As the new year quickly approaches, cyber criminals are once again preparing to attack individuals and especially businesses. Their attacks will be more sophisticated and even better at extracting money from you. We make three easy predictions for the next year and urge you to be prepared: 1. Ransomware authors … Continued
An Enterprise File Sync and Share (EFSS) is a piece of software that gives users access to documents, photos and videos on any of their devices. It also allows them to easily share these documents with others. In this blog we highlight some typical features of EFSS and what to … Continued
Nextcloud features a unique and extremely powerful security feature you can use to give your shares the ultimate protection: video verification. When you need ultimate protection Imagine you need to share very sensitive data to somebody. Say it is the result of a medical test, or important financial data. You … Continued
DEGES is a project management company for complex infrastructure projects, founded by the Federal Government and five German states in 1991. In recent years, more states have joined as stakeholders and customers. DEGES plans transport routes (road, rail or waterway), coordinates, optimizes and manages the work of all external service … Continued
SIB is a major, global public actor of digital services in the healthcare and public sector, supporting the digital transformation of around 500 healthcare structures and public entities. Their headquarters are located in Rennes and they are also active in the city of Lille. SIB has been working on taking … Continued
For some time now, the French national research and education network (NREN) RENATER is testing Nextcloud. Together with our team they have deployed it in testing for over 40 organizations already. Those organizations who would like to provide this to their employees and students will be able to use the … Continued
How to back up Nextcloud with Bareos People make mistakes, and hardware breaks — even if your data is securely stored in a private cloud with Nextcloud, it’s a good idea to be prepared for the worst case. Regular backups, ideally on external storage, can save your data and even … Continued
Nextcloud was always designed as a software platform and not a monolithic application. This is why we have the apps concept, many of the APIs and why we push open standards. In the past, many developers and companies used these capabilities. Today, we are launching the new Nextcloud developer program … Continued
JSC System Capital Management Ltd or SCM (wikipedia) is a holding company that manages tens of billions in industrial holdings and production assets that are SCM Holdings’ investee companies. When looking for a simple, secure and well designed messenger platform that could be hosted on-premises, a decision was made for … Continued
As covered today in the German, French and international media, European Governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more serious, moving away from cloud solutions from large, centralized, foreign firms. Responding to escalating trade tensions including the recent dispute over a digital tax in France, the introduction of … Continued
Nextcloud is more than 3 years old. For the founding team, including myself, it was very important to create a company and open source project that has some principles, some moral standard and goals. This should not be just another company which only exists to generate money. We want to … Continued
The data protection officer of the German federal state of Hessen has warned that the cloud-based Office 365 solution is not a compliant solution for use in schools when student information is being stored on it. This fits with earlier, similar conclusions by the Swedish and Dutch governments – US … Continued
Can your company afford to pay $600.000 to recover its data and put its employees back to work? What does it cost if your employees can’t work for a week? $50.000? $100.000? At what point will you decide to pay those who keep your data hostage? You really have to … Continued
We have covered the risks of public clouds frequently and governments seem to take notice. While the German Federal Government has already decided to rely on a Nextcloud-provided, private cloud solution, other governments are still searching. Many rely on US cloud services and, like the Dutch recently found out, have … Continued
This post was originally written in German by the German Federal Youth Council. Nextcloud is free software for sharing and collaboratively working with files, appointments, tasks, chatting, video conferencing, collaborating and much more. Nextcloud scales from small teams to many thousands of users – and even quite simple web hosting … Continued
One of the more powerful features in Nextcloud is the auto-tagging feature combined with files retention control. This enables admins to control the life cycle of data. For example, you could delete files replacing email attachments using the latest version of the Nextcloud Secure Sharing Outlook Add-in after a set … Continued
Businesses increasingly feel the effects of a data breach. The results range from compromise of client or customer data to third-party control over the entire business operation. The direct costs can be significant and when legal liabilities and the cost of cleanup, lost productivity and the effects of stolen data … Continued
2018 has been a hard year for public clouds. From Dropbox sharing data from over 400.000 academic users over for research to the fascinating news that Microsoft gave up on a more secure, German-hosted Office 365. Did you know you can’t upload a document with ‘offensive language’ to OneDrive? And … Continued
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