FinalCode keeps files safe wherever they go

Startup FinalCode secures files so permissions that protect them follow them around even when they are accessed outside secured networks.

The company’s FinalCode platform encrypts files and imposes restrictions on who can access them, when, for how long and with what privileges. So a person could be allowed to read a document but not copy and paste it, be allowed to open it only twice and only for 24 hours.

The company offers its platform as software entirely under control of the customer or as a service in which FinalCode handles the server side.

That is a big advantage for businesses that want this type of protection but don’t want to deal with the key management and infrastructure, says Eric Ogren, principal analyst for the Ogren Group. “They don’t even see the keys,” he says. “They can if they really want to, but why would they want to.” So the problems of scaling the number of files that are encrypted are handled by the service, not corporate staff.

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