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February 2023

GovTalk: Navigating 2023's Trends and Challenges

Executive Order to improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity, Zero Trust Initiatives, DoD Digital, and Software Modernization Strategies, are all pushing digitization and security to the top of government project schedules. Gartner predicts that worldwide government IT spending will grow 6.8% in 2023. 🚀 Government organizations are being challenged to upgrade their internal processes in order to deploy innovative new services and enable more effective collaboration, while fully protecting all users' privacy, data, and communications.

Rocket.Chat - Secure and compliant collaboration platform

Rocket.Chat is the world's largest open source communications platform. Built for organizations that need more control over their communications, it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure.

Rocket.Chat - Secure and compliant collaboration platform

Rocket.Chat is the world's largest open source communications platform. Built for organizations that need more control over their communications, it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure.

The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

We all want to be able to address abuse on the internet. In the UK, the government is trying to achieve this through the Online Safety Bill (OSB). Developing such a bill is difficult as technology evolves far faster than legislation. But even allowing for that challenge, and that the OSB has some genuinely good intentions, the proposed legislation is still remarkably poor.

Utility companies need secure, mission critical communications

In our increasingly volatile world, organisations are having to assess how well they can respond to a crisis. When considering their ability to communicate in a crisis, many companies running mission critical services are turning to Element. Critical national infrastructure is a high value target for all types of physical and cyber attacks, with both profit-minded criminals and rogue nations seeking to benefit by causing major - potentially life threatening - disruption.