Security

With the launch of iPhone 11 - Apple users can now enable spatial sound. To give you a bit of background, spatial sound creates a virtual surround sound feeling for conference calls. In essence, spatial sound creates the sense that you and other people on the call are located in the same room. Through your headphones, voices will feel like they are coming from different angles - creating the sounding illusion that colleagues are sitting around you.

Wire, the world’s most secure collaboration platform, has been selected as the winner of the inaugural Secure Communications Solution of the Year Award at the prestigious Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards, beating 3,499 competitors to take home the prize. The award provides further industry recognition and credibility for Wire’s encrypted collaboration platform, which has also previously been recognized by analyst firms Gartner and Forrester for its leading-edge collaboration solutions.

Wire, the world’s most secure collaboration platform, today launched its ‘Odds of a Bad Bet’ report, which details the alarming scale of risks businesses are up against in a time when email is proving an open door for cyber criminals and malicious actors looking to disrupt, exploit and destroy businesses.

When organizations upgrade from Wire Pro to Wire Enterprise one of the key integration features is the support for Single Sign On (SSO) through SAML 2.0. The integration with identity management solutions enables organizations to simplify password managment and lower the risk of phishing attacks. Moreover, many of the identity platforms augment the set of authentication and authorization features to compliment the security of Wire.

The concept of Zero Trust is taking hold as the best approach to secure business data and stay compliant with various regulations. Traditional security models assume that everything within an organization’s network can be trusted by default.

The million dollar question ? "Encryption" is a term used sporadically and often open to interpretation. To better understand what end-to-end encryption is we have created this little example to highlight why end-to-end encryption is radically different to encryption at rest, or in transit.

As Facebook announces the rebranding of WhatsApp and Instagram, the risks businesses are taking when using WhatsApp for work become clearer. Your mined corporate data places you as an advertising target. We all kind of know it already - and the answers as to 'why?' range from "this is what our customers want to use" to "it is just more fun/easy" and even "if it breaks, we'll fix it". We've heard them all.

Collaboration starts with ease of use, as the defining experience that makes users contribute to conversations, adopt the tool, return without being forced and use the application on all devices. This is what creates collaboration - and without ease of use, the statistics that show why collaboration tools deliver better productivity than email are void.