Video conferencing systems / b.r.m. offers data protection-compliant video conferencing solution

There are many providers of video conferencing and online meetings - b.r.m. has been offering a video conferencing solution that meets the highest data protection standards for several months now. In this blog post, you can find out why video conferencing tools are important and how the various providers differ.

The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed our everyday lives in a short space of time. Professional and business life in particular had to react quickly to new regulations and requirements. Meetings and conferences could no longer be held on site and people had to work together from home. However, such crises must not paralyze everyday working life. That is why it is important to implement a secure and stable collaboration solution in the company. In addition to traditional coordination meetings, documents also need to be exchanged or processed in parallel. 

It is undisputed that a classic telephone call does not have the same effect in the long term. You have to be able to see the other person. So we need the opportunity to exchange ideas without direct contact and location restrictions - but with data protection and additional functions that make our work easier: the conference solution.

The major providers of such digital conferencing solutions are Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Skype for Business and Google Meet (formerly Google Hangout). Only Zoom and Skype for Business can be hosted on their own server - in other words, only here can a particularly high level of data protection be guaranteed. In addition to the option of hosting it yourself, Zoom also offers an extremely intuitive user interface. The costs and installation effort for Zoom are kept within limits. 

Of course, the other providers (Microsoft Teams, Google Meet) also have some (supposed) advantages, but data protection cannot be guaranteed here. Although the data is encrypted in transit (via the internet), it is decrypted on the server of the respective provider. The service provider therefore has complete control over this personal data - trust is an absolute prerequisite here. 

The big difference to the b.r.m. conference solution is the data storage. With us, the data is not decrypted on the server of the respective (American) provider, but is sent from the Internet with 265-bit AES encryption to the b.r.m. data center and are only decrypted there. This corresponds to "real" data protection without any problems of mistrust. In addition, Zoom is the first provider to work on "extended" end-2-end encryption so that data is not passed on to Facebook, for example. 

In summary, the b.r.m. Zoom video conferencing solution offers the ideal basic requirements for your company. The best user interface on the market is paired with the highest data protection promises (hosting on our own server in Bremen). An extensive range of functions, e.g. the option to exchange documents, makes day-to-day work easier. A manageable set-up and support effort as well as fair prices round off the offer. 

Please contact us for further information.