Why Backup Emails

Email data is vulnerable to hacking and hosting failure

  • Statistically, 1 in 5 email accounts gets hacked
  • 540 million email accounts get hacked every year
  • 62% of owners of hacked accounts are unaware
  • In April ’12, an estimated 33.2 million Gmail users suffered email outage

Emails can also be lost due to

  • Data Email servers’ failure: Risk increases from 10% after year 4 to 50% after year 5
  • Accidental / intentional deletes
  • 6Limited Storage: Unwillingness to add storage size leads to auto / bulk / accidental deletes

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Other 15%
Hotmail 15%
Gmail 19%
Facebook 23%
Yahoo mail 27%

Which accounts were targeted and compromised

All of the above can result in

  • Data loss
  • Lost opportunities / business
  • Serious depletion of organizational memory
  • Increased organizational spending on recovery, training

.... And hence affect business continuity