Up to 87% of organisations now consider video to be a core technology to support business operations, a new Metrigy study has found.
Along with the rise in adoption of video meeting apps comes a need to ensure security of meeting access, content shared within meetings, and meeting archives, says the report called Securing Remote Collaboration: A Primer.
The study follows Metrigy’s Workplace Collaboration: 2021-22 global research of 476 end-user organisations, which revealed that 82% now use video meeting applications for all or most meetings. It also found that 41% of businesses currently use more than one meeting and collaboration application, creating difficulty in ensuring consistent application of security policy across multiple applications. This comes as just 66% of successful companies have a proactive workplace collaboration security strategy.
The report offers up advice for business leaders to ensure meetings are secure and protect against the following common threats:
- Unauthorised meeting access by those who are not permitted to attend a meeting
- Content leakage of chats, transcripts, and content shared within and outside of a meeting
- Data loss from employees inadvertently, or deliberately, sharing confidential, restricted information into meetings such as sensitive files or data
- Attendee privacy protection especially in use cases such as telemedicine and court activities
The report reads: “As a result of growing awareness of security issues, about 55% of companies are increasing their collaboration security spending to include third-party services and platforms to enforce policy and manage compliance.