Syncdocs protects your Google Drive data from hackers

The Pentagon, Uber, Google GSuite, and even the ABC are just some of the high-profile organisations that have left confidential information available online for anyone to find.

Leaving data exposed in this way poses significant privacy and security risks: individual's personal details, health information, as well as sensitive business information are all just a click or two away for hackers.

The cloud has been the common thread in all these recent incidents. More specifically, third party cloud storage like Amazon S3, Dropbox or Google Drive.

The most effective method to prevent this is to encrypt the data at-rest.

While numerous methods already exist to encrypt data at-rest for on-premises IT, Syncdocs is the first solution to provide fully automatic end-to-end encryption for Google Drive and Google GSuite tools.

Google currently only encrypts Google Drive data while in transit. That means anyone who can hack the Google account, or a Google Domain administrator can access your corporate Google Drive files.

Syncdocs is different: it encrypts Google Drive files locally, before they ever leave your PC or phone. This makes accessing your data an order of magnitude harder for hackers.

Syncdocs Pretotects Google Drive with End-to-End Encryption

"Google holds the keys to their encryption solution, so it does not provide true protection, as they still have full access to your data" says customer Fred Lowe, CIO of Oxito Health Solutions, "With Syncdocs we own the keys, and no one else can access or spy on our data. This is essential for regulatory compliance."

Files and folders are securely protected in the cloud with zero-knowledge AES256 encryption. This is important for protecting corporate or customer data stored in the computing cloud.

For healthcare professionals, the at-rest encryption provided by Syncdocs is needed when complying with government regulations like HIPAA for storing patient records.

Syncdocs is an essential toolkit for Google Drive

Syncdocs also offers many other enhancements to Google Drive, chiefly:

• Multiple accounts can be used concurrently. This is especially useful for users with separate home and work Google accounts.
•  Folders are synced from anywhere on a PC or network
• Syncdocs can easily be deployed in the enterprise with fully automated, scripted installations.
• All Google data is backed up, even Google documents and spreadsheets.
• Easy migration from Microsoft Office to Google Docs and back

A short video show these features in action.

Those wanting better online security, or simply wishing to improve Google Drive, can grab a free copy of Syncdocs from http://syncdocs.com