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Center for Collaboration Security

A one-stop solution for security teams looking to stay informed about the state of the industry.

Aware’s Behavioral Intelligence Teams are at the cutting edge of insights into employee experience, sentiment, and organizational health, with over seven years' experience performing AI analysis across billions of real workplace messages in tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Their analysis forms the basis of the Aware Risk Awareness Report, a study of 6.6 billion real collaboration messages, and the risks they contain. Here's just some of the findings:

  • Employees spend 57% of their day collaborating with coworkers
  • In a year, 10,000 employees will send over 90 million messages
  • 37% of all messages include at least one piece of PII
    • driver’s licenses appear in 1:49 messages
    • bank account numbers in 1:148
    • SSNs are shared in 1:892 messages

Without real-time content moderation for collaboration data sets, these risks proliferate in astonishing numbers. Download the full report to learn more about what these risks mean for your organization's information security posture.

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Slack Data Risks: Stats & Facts

Understand the true scale of sensitive data proliferation in Slack today.

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From the Newsroom

Don't take our word for it. Here's the latest about the industry—straight from the source.

justice.gov

DOJ and FTC Update Data Retention Guidelines

“There has been an increase in use of collaboration tools and ephemeral messaging applications, such as Slack, Microsoft Teams and Signal... Failure to produce such documents may result in obstruction of justice charges.”

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reuters.com

SEC Fines Firms $81M in Latest Messaging App Crackdown

Since 2021, the SEC has hit dozens of firms including big banks such as JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co  with fines of $1.7 billion over such compliance failures.”

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reuters.com

Slack Data Targeted for Discovery During Legal Actions

“'In some cases, Slack messages have been found to contain the "smoking gun" regarding liability in the case,' the FTC wrote in a court filing.”

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sec.gov

SEC Warns Firms to Preserve Data or Face Consequences

“Here are three takeaways for those firms who haven’t yet done so: self-report, cooperate and remediate. If you adopt that playbook, you’ll have a better outcome than if you wait for us to come calling.”

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10 Slack Security Best Practices

Mitigate risks and minimize data loss in Slack with these guidelines.

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