End-to-end encryption and access logging for sensitive documents

Purpose

1.1. Enforce secure end-to-end encryption on sensitive aluminum compliance and quality audit documents across storage and sharing cycles.
1.2. Log all access, edits, downloads, and shares for regulatory and internal audit trails in metals wholesaling.
1.3. Automate alerts on unauthorized access or anomalous document activities.
1.4. Centralize encrypted document repository with strict user role-based permissions.
1.5. Enable scheduled compliance reporting with embedded access logs.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Upload or modification of compliance/quality documentation.
2.2. User access request or document share action.
2.3. Scheduled audit report generation.
2.4. Detection of policy deviation (e.g., access by unauthorized user).
2.5. Integration/connection by new device or third-party partner.

Platform Variants

3.1. Microsoft 365 (SharePoint/OneDrive)
• Feature: Information Protection API, Audit Log Search
• Sample: Apply sensitivity labels, configure retention, enable audit log for all document actions
3.2. Google Workspace
• Feature: Drive API, Access Transparency API
• Sample: Programmatic file encryption, monitor access events via Access Transparency
3.3. Box
• Feature: Box KeySafe, Box Events API
• Sample: Enable customer-managed keys, subscribe to event webhooks for access
3.4. Dropbox Business
• Feature: Dropbox API, File events
• Sample: Encrypt content via app before upload, poll API for access logs
3.5. Egnyte
• Feature: Egnyte Protect, Egnyte Audit Reports
• Sample: Enable real-time content encryption, schedule audit exports
3.6. AWS S3
• Feature: Server-Side Encryption (SSE-S3, SSE-KMS), CloudTrail
• Sample: Encrypt uploads, use CloudTrail for event logs
3.7. Azure Blob Storage
• Feature: Azure Storage Encryption, Azure Monitor logs
• Sample: Activate encryption, record all blob access to Monitor
3.8. Google Cloud Storage
• Feature: CMEK, Audit Logs
• Sample: Use customer-managed keys, enable audit log on every access
3.9. Tresorit
• Feature: Zero-Knowledge Encryption, Access Logs
• Sample: Upload via client app, audit with Admin Console
3.10. Citrix ShareFile
• Feature: Encrypted Storage, Reporting Tool
• Sample: Require encryption in policies, generate usage/access reports
3.11. IBM Cloud Object Storage
• Feature: Encryption-at-rest, Activity Tracker
• Sample: Enable Cloud Key Protect, log events with Tracker
3.12. Symantec Data Loss Prevention
• Feature: Policy-based Encryption, Enforced Monitoring
• Sample: Create content policies, route events to SIEM
3.13. Varonis
• Feature: Data Security Platform, Alerting Rules
• Sample: Set up permission monitoring, define abnormal access alerts
3.14. OneTrust
• Feature: File Intelligence, Audit Log
• Sample: Scan and encrypt documents, auto-export activity logs
3.15. Palo Alto Prisma Cloud
• Feature: Data Security, Activity Monitoring
• Sample: Secure document buckets, monitor with Risk Explorer
3.16. Okta
• Feature: Okta Access Gateway, System Log API
• Sample: Enforce SSO plus MFA, query log for document app accesses
3.17. Splunk
• Feature: Log Integration, Monitoring Dashboard
• Sample: Ingest document access logs, set up anomaly dashboards
3.18. Cisco Secure Email Encryption Service
• Feature: Automated Encryption, Tracking
• Sample: Encrypt attachments, log email delivery, and opens
3.19. McAfee Total Protection
• Feature: Data Loss Prevention (DLP), ePO Logging
• Sample: Block unencrypted sends, record policy violations
3.20. Adobe Acrobat Sign
• Feature: Document Encryption, Audit Trail
• Sample: Require encrypted signatures, auto-generate document-level logs

Benefits

4.1. Meets strict metals sector compliance for document security and traceability.
4.2. Rapid incident response via real-time access anomaly detection.
4.3. Minimizes risk of confidential data leakage across wholesale partner ecosystem.
4.4. Simplifies auditability for quality management certifications and client/vendor assurance.
4.5. Centralized log repository for regulatory response and internal review.