Wire\nis the most secure collaboration platform, serving enterprise companies, government\nentities, and other organizations with high cybersecurity needs. We offer a\ncomprehensive collaboration suite containing messenger, voice, video,\nconference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration \u2014 all protected by\nend-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\nis your mission statement?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wire\u2019s\nmission is to protect digital assets for businesses and organizations. We are\nsetting new standards in the collaboration space as the most secure platform\nand the only solution recognized in both Forrester\u2019s<\/a>\nNew Wave™: Secure Communications, Q4 2018 and Gartner\u2019s<\/a> Market Guide for Workstream\nCollaboration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We\nare constantly innovating – from delivering our unique \u201cmessage fortress\u201d\narchitecture to encrypted video conferencing, guest rooms, and developing a new\nsecurity protocol, called Messaging Layer Security (MLS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n How\ndo you help customers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wire\noffers security for organizations looking to protect their communications,\nwithout compromising on user experience. Our collaboration suite features\nmessenger, voice, video, conference calls, file sharing, and even secure external\ncollaboration \u2013 all protected by end-to-end encryption. We have over 600\ncustomers worldwide from small to medium businesses, to nongovernmental\norganizations and Fortune 500 companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How\nare you different?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In\nour pursuit for the best combination of security and collaboration in the\nworkplace, our focus is to set the standard the burgeoning secure collaboration\ncategory. This category targets the point at which productivity gains from\nmessaging tools like Slack meet the very real risks of cyber attack. Wire\u2019s\napproach to Open Source and public audits has earned us recognition from\nanalyst firms including Gartner, Forrester and IDC as the way future business\nshall ensure transparency with customers and partners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This\nmeans not only democratizing secure collaboration on our own platform, but also\nworking to create interoperability across multiple platforms. We\u2019re working\nwith other leaders as part of the IETF<\/a>\ngroup to develop a common global security standard for secure collaboration\ntechnologies, so that users are able to operate between different messaging\nplatforms with the same level of privacy and security that exists in Wire. The\nIETF group is developing Message\nLayer Security (MLS)<\/a>, a\nnew interoperable standard for maintaining security and privacy between\nmessaging platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The work seeks to replicate the success of WebRTC, a free, open-source project that provides web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication via simple APIs. Alan Duric, Wire\u2019s co-founder and CTO\/COO, was one of the founding fathers of WebRTC, which today is present on over 7 billion devices. We believe that with MLS, a secure and private foundation can be extended to many more developers and devices in the future and the federation aspect of MLS will truly upend the way we communicate: whether this communication is between humans, human-to-machine or machine-to-machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\nis a long way to go to ensure that the world\u2019s organizations achieve all the\nbenefits of secure collaboration, but as more and more organizations are\nimpacted from sophisticated cyberattacks, it\u2019s important to continue the work\nof re-defining collaboration, and making it fit for today\u2019s businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How\ndo you catch up with more established messaging platforms?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Collaboration platforms such as Slack, WhatsApp and many others\nhave not historically focused on providing secure solutions. Rather, they have\nbecome popular because of their ease-of-use and heavy integration capabilities.\nHowever, as\nthe threat of cyberattacks mount, we are witnessing a massive growth in\nindustries where secure collaboration is a top priority. In the last 18 months,\nwe\u2019ve seen tremendous growth, with organizations such as multinational\nprofessional services firm EY selecting us as their platform, as well as\ncompanies in industries as varied as government, finance, insurance, tech and\nothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How\nwill your platform integrate with email if at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wire does not have plans to integrate with email. We\u2019re seeing\norganizations seeking far safer, more modern and productive forms of\ncommunication. Today, email as a work tool holds too many cyber risks for\ncompanies, with phishing scams reaching an alarming 93% success rate and cyber\ninsurance costs growing at over 20% year over year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The future requires more security while also being able to\nextend efficient communication to colleagues, partners and consultants. The new\nworkforce is accustomed to a new style of working. More mobile, more efficient\nand more instant. Something that they have come accustomed to through\nprivately-used tools, and something that email cannot fulfill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Moving away from email communication into a modern and secure\nplatform will not only save enterprises billions of dollars in insurance and\ndecreased risk of cyber breaches, but also boost employee productivity through\nreal-time collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other\nplatforms\/applications? