WatchDox has announced a secure sharing solution for SharePoint libraries that leverages an organisation’s existing SharePoint access rights.

“WatchDox for SharePoint extends SharePoint to help organisations embrace mobility and collaboration without compromising security and control,” said Ryan Kalember, chief product officer at WatchDox.

“SharePoint makes it easy to share documents securely within the enterprise, but providing a secure mobility and collaboration extension to SharePoint helps CIOs ensure that their users don’t turn to shadow IT services like Dropbox or Box to get their jobs done.”

WatchDox for SharePoint is administered from the normal SharePoint interface. Functions, such as online viewing and check-in/check-out, still perform as usual. Security settings are triggered only when documents are downloaded from the SharePoint interface for mobile access or collaboration.