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Webex Security Essentials: Protecting Data and Ensuring Compliance

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Communication and collaboration platforms like Webex play a pivotal role in business operations, ensuring robust security and compliance measures is paramount. Companies worldwide are seeking solutions that not only bolster security but also streamline compliance adherence without hindering productivity. Enter SphereShield for Webex—a comprehensive solution designed to tackle the intricate requirements of Compliance, Governance, Data Protection, and Security while maintaining seamless productivity. 

Real-time Data Loss Prevention (DLP) 

One of the standout features of SphereShield is its real-time Data Loss Prevention capabilities. It empowers organizations to scrutinize content—be it files or messages—flowing through Webex in real time. Leveraging the AGAT DLP engine or integrating seamlessly with leading DLP vendors, SphereShield allows the retention of existing policies. Moreover, it efficiently links potential incidents to eDiscovery, facilitating a comprehensive review of conversation contexts for prompt action. 

Ethical Wall Implementation 

Maintaining control and establishing boundaries within communication channels is critical. SphereShield addresses this through its Ethical Wall feature, which enables the blocking of communication between users while offering granular control over user activities like desktop sharing and file transfers. The platform allows for the creation of communication policies based on various parameters such as user groups, domains, conversation types (Channels/Chats), and scopes (internal/external). This level of control ensures a secure and compliant communication environment without impeding necessary collaboration. 

Extended eDiscovery Capabilities 

SphereShield further extends its functionality through enhanced eDiscovery capabilities. It facilitates seamless archiving of data, whether on the cloud or on-site, enabling users to effortlessly search and export communications based on specific parameters like user, time, channel, and text. What’s more, this solution integrates seamlessly with existing on-site eDiscovery and archiving solutions, offering a cohesive approach to data management and compliance. 

The integration of SphereShield for Webex serves as a proactive step towards fortifying security and compliance measures without disrupting the day-to-day operations of businesses. It not only mitigates risks associated with data breaches and non-compliance but also empowers organizations with tools to efficiently manage and monitor communications. 

In a digital landscape riddled with evolving threats and regulatory requirements, SphereShield stands as a robust ally, offering a multifaceted approach to Webex security. By combining real-time DLP, Ethical Wall implementation, and extended eDiscovery capabilities, it elevates Webex’s capabilities to meet the rigorous standards of modern cybersecurity and regulatory compliance. 

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In conclusion, SphereShield for Webex is a testament to innovation in the realm of collaboration platform security. It doesn’t just provide a shield—it fosters an environment where security, compliance, and productivity coexist harmoniously, safeguarding sensitive information while facilitating seamless collaboration. 

The need of the hour for businesses is a solution that not only fortifies security but also aligns with compliance mandates. SphereShield for Webex emerges as that comprehensive solution—a guardian of communication integrity and a beacon of compliance in the digital age. 

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Announcing Webex Meetings New Capabilities

AGAT Software provides unique compliance and productivity solutions for Webex Meetings including Ethical Wall to control participants and activities during the meeting, eDiscovery to audit and store all meeting data, DLP to inspect meeting content by policy, and lastly, Virtual Asstsiatnt and Sentiment analysis to improve productivity and performance.

Continue reading to learn more about SphereShield for Webex Meetings.

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Ethical Wall

In situations where compliance, security, and institutional protocols demand tighter controls and options, Ethical Wall for Webex meetings is there to offer unique capabilities that suit requests from different institutions that are using Webex Meetings.

Controls include

  • Control participants in near-real-time during the meeting:
    • Control participants – avoid users with conflicts joining the same meeting
    • Control activities – block operations that are not allowed

Activities control are context-aware, by blocking operations only when specific groups or users are involved in the meeting which allows for full functionality when possible and aligns with compliance by blocking some features when needed.

  • Near-real-time recording control:

SphereShield for Webex performs near-real-time audio and video analysis on recorded Webex meetings. This will validate meeting attendees using configurable compliance policies.

  • Participant validation before the meeting *Coming soon*

The system verifies the list of invitees for every scheduled meeting, in case of policy violation users will be removed from the invite and the host will be notified.

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Ethical Wall policies

To learn more visit SphereShield for Webex Meetings webpage.

eDiscovery

SphereShield’s eDiscvoery for Webex Meetings solutions audits all meeting data and maintains a user-friendly record of content that can be stored on-prem or as Saas separately from Webex.

Data included that can be searched by:

  • Dates
  • Attendees’ name and type (Internal/External)
  • Text – Audio, Video, Keywords, Labels, Names, etc.
  • Time-frame: by recording every user that has joined/left with the time

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eDiscovery portal

To learn more visit SphereShield for Webex Meetings webpage.

Data Loss Prevention 

A real-time DLP solution is crucial to effectively manage and protect your confidential information. This solution ensures that your sensitive data is intercepted and filtered before it reaches the recipient.

SphereShield for Webex Meetings:

  • Inspects meeting content by DLP policies for audio transcript and on-screen OCR from video and screen sharing after the meeting.
  • Inspects meeting chat/files by DLP policies after the meeting 

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DLP Auditing portal

To learn more visit SphereShield for Webex Meetings webpage.

