I’ll be honest — this is a release I’m genuinely proud of.
Rob Linton – SureDrop Product Release – March 2026
Over the past 18 months, our team has put more than 100 individual enhancements into SureDrop across 14 different feature areas. When I look at where the product is today compared to where it was, the difference is significant. Not just in what it can do, but in how it feels to use — faster, sharper, more capable in the ways that matter to our customers.
This wasn’t a single big-bang redesign. It was a sustained, deliberate effort to improve the platform across the board: strengthening security where we could go further, fixing friction points that users had flagged, and building out the capabilities that enterprise and government customers have been asking us for. The result is something we’re calling SureDrop Reimagined — and I’m excited to share what that actually means.
Rob Linton, Global Product Lead, Senetas
Encryption That Goes Deeper
We’ve always used FIPS-certified encryption, and that isn’t changing. But in this release, we’ve pushed the granularity of how encryption is applied much further. SureDrop now uses rolling keys on a per-file and per-folder basis, with each key individually wrapped. The practical impact of this is real: the exposure from any single compromised key is now tightly contained. For organizations managing sensitive or classified material, that’s a meaningful architectural step forward.
Key management remains flexible — we support HSMs including the Thales Luna and KeySecure product lines, cloud-based KMS, and customer-managed key providers. Full KAT validation and database encryption are also in place. There’s a lot happening under the bonnet here, and I think customers will appreciate how much thought has gone into it.
Threat Protection You Can Actually See
We’ve had virus scanning in SureDrop for years — both our bundled engine and ICAP integration for third-party scanners. What we’ve improved in this release is the visibility. When a threat is detected, you’ll now see real-time alerts directly in the web console. Infected files are clearly flagged in the interface, and forensics users can take action — delete, move, quarantine, or audit — right from the same view. It’s a much more useful experience than simply knowing something went wrong.
Sharing That Actually Works the Way People Need It To
This one I’m particularly pleased with. In ad hoc shares, users were previously limited to downloading a shared folder as a single ZIP file. If you only needed one document out of a folder of twenty, you had to download the lot.
Not anymore. Recipients can now browse folder contents — including subfolders — and download individual files. It sounds like a small change, but for anyone who’s worked around the old limitation, it’s a significant improvement. On top of that, email verification of share recipients can now be made mandatory at a company level, password requirements can be enforced organization-wide, and administrators can receive copies of all share notification emails. Better security, and better oversight.
Authentication and User Management — Much More Control
We’ve added a strong set of improvements here: user expiry for local accounts, IP-based security, session hardening, single-use QR codes (what we call QR burn), and password rotation on two-factor authentication.
The user management improvements are ones I think admins will find genuinely useful. Bulk import and export of user records makes onboarding at scale far more straightforward. The clone user feature is something I really like — when you clone a user, the new account inherits all the same group memberships automatically. And if that user also needs their My Documents folder copied across — for instance, because they’ve changed their surname and need a new login — that’s handled in the same step. What used to be a manual process is now a few clicks.
Performance — You’ll Notice the Difference
We’ve improved performance by more than 30 per cent across the board, with some operations exceeding 50 per cent. I know numbers like that can sound like good marketing, but the improvements are real and visible in day-to-day use. Files load faster, the interface is more responsive, and sharing operations feel snappier. We’ve done a lot of work on JavaScript optimization, chunked transfers with auto-retries, database query performance, and API throttling to get there.
Enterprise Integrations and Smarter Admin Tools
The Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) synchronisation has been significantly enhanced. SureDrop now tracks a broader set of user attributes and responds much more accurately to change events — group changes, status changes, lockouts — in close to real time. For organizations with large, dynamic user bases, this makes a real difference.
We’ve also revamped our VMware deployment image for customers who want a streamlined on-premises deployment, and log downloads are now available directly from the admin interface in CSV format — a frequent request that we’re glad to finally have in the product.
Reporting and Analytics, On Your Terms
This was one of the most consistent pieces of feedback we received: customers needed better access to their data without having to go digging through backend logs. User activity reports, storage analytics, and security reports are now available directly from the interface and exportable in CSV format. Simple, accessible, and audit-ready.
More Ways to Build With SureDrop
For those integrating SureDrop into their own systems and workflows, we’ve expanded our developer support with on-demand SDKs for Python, TypeScript, and .NET — alongside our existing Swagger documentation and PowerShell deployment support. If you’re building an integration, reach out and we’ll help you get started.
We’ve also expanded our internationalization support to 15-plus languages including Traditional Chinese, with right-to-left display and ongoing translation improvements across the board.
Come and See It
Eighteen months is a long time to work on something. I’m proud of what the team has delivered, and I’m genuinely looking forward to showing it to you.
If you’d like to see SureDrop Reimagined in action, reach out to us at talktoanexpert@senetas.com to book a demo. Or start your free 30-day trial today and experience what security without compromise feels like in practice.
