Tisk Tisk Tisk. Time to Clear Your Conscience at Work.
Earlier this month, Nasuni released a report on Shadow IT in the Workplace. In that report they revealed that nearly ½ of employees use file sharing services, like Dropbox, to share sensitive work-related files, even though there is a corporate policy against such usage. Another study revealed that 29% were director or vice president level, 22% were C-level, and 33% of that number, IT professionals! Why is this important? Because, in theory, the higher up the food chain you go, the more sensitive the data is you are storing and sharing in your Dropbox account.
It is evident that we are all drinking the Kool-Aid of convenience and efficient team collaboration that Dropbox provides. This is further supported by Dropbox’s announcement that they have now surpassed 100 MILLION users (updated to 200 million+ users from time of original post). This is HUGE! We are in the age of technology, we want instant gratification, and it is not going away. IT, regardless of the policies put in place, is not going to bar employees from creating or using a Dropbox account—employees are clever and will find a way around any policy if it means they have convenience. If there is a will, there is a way. So what can IT do to offset the likelihood of breaches and hacks, or inadvertent shares? What can you do to avoid being the guy who sent a file by mistake?
This is where we come in. SafeMonk has developed an application that sits in your Dropbox account (read: you don’t have to go to a separate application-it’s IN your existing Dropbox folder). Any personal or sensitive work files, simply place in your SafeMonk folder and voila, encrypted! Want to share a file with a busy colleague? Easy stuff, share a link with them to securely download the client and they’ll be able to unlock the file.
Technology is finally catching up. It is time to clear your conscience by signing up at www.safemonk.com.
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