Bootlegging, Piracy and Document Management Have Things in Common By @IanKhanLive | @CloudExpo #Cloud

No seriously, I mean it. There are serious correlations and similarities between smuggling alcohol and piracy in any form, whether it’s the real life bad guys on ghost ships in the seas or digital pirates who download stuff off the internet thinking it’s all free stuff while some artist starves to death, or for that matter an enterprise user; quite specifically a certain type of enterprise user. The ones that love free applications and start using them, well and not just use them but spread it to the entire department. You probably have a Bob or Sally or Travis in your department who sends you an innocent link to Dropbox or Google Drive with the Excel file that was too big to send through email. How about that file from accounting that is conveniently shared on Google drive that can be accessed by everyone, including the CFO from his home? Convenient right? Well yes, convenient but also an early preparation to being sued by your customers or probably tens of other people as well. I am really not trying to scare you off but I know this drum has been beaten too many times. Only 19% of organizations have adopted something that does not put their business at risk doing something almost illegal.

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