As part of a comprehensive mobile strategy, many companies today choose to use one of a number of popular cloud-based file storage solutions, like Box, Dropbox or Google Drive. These tools provide users anytime access to the data they need from any device with an internet connection. Recently, Dropbox announced that its Dropbox Business product would be entering into a partnership with security vendor Symantec as part of a broader update to enhance its enterprise security credibility.
For years, Dropbox has been a preferred partner of Tech Orchard. Not only does it bring an inherently high level of consumer appeal, making employee adoption simple and straightforward, using AppConfig capabilities, Dropbox plays nicely with AirWatch, our preferred enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution. Together, Dropbox and AirWatch can provide instant mobile productivity with a seamless out-of-the box experience, enabling enterprise-ready apps with minimal setup required.
According to a TechCrunch article highlighting the proposed Dropbox Business update, businesses can expect the following.
“The Symantec partnership is designed to show enterprise customers that they can use Dropbox Business safely, while maintaining the same kind of controls in a cloud software package that they’ve traditionally had with on-prem software. ‘For 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,’ explained [Symantec Vice President of Business Development Peter] Doggart.
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’t want their employees mixing the two, and the new tools should give them a better grip on that.”
Specifically, these Dropbox Business updates are designed to make the product more attractive to larger businesses, and help grow the company’s base of 200,000 business users to something much larger. After all, more than 500 million consumers are already taking advantage of all this tool has to offer.
If your organization is looking for a way to empower users to share information and files collaboratively without jeopardizing data security, contact us for an inside look at how to integrate AirWatch and Dropbox Business. We can quickly and cost-effectively put this enterprise-secure solution at your fingertips.
