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How to Secure Communication When Working Remote?

Managing a remote team's communication requires a bit more effort than if everyone were in the same office. You need to be deliberate about creating a communication strategy, ensuring everyone is on the same page with the office chat app, and making sure everyone feels comfortable sharing information. There are a few key things you can do to make sure your remote team's communication is secure.

10 best encrypted messaging apps for secure business communication in 2022

Many people are looking for encrypted messaging apps to securely communicate with their coworkers, friends, and family. While there are other ways to protect your data, end-to-end encryption has become a standard security feature in both consumer and business messaging apps. 🗝️ Find out what are the best encrypted messaging apps today, how encryption works, and how else you can ensure highest security standards while texting.

How to Test Salesforce Multi-Factor Authentication

Assuming you have correctly configured the user ids for MFA authentication in Salesforce, end-users should see the following screen when trying to login into the CRM application. The TOTP-based verification code is generated in third-party authenticator apps (Google or Microsoft) on your mobile device when you first scan the QR code or enter the key manually in the app. In this article, we’ll guide you through all the steps you need to set up our Salesforce MFA Web Sensor in your environment.

Is WhatsApp secure enough for businesses? A quick guide for secure messaging

Is WhatsApp secure for companies? Can employees carelessly discuss work-related matters via WhatsApp? WhatsApp users were caught by surprise last year when they learned that some of their data is shared with Facebook. Millions of users received a notification about the platform’s Privacy Policy Update in 2021. But the news triggered a question: how secure is WhatsApp and is it actually secure for companies? The reactions were diverse.

How to Test Multi-Factor Authentication for Microsoft Teams

Our last blog introduced Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for synthetics and discussed how MFA works. Most of our customers use Microsoft Teams as their Go-To messaging and collaboration application. So in today’s article I will show you how to deploy the Teams Audio Video sensor in your environment with an MFA configuration. This will enable testing MFA while at the same time testing the performance of a Teams audio video conference.

How to Use Mattermost for Secure Collaboration

When we ask our customers what IT teams appreciate most about Mattermost, security is often at the top of the list. The fine-grained control of Mattermost capabilities and the ownership of their critical data within Mattermost are the two most cited benefits. But ownership of data also implies responsibility, and much of the burden of this responsibility is placed on IT to manually execute.

Introducing Multi-Factor Authentication for Synthetics

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides an enhanced security mechanism for your entire organization by requiring multiple methods of authentication credentials. Using traditionally managed passwords for accessing your apps, services, and networks is no longer a secure methodology. Indeed, cyber threats are on the rise. Hackers today employ sophisticated techniques such as spear-phishing or pharming to gain unauthorized access to corporate accounts.

Defining Your IT Security Perimeter

It wasn’t too long ago that a security system would be nothing more than a few walls, some cameras, and an inattentive security guard. That’s no longer the case In today’s digital landscape. Now organizations must invest in securing their assets from a growing number of cyberthreats. To start, they must first draw up the boundaries of their IT security perimeter.

The human factor in IT security compromise and its mitigation

Look at the following statistics on insider threats. There are over 2,500 internal security breaches in the US every single day. The impact of insider threats affects more than 34% of businesses globally. Within the last 2 years, the increase in such incidents has gone up by 47%. The cost to businesses surpassed $2.7 million in 2020. Yet, employees are not the only threat when it comes to cybersecurity. Lax systems within the organization have a big role to play.