Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Governance is one of the four risks enterprises face in digital collaboration, and it's the one that shows up first as a productivity workaround before anyone recognizes it as a risk at all.

It's a familiar story. A social worker gets a message from a client on a Saturday. A family needs to move a home visit. A colleague forwards a photo of a document that has to be dealt with before Monday. None of it goes through an official system. All of it goes through WhatsApp, because that is where the client already is, and because it works.

Compliance is one of the four risks enterprises face in digital collaboration, and it's the one most directly tied to fines, legal liability, and regulatory scrutiny.

Cybersecurity risk in digital collaboration is the exposure to harm or the potential loss that comes from using messaging, calling, conferencing, and file-sharing tools to run day-to-day work. It covers the potential for data theft, unauthorized access, service disruption, and compliance exposure tied to a compromised, misconfigured, or ungoverned collaboration tool.

Critical national infrastructure covers power grids, water systems, healthcare, financial networks, communications, transport, and other infrastructure where disruption can have serious consequences for the nation. Protecting these systems means knowing what infrastructure is critical, how different sectors depend on each other, and which threats could interrupt essential services.

Text messaging has become one of the fastest and most convenient ways for healthcare professionals to communicate, and that speed is exactly why it creates compliance risk. Most consumer apps are not HIPAA-compliant, and texting through those apps creates risks for your organization. But that doesn’t mean you have to skip texting entirely.

OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin gives ChatGPT access to the Messages application on a Mac. Once enabled, users can ask ChatGPT to find conversations, summarize them, draft replies, and send messages. That has understandably raised questions about what it means for iMessage privacy. The starting point is understanding what the plugin does and, just as importantly, what it doesn't do.

Enterprise security is becoming more complex because companies have more users, devices, cloud services, and third-party applications to protect than ever before. Many successful attacks still exploit basic security gaps across these environments rather than sophisticated vulnerabilities. Enterprise cyber security solutions help organizations protect every layer of the business, from networks and endpoints to identities, data, and communication. In this guide, you'll learn.

The recent revelations of China’s hack of western telecommunications providers across multiple countries are a red flag for corporate and government leaders who care about their sensitive data. The exfiltration of massive amounts of Internet data from western mobile and fixed line networks tells us that end-to-end encryption of internal data is table stakes, and that data protection requires a zero-trust, zero-knowledge, and post-quantum-friendly approach.

Digital collaboration, including messaging, conferencing, and content collaboration, has become the connective tissue of modern organizations. But for IT, cybersecurity, and compliance leaders, that connective tissue has also become a growing liability because of a gap between their perceptions and the reality of risk.