How Secured are your Emails?

We all are well habituated and somehow dependent on emails as an integral facet of life. Many of the organizations are truly dependent on emails for their all kind of internal as well as external communication with the employees or their clients or vendors, and it is quiet common across all the industries.

Most of the time we don’t even think before firing off the emails throughout the day, or the files and attachments whatever are enclosed and goes along frequently with those mails. Well, do we have any alternative? Do we have any other or safest option? Are those emails safe and secured? There are plenty of such questions bouncing within us unanswered!

Today, in this blog, we’ll discuss about the safety and security of our Emails, the alternative for the traditional email system and the best way to secure your emails and data.

Traditional Emails

We all have been using different available platforms for our day to day email communications and which are the typical traditional way of communications since long. Though email security and safety had been improving every now and then since its inception, but still these traditional emails are way far from being the complete secure means of communication.

Reason

The existing email solution work in a centralized manner and have the protocol level dependency. They are hackable and that’s the reason why we are seeing a continuous rise in the email breach and data loss.

The email we send travels through different networks and servers before reaching to the recipient’s inbox making it easy for the hackers to attack and steal our data. These pause points open the way for the hackers to play with our emails, usually because of the unsecured networks, vulnerable servers and of course the smartness to hack them. Though these emails aren’t encrypted, its quiet easy for the hackers to read all those mails and get access to our files or the attachments enclosed along the mail. In a nutshell, there is no safety of neither your data nor your privacy!

Some Not Interesting Facts –

· 60% of companies have experienced a DATA BREACH of some kind in the last two years which could result in regulatory fine or severe reputational damage.

· Breach Level Index showcased 86% of records breaches due to accidently loss and only 4% breaches involved any level of encryption.

· 71.4% of targeted attacks involved the use of spear-phishing emails.

· Microsoft admitted a data breach of its non-corporate email services. The breach, which lasted from January 1 to March 28, 2019, allowed hackers to access email accounts by misusing Microsoft’s customer support portal (IdentityForce)

· Yahoo holds the record for the largest data breach of all time with 3 billion compromised accounts (Statista)

· In 2019, First American Financial Corp. had 885 million records exposed online including bank transactions, social security numbers and more. (Gizmodo)

· In 2014, Ebay was hacked, accessing 145 million records (Yahoo)

· In 2018, Marriott International data breach affected roughly 500 million guests (New York Times)

Solution

- Integrating existing email systems with Blockchain enabled solution is increasingly imperative as current email services are cumbersome and no longer secure.

- Indeed, email service providers are using obsolete technology which is highly vulnerable to ever more sophisticated hackers.

- By leveraging decentralized mechanism of Blockchain where messages are stored in shared Ledgers eliminates the dictation of single authority to manage data being exchanged.

- A tamper-proof, encrypted, secure and authentic solution which can easily integrate with current email platforms for providing highest level of security.

- It also maintains seamless user experience is definitely worth adopting to prevent from increasing email phishing and cyber threats.

Making the long story short, decentralized email solutions are the need of the hour and also the best way to secure your data, your privacy, your emails. Let me know your thoughts on the same and we will discuss about the decentralized email solution in our next blog.