Sohel Sanghani has been paying attention to the current state of email security, and like everyone else, saw the massive data breaches where the accounts of hundreds of millions of users were compromised. Instead of taking steps to remedy those problems, Sanghani said people more often than not would look at an email data breach such as the 2014 Sony hack, shrug their shoulders, and move on. 

In his assessment of the email security landscape, something was definitely missing. No one had ever created an easy-to-use, secure email app.