An abundance of channels exist today to communicate through online messaging, yet email remains the most mature method to do so and is an integral part of people’s daily activity. However, despite the maturity of email, it is still seen as the best weapon that spammers and hackers have in their arsenal to gain access to a user’s valuable information.
In fact, cybercrime is estimated to cost the global economy nearly $113 billion a year. Research firm The Ponemon Institute estimates that, in 2012, hackers cost American companies $277 for each customer account put at risk. Today, we send and receive 183 billion emails per day (statistics from 2013) and with figures this high, you’d think that corporations have done everything they can to prevent cybercrime, but unfortunately, that’s not the case.