Your Files Never Leave With SafeEDIT. Your Competitors' DRM Can't Say That.

Every legacy DRM solution on the market asks you to accept the same broken deal: encrypt a file, send it out the door, and cross your fingers. The moment that file lands on someone else’s device, you’ve lost control — no matter how many policies you’ve wrapped around it. Screenshots happen. Copies get made. Forwarding is one click away. For years, organizations have treated this as an acceptable tradeoff for external collaboration. It’s not. It’s a fundamental design flaw that Kiteworks Next-Gen DRM finally eliminates.

Kiteworks SafeEDIT takes a radically different approach to secure file collaboration. Instead of shipping encrypted files to external users, it keeps every document locked inside your secure environment and streams only a video feed of the application to the user’s browser. That’s it. The file never transfers. Never downloads. Never exists anywhere outside your control. External collaborators open a browser — no plugins, no agents, no software installs — and get the full native editing experience in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and even complex CAD tools like SOLIDWORKS and Autodesk Fusion 360. They work naturally. You keep custody of the data. That’s not a compromise; it’s a category shift.

Security isn’t bolted on after the fact — it’s built into every layer of the workflow. Dynamic watermarks stamp each session with user identity and timestamps, making screen captures traceable and deterring leaks at the source. Copy-and-paste policies let users move content freely within the application while blocking any attempt to extract data outside of it. File locking prevents version conflicts during editing sessions, and every action — open, edit, save, close — feeds into a comprehensive audit trail. Add SafeVIEW for secure, view-only access to sensitive documents and OpenTDF for standards-based, attribute-level access controls embedded directly in the data itself, and you’ve got DRM that doesn’t just restrict access — it governs it intelligently.

Legacy DRM forces you to choose between collaboration and control. Kiteworks Next-Gen DRM makes that choice obsolete. With SafeEDIT’s possessionless editing, universal file type support, zero-install access, and enterprise-grade security controls, organizations can finally share and co-edit sensitive content with external parties without ever surrendering custody of their data. Collaborate without compromise. Control without custody. That’s not a tagline — it’s how the technology works.