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Follow UsMOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: WatchDox, a provider of secure document access and collaboration solutions, today announced that its users can now securely view and make annotations to documents directly on their iOS devices, while maintaining the ability to control, protect and, if necessary, remotely destroy the documents at any time.
With WatchDox, enterprise users can collaborate on the go without putting sensitive documents at risk for unauthorized distribution, leakage or theft, a press release said.
Mobile devices increasing security incidents: survey
As tablets and smartphones become pervasive, many enterprises are adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives or deploying enterprise-managed tablets. However, maintaining the security of highly sensitive documents is a challenge on these devices, as they offer little document security and are frequently lost or stolen. The rapidly growing number of online file sharing and annotation tools do not offer protection to documents stored on mobile devices and allow documents to be easily printed, copied or forwarded. Additionally, these tools offer no safeguards for revoking access to documents stored on lost or stolen devices.
"As mobile devices continue to gain traction in the enterprise, more executives and high-level managers are leveraging mobile technology to conduct critical business on the go," said Monica Basso, research vice president of Gartner's Mobile and Client Computing, Mobility and Collaboration team. "While the ability to edit and update documents on the fly is a key business need, it can also leave a company's most sensitive information at risk. To effectively collaborate and protect important documents being shared or accessed via mobile devices, security must start at the document level and follow the document where ever it goes."