Be Fearless Online: Open emails without being tracked or hacked with SquareX

About The Guest:
Jeswin Mathai is the Chief Architect at SquareX. He leads the team responsible for designing and implementing the Infrastructure. Prior to joining SquareX, He was working as the chief architect at INE. He has published his work at DEFCON China, RootCon, Blackhat Arsenal, and Demo Labs (DEFCON). He has also been a co-trainer in-classroom training conducted at Black Hat Asia, HITB, RootCon, and OWASP NZ Day. He has a Bachelor's degree from IIIT Bhubaneswar. He was the team lead at InfoSec Society IIIT Bhubaneswar in association with CDAC and ISEA, which performed security auditing of government portals and conducted awareness workshops for government institutions. His area of interest includes Cloud Security, Container Security, and Web Application Security.

Summary:
Jeswin Mathai joins Phillip Wylie in this episode of the "Stay Fearless Online" series to discuss email safety and how SquareX can protect users from being tracked or hacked. They highlight the challenges individuals face in staying safe online, especially those who are not tech-savvy. Jeswin explains that SquareX's browser extension is designed to provide a better way to protect users by sitting on the browser and ensuring secure browsing. They demonstrate how email tracking works and how SquareX's Enhanced Privacy Mode can prevent tracking by blocking third-party images. The extension also offers a secure disposable file viewing environment for opening attachments safely. Jeswin emphasizes the importance of email security as an entry point for attackers and how SquareX aims to provide a user-friendly solution.

Key Takeaways:

• SquareX's browser extension sits on the browser to provide better security for users.
• Email tracking can reveal information about the user's location, device, and IP address.
• SquareX's Enhanced Privacy Mode blocks third-party images to prevent tracking.
• The extension offers a secure disposable file viewing environment for opening attachments safely.
• Email security is crucial as attackers often target individuals through email.

Quotes:

• "With SquareX, the idea is not to intrude in users' workflow, rather ensuring that we provide them a way with which they can do everything securely." - Jeswin Mathai
• "The moment you open a link, it will go ahead and reveal information about from where you are opening the email, the IP address information, similarly what device you're using. Now all of this information can be used to profile the user." - Jeswin Mathai

Socials and Resources:

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