AS HEARD ON NH Today with Jack Heath WGIR-AM 610: How Rioters are Using Encryption
Welcome,
Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing the best collaboration tools to use from a security perspective. Here we go with Jack.
These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit
---
Automated Machine Generated Transcript:
Craig Peterson: We need to allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things actually. I got to be with Jack this morning, missed him last week, but we had a good little conversation about what you shouldn't be doing when it comes to our online collaboration meetings and, and everything else.
[00:00:24] It was great. I actually had a few minutes with them and a lot of great info. So here we go.
[00:00:29] Jack Heath: Craig, this is a good example of how the virtual stuff is sticking. I mean, this is the annual swim with the mission. Now they're going to do it virtually because they really have to, that would have been a big event with thousands of people. But it's happening in a few weeks, up in New Hampshire, but virtually that's not just the swim with the mission. It's just about everyone is leveraging the virtual stuff. I don't think much of this is going away.
[00:00:49] Craig Peterson: Yeah, you're absolutely right there. We're seeing some major changes in businesses.
[00:00:54] And we wanted to take a couple of minutes here real quick to talk about what the general classifications of tools are that we can use virtually as well as a little bit about what they do. So you've got the very basic stuff that a lot of people have used for years, like texting back and forth. And that's been used a lot.
[00:01:14] The devices that we have, these smartphones have a lot of capabilities just by themselves, for instance, on your iPhone, you can use face time, which is secure end-to-end and have multiple people on it. You can have 10 people have a quick meeting. It's great for families and the things you're doing. You can use apps like Signal, which is also secure end to end, but it isn't just for an iPhone or an Android signal works for every device it's out there, which is fantastic.
[00:01:46] Again, we can send messages, we can send voice, we can have little video conferences and then you get into the bigger systems. You've got these collaboration tools, the number one that I like out there, and this is one that I sell actually, but it's the Cisco WebEx teams, which is absolutely phenomenal.
[00:02:06] And Microsoft teams. These allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things, but WebEx teams, everything is integrated. It's right there in one piece of software that will run on anything. Microsoft teams use multiple tools that all kind of tie together. You might want to use Skype, et cetera.
[00:02:30] So those are the ultimate. Then you have Zoom, which I cannot advise you to use, and things like Slack. But all of these have had major bumps recently, Jack, and they're all very useful to businesses. Everything from basic communications, all the way through these teams, apps that are designed for collaboration soup to nuts.
[00:02:54] Official stores that are out there, the official store for the Chrome browser apps that we're downloading, I should say, uploading all of your contact data, all of your banking, data, everything. So even the official stores can have problems, Jack.
[00:03:12] Jack Heath: All right, Craig Peterson, Craig Peterson. With an O-N on Peterson dot com.
[00:03:16] Thank you, Craig. Make it a good Monday.
[00:03:18] Craig Peterson: Take care.
---
More stories and tech updates at:
Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating:
Message Input:
Message #techtalk
Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at:
For questions, call or text:
855-385-5553