![]() ![]() We needed to build a way to help people keep their stuff separate, but still make both sets available from everywhere," Fushman said in a blog post. "As we got more excited about building more features for Dropbox for Business, we kept running into the same problem: just as people often work at home, they also want to have their personal files with them at the office. Ilya Fushman, who at the time was head of product, business and mobile at Dropbox, said the feature had been introduced as a result of people being forced to put personal files in their Dropbox for Business account to access them at work. ![]() It has also seemingly recognised the original "shadow IT" problem it created and in 2013 it began to offer personal and professional account linking. Like them, it offers SSL/TLS encryption for data in transit, AES encryption for data at rest, as well as admin features like SSO, two-factor authentication (2FA), remote wiping and shared audit logs. The truth is that, despite its reputation as a spreader of data insecurity within companies, Dropbox for Business can be equally as secure as other solutions, including rivals such as Box, Mozy, SugarSync, Acronis or even Amazon S3. The question, then, becomes "does this product offer an acceptable level of risk?" It has become a clich among the security community to say "it's not if you suffer a breach, it's when" and while this, in my opinion, is a slight over exaggeration, it is reflective of the fact nothing can ever be 100 per cent secure, be it Dropbox, products that were built from the ground up for business, or your own internal systems. ![]()
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