Egnyte announced new integrations with Microsoft to help mid-sized
organizations prevent data loss, address a growing number of regional privacy
regulations, and simplify the overall management of content, with minimal
administrative overhead.
"Our employees love using Microsoft 365 but
with the multiple applications, including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and
desktop applications, we find it increasingly difficult to manage and secure
all of our content," said Tony Schwingel, Director of IT Service Delivery at
Brookfield Properties. "With Egnyte we gain greater insight across how our
content is being accessed and used, as well as the ability to establish and
enforce consistent governance across all of our Microsoft applications."
"Accelerated by the rapid shifts to remote
work, Microsoft's cloud suite, increasingly front-ended by Microsoft Teams, is
now pervasive among organizations of all sizes, which has introduced new and
unfamiliar risks," said Rajesh Ram, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of
Egnyte. "Mid-sized organizations, in particular, struggle to implement the
various compliance, security and privacy tools that Microsoft offers as add-on
options to its service. The complexity challenges are particularly acute in
regulated industries, such as financial services and healthcare."
Egnyte launched a series of integrations with Microsoft Teams in 2020.
Today's announcements cover the other most popular aspects of Microsoft 365,
specifically:
- Exchange Online/Outlook: automatically
identify and classify sensitive content in Microsoft Exchange Online and
Exchange Server emails and attachments to help prevent improper disclosure or
accidental data loss.
- SharePoint and OneDrive: classify and find
regulated and sensitive content sprawled across different SharePoint and
OneDrive libraries through a "single pane of glass."
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint: business users can
now access and co-edit files using the respective Microsoft desktop apps while
their IT and security teams govern the data through Egnyte, creating a "best of
both worlds" experience.
In addition to these announcements pertaining
to Microsoft 365, Egnyte is also announcing general availability of a new
Public Cloud Connector to synchronize selected files between Egnyte and
Microsoft Azure object storage. Previously in closed beta, this connector is
being used in live deployments to support virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
environments, cloud data processing, cloud archiving, and more.