In todays political landscape a more aggressive enforcement approach from health and safety regulators is fast approaching. For employers looking to reduce their business risk, achieving regulatory compliance starts with creating an audit program that is both strong and sustainable. However, with COVID-19 restrictions still in place, many organizations are facing new barriers that may impede how they assess compliance and limit their potential exposure.

The pandemic and the resulting switch to remote working models has made enterprises and organisations across industries, including even the most highly-confidential sectors such as legal, government and healthcare, depend more than ever upon technology.

Have you ever wished you could more easily follow an important presentation on your mobile device? In our last blog post, we described a variety of improvements to boost productivity on Wire conference calls. Another highly requested feature is being able to zoom in during conference calls with screen sharing or video enabled.

Employees, contractors, and vendors have unparalleled access to company data, requiring careful adherence to data privacy best practices to secure personal information. Unfortunately, many employees are either unaware of these practices or are unwilling (or forgetful) to regularly implement them into their workflows.

For a long time, only a few people work from home was rare and was a luxury. But, after the pandemic organizations had to adjust accordingly to working remotely. Companies have encountered numerous challenges setting up remote workers since this situation brings with it a variety of complexities and risks. And one of those challenges is cybersecurity for remote workers. As technology advances, so too do cybersecurity threats.

BERLIN & SAN FRANCISCO, 14 April, 2021 Wire, the most secure collaboration platform, today announced it has closed a $21m Series B funding round led by VC firm UVC Partners. This investment comes off the back of Wire’s 3x annual revenue growth in 2020, and a number of significant customer wins across sectors such as energy, financial services and government - including five of the G7 governments.

With cloud-based services in demand, the future should be bright for the cloud. However, growing fears over data privacy and compliance – and technology providers’ failure to quash these concerns – may stunt public cloud’s growth as enterprises consider moving their data on premise.

In October 2020, we launched our brand new conferencing capabilities, expanding our video limits to 12 and audio limits to 25 participants. We received resoundingly positive feedback on how vital this increased capacity was for collaboration and communication in the COVID era. Since that initial launch, we have received tons of valuable feedback from our customers about the conferencing experience.

The recent implementation of privacy labels in Apple’s App Store have ignited a new wave of discussions over privacy concerns with technology applications. Users now have greater visibility into the type of data that is collected, who that data is shared with and how it is used.