Kiteworks, which empowers organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and use of private data, today announced a new technology alliance with Kasm aimed at enhancing how organizations securely interact with sensitive data. By combining complementary technologies, the collaboration enables organizations to work with critical information in highly controlled environments that strengthen security while preserving seamless user productivity. The alliance reflects a shared commitment to helping enterprises reduce risk while enabling secure collaboration across distributed teams, partners, and regulated ecosystems.
“Organizations today face an escalating challenge with sensitive data flows across dozens of channels, systems, and partners with fragmented visibility and inconsistent controls,” said David Byrnes, VP Global Channels, Kiteworks. “Every file shared via email, file sharing, SFTP, managed file transfer, API, or data form represents potential exposure. Security teams struggle with disparate logging systems, compliance officers cannot prove governance end to end, and IT administrators manage a patchwork of point solutions that expand the attack surface. At the same time, adversaries are growing more sophisticated, regulatory requirements are intensifying, and the emergence of AI is creating entirely new data governance challenges that existing approaches were never designed to address.”
The Kiteworks-Kasm alliance addresses these converging pressures by unifying two complementary security architectures. Kiteworks provides a platform for exchanging private data that delivers unified governance, visibility, and security across every channel through which sensitive data moves through one policy engine, one audit log, and one security architecture.
“Kasm Technologies delivers zero-trust browser isolation and Desktop-as-a-Service through its container streaming platform, ensuring that all user interaction with web content and applications occurs within secure, disposable sandboxes that prevent data exfiltration and eliminate endpoint-based threats,” said Ryan Cason, Head of Global Partnerships & Alliances, Kasm. “Together, Kiteworks and Kasm create a defense-in-depth approach to secure collaboration that neither technology achieves alone.”
Maintaining Data Control Across Distributed Environments
A central challenge for enterprises operating across distributed teams and partner ecosystems is maintaining control over who accesses sensitive content, under what conditions, and through which channels. The alliance addresses this directly. Kiteworks enforces granular role-based and attribute-based access controls across every data exchange method, while Kasm ensures that the environments in which users interact with that data are themselves isolated, ephemeral, and policy-governed. Private content never touches the endpoint. Upload, download, clipboard, and session behaviors are tightly controlled. The result is an architecture where data control extends from the point of governance all the way through to the point of consumption.
Governing AI and Proving Compliance in a Single Architecture
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption while navigating overlapping compliance requirements—HIPAA, CMMC, GDPR, FedRAMP, ITAR, DORA, NIS 2, PCI DSS—they need governed data access that satisfies both AI productivity demands and regulatory scrutiny. The Kiteworks-Kasm alliance addresses both challenges. Kiteworks extends zero-trust policies to AI integrations through its Secure MCP Server and AI Data Gateway, logging every interaction with complete attribution and delivering immutable audit trails and automated compliance reporting. Kasm’s containerized workspace isolation ensures AI-assisted workflows operate within secure boundaries where sensitive content cannot be extracted, cached, or exposed beyond authorized sessions. For organizations navigating the EU AI Act, SDAIA frameworks, and enterprise AI risk policies, the combined platform delivers the evidence and enforcement that makes AI collaboration both productive and defensible.
The alliance is available immediately to enterprises and government agencies worldwide.
