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Hamburg, March 28, 2023 – The new version 5 of the TeamDrive cloud application is available for download at www.teamdrive.com/download. According to the manufacturer, TeamDrive 5 comes with over 50 new and improved functions. The most important new features include Introduction of a new group management for large teams, numerous functions to increase productivity, simplification of workflows in the company, a modernized user interface and a further strengthened security concept.

Most of the new and enhanced features are based on user feedback, emphasizes TeamDrive Managing Director Detlef Schmuck. He says: “Our product, technical and sales teams have listened carefully to our customers in order to optimize the overall experience of using TeamDrive. The result is new features for large companies, especially for centralized administration, as well as for freelancers, self-employed and smaller companies to engage their customers and clients more easily. We have further strengthened the security of TeamDrive across all company sizes. The new TeamDrive 5 is a complete solution for companies of all sizes to work with confidential data in a protected environment with a modern and intuitive user interface.”

Simple on-boarding of customers and clients

Inviting and collaborating with customers and clients via a free guest license has been greatly simplified in TeamDrive 5. Simply by entering an email address, a fully automated process is started to grant a new user secure access to confidential files. The steps necessary for an inexperienced user to intuitively access the data released for them have been significantly reduced in the new version 5. This makes it particularly easy for agencies, consulting firms, tax consultants, auditors and other service providers to share confidential information with their customers or clients in compliance with all legal requirements.

Function bundle for company-wide use

A comprehensive package of functions has been added in the new version 5 for company-wide use of TeamDrive. Groups can be set up and managed via central administration. The highlight: the separation of central group administration and local group use means that TeamDrive’s unique zero-knowledge principle is also continued in this case. In this case, zero knowledge means that the central administration does not receive any access keys to confidential data, even though it manages the groups. In other words, confidentiality is maintained even for the administrator. This is significant in that the administrator is a security risk per se, because without the zero knowledge concept he would have access to practically all information, no matter how confidential.

For example, if a Space administrator grants a group access to a data room, the use of the group is only known to the person responsible for the data room. If a group member is removed from or added to a group centrally, all corresponding Space actions, i.e. “remove or add member”, are automatically executed and monitored by all Spaces. This means, for example, that employees who leave a company automatically have all access authorizations to all Spaces revoked. As these functions are not only important for large companies, version 5 makes them available to all TeamDrive users, regardless of company size.

New additional security functions

This also applies to new additional security functions, such as local encryption, application protection and two-factor authentication in the desktop application. In company-wide use, these settings can be managed centrally for all employees.

A new snapshot-based ransomware recovery function package protects against cyberattacks and fatal operating errors. This allows administrators to view snapshots as recovery points in a simple and intuitive way and integrate them as required. This means that mishaps, malfunctions and attacks can be undone and data can be quickly and easily restored to a specific point in time with just a few clicks. New video tutorials explain these advanced security options.

TeamDrive is regarded as “secure sync & share software made in Germany” for storing, synchronizing and sharing data and documents. It is based on end-to-end encryption, which ensures that only the user himself can read the data – neither TeamDrive nor any authority in the world can decrypt the data. This technical and legally binding security is appreciated by over 500,000 users and more than 5,500 companies from all sectors, from industry and healthcare to law firms, business and tax consultancy and public administration. TeamDrive ensures that all data is stored exclusively on servers in Germany and guarantees compliance with German data protection legislation. TeamDrive supports Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and iOS. The newly added Hornetdrive service further expands this position.