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While the consensus may be that, after almost two years, companies have perfected their hybrid workplace setups, the reality is that some employers are still trying to determine the best way to move forward and adopt the tools necessary to put them on the path to future success. Enhancing the digital employee experience is an excellent one to start with.
Creating such a custom-made experience requires collecting personal data - and when considering the criticism massive tech companies are garnering for their misuse of sensitive information - mobile app developers must prioritize data privacy and compliance. Data privacy and security and the mobile app creation process.
The pandemic has forced most organizations to accelerate their digital transformation and migrate to the cloud though third-party cloud providers. Every time an organization shares data with a third party, they expand their attack surface and put data and customers at risk.
A recent study of enterprise IT security decision makers conducted by Tresorit shows that majority of enterprises use additional encryption methods to boost the security of cloud collaboration and file transfer tools with built-in end-to-end encryption are still less frequent despite the growing popularity of this privacy and security enhancing technology. Hybrid work era driving the need for external file sharing security.
The anonymised data reveals major shifts in automation priorities as organizations responded to the pandemic, seeking to boost efficiency, increase sales conversion rates and manage their finances more closely. As customer interaction shifted online, the customer support department saw the biggest increase in automation use, up by more than 290% year-over-year.
Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis of the Asia-Pacific network security market finds that the increasing acceptance of remote work and adoption of cloud, the remote workplace, collaboration, and security are driving growth. The network security market is expected to grow steadily by 2025.
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WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner. "With the introduction of end-to-end encrypted backups, WhatsApp has created an HSM based Backup Key Vault to securely store per-user encryption keys for user backups in tamper-resistant storage, thus ensuring stronger security of users' message history," the company said in a whitepaper.
Microsoft has confirmed that Android apps are coming to Windows 11 and users will be able to try mobile apps on the desktop operating system soon, but the general availability has been delayed. Ahead of the beta testing with Insiders, Microsoft has already published the placeholder for the Android subsystem in the Microsoft Store.
Threat actors are sharing Windows MSHTML zero-day tutorials and exploits on hacking forums, allowing other hackers to start exploiting the new vulnerability in their own attacks. Last Tuesday, Microsoft disclosed a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows MSHTML that allows threat actors to create malicious documents, including Office and RTF docs, to execute commands on a victim's computer remotely.