Despite monumental enterprise efforts to secure information, data breaches continue to top headlines, in part because of the way employees collaborate and share data. What's needed are enterprise-level secure collaboration tools.

The , the and the rise of are creating additional challenges. Never before has the need to equip users with a secure, easy way to share information been as important, because if IT doesn't do it, users will take matters into their own hands.

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In many regards, they already have. From 2008 to 2010, mobile storage devices including USB thumb drives, CDs and DVDs became common vehicles for transferring large amounts of data. Simple to use and relatively inexpensive, these devices were the ideal IT workaround for business users not wanting to deal with complex FTP servers.

A steady stream of news stories has raised awareness of the security and compliance risks associated with these devices and how easy it is for them to be misplaced, lost in transit or stolen.