Proton Drive reveals major update for businesses, boosts encryption

2 weeks ago

Proton Drive gets caller E2EE Suggesting Mode
The Swiss institution says it is earnestly committed to unafraid collaboration
Users will person much power complete sharing pinch Proton Drive

Proton has announced moreover much encryption for its cloud storage solution arsenic it looks to amended productivity and collaboration for users crossed nan globe.

The institution has rolled retired Suggesting Mode for its web-based and Proton Drive-based connection processor, Docs, making it nan “first and only” encrypted collaboration characteristic of its kind.

By introducing end-to-end encryption, Proton hopes to person nan one-up connected competitors for illustration Google Docs and Notion, which do not connection E2EE yet.

Proton boosts encryption for Drive, Docs

In its announcement, nan institution cited outer investigation revealing two-fifths of nan information stored connected Google Drive contains delicate information. The aforesaid is apt existent of different unreality retention drives, including OneDrive, iCloud Drive and Dropbox.

As a collaboration instrumentality for Docs, Suggesting Mode enables users to propose edits without altering nan original matter and support a log of changes, including type history.

More broadly crossed Drive, Proton is rolling retired nationalist links, which gives users power complete things for illustration expiration dates and scholar permissions.

Much for illustration Google Drive online, nan Proton Drive Windows app has besides gained a caller Shared pinch Me characteristic for making it easy to find documents shared by colleagues without having to comb done emails.

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Moreover, Proton says its, “dedication to continuously enhancing personification experience” is reflected by its “rapid advancements” – different caller changes see PDF export abilities, keyboard shortcuts, a connection count instrumentality and much formatting options.

“This committedness to unafraid collaboration is astatine nan halfway of our mission: to guarantee complete privateness during archive editing and commenting—so unafraid that not moreover we tin entree your data," said Anant Vijay Singh, Product Lead for Proton Drive.

The news comes soon aft nan institution confirmed that it would beryllium launching Proton VPN for Windows ARM devices aft successful beta testing.