Mobilize your workforce for quick and easy file server remote access and mobile access without a VPN. Your file server is still on-premise but works as if it was in the cloud. Local security policies govern remote mobile access.
This white paper describes Gladinet Triofox, which can be used by businesses as a remote access server to quickly enable secure remote access and mobile access to file servers without using a VPN and without the synchronizing to external storage services such as Office 365, Dropbox, or Box.
With more and more businesses practicing social distancing guidelines during a global pandemic, there is increased interest in faster ways to facilitate work from home without compromising data privacy, security, or compliance. Businesses seek a solution to enable cloud remote access to local on-premise file servers seamlessly.
Simplify work from home with Triofox. The ability to facilitate remote file server access can be critical for a company that depends on internal file servers.
Triofox gives on-premise file servers new cloud remote access & secure file sharing capabilities and allows IT to retain the existing security safeguards, permission controls, and data ownership! It combines cloud remote access and local security policies together into one remote access server solution.
How many times has your support team been overwhelmed by VPN tickets? For most non-technical people, VPN is too complicated. First, you need to establish a connection, which differs from PC and Mac devices. Then, a user needs to understand a file server, network share, and map a drive to a network share. Lastly, this process would need to be repeated with any glitch in the Internet connection, costing the company time and money.
Without a solution, employees may often select an unauthorized third-party solution to facilitate productivity and efficiency. However, copying company documents and files onto personal storage drives creates problems with data sprawling and compliance.
Triofox is a web server that accepts file requests from client agents over the HTTPS/SSL protocol. These requests get translated into Active Directory and File Server network share access protected by NTFS permissions. The file is sent back via HTTPS/SSL to the client agents when all permission checks have passed. Triofox uses this approach to combine the power of a mapped drive with the simplicity of web browsing and the security of a VPN!
Triofox creates a web server front end accepting client agent requests from remote Windows, Mac, web browser, iOS, and Android devices. Client agents provide drive mapping functionality.
Client agents send HTTPS/SSL requests to the Triofox server. Triofox server can log the requests for auditing purposes and also coordinate the file access and sharing demands.
Active Directory and NTFS permissions are used to check whether the file requests are allowed. After that, file requests are satisfied and returned via HTTPS/SSL to client agents.
Simple always-on drive letter mapped to your on-premise file server without a glitch.
Reduce costs with VPN (virtual private network) support.
Triofox combines Windows file server security and control with the cloud's ease of use and productivity.
Has a more straightforward permission migration and configuration strategy than SharePoint, Dropbox, or Google Drive - inherit it directly from the file server.
Combines NTFS permissions, Active Directory users, and drive mappings with remote access from any device.
Maintains data privacy by providing the option to keep data on-premises in traditional file server shares.
"Gladinet is the best file server replacement solution on the market. They aren’t just leading the market, but they created a new market - none of the other products can do the things that I can do with Gladinet."
Triofox eliminates the common drawbacks of remote file server access and file sharing solutions and provides the best of both worlds – the security and control of on-premise file servers combined with the efficiency and productivity gains of remote mobile access.
Triofox provides a mapped drive over HTTPS/SSL for seamless file access.
Define different permissions for folders at different levels of the directory structure.
Use Outlook integration to transfer large files as web links via email.
Web-based secure data room allows view-only access with download disabled.
Use secure web links to share files and folders with recipients or to receive files.
You can access files and folders from web browsers and mobile devices.
Triofox eliminates the common drawbacks of traditional file server access and cloud file sharing solutions.
Businesses can address data privacy concerns by using Triofox to provide access to internal file servers. It’s common to talk about replacing existing file servers with cloud solutions to reduce costs and administrative overhead, and Triofox can facilitate that in any private cloud. Still, Triofox offers the unique option of using existing file servers to replace cloud file sharing!
Simplify remote access to file shares with familiar interfaces on any computer or device. Windows and Mac desktops display natively mapped drives in Explorer and Finder. Users have the same experience on iOS devices like iPhone and iPads, Android devices and popular web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Internet Explorer.
Provide an always-on mapped drive that works anywhere on any device and allows mobile users to access internal file shares or cloud file servers easily. You can turn Windows file server network shares and shared drive into online shared folders guarded by the same security measures as those from on-premise file servers and governed by the same Active Directory.
Files are secured at rest and in transit with military-grade encryption, secure connections, and more. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money. When files and folders can continue to stay-in-place with the Windows file servers, the security parameters are smaller and more straightforward than public online sharing services and much easier to pass compliance tests.
Easily collaborate with business partners by providing them with access to a limited set of internal files or folders. Share files with non-AD users while maintaining administrative controls. Simplify multi-site collaboration with automatic version controls and file locking. Mobile workers will see the same content in the online shared folder as if they were from an internal mapped drive.
Mapped drives display directory structure but delay downloads until a file is accessed to reduce bandwidth usage and endpoint storage consumption. Shared folders and files also have generated secure web links allowing users to access them in a web browser-based file manager. The files will not be actively downloaded or viewed (as in secure-data-room) until users generate access intents.
Eliminate the overhead and support tickets commonly associated with VPN file sharing, Always On VPN, or Direct Access. Automatically use existing users and permissions to save setup time and money. With the Triofox server's help, the internal shared drive has new online folder representations over HTTPS (SSL) protocols and with RESTful APIs for client agents and mobile applications.
Triofox provides a branded platform that makes it easy to build a private online file sharing solution based on infrastructure from Amazon, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud. Triofox enables you to brand the Web portal, Windows, and MAC clients, and mobile clients.
Centrally manage users, access controls, and storage. IT can easily track where the data is, who has access, and how it is shared. A centralized web-based management portal provides a single-pane-of-glass-style management console to manage shared folders and shared files, and other objects in the management scope.
Triofox has the flexibility to provide an on-premises alternative to Dropbox, OneDrive, and SharePoint using existing file servers. You can modernize your file server so much that it is the same as those from public domains from the online file sharing solution's perspective. At the same time, the solution keeps all the file server security and data ownership benefits.
For complete control and visibility, you can manage permissions from the file server that was their source or natively with Triofox. Businesses and their employees accumulate the NTFS permission structure over years of active use and practice. Those NTFS permissions will be inherited by Triofox and continue to control access to online folder sharing.
Centrally manage users, access controls, and storage. Admins can perform audits of GDPR and HIPAA compliance or keep track of any file changes. It is so much easier to pass compliance tests when both the Triofox servers and the Windows servers IT infrastructure are under your supervision and control.
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