With
Remote Wipe and improved watermark handling, the Nextcloud cloud collaboration
platform has 17 new features for more security.
In the now released Nextcloud 17, the developers not only
integrated the collaborative editor first introduced in
version 16, but above all functions for better security in business use.
New
two-factor authentication - including initial sign-in or guest access - allows
administrators to generate one-time tokens to help end users handle the second
security feature.
Safe in the cloud
Also
new is Remote Wipe, a feature that allows you to delete previously shared
documents on remote devices. Especially useful if a device is lost or
stolen, an employee has left the company or guest access is no longer active.
In
addition, Nextcloud added the option of Secure View to allow administrators to
automatically assign watermarks through tagged documents. This works in
the basic version only for complete releases, in combination with Collabora
Online 4.1 can make this setting much more detailed. This allows users to
configure the team so that they are automatically watermarked when opening
PDFs, images and text documents, while access control prevents downloading or
use by other applications through appropriate rules.
Such
a setup can be used to implement specially protected document areas, such as
those required for virtual data rooms when inter-company document exchange.
