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Secure Employee Collaboration Platforms, Mitigate Risk.

Aware provides a Collaboration Security and Compliance software platform offering both visibility and control over sensitive information shared in Slack, Teams, and other collaboration tools that may lead to data loss, non-compliance and proliferation of Insider Threats. 

Aware was purpose-built to understand the context of messaging found in collaboration platforms – from chats, @mentions, emojis, deleted comments and GIFs. 

Aware integrates with most modern collaboration platforms including GovSlack, Slack, Slack JSON Import, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Engage, Workvivo, Zoom Team Chat, Webex Messaging, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Chat, Workplace From Meta, Confluence, Jira, Github, Reddit and .CSV upload.

Specifically, Aware provides 3 solutions to public sector organizations.

Sensitive Data Loss

Collaboration tools lack the visibility and controls to protect sensitive data, leaving organizations open to accidental leaks and targeted attacks. To safeguard their data, organizations rely on purpose-built NLP models that offer real-time monitoring, threat detection, and automated remediation. Without these capabilities, an organization is vulnerable to data breaches, compliance violations, and costly reputational damage. Specific use cases include:

  • Password and Credential Detection. Avoid putting important data at risk by identifying messages where sensitive password information is shared.
  • Code Detection. Ensure your valuable, proprietary software code isn’t shared somewhere it shouldn’t. 
  • Sensitive Data Sharing. Identify the sharing of Ttrade secrets, intellectual property, financial records, other confidential business information and legal documents.
  • Data Exfiltration / Leaks. Identify unauthorized data access, data exfiltration attempts, or other malicious behavior.
  • PII/PCI Violations. Exfiltrated data can include protected information resulting in hefty fines and penalties under regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS

Compliance

 Adoption of collaboration platforms creates new challenges for keeping pace with evolving regulations and lack the tools to effectively monitor and protect sensitive data shared within these platforms. Manual processes and fragmented solutions further hinder compliance efforts, leaving organizations vulnerable to fines, legal action, and reputational damage due to accidental data leaks or non-compliance with data protection laws.

  • Data Retention / Preservation. Proper preservation and retention to meet new regulatory requirements. 
  • Acceptable Use Policies. Create automated rules to identify prohibited activities with collaboration platforms.
  • HIPAA Compliance. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act): Protects the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).

Human Risk

Collaboration tools represent a new risk surface area that exposes organizations to insider risks resulting from the lack of visibility over employee activity. To protect people, companies need purpose-built Sentiment and Toxicity models that monitor user behavior, detect anomalies, and prevent data exfiltration. Current solutions miss these subtle threats, leaving companies vulnerable to data breaches, operational disruptions, and reputational damage caused by malicious or negligent insiders.

  • Insider Threat Detection. Monitoring user activities and communications to detect data theft, sabotage, and fraud.
  • Phishing / Link Reputation. Identify threats with link scanning and reputation checks to identify Malicious link hijacking, and phishing campaigns leading to compromising systems and data breaches.
  • Targeted Social Engineering. Monitor for impersonation attacks, highjacked integrations, malicious apps and leaked credentials.
  • BOT Impersonation. Monitor for malicious bots, impersonation of legitimate accounts, fake workspaces and channels and impersonation of external parties.
  • Crisis Management. Address and mitigate the negative consequences of a significant disruption or event such as data breaches, non-compliance, security incidents and workplace violence.