Private Messaging: Ensuring Confidentiality and Security of Communication
Private Messaging as a service, offers a method of exchanging communication to discuss business concerns by way of private text with an extra layer of security. Usually involving member-to-member discussions or in some cases, between members of emergency ad-hoc groups. It is most useful when discussions involve issues affecting trade secrets, being the very foundation of the business and its continued success.
Private Messaging is a kind of confidential discussion carried on, as if in a huddle, or in heads together face-to-face conversations, although it’s definitely an exclusive conversation held among select members.
The main reason why some businesses use private messaging services is the need to maintain data protection. Confidential discussions may carry on like cozy chats, to which protected information could inadvertently be mentioned in the midst of business discussions. Information like trade secrets, customer list, internal memoranda, sources of materials, supplier list, projected plans, manufacturing processes and pricing information could be mentioned and become part of the minutes of the meeting.
Numerous companies, especially in the food business, consider private messaging an important managing and administrative tool. Vintage recipes of products handed down by ancestors is a good example of a tightly guarded trade secret.
Furthermore, private messaging provides a discreet channel to address customer complaints without getting blown out of proportion by rumour mongers. Since issues are directly addressed, it will lead to faster resolution that will improve customer satisfaction.
Advantages of Using Private Messaging Services
Private Messaging is one way of protecting sensitive information from inadvertent damage and destruction caused by calamities, loss as a result of theft or pilferage, or corruption of electronic data, particularly digital documentation. Modern business operations highly depend on data that even a brief spell of downtime or a small data loss can have a major impact on business operations.
Private messaging and other forms of data protection ensures that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive and confidential data. While there are different approaches to protecting data such as putting in place backup documents, setting up retrieval methods, using end-to-end encryption, applying multi-password protection and multi-level authentication protocols, and by limiting the amount of data digitally stored in a network. Although most people care about data privacy in their messaging apps, their understanding of data security doesn’t always match what is real. Generally app users prefer quick and instant communication. Dealing with one-time-password authentication in more than one step of every procedure is deemed tedious as it sometimes prolongs the time it takes to complete a transaction.
As an alternative, consider private messaging provided as a service, which involves the use of self-destructing notes that can be viewed through a link. The sender of the private self-destructing message needs only to inform the authorized recipients about the link that will direct them to the private text. Once all recipients have accessed and opened the link, the private message, which cannot be copied, will self-destruct and the hyperlink will no longer be accessible.
