Content Access Capabilities
Competitive companies have important information that must be secured. At the same time, employees have to have easy, seamless access to the content in order to be as productive as possible. For that reason, more companies are creating ultra-secure solutions that still allow convenient content access to their staff. Companies are trying to make life easier for their employees while still preventing hacks, leaks or inappropriate sharing of information.
Content access is about permissions. Where a user has the right permissions, they are able to access the appropriate material. To unlock permissions and keep the data secure, companies must have a sophisticated multi-level encryption system. Multi-level encryption re-authorize users as they request access to more and more content. There is no single wall that encompasses the entire organization. There are many different silos of information protected by walls. So financial information would be in one section. Customer information would be in another section. Employee information, social security data and salaries are blocked off in another section. Finally, valuable intellectual property and patent pending schematics are in another section. Even if a hacker is able to penetrate one system, they will not be able to get everything.
Even within an organization, you want to have different levels of access. No one employee should be able to unilaterally access every bit of information, even the CEO. If there is data the CEO needs that ordinarily would not be available to them (like an employee's social security or health information), they can make a case to the board that would approve or deny. For most executives or employees, they will not even have that privilege. Accountants can gain access to financial data, but cannot get access to valuable pharmaceutical drug formulations under development. Human resources officers can get salary and benefits info on employees they work with, but cannot get the projected revenue and income of the company for next quarter.
Although these silos create a more opaque organization, they also create one that is much more secure where employees focus on the responsibilities that they have. Employees will not be tempted to leak, steal or share data when they do not have access to it. If data is leaked without authorization, the company will have a much easier time of determining the perpetrator of the leak. For that reason, employees will be much more careful and less likely to do so.
One way to ensure high security with seamless integration is to create an overlay software solution that saves all of the passwords that an employee needs at one time. Those passwords are regularly changed into combinations that are incredibly difficult to crack. A password with only six characters that is case sensitive would already have trillions of different combinations so would be very hard for an algorithm to crack with brute force. If they are changed every few weeks, that makes them even more invulnerable.
Companies might even consider whether there third party service providers including telecom companies are accessing their information. Under some circumstances, the government can request this information from the telecom companies. However, if you have already established an end-to-end encryption system, the voice data will be scrambled.
In any case, the company should still endeavor to make the access as seamless as possible. Requiring multiple passwords, tokens and voice authorizations is a hassle and reduces productivity. Companies are continuing to streamline the access process for this reason.
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