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Today, digital executive protection extends beyond corporate networks — it’s about reducing cybersecurity and privacy risks for executives in their personal lives as well. Often, the same devices are used for an executive’s business and personal activities. This can result in cybersecurity risks to your organization from the executive’s personal work. Executives collaborate with colleagues, partners, board members, and professional services providers (such as lawyers, consultants, bankers, or accountants). This is often done without using the...

Silent Threats - The Cybersecurity Risks in Executive Communications & Collaboration

It is ironic in many ways that some of the most significant cyber and regulatory risks that occur in enterprises and other organizations with national and global footprints are caused by insecure communications between executives, board members, and trusted advisors like lawyers and consultants. This topic was explored at some length in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled “As Boards Focus More on Cybersecurity, Are they Missing One of the Biggest Threats?” In cybersecurity, senior...

The Diode Ambassador Program is an invite-only referral program that provides Ambassadors with opportunities to promote Diode and to sign up their friends as Ambassadors. On March 1st and March 4th Diode hosted a live Ask me Anything (AMA) on a new “Ambassador Program” on our X account’s Space. We’ve summarized the highlights below: Ambassador Program Overview, Bandwidth Growth Program Overview The Ambassador Program is a service of the Diode Foundation whose goal is the...

New Guidelines Enforcing Data Protection

As concerns for communication security rise globally, the federal government recently issued new guidelines aimed at protecting Americans’ sensitive data, specifically against potential threats from nation state actors. This executive order not only addresses the immediate challenges presented by external threats, but also sets the stage for a system that will manage such issues in an evolving landscape of data exploitation. Diode can help protect executives, field teams, and IT/OT/DevOps teams who daily handle sensitive...

The Diode team continues to work hard as another round of updates have made their way through the app this month! Here are some of the updates that were made in February for the Diode App (v1.9.4 - 1.10.4). Language Translation Thanks to a dedicated community collaborator, our app now features a Chinese translation! Currently available in traditional characters (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a simplified version is in the works. French and Italian languages are also now...

Replacing VPNs for International Companies and NGOs Diode benefits organizations everywhere seeking data security solutions for personally identifiable information (PII), health, financial, or other sensitive and regulated information. However, Diode’s secure tunneling features are particularly beneficial for international teams. Diode enable teams working across different geographic locations, ensuring that data, IP addresses, websites being accessed, and other data remains confidential during use. Diode’s tunneling capability secures access to common tools like Microsoft Teams and...

Diode Product Update - January 2024 We are making good headway on our roadmap for 2024! Here are some updates we rolled out in January for the Diode App (v1.9.0 - 1.9.3): Search Messages The app (finally) has “Search” for your DMs, channel chats, and file/folder names! As more and more people use the app, Search has been the top request. An upcoming release will include file content search as well. Chat Integrations We introduced...

Diode and Moonbeam Collaborate on DePIN Platform for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Diode partners with Moonbeam to deploy suite of blockchain communication solutions that align with Polkadot founder Gavin Woods’ original vision for Web3 ROSEBURG, Ore. and SINGAPORE, January 30, 2024 – Diode, the innovation leader in Zero Trust Network Access software, and Moonbeam Network, a smart contract platform for building cross-chain connected applications, today announced a partnership to deploy a suite of blockchain-enabled...

Diode Product Update - December 2023 We hope everyone is having an awesome December - our development team has been busy improving our products for you all. Here is a recap of the updates we’ve released in the last month (1.8.12 - 1.8.18): Full Web3 and Web2 Proxy We made a decision to expose a full tunneled proxy interface on port 57861. The app natively uses this proxy to connect to Web3 and Web2 Proxy...

Remote drive sharing and mapping Although the Diode App is great way to securely share / sync files between devices, some IT environments also need a way to remotely access a shared drive. This is especially true for certain Windows based applications that need to access remote files as if they are on the local machine. Use cases Some applications are created intentionally to only run on a Local Area Network, or on a single...

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The Importance of Executive Protection

Silent Threats - The Cybersecurity Risks in Executive Communications & Collaboration

Diode Ambassador Program

New Guidelines Enforcing Data Protection

Diode Product Update - February 2024

Replacing VPN For International Teams

Diode Product Update - January 2024

Diode and Moonbeam Partnership

Diode Product Update - December 2023

Securely Share Remote Drives