Making security easy to use is the foundational goal of the product and company. This goes away once you actually use Wickr Pro and see that it’s as easy as using your SMS app on mobile or email on desktop. This stems from the traditional fear that security comes at the expense of usability. Joel: First place would go to the perception that it will be hard to use. We also have Wickr Enterprise for customers who want to host their own instance, which is often the case in regulated industries and federal markets.ĭDC: What are the most common concerns you hear from campaigns regarding adapting to secure communications? Strong encryption is a critical component of Wickr Pro, and our encryption is second to none, but serious organizational use requires strong application security overall, administrative controls like SSO, privacy controls like 2FA, compliance features, etc.
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For example, we have 10,000 person corporate deployments that are managed and deployed by IT teams and small businesses managing their own free networks. The primary difference Wickr Pro provides is control and management. Joel: If Zoom and WhatsApp had a security baby the result would be Wickr Pro. How does Wickr differ from these services? If we look at recent attack trends as well, we see that web-based cloud email services are increasingly being targeted and losses are on the rise, and if you consider that web accounts of any kind are such an easy target for phishing and other attacks it kind of makes email communication the worst choice from a security perspective.ĭDC: Many people already use some form of encrypted communications, such as Signal or WhatsApp. It’s not built to respect sensible data retention policies, either, which means it sits where it sits at the service provider for extended periods of time, needlessly extending the period of time in which it is vulnerable to unauthorized disclosure. It’s not built for end-to-end security, for one, which leaves message content vulnerable to disclosure at key points along the path from sender to receiver, including as it sits in storage on the service provider’s servers. Joel: Email just wasn’t built with security in mind, period. End-to-end encryption completely eliminates this risk.ĭDC: For campaigns that are only communicating via email through services like Gsuite even with multi-factor authentication, how does it potentially put their campaign at risk? It doesn't just have to be an outside attacker, insiders who are malicious or simply negligent have the ability to compromise all your centrally stored data and communications.
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Client-to-server encryption essentially puts all your eggs in a single basket, in this case a server - and we have seen how unsuccessful corporations have been in their attempts to protect, patch and manage their servers! If, or when, these systems are breached the attacker has access to everything. It’s really the wrong way to secure communications data. Client-to-server encryption (HTTPS, TLS) was built for web browsing. Let me explain… Wickr Pro is fundamentally different from products like Zoom, Slack, WebEx, and Skype for Business that rely on client-to-server encryption. The use of end-to-end encryption is different and often misunderstood. Wickr Pro users don’t have to trust these services because their data is secured prior to touching any of these potentially hostile systems. Wickr provides end-to-end encryption and a host of other security controls so that organizations can take the biggest risks off the table - risks like hostile mobile networks, public WiFi networks, etc. Joel: Any time you’re communicating or sending sensitive information remotely there are risks. What's most unique is that we have built enterprise products on top of technology that has previously only been used in consumer products.ĭDC: Now that most campaigns are working, to some degree, remotely to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, how does Wickr help make them more secure when communicating and sending sensitive information?
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We build software for mobile devices and desktop computers that provides the security of a face to face conversation over zero trust networks. Joel: Wickr is a secure communications and collaboration company.
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To highlight our cybersecurity partners, DDC launched an interview series on our new blog and we are excited to introduce Joel Wallenstrom, President and CEO of Wickr.ĭDC: Some people may not be aware of Wickr or encrypted communications. Candidates are hosting virtual town halls, Twitter chats, and Facebook and Instagram lives in lieu of in-person events. As our country is searching for a light at the end of the tunnel in the wake of a global pandemic, most campaigns are now working remotely to help flatten the coronavirus curve.
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