Web Conferencing v/s Face-to-Face Meeting - a Security Concern

Web Conferencing v/s Face-to-Face Meeting - a Security Concern

Today, in the ever growing world of global business, enterprises are transforming themselves into more and more dynamic organizations to facilitate good communication and also enhancing business among them. Although, the global economy's secret behind their success is the capability to communicate and also participate in various activities, regardless of demographics (Lindstrom, 2003). In this lieu, video, audio and web conferencing are the key players to transform the world into a global village, Most of the departments of defense and national security, belonging to different parts of the world are using it as a safe transit to transfer their data and/or conversation. Particularly, video conferencing has changed the dynamics of communication from a formal “nice to have” technology to a tool used to transmit critical mission briefing and details via safe passage (ivci.com, 2010).

Before going onwards, let's discuss the new era's web-based conferencing. Web conferencing is nothing but a mode of sharing of data (also information) and facilitates a flexible and vibrant mode to work with each other without paying any extra transportation costs. Moreover, web-based conferencing is free from the scheduled itineraries and provide an easy to use interface so that the business colleagues, partners and customers can have better communication, just at their doorstep (Lindstrom, 2003). Now the question that may arise is how safe is it to have a web-conferencing rather than face-to-face meetings? The answer can be obtained by simply looking at various aspects of web-based conferencing and their security constraints.

Most of us are quite aware with the potential discrepancies of scientific advancements and other manmade machine. So is the case with web-based conferencing, it has posed some security thread and issues while testing it in various spheres of lives. These risks have provided good insight about the potential loopholes in networking and have even made IT personnel think over the problem (Lindstrom, 2003). Before moving onwards, the potential risks associated with web-based conferencing can provide a great deal of knowledge to understand the gravity of the situation and finally taking a stand for anyone.

As far as secure communication environment is under light, the fundamental element of security includes confidentiality, availability, integrity and accountability. All these terms determine separate sphere to understand the security concern more than ever. Also, in order to achieve the requirements, vendor has to ...