{"id":34712,"date":"2020-04-30T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1c78e549-6bc0-4afb-a76a-d65203d26d87"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:28:00","slug":"heres-the-nsas-guide-for-choosing-a-safe-text-chat-and-video-conferencing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/heres-the-nsas-guide-for-choosing-a-safe-text-chat-and-video-conferencing-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the NSA&#8217;s guide for choosing a safe text chat and video conferencing service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet2.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2020\/04\/30\/14b50c96-e96a-4771-9b49-8d50c6f72ad1\/nsa-logo.jpg\" class alt=\"NSA logo\"><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Image: Pankaj Patel, NSA, ZDNet<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The US National Security Agency (NSA) published last week a security assessment of today&#8217;s most popular video conferencing, text chatting, and collaboration tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/best-video-conferencing-software-and-services-for-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Best video conferencing software and services in 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The guidance contains a list of security criteria that the NSA hopes companies take into consideration when selecting which telework tool\/service they want to deploy in their environments.<\/p>\n<p>The NSA document is not only meant for US government and military entities but the private sector as well.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the NSA&#8217;s initiative is to give military, public, and private organizations an overview of all of a tools&#8217; features, so IT staff don&#8217;t make wrong decisions, expecting that a tool provides certain features that are not actually living up to the reality.<\/p>\n<p>Per the NSA&#8217;s document, the assessed criteria answers to basic questions like:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Does the service implement end-to-end (E2E) encryption?<\/li>\n<li>Does the E2E encryption use strong, well-known, testable encryption standards?<\/li>\n<li>Is multi-factor authentication (MFA) available?<\/li>\n<li>Can users see and control who connects to collaboration sessions?<\/li>\n<li>Does the tool&#8217;s vendor share data with third parties or affiliates?<\/li>\n<li>Do users have the ability to securely delete data from the service and its repositories as needed (both on client and server-side)?<\/li>\n<li>Is the tool&#8217;s source code public (e.g. open source)?<\/li>\n<li>Is the service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedramp.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">FedRAMP<\/a> approved for official US government use?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A snapshot of these assessments is available in the image below. [In case any of these change and the screenshot becomes outdated through the years, please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2020\/Apr\/24\/2002288652\/-1\/-1\/0\/CSI-SELECTING-AND-USING-COLLABORATION-SERVICES-SECURELY-LONG-FINAL.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">original PDF document<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/heres-the-nsas-guide-for-choosing-a-safe-text-chat-and-video-conferencing-service\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"NSA teleconferencing\" data-original=\"https:\/\/zdnet4.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2020\/04\/30\/418864af-cccf-439b-bd53-896a95a384d3\/nsa-teleconferencing.png\"><\/span><noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet4.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2020\/04\/30\/418864af-cccf-439b-bd53-896a95a384d3\/nsa-teleconferencing.png\" class alt=\"NSA teleconferencing\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript> <span class=\"credit\">Image: NSA<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_zd_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>The NSA published the above assessment due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has resulted in many private-sector employees, government workers, and military members working from home and increasingly relying on teleworking tools.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing which tool fits which security posture and threat matrix is the first step in preventing intrusions, the NSA said.<\/p>\n<p>This assessment also marks the second cyber-security advisory that the NSA issued last week. Days before, the agency had also published guidance and a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/nsa-shares-list-of-vulnerabilities-commonly-exploited-to-plant-web-shells\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most common vulnerabilities<\/a> threat actors had been using to plant web shells on servers.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the US government has also issued another security alert, this one by the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). 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