How to achieve enhanced secure file sharing in your air-gapped network with FileCloud?
What is an air-gapped network?
An air-gapped network is an isolated network with high-security measures. This kind of network limits access to other networks, such as public and unsecured local area networks. Mainly these networks are used by military and government institutions. Other parties, like the medical, financial sector, backup systems, etc., can use these air-gapped networks.
How could FileCloud enhance the air-gapped network?
You can use FileCloud with an air-gapped network to securely host and share data whenever necessary. You can have different network setups in the air-gapped network with limited access to the external networks or with no access. When you give limited access to specific IP addresses with the FileCloud DLP system, you can use additional access limitations with a firewall in your system. With no or limited access to external systems, FileCloud provides an offline installer to install and update the FileCloud versions. You can access the FileCloud server with HTTP/HTTPS even with the fully isolated system. Direct updates can be done by filtering the access to the FileCloud upgrade servers.
Some of the main enhancement points for the air-gapped network with FileCloud can be described as follows:
Prevent Data Leaks
Preventing any type of data leaks is vital in an air-gapped network system. When it comes to end-users, data leaks mustn’t happen, and FileCloud provides the utmost security with data leak prevention with the smart data loss prevention (DLP) system. This is a rule-driven smart DLP system. The smart DLP system provides the compliance with many data standards such as HIPAA, ITAR, GDPR/CCPA, and many other data regulatory standards. There is a range of compliance use cases provided by the FileCloud smart DLP system. There are the document sharing use cases, virtual data room, the legal hold of electronically stored information (ESI), and e-discovery of ESI. User actions such as downloading, sharing, and logging can be controlled by the smart DLP. IP range, user group, email domain, folder path, document metadata, and user agent-based control can be done with this smart DLP. These control rules are evaluated in real-time, and log the violations of these rules are for reporting and auditing.
Safeguard of Documents
A digital rights management (DRM) system helps safeguard of documents. This helps prevent unauthorized sharing of documents, taking screenshots of the documents, and copying and printing of the documents. Your intellectual property should be kept secured in an air-gapped network. The sender of these documents can instantly revoke any access they have given or restrict any permission of any actions they have given to secure the safeguard of documents. There is a setting by the FileCloud to set a maximum access count of a particular document. AES 256 encryption mechanism is used by the FileCloud DRM, and this makes sure the key that is given is verified before giving access to anyone to the relevant documents. There is a secure document viewer given by the FileCloud to set a user only read a portion of the document. And there is also a screenshot protection feature that enables the file’s sender to prohibit users from taking screenshots of the relevant file. The sender can revoke any access based on any violations as well.
Encryption
Encryption of data is vital in any cloud system and, most notably, for an air-gapped network system, and it makes sure that your data is secure while transferring data from one point to another point. FileCloud makes the data encrypted while data is at rest and in transit. FileCloud uses FIPS -140, which is a very high-security standard. This standard is validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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