A file leaves the house. A partner, a cloud, a laptop, a supplier. The network no longer holds it.
Once it has gone, two questions remain. Who can still open it, edit it, print it, copy it. And if the copy falls into the wrong hands, can it still be read.
Those who answer for the file still need a say. A lock on the door is not enough. The protection has to travel with the document — or it stops at the threshold.
Some discoveries
I am not presenting a platform. Two approaches stay with me. They do not do the same thing.
SealPath
I came across an approach in Bilbao that keeps the rights on the file itself. Once the document has left — a partner network, a cloud, a phone — someone can still decide who opens it, who edits, who prints, who copies. Access can be withdrawn after the copy has already gone.
What holds my attention is the drawing. A CAD file shared along a supply chain, and still under the hand of those who designed it. Not a lock on the door. A say on the copy.
https://www.sealpath.com/ Luis Ángel del Valle — Co-founder & CEO
Prim’X
In Lyon, another approach. Not the same gesture. Here the file is encrypted — folders, mail, a USB key, an export to the cloud — by a policy, without asking anyone to remember to protect it.
What holds my attention is the right to understand. If the copy falls into the wrong hands, it should not be readable. The encryption does not replace the rights on the file. It sits underneath them. Qualified, built in France. The key stays with those who answer for the data.
https://www.primx.eu/ Serge Binet — Founder & CEO