Employees’ Reasons for Not Using Secure Communications

How heavily do you invest in cybersecurity? How much of that is in your communications infrastructure? Regulations and compliance requirements, customer or client demand and simply maintaining your business’s reputation all contribute to the need to h… Continue reading Employees’ Reasons for Not Using Secure Communications

Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption only to paying customers

As Zoom continues on its path to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to users, the big news is that only paid users will have access to the option. “Free users for sure we don’t want to give that because we also want to work together with FBI, with loca… Continue reading Zoom to offer end-to-end encryption only to paying customers

Signal fixes location-revealing flaw, introduces Signal PINs

Signal has fixed a vulnerability affecting its popular eponymous secure communications app that allowed bad actors to discover and track a user’s location. The non profit organization has also announced on Tuesday a new mechanism – Signal P… Continue reading Signal fixes location-revealing flaw, introduces Signal PINs

Building Trust in Communications: In Conversation with Safe House Project

  Earlier this week, Vaporstream CEO Galina Datskovsky and Safe House Project co-founder Brittany Dunn connected to talk about trust in communications, and the role technology plays in building that trust. The two organizations partner to serve an… Continue reading Building Trust in Communications: In Conversation with Safe House Project

Protecting Students’ Information: Universities and Secure Communications

From financial aid information to social security numbers, students regularly share private information with their universities trusting that the university will keep it safe. That’s why it was disappointing when three major universities this sum… Continue reading Protecting Students’ Information: Universities and Secure Communications

Lessons From Harris County: Petrochemical and Incident Response

Two weeks ago, the ExxonMobil complex in Baytown, Texas caught fire after a petrochemical unit exploded. This was the latest in a series of incidents at petrochemical units in the area: in March and April a series of fires occurred at the same ExxonMob… Continue reading Lessons From Harris County: Petrochemical and Incident Response

What Capital One Got Wrong (and Right) After the Breach

With over 106 million customers and applicants’ personal data exposed, the Capital One breach is one of the biggest breaches of a financial institution in US history. A former employee of Amazon’s cloud-computing unit was able to exploit a… Continue reading What Capital One Got Wrong (and Right) After the Breach

Is Privacy Possible? 5 Ways to Protect Your Data

Companies have been harvesting our data without our knowledge for years now. Whether its because they didn’t inform us, we didn’t read the terms and conditionsor because the language in the terms and conditions was so complicated and misle… Continue reading Is Privacy Possible? 5 Ways to Protect Your Data

5 Reasons to Embrace Secure Communications for Senior Living

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous in day-to-day life. The majority of Americans own a smart phone and use it not just for personal matters but for professional matters, too. It’s a technology that spans gender, location, profession and age &#… Continue reading 5 Reasons to Embrace Secure Communications for Senior Living

Incident Response in the Oil and Natural Gas Industry: It’s All About Communications

After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the Department of Energy (DoE) asked the National Petroleum Council (NPC) to provide specific actionable steps to better prepare the oil and natural gas industry’s response to natural disasters. In response, the NPC… Continue reading Incident Response in the Oil and Natural Gas Industry: It’s All About Communications