Cyber Defense eMagazine December 2019

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The Email Security Challenges
By Milica D. Djekic
Let’s try to remember the times of the old, good letters when the postman was knocking at your door or
apparently leaving the message in your mailbox. The old, good habits never die, right? Even today so
many post express and delivery services would exist, but it would seem the people would not so
frequently write the letters using the pen and the piece of paper. Indeed, today so many folks would use
the post services to send the goods and sometimes the postcards, but very few of them would spend the
entire night putting some warm words into skillfully decorated letter. Also, the main drawback of such a
correspondence is that you need to wait for some period of time before that lovely message arrives. On
the other hand, the old, good habits would still exist and so many of us would spend the entire hours
composing the messages to the people belonging to both our personal and business lives. As it’s so wellknown,
the technology would evolve and even several decades back we would start dealing with the
internet and the first forms of the electronic letters. Would such a change in our habits mean the progress
to everyone of us or would we get into the position to put aside all our sentiments and emotions for a
reason the pace of life would become so fast?
The answer to this question is the technological progress would definitely accelerate our everyday routine
and some technologically advanced nations would make the real fortune selling so expensive cuttingedge
systems. Faster we do more money we would make – would that be the point? Basically, if we say
the money that could sound so attractive to many people and especially adoring motives to the bad guys
who would not play by rules. So, if you deal with the good amount of money – you could get so attractive
target to the criminals and even terrorists who would want to take control over your fortune. No one would
want to give anything he made through the hard and honest work that easily, so that’s how we would get