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When Systems Go Silent: Staying Connected During a Cyberattack

Imagine a cyberattack paralyzes your internal IT infrastructure – email, chat, and phone systems all go offline at once. How do you communicate? Many companies don’t have an answer until it’s too late. Using a fictional example, we’ll illustrate the consequences a communication outage can have during a cyber incident.

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Threema Work

Job Title and Department in Threema Work

Threema Work introduces a useful new feature: Administrators can now specify a job title and department for each employee. This way, it’s immediately apparent whether a contact is John Smith from accounting or the other John Smith from the operations team. On top of that, the user management in the management cockpit now supports bulk editing.

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Threema Work

Total Data Sovereignty Thanks to On-Premises Messaging

Cloud services are incredibly popular, and for good reason. The “Software as a Service” model offers various advantages. However, there’s a flip side. When it comes to security, data protection, and legal compliance, self-hosted solutions are clearly ahead of the game. In this blog post, we’ll explore the benefits of total data sovereignty and shed some light on the risks associated with certain cloud services.

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Threema Private

Partnership with Apostrophy: Win a Privacy Phone

Like Threema, Apostrophy is a Swiss company that puts privacy first, doesn’t collect user data, and opposes to Big Tech’s ad-driven business model. Now, the two companies team up to facilitate secure and privacy-compliant mobile communication.

Threema Private

It’s Time to Enforce the DMA

Together with Epic Games, Proton, and various other companies, we urge the European Parliament to not let Apple’s and Google’s circumvention of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) slide.

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Threema Work

Manage Groups and Distribution Lists Automatically

Good news for Threema Work administrators: With the latest Threema Work and Threema Broadcast update, centrally managed groups and distribution lists can be automatically created and managed based on tags. This significantly reduces the administrative workload.

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Threema Work

The Importance of an Out-of-Band Communication Tool

Email, collaboration tool, chat app, telephone: digital infrastructures in companies are becoming increasingly complex. Furthermore, the fact that the number of cyberattacks continues to grow makes having a reliable out-of-band communication tool increasingly urgent – especially in light of the EU’s NIS2 Directive, which is to be transposed into national law by October 17, 2024.

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Threema Work

Threema Ranked as a Leader in Secure Communications Solutions

The US-based market research company Forrester has published a comprehensive comparison of secure communications solutions. In the 2024 report, Threema is identified as a leader among top vendors on the market.

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Threema Private

Bye-Bye Typos: Edit Sent Messages and Delete Them for Everyone

As the name implies, instant messaging is a fast-paced means of communication. This characteristic has numerous advantages – but also a few disadvantages: due to the fast pace, typos are the rule rather than the exception, and, what’s worse, sometimes messages get sent to the wrong contact in the heat of the moment.

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Threema Work

The Management Cockpit Is Now Available in Spanish

The demand for secure corporate communication is increasing across Europe. This is in part because EU regulations such as NIS2 and DORA require companies to have a secure communication channel in place. As a result, more and more companies in the Spanish-speaking market are relying on Threema Work.