{"id":1648,"date":"2016-11-16T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/dropbox-business-updates-focus-on-increasing-enterprise-security-credibility.html"},"modified":"2016-11-16T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:40:01","slug":"dropbox-business-updates-focus-on-increasing-enterprise-security-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/dropbox-business-updates-focus-on-increasing-enterprise-security-credibility.html","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox Business updates focus on increasing enterprise security credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Dropbox<\/a> is getting much more serious about its Dropbox Business product, and today it announced a partnership with security vendor Symantec as part of a broader update to its business products designed to make it more attractive to larger businesses.<\/p>\n

Rob Baesman, Dropbox\u2019s head of product for pro, business and enterprise versions, says the idea behind the admin tool update is to provide a measure of control, while allowing companies to mix in some of the security tools they\u2019re already using, all with the same ease of use that Dropbox users are used to getting from the consumer tools.<\/p>\n

When Dropbox launched its business version\u00a0in 2014<\/a>, it had 275 million consumer users. Today it has 500 million users, of which 200,000 are business customers. It was precisely that consumer popularity that Dropbox was hoping to exploit when it launched the business product \u2014 but it faced an inherent quandary.<\/p>\n

Most IT departments saw the consumer Dropbox product as a problem<\/a> when it came to security. They didn\u2019t appreciate employees using their private\u00a0accounts to share company business. Employees, on the other hand, were just looking for a quick way to access their files when they weren\u2019t in the office. Hard to blame them for wanting to find easier ways to get their work done in an increasingly mobile world.<\/p>\n

Dropbox saw a business opportunity and launched Dropbox Business. Today\u2019s announcement represents a further maturing of that product and an attempt to use partnerships and more advanced administrative features to make the product more attractive to IT \u2014 and to give them the tools to control and manage Dropbox usage in the company.<\/p>\n

Today Dropbox has more than 30 security partnerships across areas such as data loss prevention (DLP), enterprise mobility management (EMM), identity and access management, data migration, eDiscovery and analytics. It chose to shine a spotlight on its partnership with Symantec, even including Symantec Vice President of Business Development Peter Doggart on the pre-brief.<\/p>\n

The Symantec partnership is designed to show enterprise customers that they can use Dropbox Business safely, while maintaining the same kind of controls in\u00a0a cloud software package\u00a0that they\u2019ve traditionally had with on-prem software. \u201cFor those customers who have spent many years using DLP on prem, they can with a simple switch, apply all those same policies for Dropbox. That is the power of integrations on both sides,\u201d Doggart explained.<\/p>\n

In addition, Dropbox has beefed up its own network admin controls to have tighter control over the company network and better differentiate between Dropbox business traffic and Dropbox personal traffic. Some customers don\u2019t want their employees mixing the two, and the new tools should give them a better grip on that.<\/p>\n

All of this and more, has been designed to make the product more attractive to IT. While 200,000 might sound like a big number when it comes to business customers, compared to the 500 million consumer ones, it\u2019s a drop in the bucket, and announcements like today\u2019s are part of an ongoing effort\u00a0to continue to build their business presence.<\/p>\n

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