The answer is: “Yes, but it depends on the app being used!”. Public sector employees are no different to their private-sector counterparts in that they’re demanding more modern, mobile solutions for collaboration and communication. However, without clear direction from ICT leaders, many are becoming reliant on consumer-grade tools that put data, and digital compliance, at risk.

Any talk of security usually defaults to external threats. But what about threats from inside of your firewall? How often do you consider those? Of course, no one likes to think of their employees as untrustworthy, but the reality is that employees are responsible for 54% of data breaches. And while many of these threats are simply down to negligence (an employee being compromised by a phishing attack, for cexample), a large amount involved malicious intent.

Imagine the scenario. Your most valued client receives an email from you requesting an invoice payment. Being the great client that they are it’s processed promptly! The trouble is, that email wasn’t really from you. It was sent from a cyber attacker who’d gained access to your corporate network and spoofed your identity – tricking your client into making payments into criminal accounts.

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The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to impersonate chat participants – a classic man-in-middle attack. For CIOs this is yet another warning sign that the use of WhatsApp as a messaging app within enterprise environments can put sensitive information, and company reputation, at risk.

Whether it’s a weekly team meeting, or a quarterly board meeting - video conferencing has become one of those ubiquitous technologies that we all take for granted. However, while many enterprises have large-scale deployments of conferencing tools (such as Cisco Webex), many still default to desktop apps like Skype, Slack, or even Whatsapp for real-time, ad-hoc video calls between employees (and even their clients).

Dixons Carphone has said a huge data breach that took place last year involved 10 million customers, up from its original estimate of 1.2 million. Personal information, names, addresses and email addresses may have been accessed last year.

Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Wickr Me are the most frequently blacklisted Android apps by enterprises, according to a new 2018 study. The Q2 ’18 Enterprise Mobile Security Pulse Report from security provider Appthority, looks at the mobile apps most commonly used in enterprises, and also the apps most likely to be blacklisted by IT teams.

Deploying modern, digital workplace solutions have become a prerequisite to increased team collaboration. One of the most visible (and obvious) examples of this are messaging and chat applications. Where email was once the tool of choice for internal team communication, services like Slack have today become the default option for many. However, I’ve noticed a disturbing shift in the way these tools are used.