Accellion Adds Digital Rights Management Features to Enhance Security of Document Sharing

Accellion, a mobile solutions provider, announced new user-friendly, integrated digital rights management (DRM) features for its kiteworks solution, including the ability to control the viewing, copying and altering of shared documents. These features will be generally available in June.

Launched earlier this year by Accellion, kiteworks offers a mobile-first design with integrated productivity tools for secure creation, editing, annotation and sharing of content on mobile devices including universal access to enterprise content stores, including SharePoint, Windows File Shares, Documentum and OpenText. With kiteworks, organizations are able to realize mobile productivity gains while benefiting from the security controls and features of an enterprise-grade solution.

The new kiteworks features provide additional security control over the sharing of sensitive and confidential information in an easy to use mobile-first design. For example, the new features include the ability to share a file in a "view only" mode with document watermarking and full-content search. Recipients of the file cannot download, forward, or copy and paste any part of the file, thus enabling IT to maintain full control and visibility. 

File security is enhanced by ensuring that recipients only receive an image of the file, with a custom watermark rather than an editable document. Watermarking strengthens the security of the View Only role, by ensuring that viewers cannot capture images and use them elsewhere. Additionally, within the online viewer on a mobile or web interface, users can search for and highlight key words or phrases. 

In addition, kiteworks now also includes the ability to withdraw files in the event they've sent the wrong content, or sent content to the wrong recipient. This capability is available for both mobile and web users, and adds another layer of security to protect document. Additionally, from within the Activity Stream users can resend files they've sent to a recipient or forward files to additional collaborators.