Ephemeral messaging (the ability to set self-destructing messages that automatically disappear from recipients’ conversation histories), is a common feature across many consumer messaging apps. But what about its place in the enterprise? Wire has offered ephemeral messages (or timed messages as we like to call them) as a feature in its secure end-to-end encrypted service since 2016.

Helping your employees to understand the role that security plays in their daily working lives will help you to manage risk more than a 100-page security policy ever could. No amount of technology will ever remove the reality that employees often pose your greatest security risk.

Compromising client confidential information can result in the sort of reputational damage that’s hard to come back from. It’s the end of the month and you’ve been hustling to secure those big client orders before the quarter closes. Then your email pings and you see a new client contract ready to be passed to legal and signed! Great. It looks like you’ll hit your quota!