Team messaging apps are no longer confined to small teams but have to facilitate global enterprise level adoption with multiple teams collaborating real time. Globally distributed teams transferring considerable size of data has widened the threat landscape considerably and many experts are also expressing significant concerns over it. Nemertes report indicated clearly that security concerns are one of the major constraints that are prohibiting many enterprises to adopt team collaboration, especially the ones dealing with private and mission-critical data.
Plenty of team messaging apps or team collaboration platforms are available in the market, such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex Teams, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to security. The key to defending the enterprise’s collaborative environment and mission-critical data lies in the choice of the collaborative platform or the tool. First, we have to ask which them is the most suitable candidate capable of supporting the inherent workflow of your organization and has the most competent and fitting security system to match your enterprise’s operational style.