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Wickr CTO Chris Howell joins Mitch Ashley to talk about the state of security around the 5G rollout. There are what could be considered misinformation, or conspiracy theories at worst, about the security of 5G equipment. They also discuss the potential of backdoors or hacks in chips that can be

In the new normal world where more work is being carried out remotely, corporate communications have increased in importance but they have also come under greater threat. As the recent Twitter attack shows, communication tools offer hackers an attractive extra method of getting hold of sensitive information like login details. We spoke

Wickr Inc., the secure collaboration platform, today announced the appointment of Blake Moore as Vice President of Strategy and Operations. Moore joins the company from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), where he most recently served as Chief of Staff for the Chief Information Officer (CIO). At Wickr, Moore will lead

“To me, this is a stark reminder of the few or weak privacy guarantees we get from Play Store,” Wallenstrom tells me. “TikTok spent years collecting sensitive data knowingly and openly against the store policy. Privacy tends to lose if Google has to choose between protecting end users versus wild

The race to 5G supremacy is almost always pitted as a competition between the US and China with each nation telling its allies why they shouldn’t trust the other. Adding another layer to the debate, Chris Howell, Co-Founder and CTO of encryption firm, Wickr, argues that there may be multiple winners,

Teleworking is, seemingly, going to be the norm for quite some time for those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to work from home – bringing with it a host of security challenges. Working remotely within a Department of Defense (DoD) environment multiplies those challenges exponentially. This

Wickr has secured a potential two-year, $35M contract to provide a recall, alert and messaging service to all three military departments under the Department of Defense. The company said Tuesday it will extend adoption of the Wickr RAM collaboration platform across the departments of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army under a new contract with

Wickr has secured a contract from the US Air Force (USAF) to provide its recall, alert and messaging (Wickr RAM) across the US Department of Defense (DoD). Under the $35m contract, Wickr will deliver secure communications to the army, navy, marine corps and airforce with end-to-end encrypted file, video, chat, text

It shouldn’t be a surprise that law firms are an attractive target for cybercriminals, as firms frequently work with critical and confidential information, intellectual property, and legal documents associated with large global corporations. Instead of zeroing in on the clients themselves or other tangentially related parties, threat actors see large law

Under the two-year contract, the Air Force will use Wickr’s secure recall, alert, and messaging services. The cloud-based application will provide end-to-end encryption for file, video, chat, text, and voice services. Awarding the contract were officials of the Air Force Installation Contracting Center at Hurlburt Field, Fla. The San Francisco-based company has

With the COVID crisis pushing federal employees to work from home, we’re seeing a first-of-its-kind test for the way modern government functions. Even as agencies take great pains to ensure the security of messages, shared documents, video calls and phone chats across offices and missions, outdated computer systems or reliance

The Department of Defense contract announcements for 1 June 2020 announced an award for Wickr that will enable this provider of secure communications to serve the US Air Force to provide end-to-end encrypted file, video, chat, text and voice services for end-users. This is great news for the Air Force, we believe,