Press release - Private Discuss: What if we teleworked with French tools?
At a time when the French government is calling on companies to generalize remote work, issues of digital sovereignty and cybersecurity are more than ever at the heart of the news. Launched in February 2020 by Piman Security, Private Discuss is a 100% French and cyber-secure collaborative platform. Instant messaging, videoconferencing, webinar… This teleworking tool offers complete and configurable functionalities, which rival those of the largest platforms on the market.
“Our platform now brings together more than 100,000 users. We have a very strong and pressing demand from actors in education, research, health but also from event and training professionals, who are looking for French solutions. Half of our users are seduced by the French dimension, the other half by the cybersecurity dimension,” explains Jean-Pierre Lach, CEO of the Piman group.
A complete, interactive and user-friendly teleworking tool
Private Discuss offers comprehensive and accessible features for all types of virtual meetings:
- HD webinar (up to 1,000 people);
- HD video conferencing (up to 200 people);
- collaborative work (chat, sharing and file library, etc.);
- Online training and courses (with division of the meeting into working sub-groups, whiteboard, question/answer, presence indicator, “lift hand” request, etc.);
- team/project meeting (chain/exchange group);
- General Assembly (online voting system);
- digital seminar (or any digital event).
A cyber-secure and GDPR-compliant solution
Chat, document sharing, video or audio calls… All exchanges are secured by the most efficient end-to-end encryption methods on the market. “We use encryption algorithms such as Curve25519, AES 256 and HMAC-SHA-256 to ensure full privacy and exchange security and user data. “, specifies Nawfal Sikal, partner and cybersecurity expert at Piman Security.
In accordance with the provisions of May 25, 2018, all data is collected, hosted and processed in accordance with the European General Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data (GDPR).
Data stored on servers in France, not submitted to Cloud Act
Contrary to the solutions offered by the American giants in the sector, the data transiting on Private Discuss is stored in France, on French servers, from French companies (OVH, Scaleway).
They are not in this sense, not subject to the Cloud Act, a security text that authorizes the American government to access all communication data, in particular operated in the cloud.
About Piman Security
Private Discuss is a solution developed by Piman Security, the Piman Group entity dedicated to security and cybersecurity consulting. Composed of 50% of security experts from the sovereign forces of the State and to 50% of cybersecurity engineers. Piman Security bets on the convergence between human security, infrastructure and data and creates private security bubbles for its customers. Piman Security is a private company with strictly private capital, independent of any economic, state or financial player.
More information: https://private-discuss.com/
Press Contact
Isabela Ausztol
Communication & Marketing
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