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Secure Collaboration for the Enterprise

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Today Accellion announced the introduction of Accellion Secure Collaboration with Mobile Apps for the enterprise.

We understand that collaboration means many things to many people.  Accellion approaches collaboration from a file sharing perspective and is geared toward securely sharing enterprise information.

Accellion Secure Collaboration extends the award-winning file transfer capabilities our customers already enjoy and also:

- Enables business users to quickly and easily create secure workspaces for internal and external groups to securely collaborate and share files, improving business productivity.
- Allows users to view, comment on and share files from their laptop, iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry, reducing business response time.
- Enables enterprise organizations to ensure enterprise data security and demonstrate compliance with SOX, HIPAA and FDA, reducing risk of costly data breaches.
- Extends current IT investments in technologies like SharePoint and Autonomy’s iManage.

    Our new features are as easy-to-use as any consumer-oriented, unsecured, unmanaged dropbox-type of application because if you’re going to deploy an enterprise collaboration solution, it needs to work for everyone.  That’s what collaboration means.  It also means it needs to be secure, scalable manageable, and one less thing to worry about.

    Additional information about Accellion Secure Collaboration can be found on www.accellion.com.

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    Facebook e-mail – a new security loophole

    Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

    Yesterday’s announcement by Facebook that they are introducing email capabilities should provide organizations with yet one more reason for banning the use of Facebook at work.  In the hope that it will raise additional awareness of the security and compliance risk with unmanaged data transfer I posted the following comments at cio.com:

    In case you missed it, today Facebook announced the addition of e-mail capabilities for its users. The initial rollout (US only) starts today and will continue over the next few months. One of the most alarming things to note, Facebook says it doesn’t have a set limit on the size of files that can be sent/received via its e-mail. So, if you don’t have a secure, easy way for employees to share large files… watch out, Facebook e-mail can easily become the next insecure IT workaround.

    Let’s face it, smart people will find a way to get the job done, and unfortunately, security is often of secondary concern when evaluating IT workarounds. To keep your employees away from the temptation of using insecure IT workarounds – like Facebook – to share confidential corporate files too large to be sent over the e-mail network, deploying an enterprise solution for managing file transfer solution is essential.

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