A Plan For Everyone

Full licenses are for power users – team member that need to control user access and permissions, and leverage advanced features. Full Licenses also come with the complete suite of all features that are available for each package.

Network Owners

Each customer gets one Faction Network, and Network Owners are the users that have the permission and power to control it and all the users and devices that have access to it. Just think of them as Admins,

Group Managers

Group Managers can create and control private groups that have their own keys. Faction Network owners can see Private Groups

Member Licenses are for everyone else that just needs to access and use your Faction Network to work, play or otherwise collaborate in a private, secure way. Members can join your network and access all users and devices in groups to which they are invited all base features as listed.

A Faction Network is like a private and secure Internet of your own. Your network and connections are all invisible to anybody outside, and all of the data within it – in transit and at rest in the Cloud and on endpoints – is encrypted with your keys.

By default, every user (Members, Group Managers and Network Owners) and device invited and authenticated onto a Faction Network have access to:

• all users on the Network;
• all Network Groups and Devices; and
• the users and devices within Private Groups to which they are invited and authenticated.

 This is generally what is needed for anyone that you are working, collaborating or playing with closely within your organization, workgroup, team, etc.

Guest Users enable you to flexibly address all the other cases that can arise where you need to keep access limited and/or privacy maximized. These are just a few examples.

• Work groups for vendors, service providers, etc.
• Controlling and restricting access to sensitive resources (e.g. Cloud servers, code repositories, etc.) to outside developers, MSPs or IT support.
• In a news organization, enabling a reporter to have completely anonymous and private groups for tips and sources.
• Any situation where you or a team member needs to work collaboratively but closely with teams and devices that should be private and separate from your network and other users.

These are any device or resource which is connected and shared at the Faction Network level. You can think of this like a Cloud Drive. These are devices or resources which you wish to share with all users and devices on your Faction Network.

• Device examples: printers, NAS drives, local data servers, smart manufacturing & infrastructure devices, etc. –
• Resource examples: cloud servers, gateways to legacy LANs, etc. –

These are the personal devices that are in a licensed user’s profile – i.e. PC, laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. They are for personal use and all activities and operations within the Faction Network can be applied to that entire users set of devices. User can share folders and files from and between personal devices, but they cannot share access or use of the device itself. That is what Network Devices are for.

Network Groups are available by default to all users on the Faction Network. All users can see them and join any Network Group. The owner of the Network Group is notified of each user that joins it. Only Network Owners and Group Managers can create Private Groups.

Private Groups are visible and accessible only to the users that have been invited and authenticated by the Group’s owner. Only Network Owners and Group Managers can create Private Groups. It is important to note that in Faction, Private Groups are truly private!

By default:

• When a Group Manager creates a Private Group, it is encrypted with a private key created and controlled ONLY by the Group Manager.
• Faction Network owners can see the number and size of Private Groups that have been created by a Group Manager but cannot access them and do not know anything about their users.
• Group Managers can invite and authenticate Guest Users directly into a Private Group.
  • Guest users will become members of the Faction Network and require a Member license, but do not have access to Network resources, groups, devices or users.
  • Network Owners will receive a notification and must approve the request from a Group Manager to add a guest user.

Optional settings are available in the Network Owner Dashboard whereby:

• These powers for Group Manager can be restricted; and/or
• The Network Owner(s) can limit Group Managers to inviting only existing network users which can only be invited and authenticated by and thus are known to the Network Owner.
• The Network Owner(s) can be added to every Private Group by default (which is the only way for the keys to be shared with them).