Hybrid workspaces are continuously evolving, with changes like increasingly varied work locations and the shift of more workplace communications and interactions to collaboration platforms, such as Microsoft Teams. These apps make hybrid work possible through their flexibility and seamless digital collaboration. Yet, at the same time, organizations’ security and compliance leaders are scaling imperatives like compliance management across platforms and expanding traditional office settings, because industry regulations and corporate policies must protect data and employees, regardless of where work takes place. Compliance and regulatory risks in collaboration and cloud-driven hybrid workspaces include policy violations, like oversharing sensitive business information internally. Employees additionally need ways to report security-related concerns for company review.
Customers tell us they need to reduce blind spots around data security risks introduced by these new ways of working. As hybrid work becomes the norm across enterprises, fewer internal reports of compliance violations during the same timeframe suggests risks may be going unreported at larger scale. According to Gartner® research, in 2020 and 2021 compliance teams learned of about 31 fewer instances of potential violations per 1,000 employees than in 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic massively accelerated remote and hybrid work transformations[1].
By empowering employees to report security-related compliance and regulatory violations seamlessly and more easily through collaboration apps, you can help reduce the number of potential data security risks that could threaten your entire organization.