Nextcloud 17 with Improved Security Features

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 Especially useful if a device is lost or stolen, an employee has left the company or guest access is no longer active.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.