It’s hard to imagine a workplace without Slack, Teams, and other enterprise social apps that have made remote work possible and enjoyable. Since the pandemic, we’ve relied on these apps to replace in-person conversations and collaboration. While ultimately the benefit outweighs the risk, enterprise social apps bring with them new security challenges that simply can’t be ignored.
Securing enterprise social apps is a new paradigm, but it’s representative of a security woe that IT veterans have faced since the dawn of the internet—ensuring security mechanisms are active at the location of work. Today, that’s a more ambiguous target, ranging far outside the walls of an office or an on-premises network, in many cases.
