Executives drive the most sensitive and confidential discussions within your business. So, it’s sobering to think that many of the work processes today are still organized and built around email, paper documents and insecure messaging and file sharing services in many Fortune 1000 companies. These conversations are often extended to board members - external parties to the organization and outside the corporate firewall.

Whether it’s the ever-present threat of a cyber-attack, or the need to meet your data privacy obligations under GDPR, organizations are under growing pressure to protect their IT infrastructure and ensure that the tools they use are fit for purpose. One of the most robust ways of achieving this is to run regular audits.

Wire, the world’s most secure workplace collaboration platform, announces that EY France, a key territory for the global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, are using its platform to enhance the security of its communications both internally and with third parties.

In an important client meeting? Going on vacation? Or simply deeply concentrated on a project that needs finalizing? We all have reasons to turn to the trusty mute settings from time to time. But instead of scrolling through each conversation to see which one is “mute-worthy” why not just have a global mute setting when you need some peace and quiet. Why not set a status to let your colleagues know you are unavailable and at the same time set everything on full or partial mute.

As the executive team reviews productivity, profiabilty and collaboration in the organization, email is at the center point of most interactions. But is it the right choice for the future? Email has already been dubbed a productivity-killer and dead by many. Add to that an excess of vulnerabilites but maybe there is another angle - vulnerability that should make organizations consider if email shall be the primary communications tool.

There is no doubt that the business world is moving to a collaborative way of working pioneered by Slack who is getting rewarded today with a gigantic DPO. They changed the way organizations use email and adapted the way we work to the way the coming generation communicates. Backed by startups and developers the platform became the backbone of product organizations and growing tech companies.

Organizations are constantly making the business case for new inittiatives to combat the rising threat of cyber crime. Wire understands that the risks and rewards decisions are based on facts. Therefor, we have tried to assemble a set of facts that address various aspects of the decision process.