News

This one is self explanatory - blogs on current events, our take on industry happenings and news about HighSide the company

News Highside chooses Nine23 to provide UK Sovereign Secure communications, controlled file-sharing, and compliant collaboration services HighSide Inc has signed a contract with Nine23 Ltd (“Nine23”), a UK Sovereign Cloud provider of cyber security solutions for the regulated and compliant market, to deploy a UK Sovereign HighSide One Service.

HighSide Staff • 3 min read

News Independent Analyst, Forrester, Names HighSide a Leader in Secure Communications HighSide, the market leader in secure communications & collaboration, announced that Forrester Research, Inc. had named HighSide a leader in the Forrester Wave™ Secure Communications, Q3 2022.

HighSide Staff • 3 min read

News SAP National Security Services & HighSide Finalize Partnership to Deliver FedRAMP and DOD Approved Controlled File-Sharing & Collaboration HighSide, Inc., the leader in Controlled File-Sharing & Collaboration, and SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) National Security Services (SAP NS2 [sapns2.com]) division have partnered to co-sell and deliver HighSide’s e2e encrypted file-sharing, collaboration, and communications platform in a FedRAMP and DoD approved cloud hosting environment. SAP NS2 [sapns2.com] selected

Evan Blair • 2 min read

News SAIC Selects HighSide to Deliver E2E Encrypted Communications to US Government Customers HighSide, Inc., the leader in end-to-end (E2E) encrypted collaboration, has been selected by Science Applications International Corp [saic.com]. (NYSE: SAIC) to bring HighSide’s secure sharing, collaboration and communications platform to U.S. government customers. HighSide’s E2E encrypted messaging and collaboration application will be available through SAIC’s

Evan Blair • 2 min read

Compliance Facebook's whistleblower and what it means for your data security & GDPR program With the recent testimony in Congress on October 5 by former Facebook employee and now whistleblower, Frances Haugen, has drawn the curtain back on management’s priorities at the company, and it isn’t good. Basically, she claims profits are the top priority among Facebook’s leaders. [https://www.vox.

Evan Blair • 3 min read

News O365 Security: You Get What You Pay For…. US Treasury & Commerce Hacks Expose Microsoft It was made aware to the public via media reporting that a group of sophisticated attackers had gained unauthorized access to internal US Treasury and Commerce Department systems [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/13/us-treasury-hacked-group-backed-by-foreign-government-report] . Now, we don’t have the full technical details of how these compromises

Aaron Turner • 5 min read

Compliance COVID-19: How Your Organization Can Stay Compliant & Secure While Working From Home According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 is now officially a pandemic [https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says?t=1584016069908] . The impact of COVID-19 struck close to home for me this week as at least two attendees at the annual RSA Conference fell ill to

Aaron Turner • 5 min read

News Does the Raytheon Technologies Merger Threaten National Security? Last month, aerospace giant United Technologies and defense leader Raytheon announced their merger. The new company, Raytheon Technologies Corp, will be the second largest aerospace-defense entity in the world. And while most of the aerospace-defense world reacted with varying degrees of surprise, some are looking at this merger a bit

Cecilia Clark • 8 min read

News What You (and Your Boss) Need to Know About the Facebook + WhatsApp Merge Things have changed. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when companies and organizations felt confident and secure in communicating via email. As technology developed, many of those entities supplemented their communications by adding text messaging to send quick updates or transmit time sensitive information. These days, most enterprises

Cecilia Clark • 12 min read

News ClearChat Becomes HighSide, Inc Bottomline Up Front For those of you not interested in all of the exciting details, this is what you need to know: ClearChat, Inc is now HighSide, Inc. To get the new HighSide app, all you have to do is boot up your existing install of ClearChat and after about

Brendan Diaz • 6 min read