The Enterprise File Fabric provides law firms, lawyers and legal departments with a comprehensive content management and secure collaboration solution presented in a global file system interface that supports multiple document repositories that can reside on-premises or on-cloud, or a combination of both.

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SECURE ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND FILE
MANAGEMENT FOR THE LEGAL SECTOR
Content Management is the cornerstone of the legal sector and
the File Fabric provides key features such as single pane of glass
document management, ultra secure file sharing, collaboration,
workflow, and the Governance and Compliance controls required
from a highly regulated industry.
The Enterprise File Fabric provides law firms, lawyers and legal
departments with a comprehensive content management and
secure collaboration solution presented in a global file system
interface that supports multiple document repositories that can
reside on-premises or on-cloud, or a combination of both.
The solution is used by global law firms in addition to being sold
by the largest legal deposition company in North America in
which the File Fabric forms part of their commercial legal
deposition solution.
FILE FABRIC SOLUTION
SOLUTION BRIEF
THE ENTERPRISE FILE FABRIC™ FOR THE LEGAL
SECTOR
KEY SOLUTION BENEFITS
✓ Integrate with Existing
Content Repositories
✓ Integration with Existing
Identity Management
Systems
✓ Secure Client
Communications
✓ Protect Chain of Custody
✓ Ultra Secure Sharing of
Exhibits
✓ Data Loss Protection
✓ Legal Content Discovery
✓ Multi-Cloud Collaboration
✓ Built-in Governance and
Compliance
✓ Forever File Ransomware
Protection

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KEY FILE FABRIC FEATURES FOR THE LEGAL SECTOR
✓ Integrate with Existing Content Repositories
The Enterprise File Fabric can integrate with existing local windows file shares in addition to cloud
based content shares and present these in a single global file system interface to end users.
✓ Integration with Existing Identity Management Systems
Authentication is key to maintaining chain of custody and security and the Enterprise File Fabric can
easily integrate with existing identity management solutions such as SAML, LDAP and Active
Directory.
✓ Secure Client Communications
Secure communications is a pre-requisite for the legal sector. The Enterprise File Fabric ensures
secure and encrypted file communication not only between single parties but also for multi-party
joint privilege or common interest cases.
✓ Protect Chain of Custody
Lawyers and law firms can fulfil chain of custody of digital documents via the Enterprise File Fabric’s
audit technology which audits all file events inclusive of the ‘What’, ‘When’, ‘Who’ and ‘How’ of
document access. The solution also works across third party storage solutions such as Dropbox,
Google Drive, One Drive, Amazon S3 etc.
✓ Ultra Secure Sharing of Exhibits
The Enterprise File Fabric encrypts all digital file exhibits with policy controls for password
protection, download restrictions and time based expiry. Large files can be easily uploaded and
downloaded, and integrations into third party tools such as Microsoft Office, Libre Office, and
Outlook ensure that user workflows are not interrupted.
✓ Data Loss Protection
The Enterprise File Fabric monitors and protects data using its content indexing technology. This is
the enabler for real-time monitoring of in-situ, modified and newly uploaded documents for user
defined sensitive information. Additionally the File Fabric provides restricted web only viewing and
digital watermarking of sensitive material.

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✓ Legal Content Discovery
The File Fabric indexes all digital documents that are added to known repositories, inclusive of third
party repositories such as Amazon, Dropbox, Google Drive etc. Once indexed information search is
done in document content across known repositories providing increased productivity and visibility
to end users.
✓ Multi-Cloud Collaboration
Law Firms constantly collaborate, both in-house and with other law firms, across a multitude of
digital storage repositories. The multi-cloud aspects of the File Fabric, with the built in collaboration
features, ensure such collaboration is easy to setup and frictionless.
✓ Built-in Governance and Compliance
Increasingly in todays’ world corporate data governance and legislative compliance are a pre-
requisite of any modern solution. The Enterprise File Fabric has support for compliance regimes
such as GDPR built-in.
✓ Forever File Ransomware Protection
The Enterprise File Fabric has ransomware protection built-in with its real time archiving of new and
modified files, ensuring that if a file is lost, or worse, locked the original copy can be easily retrieved.

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ABOUT
STORAGE MADE EASY®
The Storage Made Easy Enterprise File Fabric™ enables IT to regain control of
"cloud data sprawl" to unify on-premises and on-cloud files into a single easily
managed converged infrastructure with policy-based controls for governance,
audit and security.
The File Fabric solution provides a “blanket” enterprises wrap around all their
data: on premises, within public and private clouds, as well as on third-party
software vendor clouds (SharePoint Online and Salesforce for example).
Customers use the SME File Fabric product to unify corporate data to enable
workgroup collaboration with universal controls for security, encryption, audit,
and data access. Companies will have access to a greater understanding of
where and how sensitive data is stored, transferred, and accessible
with particular focus on how companies are able to police and audit data to
ensure enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in
addition to other regional data legislation.
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