Whether it’s customer data, new product ideas, or financial stats, your team’s collaborative spaces contain a lot of information. This is useful for exchanging insights and sharing knowledge with your colleagues — but it can also pose a major threat if it gets into the wrong hands.
According to a recent survey, cyber events (like data leaks and breaches) are the top concern among organizations worldwide, outranking business interruptions and natural catastrophes. This is why it’s critical to find a collaborative platform that offers native data security to keep your team’s data and intellectual property protected.
Below we’ll dive into what you need to know about native data security. We’ll also introduce Miro’s integrated security tool, Enterprise Guard, and how it helps teams like yours work together better — without putting your data at risk.
What exactly is native data security?
When a platform offers native data security, it means that the security features are built directly into the platform, rather than being added later through external solutions and tools. These third-party tools can often feel like clunky disruptions to your creative workflows, lengthening feedback loops and the time it takes to get your innovations to market.
But with native security, the process is seamless and tailored specifically to your needs: Your company’s critical information is protected without interfering with your team’s ability to collaborate.Miro’s native data security add-on, for example, is specifically built for the kinds of data that is used in Miro, giving you the ability to apply it in a granular and intelligent way to fit your needs and ways of working.
Why native data security is more important than ever
Wanting to protect your company’s intellectual property and sensitive information isn’t a new phenomenon. However, data security has evolved in two major ways.
First, as our work has increasingly moved online, cyberattacks are more common. Seventy-five percent of security professionals say they’ve seen more attacks in the past year. What’s more, the type of content we’re producing has changed, too. Traditional data security solutions are focused almost exclusively on text-based content, so they often fail to address the complexities of visual diagrams, images, widgets, code blocks, and other dynamic content created today.
This is why we at Miro decided we need security on the canvas to provide protection while also maintaining the collaborative experience you’ve come to expect from our platform.
Enterprise Guard and the benefits of native data security
Enterprise Guard is Miro’s native data security tool. With Enterprise Guard, you can strengthen your data security and governance posture, while removing hurdles to collaboration and promoting a seamless user experience.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Enhanced protection: Data in Miro is multimodal and unstructured, and protecting that varied information is complex. But our team knows the ins and outs of all of the different content formats, so they built a security tool that meets the unique needs of each type.
- Granular permissions and controls: Miro goes beyond user permissions with content-based security. You can set precise controls targeted to the sensitivity of the content (rather than the user’s role) and collaborate and innovate with less friction. Unlike third-party tools, which tend to overblock content, Enterprise Guard allows you to apply intelligent guardrails depending on your needs: for example, block sharing with specific teams or block content replication on specific types of content.
- Location knowledge: Enterprise Guard can pinpoint data down to the board it lives on, whereas other tools would only see the data as living somewhere on the Miro platform. This saves time in locating what you need without digging through multiple boards.
- Custom data discovery using keywords: Whether it’s product roadmaps or confidential designs, you can configure Enterprise Guard to identify and protect your data automatically and at scale using specific keywords defined by your team.
- Built-in data discovery: Enterprise Guard also has the functionality to automatically detect and classify data based on predefined categories (like technical diagrams, company strategy, or account planning) without you needing to know explicitly what to search for.
Experience native data security with Miro
Data security is an ongoing and evolving process — not a one-time event. Enterprise Guard demonstrates our constant commitment to providing you with tools to manage your data and governance needs automatically and at scale without impeding innovation.
Miro Enterprise Guard is the easy-to-use answer to proactive, native security that will support your team’s creativity and ability to collaborate — without being a bottleneck. Get started with Miro today and experience security confidence without the complexity.
