Slack, the popular enterprise workspace collaboration tool and IRC clone, does not offer end-to-end encryption, making any breach of Slack’s servers potentially catastrophic for users around the world. If you or your organization would suffer severe damage if internal Slack conversations leaked, then it’s time to either consider encrypted Slack alternatives or mitigate the risk by locking down your Slack workspaces. We caught up with Andrew Ford Lyons, a technologist working on digital security for at-risk groups at Internews in the UK, for his advice.
