Frontline workers are increasingly using unauthorised apps like WhatsApp to communicate, risking sensitive data breaches. Businesses must provide secure digital tools to ensure effective and compliant communication.

Ensuring Secure Communication for Frontline Workers

If you are a CIO, heads up. Frontline workers are using unauthorized apps to communicate with their colleagues. 71% of frontline workers say they use tools like WhatsApp or other messenger tools to collaborate with their colleagues and their leaders. 37% admit to sharing sensitive company data through these channels, and the answer is probably more, which is clearly in violation of company policy. And 32% of manufacturing workers say they still rely on word of mouth for critical information transfer. When the survey asked why, workers simply said they're doing what they need to do to get the job done. This is clearly a failing on the business. We are not giving the right digital tools to connect with frontline and deskless workers. Digital science can play a role here, but so can many other tools. We need to take this seriously if we want to take security seriously. For more UN videos visit www.un.org

Exploring the unique challenges of security and network management in digital signage for large enterprises. Learn how to ensure secure and reliable deployment across multiple locations.

Overcoming Challenges in Digital Signage Management

Beyond the obvious checklist of enterprise requirements, any large company that is assessing a SaaS vendor is going to have a shopping list of requirements, which I don't think is worth really listing off here. The two big, unique challenges that they will face when they come to their digital signage platform is really around security, which is paramount because we have seen many examples of screens being hacked and this is an extremely public way of showing that hack. And secondly, in the scale and management of the rollout of that network and then the ongoing management of that network. If you consider how many locations, how many countries and how many potential screens might just be in one building, it's massive. In order for that IT undertaking to happen, you need to have a really, really strong management platform and processes in place, not only to make it secure, but to make it reliable and work well and actually serve the business needs of which there will be many internally. Thank you.

In 2025, a federal government building's screens were hacked to display a deep fake video involving Donald Trump and Elon Musk. While AI continues to advance, this incident highlights the need for improved screen security. Join the discussion on the implications for technology and security.

Deep Fake AI Incident Raises Screen Security Concerns

So it wasn't in my 2025 predictions that Trump and Musk would feature in a deep fake bromance on government property screens. So the news has been somewhat eventful in 2025 but one story did catch my eye. The screens in a federal government building were hacked and a deep fake AI video of Donald Trump sucking Elon Musk's feet was put onto those screens. Now as much of a fan of AI I am, I am not going to condone hacking screens. I don't think that this is really a good use of screens. It's certainly not a sign of genius. So I'm going to give this screen score one out of five. I'm staying out of the politics but I'm very interested in the screen security. So if you want to discuss that in the comments, please let me know.

Any network device is a potential security threat, including screens with outdated operating systems. Many screens run Android versions from seven years ago that rarely get firmware updates. That's why we developed ScreenCloud OS—stripped back to essentials for performance and security, with regular updates. We've just released version 3.0, keeping pace with modern security standards.

Ensuring Network Security with Modern Screen Management

So when you think about IT, any device which is on your network is potentially a security threat. This could even be a connected device like a printer. We mostly think of this as laptops and phones, and primarily they are probably the devices most likely to be infiltrated by a phishing attack or hacker. However, a screen running a full computer on its system is equally dangerous. Now, most screens are running operating systems that very rarely get firmware updates. So you might have a version of Android going back seven years on that screen, and we don't really think about it. The manufacturers tend to only upgrade by releasing newer models, but the panels that we are working with often will be on the wall for maybe 10 years. So the screens can be a security backdoor into your network, which then all sorts of things can happen once you're in there. That's one of the reasons why we developed ScreenCloud OS, was to actually strip the operating system back to the very, very basics of what it needed to be performant for the screen. And it's got a good security profile because it doesn't do much. We also keep the operating system up to date. We just released version 3.0, and so we are constantly keeping up with security standards as well as modern web development standards as well. Microsoft Mechanics www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com