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Written by Jasper de Taeye, Sales Director for the Benelux market at Wire™. At the beginning of January 2020, the first people nudged me about the rise of a virus that could become a pandemic. We all know by now how it disrupted our world entirely. I was an ignorant Dutchman and I believed it would not become that dramatic. I truly believed, and mostly hoped, that this coronavirus will be nipped in the bud, like previous viruses, by the strictly regulated China.

Last month I started working in the cybersecurity space. Cybersecurity has always been quite a mysterious word to me. I pictured cybersecurity to be a company’s security walls to protect themselves from all kind of hackers sitting in dark rooms attacking companies through the internet wearing badass eye masks.

The results are in; after auditing leading video conference systems, Berlin's Data Protection Officer, Maja Smoltczyk, published a report, which attests that major video conferencing providers including Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet, do not comply with GDPR regulations.

The full article by Morten Brøgger was originally published in June, 2020 for Tool Box. The COVID-19 outbreak has forced many businesses to quickly find ways to digitize operations and implement mass remote work. However, as companies continue to grapple with keeping high levels of connectivity and productivity, cyberattacks have increased by an estimated 400%. The scramble to provide solutions for employees working remotely created a boom in collaboration platforms.

In a survey of 500 business decision-makers in the UK on productivity and remote security, we have found that despite little time to prepare, over half (53%) say they’ve seen either an increase or no change in the productivity of office workers since lockdown measures were enacted across the UK in March. Only 13% of business decision-makers reported a significant decrease in productivity, while 25% reported a slight decrease in productivity.

San Francisco, California and Toronto, Canada – June 8th, 2020 – Wire, the most secure collaboration platform, today announced a partnership with Copperhead that will enable Android users to use Wire’s secure communication application - including messenger, voice, video, conference calls, and file sharing - in tangent with Copperhead’s secure mobile operating system.

As the need for secure and effective collaboration tools rises globally, Wire, the most secure collaboration platform, tracks turbo-charged growth in Q1 2020, driving upward trajectory into Q2. Leading with security as the key building block of its flexible collaboration platform, Wire added 200 new enterprise customers in April alone, reaching a total of over 1,200 paying enterprise customers as of its calendar first quarter.

Because the global economy has transitioned from manufacturing to one based in knowledge, cyberattacks are now the fastest-growing crime in the world and are expected to cost businesses and governments $6 trillion a year by 2021. Today, a company’s most valuable assets are its intellectual property and proprietary data.

In recent weeks, circumstances around the Covid-19 crisis have meant that companies have had to pivot quickly to remote working. The trouble is, many organizations didn’t have a plan in place for this change. It’s understandable that they’d want to turn to market-ready, widely available tools to collaborate quickly from anywhere, however, there’s a real danger of cobbling together your business collaboration stack using consumer-grade tools.