While many organisations had to make overnight or retrospective policy decisions about collaboration and communications tools in recent weeks, the platforms and tools themselves have also been ramping up their security parameters to meet the unexpected wave of new users with varying expectations and levels of expertise.
Inevitably the rush to remote created a tempting environment for hackers and cybercriminals, so the ability to have secure and compliant conversations as well as file and data access has shot to the top of many corporate agendas.
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While encryption is now becoming the baseline, Vaporstream CEO, Galina Datskovsky, argues that this can create a false sense of assurance, due to a conflation of the concepts of security and privacy:
“WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption in most countries, right?” She explained. “And people say, Oh, that's a secure chat. But is it really private? Right? And the answer is, of course, it's not. Because if you send me a WhatsApp message, although it was safe coming to me to my device, I could post it on Facebook and everybody could read it. And there's nothing you could do about that. So it is certainly not private. Security and privacy are two very, very different things.
“Vaporstream was created with security and privacy by design from the beginning, to allow people to have truly private conversations, as well as being secure”
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By ensuring that messages disappear completely after a user-specified interval, Vaporstream messaging can be used in a range of scenarios, from confidential business conversations relating to HR issues or M+A negotiations, to healthcare, to a charitable project supporting vulnerable children — where the app empowers professionals to talk privately to children when they may still be in the home of an abuser, because the messages are completely deleted.
