Picture the following scenario: you get your usual cup of coffee, are ready to start your workday, log into your team collaboration tool on your computer. Then you are immediately greeted by your colleague who sends you a cute kitty picture with a “good morning” message. What are the chances this is a hacker sneaking into your computer and stealing your data? Well, it turns out this is something very likely to happen if you don’t have a safe workspace for secure messaging.
It does not matter if you are a tech-savvy young individual who cares about his privacy or a professional with a business that holds secrets of values, secure messaging has already become a no-brainer for everyone. We all are using Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, Google Hangouts, and even Instagram. But are they all SSL encrypted ? Businesses in today’s world are facing unprecedented risks.
Cybersecurity has quickly become a top priority for many organizations this year. This difficult time has shown us that even the largest corporations are not immune to vicious cyberattacks. Many organizations suffered breaches and lapses in security as they struggled to find the right solutions for staying connected while protecting valuable and sensitive information in the early days of remote work.
Wow! Yesterday the EU published the Digital Markets Act, a legislative proposal seeking to protect the fundamental rights of users in the digital world. This proposal has the potential to be a major catalyst for the emergence of a unifying communications layer for the open web. Indeed the Digital Markets Act is pushing interoperability between messaging apps, which is a major win for consumers.
The COVID pandemic has pushed many companies to quickly digitize operations in order to support decentralized teams. Unfortunately, in the rush to provide these systems, many soon discovered that that ease of use, compatibility, and efficiency can come at a heavy cybersecurity cost.
Alan Duric is the co-founder and CTO/COO of Wire, a secure collaboration platform. He is an experienced entrepreneur with a strong background in real-time communications. He’s the co-founder and CTO of Telio Holding ASA that is listed on the Oslo stock exchange, and Camino Networks, which was acquired by Skype/eBay.
This blog post is a part of Mattermost’s public disclosure of three serious vulnerabilities in Go’s encoding/xml related to tokenization round-trips. The public disclosure comes as a result of several months of work, including collaborating with the Go security team since August 2020 and with affected downstream project maintainers since earlier this month.
This article was originally writte by Morten Brogger, CEO at Wire, for Med-Tech Innovation 2020 saw companies across sectors forcibly thrown into digital change management. This ‘forced digitisation’ resulting from lockdowns throughout the world has dominated headlines for months. However, there’s another wave of digitisation afoot that hasn’t made as many headlines, though it is arguably more important - the digitisation of medicine.
If you are part of an enterprise company you know how exhausting it can be to log into the same applications multiple times a day with multiple passwords. With more organizations moving to cloud based software there is an expectation from users for fast and seamless access to applications from anywhere at any time. To help meet expectations, Time Doctor is excited to announce that we have added the Single Sign-On (SSO) feature to our already powerful tool.
We recently underwent a System and Organization Controls SOC 2 Type 1 examination resulting in a CPA’s report stating that Mattermost has developed effective controls over the security, availability, and confidentiality of the Mattermost Cloud platform.
