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Slack Technologies is expanding its cybersecurity capabilities in an effort to acquire more business customers. To this end, the company is launching Slack EKM, a tool that enables companies to encrypt correspondence between employees using their own encryption keys, among other things.

Slack currently encrypts all the data that users send via the message platform. However, large companies often also want to have the opportunity to manage that process themselves. This is a common requirement in industries that have to deal with many and, above all, strict regulations in, for example, the financial sector and health care.

AWS EKS

Slack EKM is therefore built on the basis of the EKS service of Amazon Web Services. This not only saves Slack’s developers the time and energy it takes to build a solar product completely from scratch. The use of AWS EKS also makes it more attractive to potential customers.

After all, companies that have to deal with a lot of control from government agencies, and therefore prefer to use their own encryption keys, rely more quickly on a product or tool that has already been extensively tested. Slack is responding cleverly to this with the use of AWS EKS.

Follow usage

Companies can use Slack EKM to control the way employees share data internally. The tool makes it possible to block users and chat channels in which sensitive information has been misused or misused. It is also possible to withdraw specific messages and files.

This approach makes it possible for companies to fight data leaks very meticulously, without stopping the complete internal communication. So if an employee accidentally places a financial spreadsheet in the wrong channel, an admin can easily take that spreadsheet offline. Slack EKM also makes it possible to monitor data usage so that it is clear who has access to certain channels or data from which location.

Slack EKM is an extension to Slack Enterprise Grid, the version of the service aimed at large companies.

This news article was automatically translated from Dutch to give Techzine.eu a head start. All news articles after September 1, 2019 are written in native English and NOT translated. All our background stories are written in native English as well. For more information read our launch article.