Ultimate Remote Team Collaboration Server For 0€

Ultimate Remote Team Collaboration Server For 0€

One of the most challenging problems for remote team is how to establish secure way of communication and collaboration. There are a lot of proprietary software packages for remote team collaboration, but the goal of this article is to list number of open-source packages which can be used to build the ultimate collaboration server.

1. Active Directory – OpenLDAP – 0€

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Directory services play an important role in developing intranet and Internet applications by allowing the sharing of information about users, systems, networks, services, and applications throughout the network. As examples, directory services may provide any organized set of records, often with a hierarchical structure, such as a corporate email directory. Similarly, a telephone directory is a list of subscribers with an address and a phone number.

2. Mail Server – iRedMail – 0€

The right way to build your mail server with open source softwares. It Works on Linux and *BSD family of operating system. You can setup mail server in several minutes. End users are forced to use mail services through secure connections (POP3/IMAP/SMTP over TLS, webmail with HTTPS). Emails are encrypted in transit using TLS if possible. Passwords are stored in SSHA512 or BCRYPT (BSD).

3. Chat Server – Matrix Synapse – 0€

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. It can be used to power Instant Messaging, VoIP/WebRTC signalling, Internet of Things communication – or anywhere you need a standard HTTP API for publishing and subscribing to data whilst tracking the conversation history.

Matrix defines the standard, and provides open source reference implementations of Matrix-compatible Servers, Clients, Client SDKs and Application Services to help you create new communication solutions or extend the capabilities and reach of existing ones.

4. Video Conferencing – Jitsi – 0€

Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

5. Document Collaboration – Nextcloud – 0€

Nextcloud Files enables hospitals, banks, notaries and government agencies to securely send files to and receive files from customers, patients, clients or partners.

The easy web and mobile interfaces of Nextcloud Files allow users to share files with other users on the server, to create and send password-protected public links, to let others upload files to the private cloud and to get notifications on phone and desktop when a user on another cloud server shares files.

6. Server Security – EvoWall – 0€

EvoWall changes the way teams can work together. Current best security policies involve strong passwords, two or multifactor factor identification and heavy use of VPN solutions. Thеse solutions are good enough, but do not provide multilayer defense system. Most of the time when first layer of defense is bypassed internal network does not have additional security mechanisms and attacker can sniff network packets and scan devices for open ports and early day exploits without problems.

EvoWall is designed with these problems in mind, so our solution enhances existing firewall solutios by adding finer access and denial control. Main problem of current firewall defense approach is that most of the time ports are either open for all users or are closed at all. And what happens if we have remote workers, that change their location often? Or you have to access company network during presentation, business meetting or demo? Or you want to give your clients access to internal resources, without giving them access to the whole network? Or you want to open server port for external application only.