Millions of employees are now working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, business is booming for cybercriminals: We’re seeing a recent and unprecedented surge in successful cyberattacks. Worse, the cost of those attacks is climbing exponentially and is expected to hit as much as $6 trillion annually by next year. To address the problem, executives must reexamine their assumptions about security and the systems they have relied upon in the past.

Zoom is currently undergoing a lawsuit regarding illegally disclosing user data to third parties, including Facebook. “According to the suit, Zoom’s privacy policy doesn’t explain to users that its app contains code that discloses information to Facebook and potentially other third parties.” What lessons should companies take away when investing in tools like zoom?

As remote work becomes the 'new normal' for many around the world, the security threats resulting from the rapidly changing work conditions are posing an unprecedented challenge for businesses. The immediate need to shift work conditions left organizations scrambling to institute remote working policies with many executives unprepared to roll out the right tools and procedures securely and at scale. However, for companies it's not just about being prepared for a global pandemic.

First - a big thank you to all of our customers and partners who continuously show support and share their experience using Wire. When we launched Wire as the most secure collaboration platform, we were hoping the reception of the platform would be positive. We were not expecting to move from "Niche Vendor" to High Performer in such a short time.

In recent years, remote working has risen sharply, with a 27.7% increase in the number of home-workers in the last decade alone. A mobile workforce means that a business' data is also ‘mobile’. Data, whether it is emails, ideas, contracts or plans, is the life-blood of most modern businesses; it is their intellectual property (IP). Without this data, there would be no product, no service, no sales.

At the pace that technology continues to change, it’s clear that the coming decade will continue to bring technological advances that evolve not only how we work, but the very nature of work itself.

Wire continues to be a force to be reckoned with when it comes to winning awards - this time around as a finalist for the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2020. The recognition comes in at a time of unprecedented growth – gaining regognition in both the technology and business categories. At the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Wire is in the final for two awards in business categories.

When it comes to switching to a new programming language, timing is of the essence in order to land qualified programmers for the project. The language must be new enough to bring technical progress, and at the same time tested and disseminated in such a way that there are enough qualified programmers who will enjoy working with it.

Looking into the crystal ball again - this time for 2020 - Wire highlights some of the trends we see will dominate the headlines for the first year of the new decade. There are some common underpinnings - most notably that data has now become the most valuable commodity and companies are increasingly running on data, becoming massively vulnerable to any interruption or loss. The second is mobile.

Messaging Layer Security (MLS) has the potential to be the industry standard when it comes to enterprise collaboration. My colleague, Alan Duric, wrote about the birth of MLS in his blog post, where he outlined how its founding members came together with a vision of transforming enterprise communication.