Australia’s Mortgage Choice is a flagship customer for a new cloud data security application for Google Docs, the CloudLock Vault. “As a financial services organisation, we take the security and safety of our customer and corporate data very seriously,” said Neil Rose-Innes, CIO at Mortgage Choice.

“The Google Apps security features are solid, but we needed to extend those services to include document retention so we could ensure compliance with The National Consumer Credit Protection Act of 2009 and other regulations.

“CloudLock Vault is an excellent application for Mortgage Choice because it not only secures our most critical data but gives us the peace of mind needed to leverage Google Apps and its cost and productivity savings.”

Now available within CloudLock’s flagship solution, CloudLock for Google Apps, the new solution provides a secure, tamper-proof location natively within enterprises’ Google Docs domain so critical information is never misused or deleted.

CloudLock’s new CloudLock Vault application adds centralised data retention policy management by offering a secure storage area in Google Docs where files cannot be deleted or modified.

Users create or upload files into their CloudLock Deposit Box and CloudLock Vault automatically sweeps them into a special account where they are protected from modification or deletion.

Organisations also have the ability to more easily facilitate business processes and workflows to streamline data retention policies, preserve and retain data for specific projects and departments, collect and retain documents from multiple locations on Google Docs into a single repository. In areas where a repeatable process is necessary, such as vendor bidding, this functionality represents a strategic capability.

Additional CloudLock Vault features include:
* Tamper-Proof – Data in the vault cannot be deleted or modified;
* Fully Viewable and Searchable – Data in the vault is accessible for viewing-only by their owners. Users can search the repository for their files using Google’s native search capabilities;
* Full Audit Trail – All CloudLock Vault deposits are recorded in the Google Apps audit log;
* Shared and Private Deposit Boxes – CloudLock Vault offers shared deposit boxes (Google Docs collections) that allow access to a group as well as individual private deposit boxes;
* Universal Access – CloudLock Vault allows users to deposit and access data in the vault from anywhere;
* Keep Your Data in Google Docs – Your data is protected in Google Docs and is not given to a third party.

“CloudLock Vault is critical component of our offerings,” said CloudLock Co-Founder and CEO Gil Zimmermann.

“As enterprises move their data to the cloud, they need to extend the same data retention policies and systems they have on-premise to their data in Google Docs. CloudLock Vault allows organizations to stay ahead of the regulatory curve and ensure critical information is safe from unauthorized use, malicious tampering or accidental deletion.”