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Email Attachment Sealing

A common data leak isn't a hacker — it's that email you sent yesterday with the customer spreadsheet attached.

The problem to solve

A common accidental leak: a spreadsheet of customers, a PDF report, a CSV export — emailed to '[email protected]' or accidentally cc'd to the wrong distribution list. Once sent, you have minimal recall, no field-level control, and limited visibility on what they did with it.

The solution it enables

An email-client extension built on Polymonial would intercept the attachment, derive a schema from the file (CSV columns, spreadsheet headers, PDF form fields) and seal it. The recipient gets a sealed file + their schema-derived viewer reveals only the fields they're authorised for. A recipient without a key for the file sees nothing in it. Field-level access is enforced by keys, not by trust in the recipient's data hygiene.

What it looks like

A regional sales director emails the quarterly customer revenue spreadsheet to the marketing team for a campaign — and accidentally cc's the partner-distribution list, exposing 8,000 customer revenue lines to 47 partners overnight. After Polymonial: the same email goes out, but the spreadsheet is sealed. Marketing's schema-bound viewer unseals revenue + segment. The accidentally-cc'd partner-distribution list holds no key to unseal it — they get an empty viewer with a 'no access' message. The leak that would have been a press incident becomes a non-event.

“A common data leak isn't a hacker. It's that email you sent yesterday.”

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