SkyDrive

Learn how to use LockMagic with Microsoft SkyDrive

Microsoft’s SkyDrive is another way for users to share data. While SkyDrive allows the user to create folders and create permissions for those folders, it does not allow for any built-in form of encryption. Therefore, the user has to rely solely on the permissions set on the folder for access control. When the amount of data gets very large, managing these folders can become unwieldy. In addition, placing the access control list (ACL) on the folders forces all users to have a live id. Instead, if a folder is public and the data has the ACL, then any user, with any valid email identity can access data that they are authorized to use. Therefore, placing the access control, inside the data, allows the user to reduce the complexity of managing access control lists.


While cloud storage, like SkyDrive is a great commodity for users, storing any type of confidential data, without encryption, still leaves your data open to potential hackers. In addition, administrators, of any type of cloud storage system, will have access to view your unencrypted data. If, for any reason, the disk drive, or a copy of all data on that drive, has to be given to law enforcement, then your data will be exposed to more people than was originally intended.


LockMagic with Microsoft SkyDrive

Highlights

  • Seamless integration with SkyDrive
  • Single sign on with SkyDrive
  • Reduce access control complexity by placing the access control in the data itself

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