Netskope for Dropbox

Use Cases

Top Use Cases

Secure data

Detect sensitive content in Dropbox or en route to/from any cloud service or website with DLP and enforce policies to automatically block activities, restrict access, encrypt data, and more.

Control access

Detect all access to Dropbox, regardless of where your users are located or what device they are using. Apply the appropriate access control policy based on the situation.

Stop threats

Protect your organization from cloud threats and detect unusual data movement or user activity that could indicate the presence of an active threat.

Prevent data loss

Provides a single view across all cloud services to detect a data exfiltration attempt – stops the download of sensitive data from Dropbox and the upload of that same data to a personal cloud service.

Coach users

Make your users part of your Dropbox security solution. Netskope provides your users with automated, customized coaching messages to address undesirable cloud activities.

Detect sensitive content in Dropbox or en route to/from any cloud service or website with DLP and enforce policies to automatically block activities, restrict access, encrypt data, and more.

Detect all access to Dropbox, regardless of where your users are located or what device they are using. Apply the appropriate access control policy based on the situation.

Protect your organization from cloud threats and detect unusual data movement or user activity that could indicate the presence of an active threat.

Make your users part of your Dropbox security solution. Netskope provides your users with automated, customized coaching messages to address undesirable cloud activities.

Advanced Security
for Dropbox

All-mode architecture

Take advantage of an all-mode architecture to see all of your Box activity, regardless of where your users are located or what they are using.

The unique Netskope all-mode architecture offers you a full array of deployment options to gain visibility and control over Dropbox, whether your users are on-premises or remote, using a web browser, mobile app, or sync client. Options include out-of-band API protection into Dropbox as well as forward and reverse proxy modes for real-time policy controls for Dropbox and its ecosystem.

Provide direct, out-of-band connection into Dropbox with Netskope’s API protection
Cover Dropbox access from outside your network with Netskope’s reverse proxy
Covers any cloud service, including Dropbox and its ecosystem, with Netskope’s forward proxy
Combine different modes to expand your coverage

Deep context

Get a deep contextual understanding of how you use Dropbox, so you can create tight security policies to mitigate your risks.

Netskope gives you a deep understanding of your organization’s usage of Dropbox and of any ecosystem services that share data with Dropbox. You can view details such as user, device, location, service, activity, and data, and assess risk by understanding how sensitive files in Dropbox are being shared.

Understand usage by identity, service, activity, and data
Distinguish between different Dropbox instances
Mitigate risk of inappropriate sharing and public links
Focus policies on specific risky activities

Granular control

Develop and enforce granular security policies that lock down your Dropbox deployment.

Only Netskope gives you granular visibility and control over all of your cloud services and websites. Rather than take a coarse-grained approach by blocking services and websites, set your security policies based on identity, service or website, activity, and data. Choose from actions such as block, alert, bypass, encrypt, quarantine, and coach for policy enforcement.

Enforce policies across all cloud services and websites based on identity, service or website, activity, and data
Protect sensitive data with Netskope DLP
Mix and match policy elements to carve out risk without blocking services

Comprehensive DLP

Stop sensitive information from being exfiltrated from your Dropbox service, whether structured or unstructured data.

Netskope One DLP protects sensitive data in the cloud with the ability to inspect all managed and unmanaged cloud services as well as traffic to websites. Sensitive content is detected across 1000+ file types and across structured and unstructured data, using 3,000+ data identifiers, metadata extraction, proximity analysis, fingerprinting and exact match.

Control sensitive data in Dropbox and en route to and from all cloud services
Get the highest degree of accuracy with fingerprinting and exact match
Increase accuracy with keyword dictionaries, global data identifiers, and more
Create DLP policies using context defined by user, group, device, service, and activity

Threat protection

Provide complete threat protection to help thwart malicious malware from infecting your environment.

Netskope One CASB is the only cloud access security broker with complete threat defense for Dropbox and its service ecosystem, combining unparalleled cloud visibility with multi-layered threat detection and integrated remediation workflows. Netskope can quickly detect, prevent, and remediate the effects of cloud threats, which too often evade existing security solutions.

Threat protection with unique cloud vantage point
Detect anomalies that could indicate an active threat
Proprietary threat intelligence from Netskope Threat Research Labs complemented by 40+ external sources