--- title: European Organizations Face Collaboration Security... description: A Wire survey of IT professionals in the UK, France, and Germany reveals a significant gap between perceived and actual collaboration security. While 84% of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/european-organizations-face-collaboration-security-confidence-gap-survey-finds-uogqebloy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: European Organizations Face Collaboration Security Confidence Gap, Survey Finds | daily.dev og:description: A Wire survey of IT professionals in the UK, France, and Germany reveals a significant gap between perceived and actual collaboration security. While 84% of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/european-organizations-face-collaboration-security-confidence-gap-survey-finds-uogqebloy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uogQEbLOy.png og:image:alt: European Organizations Face Collaboration Security Confidence Gap, Survey Finds og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # European Organizations Face Collaboration Security Confidence Gap, Survey Finds **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Wire survey of IT professionals in the UK, France, and Germany reveals a significant gap between perceived and actual collaboration security. While 84% of respondents felt confident in their collaboration security, only 29% said their tools were fully suitable for sensitive communications. Key issues include access permissions lingering too long (61%), difficulty identifying who has access to sensitive files (34%), and widespread shadow IT use — employees turning to consumer apps like WhatsApp when approved tools are inconvenient. CISOs are advised to audit collaboration platforms, reduce shadow IT by improving tool usability, and enforce consistent governance and access logging across all channels including external workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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