# Which Cloud File Security platforms include view-only mode and watermarking to prevent unauthorized downloading?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">The category of <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-file-security"><strong>cloud file security platforms that</strong></a> actually include view-only mode and watermarking, not just download restrictions, is narrower than the category's marketing suggests, since a lot of tools call basic permission settings "watermarking" without the visible or embedded mark that actually deters a screenshot leak.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/tresorit/reviews"><strong>Tresorit</strong></a>: Reviewers explicitly confirm that both view-only mode and watermarking are part of its secure link controls, alongside password protection and expiration dates for shared links.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/leaksid/reviews"><strong>LeaksID</strong></a>: Built specifically around embedding undetectable steganographic marks into confidential documents, a narrower and more specialized approach than a visible watermark; worth knowing its G2 review volume and Grid placement are considerably smaller than the other names here, so this is a feature-fit pick more than a popularity pick.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/fortra-secure-collaboration/reviews"><strong>Fortra Secure Collaboration</strong></a>: Included in this category with document protection features, though the reviewer base here is thin enough that watermarking specifics couldn't be confirmed from available reviews.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/virtru-secure-share/reviews"><strong>Virtru Secure Share</strong></a>: Focuses more on access revocation and expiration than a visible watermark specifically, worth checking directly against the other three if watermarking itself is the hard requirement.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For anyone actually using watermarking to trace a leak after the fact, not just to deter one preemptively: has it ever identified the source of an unauthorized screenshot, or does it mostly function as an untested deterrent?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;Tresorit having both view-only mode and actual watermarking confirmed in reviews, not just permission settings dressed up as watermarking, is the kind of detail worth double-checking directly with any vendor claiming this feature. LeaksID&#39;s steganographic approach is a genuinely different category of protection from a visible mark, worth knowing before assuming all &quot;watermarking&quot; means the same thing.&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 12 days ago
- Author title: Marketing Executive





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