Today, information security permeates all aspects of a company's activities - from the organization of business processes to the choice of applications for everyday tasks. The right choice of tools for group work and communication of employees is extremely important, and first of all it concerns instant messengers.
The main source of risks in information security is the human factor, namely the company's employees, whose actions through ignorance, inattention or malicious intent lead to data leakage or successful hacker attacks on IT infrastructure. Compliance with cyber hygiene and corporate ethics should make a difference, but so far things have not been very good.
What risks are we talking about?
As experience shows, one of the sources of potential threats is instant messengers. Today it is the most popular tools for both personal and work communications.
Often, for corporate communication, employees use free solutions that are not designed for work, such as the popular WhatsApp and Telegram. It is difficult to completely exclude them from employee communication, and it is impossible to integrate them into the company's IT landscape. There is a security hole through which malicious files, phishing links and other threats can penetrate; it can also lead to uncontrolled data leaks.
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