What is a Secure Data Room?
A secure dataroom is an online collaboration platform that streamlines due diligence, reduces timeframes for M&A and deal-making while providing complete security. It allows both buy-side and selling-side teams to manage a transaction’s duration from beginning to end in a secure way.
What makes a secure data room distinct from file sharing websites like Dropbox is that it’s usually more targeted towards enterprises with the ability to group users, set the permissions for them and gain insight into usage via analytics (e.g. when, how and from where your data is used). Some have more sophisticated options, like the ability to block the downloading and copying of data (a big no-no) or even displaying documents on a screen which cannot be captured. Many use industry-leading encryption to encrypt sensitive information and use multi-factor authentication to ensure that the user trying to login is the one requesting access.
Most secure data rooms also permit document download for offline viewing in PDF form. If you permit users to print directly to physical printers, or save the files to file driver to use for other purposes, they will lose the protection applied to the original data in the virtual data rooms.
If you are able to extract the downloaded files from the data room or other systems and then access them on a computer without connecting to the Internet this would defeat the reason for using an encrypted data room for M&A due diligence compliance, litigation, and other sensitive documents that need to be secured to devices and www.getdataroom.com/5-tips-on-choosing-a-data-room-provider/ not transferred to servers. That is why we recommend using a DRM solution that locks files to devices and not to servers and makes it impossible to remove them from devices or share them.