How You Can Ensure File Sharing Security by Lisa Froelings

The storage and sharing of corporate data has come a long way in the past century. Filing cabinets and storage units full of cardboard boxes are becoming less and less common as technology has paved the way to new ways of doing things. And as companies expand to occupy multiple locations across the globe, and accommodate remote workers and teams, the cloud has become an integral part of how information is stored, shared, delivered, updated, edited, and more. And while the cloud offers many great benefits—for example, co-authored documents that allow multiple people to see updates in real time—it also brings with it a bevy of potential security risks. Security Concerns of File Sharing Online file sharing, whether through the cloud or via email, is an incredible business asset—when properly implemented. If it’s misused, however, it also becomes an incredible liability. Suddenly, all of your business’s data, including sensitive information,....