Irwin Lazar

Now that hybrid and remote work is here to stay, business, security, and IT leaders should reassess the security of their cloud-based applications. For example, do their applications offer end-to-end encryption (E2E) and support a Zero Trust security model? This just one of the questions IT leaders should ask as they evaluate their go-forward security strategies and put together a proactive collaboration security plan.

Join Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy Research and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Heather Hinton, RingCentral’s new Chief Information Security Officer who has 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) and cyber security expertise, as they discuss how to:

– Incorporate cloud security provider assessments into a collaboration security approach
– Evaluate E2E implementation approaches, looking specifically for providers that are implementing the emerging Message Layer Security protocol to deliver E2E across multiple devices
– Assess the impact of E2E on available collaboration features
– Look for providers that offer the greatest flexibility for enterprise key management

Companies have increasingly adopted team collaboration apps like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral Glip, and Slack replace email with contextual workspace that integrate chat, applications, files, and data. But when it comes to company-to-company collaboration, many organizations still rely on email, or simply invite guests into their team collaboration workspaces leading to security challenges. Attend this webinar to learn:
– Alternative approaches for enabling B2B team collaboration,
– How to meet security, compliance, and governance requirements
– How leading vendors enable B2B team collaboration
– How to build cross-company connections across different applications

Unified communications applications including telephony, meetings, and team messages are now well established. Together they support effective meetings and workstream collaboration, but they don’t fully replace the in-person experience nor enable enterprise-wide information sharing. Establishing an effective collaboration strategy means going beyond UC to deliver support for ideation, community building, work management, and employee engagement. In this webinar we’ll share our research and insights into technologies including:
– Virtual whiteboard and ideation
– Work management
– Social software
– Workforce experience management
– Analytics

Regardless of the path the pandemic takes in the second half of 2021 it is clear that a large percentage of employees will continue to work remotely if offered the choice. IT and business leaders must understand what approaches best meet the individual needs of employees, the desire for organizations to minimize costs, and best provide for flexiblity? In this Summit Webinar we’ll share insights gleaned from Metrigy’s research into work-from-home and return-to-office plans and success correlations to provide business and IT leaders with actionable advice to ensure that they are prepared for the future of work in 2021 and beyond.