AGORA SecureWare Adds Compliance Modules to Its Encrypted Trust Rooms

OTTAWA, Ontario and ZÜRICH, December 4, 2019 (Newswire.com) - ​​​Swiss-based compliance and security vendor AGORA SecureWare SA announced today the launch of AGORA Compliance Modules, an innovative and easy-to-use regulatory compliance solution to complement its secure encrypted collaboration software, AGORA Trust Rooms. AGORA Compliance Modules automatically scan, categorize, classify, and audit uploaded files, immediately encrypting and securing the content. Its policy-based compliance engine allows for tightly controlled access, movement and collaboration permissions of the files on a granular scale, all controlled and defined by user and corporate-set policies.

“With AGORA Compliance Modules, organizations have ubiquitous control and visibility over their data compliance posture, including the ability to maintain ongoing content compliance life-cycle, with no effort or change in work-flow placed on the user,” said Patrick Herber, AGORA’s Chief Technology Officer. “By simply dragging and dropping one’s files into an encrypted AGORA Trust Room, files are automatically scanned for sensitive or regulated content, automatically categorized and, immediately encrypted on the fly without any user intervention.”

“AGORA has delivered a comprehensive yet very easy-to-use solution for organisations who might be overwhelmed by compliance requirements. Within just a few clicks, AGORA Trust Rooms and Compliance Modules handle everything seamlessly. Fantastic!” – Martin Law, CEO AgilityIS - UK

“With LGPD being enforced as of February 2020, we are excited to offer AGORA Compliance Modules and Trust Room Security to our customer base here in Brazil and throughout Latin America.” – André Galvão, Managing Partner at Jerovia Soluções de Segurança da Informação Ltda - Brazil

“All of the complexity is under the covers within the Trust Rooms, and AGORA gives enterprises full control over its compliance and secure collaboration. Compliance Reports are fabulous, and very useful.” – Hannes Boesch, CEO Arpage AG – Switzerland

“We are thrilled to partner with AGORA. With the real estate industry being highly regulated around trade, collaborating with AGORA will complement Haüskey’s capability to provide our users industry-leading personal and financial data security, document encryption and a secure digital deal room.” – Neel Kawale, CEO Haüskey - Canada

AGORA Trust Rooms are encrypted digital rooms where files can be securely stored, edited and collaborated on with any device. Data securely stored within AGORA Trust Rooms is encrypted separately from the room itself, which employs industry standards-based encryption, authentication, access controls, audit and compliance methods.

• ​Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• EU - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Switzerland  - Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) 
• Brazil - General Data Protection Law (LGPD)
• Canada – Personal Identifiers

• Protected Health Information (PHI)
• US - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
• Canada - Provincial Health Insurance Plan

• Personal Financial Information (PFI) 
• Finance: Banking, financial transactions, IBAN, credit cards 
• US Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)

AGORA Trust Rooms and Compliance Modules are available in the cloud, on-premises, or as a hybrid deployment. Web-based client apps for iOS and Android also available. AGORA supports 9 languages, and all standard file formats, including Microsoft Office, PDF, PDF/A, images, text and video files, up to a file size of 4GB each. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and nested attachments are also supported.

Source: AGORA SecureWare