Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Open source EFSS is not a stepping stone to a sales call
You chose open source for a reason. We respect that reason.
Why oCIS isn’t a funnel, a trial, or a hobbled community edition.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
ownCloud Document Classification: A holistic solution to data protection
The ownCloud Document Classification feature was designed to empower organizations to restrict access to files based on their content and/or meta-data, to secure the process of file sharing and prevent unauthorized access to documents and consequent data breach.
Spaces: Boosting digital collaboration for remote teams of all sizes
Whether SME, large company, association or educational institution: digital collaboration poses new challenges, especially in remote teams. Spaces significantly simplifies digital collaboration with a revolutionary technical approach and optimized user experience.
5 filesharing methods that promise ultimate data security
Management involvement, hybrid cloud, version control, end-to-end encryption and document classification are five foolproof ways to securely share files and ensure a high level of data protection.
“Security is not a privilege”
We spoke with Thomas Haak, CEO, Lywand Software, about his enterprise’s mission of making cybersecurity available easily for SMEs. Alongside, he also shared his experience regarding data security at ownCloud.
Integrate ownCloud & Microsoft 365 to protect sensitive data
Whether it’s files containing personal data (GDPR), intellectual property or sensitive corporate data from HR, finance or M&A, companies and organizations strive for seamless and easy-to-use digital collaboration even in those areas – both internally and externally. However, the special level of protection of certain data prohibits their processing in the public cloud. ownCloud can now be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft 365 as a “safehouse” for particularly sensitive data, keeping them out of the Azure Cloud.
Infinite Scale is not Server and Web only!
We recently released the beta for Infinite Scale. And, there’s more: The alpha releases of the desktop clients and the iOS client.
Tech Talk: ownCloud Integration with Microsoft Teams
In this Tech Talk, Tobias Baader (Product Manager, ownCloud) walks us through the integration of Microsoft Teams for ownCloud. This integration provides a quick and simple way of collaborating on Word, Powerpoint and Excel files via Microsoft Teams, while maintaining full user control and a high level of data security.
13 Data Security Measures by ownCloud for Ultimate Protection of Your Files
Data security is our top priority at ownCloud. We have 13 measures in place to ensure the ultimate protection for your sensitive data, files and emails.
Tech Talk: Integrate Collabora Online with ownCloud
ownCloud and Collabora Online have joined hands to offer the first-ever production-ready LibreOffice Online functionality to the public. This Tech Talk by Collabora experts walks you through the process of integrating Collabora Online with ownCloud to revolutionize the way you collaborate in real-time in a modern digital workplace.
Alliance for Cyber Security: The fight against cybercrime in Germany
ownCloud is now a part of the Alliance for Cyber Security. With this, we have now joined a group of leading organizations working towards stepping up efforts to prevent, detect and react to cyber threats and further enhance our data protection commitments.
ownCloud launches Infinite Scale Beta Phase
Nuremberg, May 10th 2022 – ownCloud has released the beta version of its new data platform: Infinite Scale.
Welcome to the Infinite Scale Beta!
What a moment for ownCloud and our community! The very first beta version of Infinite Scale, the new cloud-native data platform developed by ownCloud, is available as of today!
Infinite Scale Beta is coming
After two years of intense development and hard work, Infinite Scale will be Beta soon – a great milestone for us here at ownCloud.
End-to-end encryption: Why you need it to keep your data safe
ownCloud end-to-end encryption is a user-friendly, highly-reliable solution aimed at providing the highest level of security for sensitive and valuable data and communications.
Comprehensive Encryption: Keeping sensitive data safe from prying eyes
Cyber security is an area of burgeoning concern across the digital world. Over the last several years, companies, governments and individual users are grappling with an alarming increase in the variety and frequency of cybercrimes and threats. This calls for enhanced cybersecurity initiatives and high-end automation efforts to safeguard sensitive data from being illegally accessed, disrupted or disabled.