Collaboration suites like M365 offer unparalleled convenience. Millions of teams rely on them to quickly share documents with coworkers, clients and business partners. Yet when sharing is this easy, data security becomes a lot harder.
Cloud sharing is so integral to the modern workplace that it’s difficult to imagine how offices ever got by without it. Dropping files in one-on-one chats. Spreadsheets that live in Teams channels so everyone can see the latest figures. Throwing project folders on SharePoint and sending out invite links.
Yet for all the ways that cloud sharing has revolutionized office life, remote work and long-distance collaboration, there is a downside.
With the usage of cloud platforms exploding over recent years, visibility into sharing is falling further and further behind. Many organizations no longer have any idea who their users are sharing potentially sensitive information with.