When it’s sent, it’s out there, right? – Wrong!

With Message Burn you get to choose how long your messages last. 

When you send a sensitive message how can you be sure that only the intended recipient sees it, and that it is not lying around on a phone somewhere for others to find at a later date?

While for the majority of chitchat on consumer-grade messaging apps it really doesn’t matter, when you are sending more sensitive, work-related communications, who sees it and what happens after that can literally be a matter of life and death in some cases (for example, a journalist in an unfriendly regime meeting an interviewee, or in the case of covert ops).

With a facility like Message Burn, users can limit the life of their sensitive data at rest.  Users can set a time for their message to dissolve, disappear or as the name implies, ‘burn’. This can be either a future date and time, or an amount of time after the message has been read by the recipient. While some other enterprise apps allow one or the other, Armour Mobile provides the flexibility of both options for the user via an intuitive interface.  The ‘burn’ time can be set for each individual message.  So, for example, a user may send several low sensitivity messages without any burn time, and then one highly sensitive message regarding, say, a meeting time/venue, or a sensitive contact name, with a very short burn time.

The burn time can be applied to messages, and their attachments (which can be pictures and/or files), for one-to-one messages and to group chats. To ensure that messages to important users aren’t accidentally sent without appropriate ‘burn’ protection, you can also define default message destruction settings for any user or group, so that accidentally pressing the send button never results in sensitive data hanging around for any longer than it should – incidentally, this meets one of the key requirements for GDPR, should that be a concern for your organisation.

Message Burn will be incorporated into Armour Mobile in the next major release.  For more details contact us now: sales@armourcomms.com