Whether the organization's interest in file sharing and collaboration solutions comes from BYOD initiatives, workforce demands, or peer and partner collaboration requirements, security and risk (S&R) pros are increasingly asked to weigh in or lead efforts to securely enable this critical business process. S&R pros should consider such solutions as tools to help augment and support a holistic data protection strategy. This report (part 1 in a series of three) showcases workforce behaviors and trends that are hastening demand for secure file sharing and collaboration solutions and identifies key data control feature functions that S&R pros have available today.