The recent revelations about senior U.S. government officials inadvertently disclosing sensitive Signal messages to the wrong recipient should give every organisation pause.
This wasn’t a sophisticated cyberattack.
It wasn’t a phishing campaign.
It was something far simpler — and far more common.
A basic human mistake turned a private chat into a national security incident.
The full repercussions are still unfolding, but already there are calls for resignations and criminal investigations. Lives may be at risk.
At Volemic, we believe this is part of a larger, undeniable shift.
The risks that matter most today aren’t just technical — they’re conversational.
Across email, Signal, WhatsApp, Teams, and every other channel we use to collaborate, conversational risk is rising. Misdirected messages. Wrong attachments. Sensitive data shared with the wrong people. Often, it’s not malicious. It’s just human.
We focus on email today because that’s still where the majority of high-stakes, sensitive communication happens — and unlike some platforms, email can’t be unsent.
But this is just the start.
It’s time to stop treating human error as inevitable.
It’s time to secure conversations, not just systems.
