Proton Drive reveals major update for businesses, boosts encryption

Proton Drive, Docs add business-focused upgrades

News By Craig Hale published 6 November 2024

• Proton Drive gets new E2EE Suggesting Mode
• The Swiss company says it is seriously committed to secure collaboration
• Users will have more control over sharing with Proton Drive

Proton has announced even more encryption for its cloud storage solution as it looks to improve productivity and collaboration for users across the globe.

The company has rolled out Suggesting Mode for its web-based and Proton Drive-based word processor, Docs, making it the “first and only” encrypted collaboration feature of its kind.

By introducing end-to-end encryption, Proton hopes to have the one-up on competitors like Google Docs and Notion, which do not offer E2EE yet.

Proton boosts encryption for Drive, Docs

In its announcement, the company cited external research revealing two-fifths of the data stored on Google Drive contains sensitive information. The same is likely true of other cloud storage drives, including OneDrive, iCloud Drive and Dropbox.

As a collaboration tool for Docs, Suggesting Mode enables users to propose edits without altering the original text and keep a log of changes, including version history.

More broadly across Drive, Proton is rolling out public links, which gives users control over things like expiration dates and reader permissions.

Much like Google Drive online, the Proton Drive Windows app has also gained a new Shared with Me feature for making it easy to locate documents shared by colleagues without having to comb through emails.

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