Security Enhancements in Box Shield Powered by Machine Learning
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today delivered more advanced security features to prevent accidental data leaks and protect content in the cloud. These include enhanced auto-classification functionality that extends to existing content and new exception handling capabilities for Smart Access controls within Box Shield. Box also rolled out a set of security improvements to its core product including identity and permission management updates.
“While a return to the office is now conceivable, the new work styles that have emerged during the remote work era are here to stay,” said Varun Parmar, Chief Product Officer at Box. “The future of work is hybrid and this requires a new approach to securing content from anywhere without slowing down work. With today’s announcements, we are extending the power of Box Shield, along with our core security product, by implementing new and enhanced features to the Box Content Cloud and providing businesses with one secure platform for managing and securing all of their information in the cloud.”
"The past year fundamentally shifted the way we work, while simultaneously creating new security challenges for customers around the world," said Chris Niggel, Regional CSO Americas, at Okta. "At the core of our transition to a Dynamic Work model is the need to ensure that security remains top of mind while having the flexibility to support a dispersed workforce. With the power of Box, we can ensure that our content remains in the right hands while being able to securely collaborate from anywhere and on any device."
Box Shield helps reduce risk and proactively identifies potential insider threats or compromised accounts. Since the release of Box Shield in October 2019, Box has added new features and functionality to bring built-in controls and threat detection directly to workflows in Box. In addition, all Box customers have access to the robust security and privacy controls embedded within the core Box product.
Building on this innovation, Box today announced the following features and enhancements:
Deepening Auto-Classification Features To Prevent Accidental Data Leakage
Businesses already use Box Shield to help prevent accidental data leaks through a system of manual and automated security classifications for files, folders, and classification-based access policies.
“When it comes to data loss prevention (DLP), organizations are demanding tools that are easy to administrate and simple for employees to use,” said Frank Dickson, Vice President of Cybersecurity Products Research at IDC. “Bolted-on solutions that impede productivity create a shadow IT risk as employees find workarounds to get their job done. By integrating Box Shield natively into their collaboration platform, Box is addressing the problem of complexity associated with implementing and administering DLP and turned it into an intuitive product, built for the end user.”
Available today, Box has enhanced classification in Box Shield with the following:
Increasing Security Without Slowing Down Work
According to a Gartner survey, 82% of company leaders surveyed plan to allow employees to continue working remotely at least some of the time. With the ongoing need to support this hybrid model, IT teams need to focus on increased security as well as enabling business productivity. To securely power this new way of working, Box rolled out the following enhancements which are generally available to all Box Shield customers today:
Reducing friction with improved support for single sign on (SSO)
Additionally, Box strengthened its core security functionality with deepened SSO support to reduce friction for IT admins and power critical business processes. Generally available today, this includes:
These updated features are part of a larger series of security enhancements that Box began announcing at the beginning of last year. In February 2020, Box created a new add-on for Splunk in Box Shield, made advances to the Shield dashboard, improved automated classification with Box Relay, and enhanced the end user classification experience. Later that summer, Box added native malware detection support and announced the addition of intelligent, automated classification to Shield to automatically scan files and classify them based on their content.
For more information join the Box webinar on June 2, 2021 or visit the Box blog.
About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is a leading cloud content management platform that enables organizations to accelerate business processes, power workplace collaboration, and protect their most valuable information, all while working with a best-of-breed enterprise IT stack. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading organizations globally, including AstraZeneca, JLL and Morgan Stanley. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit http://www.box.com. To learn more about how Box powers nonprofits to fulfill their missions, visit Box.org.
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