Averail Makes Secure Access Available for Mobile Devices

The announcement of the availability of its first product has been made by two-year-old San Jose, California-based company, Averail.

The product, Averail Access, is designed to provide secure mobile access to business content via SharePoint, Office 365 or Dropbox, and is essentially a SaaS-based mobile content security solution. It aims to offer services to large enterprises, providing a vast amount of help for content controls and policy settings, and does not copy information extensive of IT-managed systems. Therefore, it succeeds in cancelling the requirement of redundant storage, which would otherwise be needed to aid mobile employees.

The CEO of the company, Marc Olesen, said: "We connect directly to the source repositories, whether those repositories are behind the firewall, or in the cloud. We can federate access to multiple repositories regardless of where those repositories are stored. This occurs directly with the corporate assets and we do not store any of the content ourselves, and our controls can be set by user, by device and by document."

In terms of security, 256-bit AES, enterprise-class encryption is made available through the mobile device. It is possible for users to edit, manage, search and share business content on mobile devices, and it will also be able to transfer between online and offline modes.

Oleson said: "Much of that content right now is being blocked. About 65 percent of companies are blocking access to their content from mobile devices because IT just does not have that level of comfort with the security of mobile devices. But employees are finding ways to connect, nonetheless, frequently by sending the content to their personal email account, or by moving it to cloud-based repositories on their own. This compromises corporate governance and enterprise security, which causes major problems, especially in regulated industries."

At present, the company is interested in recruiting channel partners who have an interest in customers with large teams of mobile users, and verticals that have a strict corporate governance or regulatory requirements. Currently, the solution can only work with the iPad environment, although extra help for other platforms is already being planned.

Oleson added: "There are multiple opportunities for us to work with partners because we really sit at the intersection of security, mobility and content. We are looking for partners to compete in these three areas. We do have a channel program, but at this point in our development, we are mostly functioning in a 'sell-with' mode."

The product is available as a subscription model, and immediate availability comes at $10 per user per month, list price. (CY)Link