As the CEO of Infinite Convergence, I'm pleased to give you our insights on the evolving mobile technology and enterprise messaging marketplace.
We have insights on market trends principally because we are very good listeners. Indeed, NetSfere -- the most robust, secure and scalable enterprise messaging solution on the market today -- was developed based on what we heard our customers say they needed, time and time again.
When there's a market need, or a customer need, we answer it quickly and we answer it well. Proof of that is our more than 500 million global subscribers and our market leader status in a wide range of sophisticated, scalable messaging solutions for carriers and enterprises.
As you read through the posts below, you may think of an organizational interest or need that relates to messaging and mobility. If so, please get in touch with us. If we don't already have the solution in hand, there's a good chance we can build it for you.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Staying ahead of cyber threats is increasingly challenging for enterprise security leaders today. See how NetSfere can help with a proactive approach to managing cybersecurity risks.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The digital workplace is here to stay and so are threat actors. Building the secure digital workplace of today requires a comprehensive approach. Learn where NetSfere can help.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Avoid security vulnerabilities associated with consumer-grade messaging apps with mobile messaging technology like NetSfere to provide the robust security and full IT control enterprises need to secure data, protect privacy and remain compliant.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
In 2024, organizations must prioritize investments in secure by design mobile messaging technology. NetSfere’s secure communications platform can help.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Cybercrime cost the world $8 trillion in 2023. How can IT leaders proactively secure data in 2024? An all-in-one secure messaging platform like NetSfere can help.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Let’s take a look at some of the regulations on the books today and why secure, compliant enterprise-grade mobile messaging and collaboration platforms are critical for reducing compliance risk and protecting the bottom line.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Data breaches present a big threat to businesses across sectors. Strong cybersecurity strategies mitigate threats and protect business, data and the bottom line.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Cybercrime costs $1.79 million every minute and attacks continue to increase. How can IT leaders avoid the massive business risk facing insecure organizations?
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Communication is vital to the health of the workforce. NetSfere’s emergency alert system provides rapid response emergency notifications, information and alerts.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The landscape of regulatory compliance continues to grow in complexity. Today, enterprises in every sector must comply with evolving and increasingly stringent industry and government regulations.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Don’t let the shift a remote/hybrid workforce open the door for ransomware attacks. NetSfere’s industry leading secure, encrypted messaging platform can help.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Businesses need to enhance cybersecurity efforts in this increasingly remote and hybrid work era. Find out how NetSfere can help keep your company secure.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Enhance patient experience with NetSfere's messaging platform designed for the healthcare industry. All-in-one HIPPA compliant secure mobile messaging.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The complexity of enterprise IT (information technology) infrastructure is increasing as companies continue to accelerate digitization. IT controls are particularly important in communications tools to protect corporate data and intellectual property (IP), support effective regulatory compliance and facilitate secure communication and collaboration in remote and hybrid work environments. Enterprise Messaging Puts Enterprise - IT Back in Charge.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Enterprise IT security encompasses the strategies, techniques, and process of protecting data, IT systems, and information assets. Organizations need to strategically deploy the best communication and collaboration platform purpose-built for the enterprise that work to protect security – not compromise it.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
As organizations across the globe shift to remote work and continue to make these environments part of their long-term operational strategies, they will need to strengthen their cybersecurity posture to effectively navigate cybersecurity gaps catalyzed by this working model.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
As states step up their efforts to protect personal information privacy, there is a growing mandate for enterprises to implement administrative, technical and physical data security practices that protect consumer data privacy.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
As working from home and hybrid working arrangements become the post-pandemic norm for many enterprises, operationalizing security-first policies and tools is critical to protecting organizational data and assets.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
As more enterprises seek to mine the value of data, concerns are growing about the security and privacy of this data. Protecting data privacy in the work from anywhere environment requires enterprises to carefully consider the data sharing practices of the solutions they use.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The backlash of WhatsApp ‘privacy not included ultimatum’ reflects growing concern about the data privacy and security of consumer-grade messaging apps and increasing awareness of the business imperative to secure communication and collaboration.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The COVID-19 outbreak has enhanced the need to address rapidly evolving market requirements. This is creating a sense of urgency for organizations to enable agile team collaboration.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
NetSfere is delivering on this imperative with its most advanced product update, featuring secure, regulatory compliant communications tools that enable instantaneous, contextual team collaboration.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Law firms are a top target of cyber criminals because of the sensitive client information they handle every day. Hackers are attracted to the valuable information entrusted to firms by their clients such as intellectual property, business strategies, and sensitive financial information related to transactions and mergers.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The EARN IT (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies) Act introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) is legislation aimed at protecting children from online predators.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The workplace has gone mobile. A recent report found that 56% of the global workforce is now using a mobile device for business messaging. As a result, mobile messaging continues to increase and is now the most dominant communication platform.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Mobile messaging is helping drive business continuity for enterprises across the globe. The ongoing shift to a mobile-centric workforce and the mainstream adoption of remote working as a result of the COVID19 pandemic are transforming how employees communicate.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Zoom is offered as an enterprise app, but it was never designed to be an enterprise-grade SaaS, and as a result it falls short of not only security and encryption, but provides no control to the enterprises to mandate the use of the of platform in a compliant and secure manner.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The terrible reality that is the COVID-19 health crisis has left an indelible and far reaching impact on society affecting everything from how we live to how we socialize to how we work. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread worldwide, public health and safety concerns are shifting workplace dynamics to remote working.
