Secure FileShare Solution – MyWorkDrive

Windows File Sharing Remote Access

In a recent Microsoft survey of customers, Windows File sharing continues to be used at a majority of enterprises with over 70% utilizing fileshare infrastructure on-premise or in their own data centers. Cloud file services simply cannot match the speed, security, and control of a local fileshare.

While Windows fileshares excel in on-premises environments, they present challenges when remote access, mobility, and collaboration are required. In a typical enterprise setup, users are granted VPN access to map drives to company fileshares. This approach burdens IT teams with supporting and managing potentially thousands of VPN connections across end-user devices. Furthermore, remotely scripting drives proves ineffective, and with new malware and viruses emerging daily, data loss becomes a paramount concern.

MyWorkDrive FileShare Software solves these problems with our web based remote access for Windows fileshares. With MyWorkDrive, Windows fileshares are made available to users remotely over a browser, mapped drive, or mobile client using an https SSL connection. Existing fileshares are not modified and can be accessed simultaneously by users internally with a traditional mapped drive. File locking, user groups, and permissions on fileshares are also honored.

When MyWorkDrive FileShare Software is deployed existing fileshare data is made available over https from a Microsoft IIS Website. MyWorkDrive’s web-based file manager provides enterprises with the best of both worlds: secure, fast, local access combined with the cloud services users have come to expect. This approach eliminates security concerns while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) while leveraging your existing file share infrastructure. Enterprises can deploy our private cloud fileshare access server software to enable secure online access without moving data to the cloud while still offering full cloud functionality including:

• Web Browser fileshare Access from Anywhere
• Mapped Drive over HTTPS
• Online Collaboration in Office 365
• Mobile (iOS & Android) Apps and Office Apps Access
• Internal & External File Sharing
• Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

Easy Access to Existing Storage

MyWorkDrive offers access to Windows fileshare storage within the enterprise, all through our intuitive mobile, desktop, and web applications that users find simple to use. By seamlessly connecting to your existing Active Directory and fileshare storage infrastructure, MyWorkDrive serves as a single point of access to files across the enterprise. This seamless integration empowers your workforce with a unified, user-friendly experience, while ensuring that your data remains securely hosted within your organizational boundaries.

Admins can configure existing fileshares to be made available to users remotely, while preserving existing NTFS permissions and Access-Based Enumeration settings. Regardless of the access method, detailed logs are available for compliance and security purposes. MyWorkDrive seamlessly integrates with your existing backup solutions, eliminating the need for data migration to new SQL databases or the recreation of backup strategies. Furthermore, it seamlessly incorporates Windows Previous Versions, enabling end-users to access and restore previous file versions directly through our web-based file manager.

Security Features of MyWorkDrive

Data Leak Prevention

MyWorkDrive FileShare Software empowers organizations to prevent data theft, loss of company data, and ensure compliance while allowing secure online viewing and editing of files and shares. All user file-sharing activities are securely logged, searchable, and timestamped, with the option of watermarking for added protection. For enhanced security, administrators can lock down file shares to prevent clipboard copying or printing within our encrypted viewer. Additionally, MyWorkDrive can be configured to provide alerts on suspicious user activity, enabling proactive monitoring and response to potential threats.

All Data Remains on Your Server

Unlike services that require uploading your confidential company data, MyWorkDrive FileShare Software leaves all shared files intact on your servers. We do not store your data or passwords – everything remains under your control within your own private cloud environment, ensuring that your sensitive information never leaves your organizational boundaries, providing you with complete ownership and governance over your assets.

Two Factor Authentication

Enterprises can leverage our integration with DUO Two-Factor Authentication or any other SAML provider to mandate two-step verification for secure remote access to fileshares. This crucial layer of security ensures that only authorized users can gain access to your organization’s sensitive data when accessing it remotely.

Device Approval

Network administrators can exercise granular control by preventing unapproved devices from connecting to fileshares remotely, ensuring that only authorized and approved devices gain access. MyWorkDrive FileShare Software provides visibility into usage patterns, last login details, and operating system information for all connected clients, enabling effective monitoring and auditing of access activities.

Compliance

MyWorkDrive offers the necessary safeguards to help companies meet their security requirements and compliance standards, such as CMMC, FINRA, FIPS, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and GDPR. MyWorkDrive has been awarded the Skyhigh CloudTrust™ “enterprise-ready” rating for its fileshare remote access software by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). CIO Review has also recognized MyWorkDrive as a leader in compliance software.

Why MyWorkDrive?

MyWorkDrive was developed by the founders of Intivix, an IT Support and Consulting firm founded in 1996 based in San Francisco California. As an IT support firm and Microsoft Gold Partner, we received frequent requests from clients to provide a remote file access solution that is simple, fast, and secure. The team at MyWorkDrive has used our 30 years of File Sharing, IT Support, and Enterprise Security experience to deliver the most advance and secure private cloud sharing software in the marketplace.

MyWorkDrive was founded around the core value that organizations should have the option to retain ownership and control of their files, whether they are stored online or locally and should not be forced to migrate, convert, or store them in proprietary cloud storage providers necessitating vendor lock-in just to experience the benefits of secure online access or collaboration. Since MyWorkDrive does not store customer’s data, our privacy policy exceeds compliance requirements of competing solutions.

MyWorkDrive FileShare Software provides a software-only solution for secure remote file access from anywhere and for any device, wherever files are stored. Users gain access in minutes without Sync, VPN, RDP, or migrating data. MyWorkDrive is for IT leaders looking for a cloud-like file sharing solution that has ransomware protection & DLP, facilitates data governance compliance (FIPS, HIPAA, FINRA, GDPR), enhances Office Online real-time editing & collaboration with a lower TCO. MyWorkDrive gives you easy, secure, remote access to your organization’s fileshares without a VPN, without data being stored outside of your control, and without syncing to remote computers.