Egnyte a Calif. based content collaboration and governance specialist has launched a new cloud-based solution which looks after insider threat. The product focus on IT security professionals. Nowadays distributed workspace needs shared information system which uses on-premises collaboration platforms or cloud-based services which may cause data breach.
“As users and organizations are more global and interdependent they need to share more content with each other and then need to do it in a secure way using EFSS [enterprise file synchronization and sharing] solutions not email attachments for instance,” Isabelle Guis, chief strategy officer at Egnyte mentioned.
“But as you hire contractors and have many places where your content resides (on-premises, cloud, cloud apps, etc.) it is very difficult to enforce the security policies at the repository level or even train all your users and new hires to properly handle their content.”
Data leaks can occur due to various loopholes.
“For example, a merger and acquisition folder could be shared via a public link and one of the intended recipients forwards the link to someone who should not see that data,” Guis said. “Or, a very common example – a disgruntled employee downloads all of ‘their’ work, which is actually the company’s IP [intellectual property], right before leaving your company and going to a competitor,” a situation allegedly at the center of the high-stakes Google-Uber lawsuit.
Egnyte product looks for sensitive content in the database.
Then it “provides real–time analysis of all the content within an organization and presents actionable insights to help administrators prevent these types of aforementioned data breaches,” Guis said.
“Egnyte Protect continuously analyzes an organization’s entire content environment and classifies the most sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, sensitive IP, HIPAA information, and much more,” she added. “Then, in real–time, Egnyte Protect identifies vulnerabilities, alerts administrators, and offers actions that can immediately fix any issue that is found across all of the organization’s content repositories.”
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