User Applications

Learn how to manage user applications that need access to encrypted files on FenixPyre for secure data handling.

User Applications

By default, users with the FenixPyre Windows client installed cannot open encrypted files created with FenixPyre unless the applications are added to user policies. The first step is to identify the applications your organization uses and add them to the policies.

User applications

Platform approved applications

FenixPyre keeps a list of certified applications that have been reviewed to ensure they do not leak plain text during normal operations. These applications are automatically added to the default policy, allowing users to open encrypted files with them. You can remove applications from the default policy if desired.

Admin approved applications

As an admin, you need to specify which applications require access to FenixPyre encrypted files. After identifying them, you can designate applications as admin-approved by providing their paths and specifying the file extensions to encrypt or ignore. These are termed Admin approved applications.

How to add an application?

Add an application

1

Add new application

Click on User applications tab and click on add new application button

2

Application Name

Enter the application name. Note: The application name should be unique.

3

Application Identification Method

You can specify an entire folder path or a single application path to identify the application. For example, you could add the GitHub folder path (e.g., C:\Program Files\GitHub\) or just point to a specific application name like Microsoft Word (e.g., C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE).

4

Protection Method

You can choose to encrypt application-created files based on an Protect Extensions list you provide, or you can skip them using an Ignore Extensions list. By default, FenixPyre does not encrypt certain file types (like dll, exe, bat, rdp, iso, atcf, lib, wbk, msi, ini).

Remove an application

Removing an application is only permitted for admin approved applications. Each admin approved application will have a remove action button associated with it.

Application list with actions

To remove an application, click on the trash icon and a confirmation popup will appear. Once you confirm it, it will be removed.

Confirmation popup for app removal

Note: If the application is already part of any user policy, another confirmation will be asked like below. Once confirmed, the app will be removed from the associated policies first and then removed from the list.