Safeguarding your business
It’s near universal knowledge that any form of digital communication you have at work is captured and stored in a record. No matter how often you clear your browsing history, delete emails or remove instant message and social media conversations, as soon as you click send, there is a record of that discussion on some server, in some network. When communicating digitally, you never know who will gain access to your words, take them out of context and misconstrue information from sensitive conversations to wreak havoc on your business.
As a business owner, you probably shouldn’t have conversations about important topics that aren’t legally required to be recorded via a digital medium. VaporStream, a company based in Chicago, specializes in helping businesses understand their legal obligation to keep thorough records of critical business matters while protecting conversations centered on confidential, sensitive issues.
Vulnerabilities in your business
By discussing sensitive information via media inherently designed to capture and store records such as social media websites, emails and instant messaging services, you subject your business to the mercy of whoever is able to hack into your network and access these conversations. The email and instant message conversations you take part in may aid in clarifying next steps in a process or answering a question, but these records can live for a lifetime and are the first things lawyers search for during courtroom battles.
VaporStream decreases the liability of these conversations with its Visper communication technology. The solution is a recordless communication service that offers a secure digital messaging channel for transitory business communications. If staff members need to have discussions about a private, sensitive issue, they can communicate in a Visper, a form of digital communication that can never be copied, traced or distributed by any means.
If your business is in an industry that regularly communicates highly-sensitive information, Vaporstream can protect your conversations and shield them from security breaches and accidental distribution due to user error. You can still have conversations about pressing issues with your colleagues, but unlike email, once the receiver has read the Visper, it disappears with no record at all.
Anything that doesn’t require official documentation can be transported in the VaporStream channel and gives employees the ability to communicate critical, private information in real-time. The service ultimately allows businesses to continue to publicly distribute content that is pertinent to stakeholders while protecting their private conversations from the grasping hands of cyberspace.
Destiny Bennett is a journalist who has earned double communications' degrees in Journalism and Public Relations, as well as a certification in Business from The University of Texas at Austin. She has written stories for AustinWoman Magazine as well as various University of Texas publications and enjoys the art of telling a story. Her interests include finance, technology, social media...and watching HGTV religiously.
