Why a Secure Communications Channel is a Must
The rate at which sensitive data gets compromised is growing exponentially. In a recent series of tech articles, the Wall Street Journal examined how people in the public and private spheres are vulnerable to and seriously impacted by various cyber-attacks. Governments experience losses of upwards of fifty-thousand dollars from ransomware ... Read More
Five Things Every Law Firm Should Know About Cybersecurity
It’s not surprising that law firms are a valuable target for bad actors when you consider the kind of information they deal with—from non-public intellectual property to merger and acquisitions, law firms are an absolute treasure trove for hackers. The post Five Things Every Law Firm Should Know About Cybersecurity ... Read More
What the Baltimore Ransomware Attack Means for Incident Response Communications
On Tuesday, May 7, Baltimore city employees came into work to find that their computer screens were locked. “We’ve been watching you for days,” the message on their screens read, “We won’t talk more, all we know is MONEY! Hurry up!” The city of Baltimore had been hit by a ... Read More
Five Ways Messaging in Home Healthcare Improves Patient Care
Consistent communication and collaboration can be tricky when it comes to home healthcare—especially since it involves so many different people in many different places. Along with home healthcare professionals, a patient’s care team can include anyone from their primary care doctor to a range of specialists to family members and ... Read More
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 misleading that we didn’t understand what was about to happen – many ... Read More
Facial Recognition is Waking Companies Up to Consumer Privacy
When it comes to privacy, it’s typically the consumer who’s held responsible for maintaining their own privacy, not the company (take Facebook, for example). But the introduction of facial recognition into our lives could change that dynamic. Consumers’ haven’t been blindly accepting it into their lives but questioning it—and questioning ... Read More
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 – with 46% of senior Americans owning a smart phone. With ... Read More
Secure Communications in the Age of Digital Footprints
Secure communication is nothing new but it israpidly evolving as technology advances. Vaporstream CEO Dr. Galina Datskovsky recently presented a webinar on “Secure Communications in an Insecure World.”In the webinar, Dr. Datskovsky touches upon the importance of secure communications and as technological advances how privacy is becoming increasingly elusive. The ... Read More
Vaporstream Continues to Shine As a Winner of Cyber Defense Magazine’s 2019 Infosec Awards
For the third year in a row, Vaporstream is a winner of the Cyber Defense Magazine Infosec Awards—this time winning Best Product in Messaging Security. Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) is a leading electronic information security magazine. Of the 3,000 companies considered for this prestigious award, less than 200 were ultimately ... Read More
Making Sense of Security, Privacy and Confidentiality in Texting
Today, pretty much everyone is texting. It’s made life so much easier – send a message on your own time and preferred device, usually without having to stop what you’re doing, and rest assured that the recipient will receive the message and be able to respond on their own time, ... Read More
