These headlines are causing Dropbox users to be concerned as the amount of personal information being leaked from the cloud continues to increase. Then last October, 7 million Dropbox usernames and passwords were stolen. Last September, personal photos and videos of over 100 celebrities were stolen from their Apple iCloud accounts and widely shared through social media. The result can lead to sensitive files containing personal photographs, passwords and other confidential information being exposed. Files shared with others can be leaked or be delivered to a third party mistakenly or deliberately. The cloud’s widespread use has made it a target for hackers to steal data that is stored and shared in this environment. With the growing number of personal PCs, smartphones and tablet PCs, the use of public cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Box and more to store and share personal information has dramatically increased. Other competitors, such as Box, are still waiting for the go ahead with their FedRAMP certification, despite announcing a big customer win in the form of the US Department of Justice.ĭropbox for Business has over 100,000 global customers, including MIT, News Corp and National Geographic, while the business itself is also expanding the company has opened up seven new global offices since the beginning of 2014.Fasoo, the leader in data and application security, today announced the launch of Folder Cryptor for Dropbox, a B2C service to safely secure personal contents in Dropbox. In May, Dropbox announced it had achieved ISO/IEC 27018 privacy standard certification, running through to September 2017. We listened to our customers and we’re delivering the features they need most in the areas of security, administration and integration.”ĭropbox is making a series of plays to beef up its enterprise portfolio in a bid to convince businesses they can safely store their business critical data with the cloud storage provider. “We’re making a step change to ensure we help businesses be the best place to get work done.
“This is a major milestone for Dropbox for Business,” said UK country manager Mark van der Linden.
The company is introducing tighter account security through two-step verification, tiered administrative controls, as well as an extension to the Dropbox for Business API, with new capabilities for shared folders.ĬloudLock, Netskope and SkySync are among the data migration providers who are already beginning to build integrations, alongside Israeli firm Adallom, which recently announced it was looking after the security for Dropbox for Business. Dropbox has announced new features in administration, security and integration in a bid to change the way the cloud storage provider works for business.
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