mail by using specific keywords as well as content scanning such as looking for social security numbers.
For quick reference to the GSecuremail Inbox, please bookmark this website: https://gsecuremail.iowa.gov.
Additional information and help can be found below or https://gsecuremailhelp.iowa.gov.