CIPHER
CIPHER Workspace

One secure place for every confidential document.

Store, organise, share and audit your firm's documents, with protection that continues while they are open on screen.

01 - Workspace

Files and folders for the whole organisation.

Each organisation gets its own workspace with owner, admin and member roles. Invite colleagues, organise documents into folders, and keep every file encrypted at rest.
Client engagementsAdmins, Audit team
Tax filings 2026Tax team
Board papersOwners only

Encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.

02 - Access Control

Decide who can open each file.

Set permissions file by file. Colleagues who need a document request access, and owners approve, reject or revoke it, so access is always a deliberate decision.

Access request

A colleague asks to open “Engagement Letter.pdf”

Approve Reject
03 - Guest Links

Share outside the firm without losing control.

Send a client or partner a link that expires, with viewing only or a download protected by a PIN. You can see how often it was opened, and revoke it at any time.
Guest link
Expiresin 7 days
Download PINrequired
Viewed3 times
04 - Capture Prevention

Stop documents being photographed off the screen.

A detection model watches the viewer's camera inside the browser. When a phone camera is aimed at the screen, the document is blurred before a photograph can be taken.
Phone camera aimed at screendetected

Document obscured until the device is moved away.

05 - Viewer Protection

Watermarks and a screenshot guard.

Every document shows the identity of the person viewing it. The document hides when a screenshot shortcut is pressed or the window loses focus, and idle sessions sign out automatically.
jane@yourfirm.com
Watermarked with the viewer's identity
06 - Audit & Alerts

See what happened to every document.

Views, shares, downloads, access decisions and capture attempts are recorded. Alerts bring the events that matter to your security team's attention.
How CIPHER protects your data
Alerts
  • Phone camera detected, document blurred
  • Screenshot shortcut pressed, document hidden
  • Guest link opened

Questions security teams ask

Which files can people view in CIPHER?

PDFs, Word documents, images and videos open in a protected viewer in the browser, so people can read a document without downloading it. For guest links, you choose whether downloads are allowed at all.

Does capture prevention need the viewer's webcam?

Yes. Detection uses the camera on the device where the document is open, so the browser asks the viewer for camera permission. Frames are analysed in the browser, in memory, and discarded. No image or video is sent to CIPHER or stored anywhere.

Who decides whether protection is on?

Workspace owners and admins set the security policy: phone detection on or off, its sensitivity (three levels), screenshot protection, and how long an idle session stays signed in.

What will CIPHER not catch?

CIPHER sees what the device's camera sees. A phone held outside the camera's view, or a second person photographing from behind the viewer, is outside what it detects. It closes one specific gap and works alongside access control, policy and training, not instead of them.

How do you avoid blurring the screen by mistake?

A phone has to be detected more than once within a second before the document is blurred, and the view stays blurred until the camera has been clear for a moment, which prevents flicker. Admins can raise or lower sensitivity to suit their office.

Which browsers are supported?

Current desktop browsers that support WebAssembly and camera access. The detection model downloads once, is cached by the browser, and runs on the device's processor without special hardware.

Building your own document platform? Embed CIPHER's detection with the SDK.

Let's talk about protecting your documents.

Tell us what you're trying to protect, and we'll explore whether CIPHER is the right fit for your organisation.