Secure File Sharing

JAY FERRON

CEHI, CWSP, CISSP, CRISC, CVEI, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, MVP, NSA-IAM

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Consumerization of cloud-based file sharing & remote file storage is here to stay. What does that mean to your cooperative’s cyber security policy? This session will explore:

Secured cloud-based file sharing solutions that are easy to use and fairly priced

Service provider product differences between Box, OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, plus others in this market segment

Identify any “gotchas” or hidden fees in service provider’s solutions Attendees will takeaway a list of SAFE, FAIRLY PRICED, SOLID

solutions for cloud file sharing and data storage and what to AVOID! Notice – are you putting protect data in the CLOUD ?

Box (www.box.com) The company's vision of cloud-based enterprise content and collaboration, business process

and workflow support is centered on cloud storage and secure EFSS capabilities. It provides APIs for application integration, and customization of the UI. A mobile and optimized user experience is core to that vision. Box aims to become the data backbone in the cloud for business system applications.

Box has thousands of partners, including application developers, ECM vendors and hardware vendors whose apps/systems are tightly integrated with Box's offerings. The OneCloud initiative brings a variety of apps for content collaboration on mobile devices. Box has a strong channel program with over 1,000 partners that resell and build Box solutions globally.

References indicated that Box offers a great user experience, ease of use and support; they rated highly the API that enables integrating Box with internal business processes or building third-party services.

Data protection is supported by filtering data containing sensitive information. Enhancements to the cloud encryption capabilities will put customers in control of the encryption keys for data stored in the cloud.

Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) Dropbox is considered the benchmark for best-in-class ease of use.

Employees in most organizations use Dropbox unofficially, often in connection with tablets and personal devices. Its large consumer base means that many employees will be familiar with it, which should make deployment easy.

Fast and reliable synchronization is deployed to a large global customer base through several methods, including LAN sync, delta sync and automatic bandwidth optimization.

A robust platform ecosystem, with over 300,000 apps, enables Dropbox integration in corporate workflows (e.g., document editing, collaboration and content management).

Google Drive www.google.com

Google Drive has good integration with third-party cloud-based services, such as DocuSign and HelloFax, and offers a software development kit for app developers.

Google Drive has strong integration with the Google Apps suite, including Google Docs,

Calendar, Mail and messaging, for editing and collaboration.

Google offers high availability through its data center expertise.

Accellion (www.accellion.com)

Accellion offers a modern mobile UI designed for touch-based interaction. It includes innovative features, such as a touchscreen-based function to be visually dragged and dropped among folders on a mobile device (via the kiteworks Move Tray).

Accellion offers a broad range of deployment options, including on-premises, private cloud, hosted private cloud (via Amazon Web Services), public cloud and hybrid. The hybrid model can combine the on-premises component with public and private cloud services.

Accellion has multiple compliance certifications in highly regulated markets, including certifications for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Accellion supports sharing unlimited size files, e.g., files larger than 1,000GB (1TB) — a critical feature for end users dealing with large media files, such as videos, source code or computer-aided design (CAD; e.g., engineering groups, graphics shops and video/audio production houses).

Hightail (www.hightail.com)

Hightail has a strong consumer like look and feel because of its heritage, making adoption by employees in an organization easy.

t has a significant international user base and is able to store data in the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands.

Hightail's offering has HIPAA compliance certification, in addition to many security and control features.

There is a strong focus on simplicity and user experience in the client UI strategy. The vendorconsiders the user experience key to driving adoption within organizations.

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

OneDrive for Business has good integration with SharePoint, on-premises and in the cloud

(Office 365) 1TB more if needed

The product also has good integration with mobile and desktop Microsoft Office and

applications for document creation, collaboration and sharing.

There is the potential to integrate OneDrive for Business with other Microsoft products in the

ecosystem, such as Yammer, if they have been deployed.

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com)

OneDrive for Personal 15 gig and can get up to 100 gb for free then charges

The product also has good integration with mobile and desktop Microsoft Office and

applications for document creation, collaboration and sharing.

Workshare (www.workshare.com)

The user experience is elegant and simple, and helps drive rapid and pervasive adoption.

Enterprises that commonly work with complex and long documents likely will appreciate Workshare's redlining and metadata scrubbing tools. Workshare the product has a rich feature set to support group communication in social, document-centric and co-authoring scenarios, with a focus on mobile productivity. The product features content-aware data loss prevension controls at the content and metadata levels. Metadata can be stripped from content in accordance with policy when documents are shared via email, its mobile client or third-party online tools. This unique set of controls bolsters the product's ability to prevent data leakage.