As the modern enterprise becomes more global and dispersed, companies throughout the world are turning to collaboration software to help ensure productivity and efficiency among the workforce. Of course, there's more to a reliable collaboration solution than the right apps and features. If you want to get ahead and stay there, then you need a system that provides the right level of security, and control.
In an attempt to ensure that today's companies can keep their most valuable data secure, Cisco has introduced a brand-new collection of solutions intended to help businesses meet with compliance and safety requirements.
Security for the Collaboration Revolution
Collaboration is more than just the ability to talk with co-workers wherever they are in the world. New collaborative tools are giving companies the ability to share, and edit information wherever they are. However, with the arrival of things like the GDPR update, and the ongoing threat of cyber-attacks looming large, it's important for decision makers to choose a service that provides the right level of management and security throughout the company.
Cisco's "Spark" collaboration service has responded to this concern in order to prepare for the next wave of adoption among enterprise companies. The collaboration software now comes with four major breakthroughs to help keep your information safe.
1. End to End Encryption and Compliance
End-to-End encryption and compliance features: For legal and GDPR reasons, today's companies need to have access to tools like e-discovery to help them find the information they need quickly and effectively. They also need the reliability of end-to-end encryption to keep crucial data under wraps.
Cisco has implemented an e-discovery tool that allows users to search through Spark messages according to date range, keywords, and email address. Additionally, Spark provides configurable policies for data retention, meaning that information can be purged from spaces according to company policy. Activities, files, shared whiteboards, and messages can be deleted - which is ideal for GDPR purposes.
Thanks to APIs, Cisco Spark can even integrate with third-party vendors for data loss prevention, and cloud security brokers including Global Relay, Actiance, Skyhigh Networks, and Symantec.
2. Administrator Analytics
To help enhance the value of their collaboration network, Cisco Spark has introduced an advanced administrator portal, complete with analytics that allows managers to discover problems like call quality reduction in a matter of seconds. The "fluid analytics" solution will allow administrators to determine every detail of common problems, including where pool call quality might have stemmed from, and whether it was isolated to a single issue.
