Do you relate to these problems?
Organizations store increasingly sensitive files in shared drives, cloud storage and departmental folders, but storage access and file access are often treated as the same thing.
Once an authorized person can reach a folder or obtain a copy of a file, storage permissions alone may no longer determine who can open, share or retain that information.
TeraCryption moves security to the file itself. Files remain encrypted, and access is controlled according to authenticated users, Groups, ownership and organizational permissions—regardless of where the protected files are stored.
Sensitive files do not become exposed only when a cyberattack occurs. Risk exists every day that confidential files remain accessible to more people than necessary, are copied outside their intended location, remain available after responsibilities change, or are shared without file-level control.
The time to establish file-level protection is before an access-control problem, employee departure, accidental disclosure, audit finding or security incident reveals that storage permissions alone were not enough.
File Control Weaknesses
File Management Problems - Do they sound familiar?
Problems that TeraCryption solves:
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Sensitive files remain vulnerable after someone obtains legitimate storage access.
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Shared drives can expose documents to everyone who has folder access.
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Cloud credentials and cloud permissions do not necessarily provide file-level ownership control.
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Employees leave or change responsibilities while access to sensitive information must be reassigned or revoked.
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Encryption becomes operationally difficult when users must manage encryption keys.
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Organizations need evidence of who was authorized to access protected information.
Solution: TeraCryption provides file-level encryption, Automatic Key Management, authenticated access, Group security, owner-controlled sharing, revocation, ownership transfer and audit logging.
When Does TeraCryption Provide a Solution?
Problem + Solution + Productivity.
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An employee needs a confidential HR file today. Should that automatically mean they can access every HR document?
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An engineer needs access to one project. Should that give them visibility into every design stored in the department folder?
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A manager legitimately receives a confidential document. What happens when their responsibilities change?
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An employee leaves. Who takes ownership of the encrypted files they created?
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Twenty-five executives use a shared folders. Does everybody need to see everybody else's confidential documents?
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A contractor needs a document for three months. How does the organization maintain control over that access?
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A user works remotely. How do you know it is an authenticated, authorized user before the file can be decrypted?
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Your files are already on OneDrive, Google Drive or your Windows server. Does protecting them require moving everything somewhere else?
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Your organization encrypts files. Who creates, stores, distributes, backs up and recovers all those encryption keys?
Protecting files should not make employees' work more complicated.
What you can do: Protect sensitive files while allowing authorized users to continue working with them through their familiar Windows environment.
"Why am I going to spend money for something that I do not need to be productive?”
The answer isn't that encryption makes the company more productive.
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Your organization already needs people to access, edit and share sensitive files to remain productive.
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The security problem is that the same accessibility that enables productivity can expose information to people who no longer—or never did—need access to it.
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TeraCryption adds file-level control without requiring the organization to abandon its existing storage environment or normal Windows workflow.
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Every day that sensitive files are stored and shared without file-level access control, the organization is relying primarily on the security boundaries around those files.
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Nothing has to “go wrong” for that exposure to exist. An authorized employee may simply have access to more information than their responsibilities require.
The risk exists before the incident.
The incident merely reveals the weakness.
Server, cloud and shared-storage security protects the storage environment.
TeraCryption adds another security boundary at the individual file.
