Essentials - Enterprise Online, $ 12.50/mo. on Linux Cloud

Essentials - FileCloud Enterprise Online has been added on Jan 29, 2025

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔧 Category :	File Sharing
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	AT CA FR DE NL ES UK US

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📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

FileCloud is a secure, enterprise-grade platform for file sync, sharing, and governance. The emphasis is on preventing data loss, tightening access, and meeting strict regulatory requirements without making collaboration painful. They pair an EFSS core with policy engines, workflow automation, and granular sharing controls, aiming squarely at organizations that treat unstructured data as a regulated asset rather than just storage.

Positioning & Reach

Built for security-sensitive teams—Global 1000 firms, public sector, education, and service providers—FileCloud operates across 90+ countries, serving more than 3,000 enterprises and over a million users. In May 2024 they broadened the portfolio by acquiring Signority, a Canada-based e-signature and document workflow platform, which complements their governance story with contract execution and approvals.

Security Model: Zero Trust File Sharing

Security is framed around Zero Trust File Sharing, where nothing is implicitly trusted—every user, device, and action is verified and logged. Authentication ties into SAML/SSO with MFA options (email, SMS, TOTP, DuoSecurity). RBAC enforces least-privilege, while policy-driven checks and continuous access evaluation keep sessions under tight control. Admins get fine-grained permissions, detailed audit trails, and reCAPTCHA protections—useful for separating humans from automated traffic.

Deployment Choices

Flexibility is a core theme. FileCloud can run as a hosted SaaS or be self-hosted on-premises or in private clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. For regulated workloads, they support AWS GovCloud and Azure Gov options, letting security teams keep data residency, encryption, and network boundaries under their own policies.

Collaboration & Access Controls

Sharing is intentionally controlled rather than ad-hoc. Admins can set granular permissions, require passwords for links, define private shares, and attach expiration dates to reduce exposure. The platform’s Zero Trust posture persists outside the perimeter, so externally shared content stays governed instead of drifting into shadow IT.

Content Governance with Metadata

FileCloud leans on structured and custom metadata sets to bring order to large volumes of files. Metadata drives data leak prevention rules, lifecycle actions, and automated routing—turning everyday tasks (tagging, classification, retention) into predictable workflows that scale.

Compliance & Protection

Compliance work is centralized through a Compliance Center that maps controls to frameworks such as HIPAA, GDPR, and ITAR. Administrators can monitor activity, generate reports, and tune settings to match policy. On the defensive side, the stack includes ransomware protection, DLP, and FIPS 140-2 encryption support, giving security teams both preventive and reactive levers.

Workflow Automation & E-Signature

A no-code automation tool lets teams model approvals, reviews, and handoffs with a drag-and-drop interface; dashboards surface real-time runs for visibility and troubleshooting. With Signority in the mix, organizations can extend from secure collaboration into compliant e-signatures and document workflows—useful for closing the loop from draft to signed agreement within one governed environment.

Performance, Usability & Admin Experience

The user experience aims to balance productivity with control: desktop and web clients for sync/sharing, policy-driven authentication behind the scenes, and administrative guardrails that don’t require scripting for common tasks. Logs and unified analytics track unusual patterns, supporting both audits and incident response.

Who It Suits

• Security-first organizations that need self-hosted or private cloud control with Zero Trust guardrails.
• Teams that want compliance automation and auditability across HIPAA/GDPR/ITAR-style regimes.
• Businesses that prefer a unified path from collaboration to workflow automation and e-signature without scattering documents across multiple vendors.