There is a particular kind of panic that every seasoned traveller knows. You are somewhere far from home, you need to access a booking confirmation or contact your bank, and something’s not working the way it should. Now add a compromised email account to that scenario and the panic becomes something considerably more serious.

Email is the backbone of independent travel. It holds your flight confirmations, your accommodation bookings, your visa correspondence, your travel insurance documents and the reset links for every other account you depend on. When it fails you, or worse, when someone else gets into it, the consequences on the road are far more disruptive than they would be at home.

The email security risks that come with being constantly connected

Travelling means connecting to a lot of networks you know nothing about in hostels, airport lounges, cafés and hotel lobbies. Open and semi-open networks are a