AI Virtual Assistant – AGI

Webex Assistant, a smart, interactive virtual assistant for meetings makes meetings and webinars searchable and actionable. When Webex Assistant is enabled, the host and participants can click on it or use voice commands to record the entire conversation, including the highlights and action items. A live transcript with captions can also be displayed by the assistant.

The Webex Assistant has a variety of interesting and useful characteristics, including the ability to detect up to 100 languages (the maximum number of unique languages that can be used concurrently is 5), and Speaker recognition (who said what and when).

Note that, only paid Webex plans are eligible to get Webex Assistant.

In addition to the native meeting assistant in Webex, AGAT Software has developed a virtual meeting assistant called Agi to enlarge the scope of Webex Assistant and provide automated solutions to some of the most time-consuming tasks including

  • Integration with task management systems such as Asana, Monday.com, Microsoft Planner, and Trello to automatically create tasks based on the detected task name, due date, and assignee from meeting transcript using the AI engine.
  • Generation of meeting summary based on AI module.
  • Detects and Schedules follow-up meetings automatically.
  • Highlights (Agenda, Notes, Decisions, and Summary) detection from the meeting transcript.
  • Set reminders automatically and post messages in Space/Group Chat when the time is due.
  • Publish items from transcripts/highlights/tasks as messages for further discussion.

To learn more about Agi, please visit our Virtual Assistant webpage.

Check out AGI – AI Virtual Assitant in the Cisco Webex AppHub!

AI Sentiment Analysis:

Sentiment analysis allows participants to analyze meetings and chat conversations both with internal and external users to gain communication insights and improve communication by identifying positive/negative sentiments (joyfulness, happiness, neutral, surprise, anger, disgust, or sadness).

Benefits: 

  • Improve employee experience and boost productivity.
  • Spreading positive behavior to other parts of the company.
  • Manage the negative behavior of employees.
  • Improve the remote working experience.
  • Improve customer satisfaction.

Use cases: 

  • Customer Success / Support Managers

Sentiment analysis is an extremely useful tool in the customer service field as it helps with detecting places that need to be improved in any customer-facing situation & prioritizes focusing on top customer service issues.

  • HR Manager

Sentiment analysis helps in facilitating the work of the HR Managers. Based on employee feedback/satisfaction Sentiment Analysis allows HR Managers to promote proactive operations.

  • Employees

Identify intercommunication between employees – use employee reports and Personal Insights to view your relationship with other employees within the organization.

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Example of Sentiment Analysis reports

To learn more visit AGAT’s Sentiment Analysis solution webpage.

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Safe Content Inspection for Webex – Prevent harassment & bullying

The necessity for Content Filters

Sometimes security and compliance are just not enough to make sure that a business runs smoothly. There is one aspect of communication that goes barely unnoticed and still is problematic on many levels.

The advancement of technology has enabled everyone to collaborate and share information more easily. However, it has also provided another channel where harassment incidents may take place which can leave the person on the other end feeling unsafe. In the education industry, for example, students and teachers alike are required to follow a set of rules and proper practices to ensure a safe and reliable environment for all.

The corporate world must also ensure a safe environment for employees including anti-harassment policies as well as verifying that customer-facing communication is appropriate. 

Detecting unsafe content is not defined by clear rules, mostly because it is images and videos. Therefore, addressing this need requires serious machine learning involved in both detecting and avoiding false positives (labeling safe content as unsafe).

This necessity is universal and applies to small and big-sized organizations alike and especially, educational institutions that deal with minors.

Safe Content Inspection:

AGAT has introduced a new feature named Safe Content Inspection, which is now available for Webex.

By leveraging complex AI detection algorithms, AGAT is able to offer the technology that giants like Google or Facebook are currently using to keep inappropriate content away from their platforms.

The Safe Content Inspection solution inspects images -and soon videos- to detect unsafe content in the following categories:

  • Adult: the likelihood of the image containing adult content such as nudity.
  • Spoof: the likelihood that an image was modified to make it appear funny or offensive. 
  • Medical: the likelihood that this is a medical image.
  • Violence: the likelihood that the image contains violent content.
  • Racy: the likelihood that the image contains racy content such as sheer clothing or strategically covered nudity.

In Webex, AGAT’s technology is able to detect in real-time the content of the image and if it matches the categories set and take action to delete or notify on incidents identified.

As mentioned above, in the education industry, there are numerous cases where compliance, security, and institutional protocols demand tighter controls. For example, there might be a need to block 12th graders from communicating with 5th graders and restrict troublemakers from communicating with other students to prevent bullying at school.

Other than bullying, educational institutions would want to make sure a teacher is present in every communication in order to prevent student-only spaces where they might share inappropriate content under the watch of the school.

Large companies may set policies to prevent harassment in the workplace. With Webex Safe Content Inspection, companies can build a more professional environment and help employees feel less threatened.

Businesses also do not want their customer-facing team to be communicating inappropriately with clients, therefore, Safe Content Inspection can help prevent customer attrition and maintain a good image for the company.

Watch Safe Content Inspection in action:

To complete the security-compliance goals

SphereShield Safe Content Inspection was designed to help companies and organizations achieve a level of regulation and ethics needed to operate a business as it should be done.

If you would like to see a free demo of Safe Content Inspection, just Contact Us for a Free Demo Today.

Screenshots showing the solution in action:

Alice sending an image containing spoof (a funny face)

SphereShield deletes the image sent

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