Using Slack to stay in touch with your colleagues and business partners will be more secure than ever with a series of new updates. The popular collaboration software has announced several updates that it says will help improve security for organizations that use Slack both internally and externally. Dubbed "a more secure and productive way for organizations to communicate with each other," the new Slack Connect service will allow businesses to move conversations from long and confusing email chains to Slack. This could mean that discussions with vendors, partners, customers, and more can now be diverted away from email services that may face cyberattacks or other types of scams, and instead onto Slack, where they are concentrated in at least one place. .
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Along with improved security, the company says Slack Connect can enable faster communication to help build stronger business relationships, as well as greater transparency. Admins will be able to maintain control over their company data and monitor external access because, unlike email, Slack Connect means users will only receive messages and files from verified Slack members who are part of your organization. Administrators will also soon be able to quickly review external organizations before connecting them to their corporate network, with approved partners identified by a badge, making it quick and easy to determine who is a legitimate partner. External users can also be prevented from viewing sensitive or valuable information with a new barrier feature. Admins can use blocks, which could also apply to internal business units, such as legal or payroll, to prevent specific groups of users from sending messages or calling other groups of people. 'users. Users will now also have more choice about where their data is stored, with a new data residency for Slack allowing companies to store their data outside of the United States, with options including Sydney, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo, London, and Montreal. . Slack says the updates were part of a reaction to the growth in cyberattacks targeting users who work from home. "In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital transformation is happening at breakneck speed," Slack wrote in a blog post announcing the news. “The kind of widespread technology adaptation we would expect in the coming years has been reduced to months as organizations adopt cloud solutions to keep their teams connected. And with more and more workplaces going completely remote, security has never been more important. "