CloudLock Labs Launches with First Google Apps Product

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

With other methods of tracking usage and access to cloud services and data already on the market, it was probably only a matter of time before someone aimed to help organizations track the geographic location services that are being accessed. Enter CloudLock, which launched not only its CloudLock Labs "innovation-focused projects" brand, but also GeoFence for Google Apps, the first service being offered under the new brand.

Available in the Google Apps Marketplace, GeoFence for Google Apps provides organizations—or their trusted solutions providers—with the ability to track where their users are accessing data from, what location users are logging in from, and any changes made by admins in their domain. Say "so long" to the ability to log in from sunny beaches secretively (you didn’t really think we believed you were at home sick for a week, did you?)…

Although there may seem like a Big Brother element to such technology, at least to the end user, knowing this kind of geographic information could help IT admins and channel partners in tracking what could become huge liabilities. As sensitive data becomes accessible from more and more places, many end users neglect to consider that some of that information can only be accessed within their own nations. A solution on the order of GeoFence could help solve that problem…

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