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wire integrates with key enterprise tools such as SSO, legal\nhold, retention platforms, development tools, customer management platforms and\nfinancial platforms. We can also be deployed flexibly – whether that\u2019s in the\npublic cloud, private cloud, or via full on-premises solutions, while also\neasily slotting into IT architectures with a transparent open-source codebase\nand open APIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\ndoes the future hold for messaging such as email, chat etc. and cybersecurity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As\ncybersecurity threats continue to increase and become more complex, we will\nbegin to see more organizations move towards purpose-built secure collaboration\nplatforms. Email, one of the traditional workhorse channels, will decline in\nuse as a result of its susceptibility to cyberattacks and leaks (estimates\nstate that 91%<\/a>\nof cyber attacks begin with a phishing email). We will also see messaging\nplatforms like Slack and WhatsApp work towards incorporating more reliable\nsecurity protocols. However, it\u2019s likely these types of platforms will continue\nto underperform as their main focus is to provide quick and highly integrated\nsolutions for communication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What\nis the vendor role in privacy and cybersecurity \u2013 can most vendors be trusted?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vendors play an important role in privacy and cybersecurity by providing tools and solutions to help companies best protect their digital assets. Unfortunately, not all vendors can be trusted to uphold that promise – the successful cyberattacks<\/a> against WhatsApp are a good example of this. Any intentional flaws aside, it\u2019s important to note that not all end-to-end encryption is created equal<\/a>. There are many forms of end-to-end encryption offered by vendors, like Transport Layer Security (TLS), that does protect data at every moment of it\u2019s journey across the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With\nthis in mind, organizations should look for vendors that operate with extreme\ntransparency and utilize the highest form of end-to-end encryption. We are\ncontinually working to improve transparency and security – in fact, we are the\nonly secure collaboration platform vendor that is independently audited and\nopen source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\nis zero trust and why does it matter to business leaders?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zero trust is an alternative architecture for IT security that\noperates on the premise that anything<\/em> inside or outside of a corporate\nnetwork, including data, devices, systems and users, is a security risk and\nmust be checked and verified before being granted access. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Business leaders are facing a rise in data breaches, increasingly exposed communications as mobile workforces operate outside corporate firewalls, and more stringent regulations (e.g. GDPR and CCPA) that are leading to stricter scrutinization of how companies implement and manage security protocols. The zero-trust framework works well as a defense because it\u2019s dynamic and draws on technologies such as end-to-end encryption, multi-factor authentication, identity access management, orchestration, analytics and other system permissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n What\nis next for your company?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently we\u2019re working to develop Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new protocol designed to facilitate more secure enterprise messaging platforms. The goal is to make secure messaging efficient for large groups (50,000 users and above) by improving security guarantees from existing protocols and enabling cross-domain\/provider federation, all in a readily and easily deployable manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\nalso have ambitions to redesign the Skype for Business experience and offer a\nsecure, distributed, end-to-end encrypted architecture for IoT networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How\ncan potential customers learn more?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You\ncan learn more about Wire by visiting our website wire.com\/en<\/a> or contacting us at info@wire.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have a lot of great informational materials on our website but some quick links include: security white paper<\/a>, how Wire works video<\/a>, and EY use case vide<\/a>o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where do organizations with $8.5 billion in total buying power plan their 2020 budgets?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Where do they learn about the latest in everything business tech\u2026 CPaaS, Collaboration<\/strong>, UCaaS, the Channel<\/a>, IT, IOT, Edge<\/a>, Cybersecurity, AI, SD-WAN<\/a>, and the Future of Work<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Rasmus-Holst.jpg\")
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