One of the key features that drew people in was the ability to communicate instantly using this platform- with group messages and full conversation logs. When Slack first became available in 2013, it was advertised as a friendlier option to Microsoft’s team tools. They're also the ones who roguely install unvetted apps from untrustworthy sources to your workspace without letting anyone know.īoth IT managers and Slack administrators concerned with security have expressed their fear not because Slack cannot be secure, but because it is another opportunity for malicious actors as well as careless employees to cause a security breach. There will always be that one colleague who falls for phishing emails, clicks on random links, writes passwords down where others can see, and sends work-related emails from their personal account.
The same can be said for accidental breaches. As our methods of communication and collaboration evolve, so too do their strategies.
There will always be individuals with bad intent looking to exploit weak spots in an organization's security infrastructure. Your organization is responsible for the safeguarding of any sensitive data, be it your own operational data or that entrusted to you by customers. Slack and similar cloud-based collaboration tools can make work more fun as well as faster and easier however, these new ways of working also require fresh rules for both behavior and security.
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