WhatsApp announced that it has now reached more than 2 billion monthly users worldwide, and this growth in usage should be cause for concern for enterprises. Why? Because employees are increasingly relying on WhatsApp and other consumer-grade messaging apps for business communication, which introduces a host of problems.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The enterprise communication landscape is rapidly evolving with developments in AI and 5G shaping a new era of mobile communication. While these innovative technologies have the power to transform business communications, it is critical for enterprises to address and present dangers of legacy/fragmented enterprise communications solutions and consumer-grade messaging tools that are not built to keep pace with transformative technologies like AI and 5G.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
As IT decision makers map out their priorities for 2020, securing communications should be at the top of the list. An examination of the good, the bad and the ugly of mobile messaging clearly illustrates why securing enterprise messaging should be an imperative for organizations large and small.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Facebook announced plans to launch a digital currency called Libra, a stable coin linked to the value of other currencies like the U.S. dollar and the Euro. As part of this initiative, Facebook developed Calibra, a cryptocurrency wallet for sending digital currency that will be built into Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Apple recently introduced its iPhone 11 product line for 2019/2020 but held off introducing 5G-enabled phones. With 5G in its infancy and still a work in progress, Apple is taking the wise approach in waiting to roll out 5G phones.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
“Tough” is an understatement to describe the challenges Mark Zuckerberg has faced regarding user security. While many Americans saw the individual headlines regarding the company’s never-ending turmoil, the continuous mishaps blended into one.
By: Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
By 2020, the number of connected devices will grow from 21 billion to 30 billion, further opening the door to economic growth and technological innovation. While the Internet of Things (IoT)-connected devices have gained popularity over the past several years, innovation in cellular connectivity has not completely caught up.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Earlier this year, Facebook announced plans to consolidate the company’s three main messaging platforms – WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram – allowing for all-in-one, cross-platform messaging. In a statement to The New York Times when this news originally broke, the social network said that it wants to build the best messaging experience.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Uber execs are under fire for using an encrypted chat app that allows users to automatically "disappear" messages. Although the company was smart to use encrypted messaging, it also made some mistakes – and Uber’s example provides important lessons for other enterprises.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Mobile messaging is must-have technology for communication and productivity in the workplace. But the use of consumer messaging apps in the enterprise is at an all-time high, creating major risks and challenges for organizations across a range of industries.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
The Mobile World Congress is rapidly approaching and this year, one of the big stories is secure messaging — specifically, how the latest mobile trends will impact the sharing of data and information across the enterprise.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Across the healthcare sector, clinicians and administrators have abandoned pagers and other outdated technologies in favor of secure messaging platforms that allow employees to instantly share information and files with coworkers.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Last week, WhatsApp made the kind of news that causes a CEO to cringe. A security researcher at the University of California discovered a backdoor in WhatsApp that Facebook (WhatsApp's parent company) and others can use to read encrypted messages.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Growing brands recognize that the customer is king. Across all industries, memorable and exceptional customer experiences are replacing price, purchase history and other variables as drivers of customer acquisition and loyalty.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
If a tech company starts out serving a consumer market, can they subsequently transition to the enterprise market?
Based on what I’ve seen, it’s an uphill battle. Right now, as I write this, I have numerous competitors trying to make the transition.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Consumer trust and engagement is an imperative for a healthy mobile ecosystem. Anurag Lal, CEO of MEF Member Infinite Convergence, explains how self-regulation and technology innovation can protect the mobile industry’s value proposition.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Chatbots are a hot technology topic these days, and for good reason.
If you’re new to the concept of chatbots, just think of them as, literally, a combination of “chat” and “bots.”
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
I am giving a keynote speech on this topic at the upcoming MEF Global Consumer Trust Summit in San Francisco, and, as such, thought I would share some of my thinking regarding consumer trust and online privacy.
By: Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence.
Competing in a crowded tech market may be worth your while. Tech entrepreneur, Anurag Lal offers his expert insight for tech industry leaders. Come learn more.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
At the recent Google I/O 2016 conference, Google announced the release of Allo, a new messaging app that is designed to make the company more competitive in the crowded mobile messaging space.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
With the Internet of Things (IoT), the Internet and networks are expanding into new territory, staking a claim in kitchens, industrial shop floors, cars, energy grids and hospitals.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Will mobile carriers soon experience an uptick in customer cancellations for phone calling services?
Some have predicted that phone providers may experience a trend that is very similar to the cord cutting phenomenon that has impacted cable companies.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Doctors and nurses can now send electronic messages to each other with the blessing of The Joint Commission, a highly respected organization that accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
It’s been fascinating to see how technology has transformed enterprise communications.
But current and emerging mobile technologies are also creating new security challenges — challenges that could create an unfortunate communications crisis for many enterprises.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
My current favorite relates to what we do at NetSfere and it’s BYOMP, an abbreviation I’ve coined that hasn’t gone mainstream yet. It’s closely related to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend that has been in the news extensively for the last four or five years.
By Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence
Here’s my simple take on the future of secure enterprise messaging.
In short, secure messaging will ultimately be a phrase that goes the way of the dinosaurs because all messaging will be secure. But that future is a distant one.
