From Lab to Life · Essay

Beyond Encryption: Next-Level Email, Messaging & Data File Transfer Communication Security

Published
6 February 2024
Author
Tali Režun
Series
4thTech
Topics
Web3

Digital communication has become most relevant in the past decade as digital data has become extremely valuable. Communication in the form of emailing, messaging and data file transfers form the foundation behind most business transactions. Humankind in general has grown a dependency on digital communication as it relies on and depends on it to be robust, confidential, private and secure. Sadly the communication that we use every day is not robust or secure and it is far from private and confidential. Digital legacy communication like emailing, for example, is wide open to Phishing, Spoofing, Spam and the theft of digital identity and data while being vulnerable to brute force, Malware, Ransomware, Man-in-the-middle, Dos, Credential stuffing or other sorts of cyber attacks.