What is Secure Collaboration?
Secure collaboration is a strategy to protect copyrighted digital content and media from being stolen, shared, and sold illegally. The strategy can include software, watermarks, and other technologies to limit its unauthorized spread.
Organizations use technology and technological systems to limit and prevent the illicit use of copyrighted material, including its illegal sharing, downloading, and distribution over telecommunication networks.
Fortra’s secure collaboration solution encrypts and controls access to sensitive files wherever they go. Taking a Zero Trust approach to file sharing, collaboration with anyone – external or internal – is always quick and secure, with the option to revoke access instantly at any time.
Secure collaboration tools allow the user to maintain controls over files, such as:
- When and how a document or content can be accessed or viewed
- How long the document or content can be viewed or accessed
- Who can edit, save, or otherwise modify the content
- Whether a file can be shared or forwarded to a third party
- Which actions can be performed or allowed on the content, like copying, printing, or taking screenshots
- How many times said operations, like printing, is allowed
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organization unique?
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Fortra’s secure collaboration solution encrypts and controls access to sensitive files wherever they go.
Taking a Zero Trust approach to file sharing, collaboration with anyone – external or internal – is always quick and secure, with the option to revoke access instantly at any time.
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74% of breaches involve the human element.
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Source: Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report
Secure Collaboration vs. Digital Rights Management
Digital rights management (DRM) grew out of the need to address the explosive growth in piracy after the advent of the internet, especially in the film and music industries. Digitization leads to reduced costs of reproducing copyrighted materials, along with an increase in large-scale distribution of pirated digital assets.
As the world has become more decentralized, the variety of intellectual property and sensitive content needing to be shared online as exploded.
With this increase in collaborative needs, nearly everyone within an organization has a need to collaborate externally. With this, DRM has evolved into secure collaboration, which invokes a more modern and user-friendly approach. Secure collaboration tools put data and content controls into everyone’s hands, typically without the reliance on an organization’s IT team.
Fortra’s Secure Collaboration protects your sensitive files, everywhere they travel.
In today’s highly collaborative, cloud-based and mobile-centric work environment, Fortra's Secure Collaboration provides simple, flexible, transparent data security, enabling businesses of all sizes to protect any file, on any device, anywhere it travels.