Non-secure consumer-grade file
sharing services like Dropbox,
SharePoint and YouSendIt
are rapidly gaining popularity
because they are easy to use,
and employees often turn to
them because they simply don’t
have another option. To change
this pattern, IT must provide
employees a secure means to
transfer large files and safely
access data from anywhere that
is just as simple and intuitive as
the free unregulated services
available today. If the tools you
provide aren’t intuitive and user-
friendly, adoption rates will suffer
and employees will continue to
use public cloud-based services,
USB drives and webmail to share
files, putting your corporate data
at risk.
Ideal file-sharing solutions allow
users to quickly yet securely
share even large files, and
collaborate both internally and
externally from their desktops
or mobile devices – while still
complying with corporate security
policies and regulatory directives.
These solutions must also be
flexible enough to use with all
popular tablet and smartphone
operating systems, and support
various desktop platforms so that
Ensure Ease-of-Use
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Look for easy-to-use, policy-compliant file sharing that encourages
user adoption and is easy to implement/administer.
