Allowing Trusted Applications to Consume Anchored Content

This article will give explain which applications can consume anchored content.

You will learn: 

1. What Authorized applications are?
   
2. Which applications are Authorized ?

What are Authorized applications?

Allowing users to use any unanimous or malicious application can lead to the compromise of the data. To avoid such cases, we let the enterprise to choose a list of applications that are perceived safe for their use case. We call these applications "Authorized applications." These applications will be permitted to consume plain text. 

Besides the provided user interface, the Authorized applications are also monitored and protected by Anchor. These applications are used to access data when the access control conditions are met. Files saved through these applications in protected folders are automatically encrypted and are registered with a default rule of username. By this default rule, these files can be consumed and edited by the creator, but cannot be accessed by another Anchor user. The creator of the file can add other users or different types of access rules using our user interface to customize the protection enforced on the file.  A list of the Authorized applications can be found below.

For more information on Authorized applications, click here.

List of Authorized Applications

Application	Description
Microsoft Word	Word processor developed by Microsoft
Microsoft PowerPoint	Presentation program developed by Microsoft
Microsoft Excel	Spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft
Microsoft Access	Database management system developed by Microsoft
Microsoft Publisher	Desktop publishing platform developed by Microsoft
Acrobat Reader	PDF reader provided by Adobe
Acrobat DC	Software produced by Adobe to view, create, manipulate, print, and manage files
Irfan Image Viewer	Open-source image viewer
Libre Office	Open-source office suite
WordPad	Basic word processor created by Microsoft
Tableau Desktop	Data visualization created by Tableau Software

For detailed tutorials on Authorized applications, watch the following videos.

  

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