{"id":14722,"date":"2014-12-16T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:42:01","slug":"three-ways-block-dropbox-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/three-ways-block-dropbox-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ways to Block Dropbox in the Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been a lot of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/searchcloudsecurity.techtarget.com\/news\/2240233855\/Research-shows-enterprises-leaking-shadow-data-to-the-cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hubbub<\/a>\u00a0about employees using personal clouds in the work place causing data leaks so this article by Neeraj Periwal \u2014 on MSPMentor entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mspmentor.net\/blog\/three-ways-block-dropbox-workplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThree Ways to Block Dropbox in the Workplace\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 caught our attention.<\/p>\n<p>Periwal writes: \u201cGiven the security risks associated with the free version of Dropbox\u2013such as its inability to protect shared links with passwords, expiration dates or download limits\u2013business owners should understand the different ways they can block employees from using Dropbox in the workplace.\u201d Periwal goes on to describe three ways companies can block personal clouds, such as Dropbox.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that public, consumer-grade clouds in the workplace are a security risk. Putting important information into a not so secure cloud storage system is bound to have dire circumstances, including data leaks. Yet, despite the risks, employees continue to use them. So we agree with Periwal when it comes to blocking these dangerous clouds from the workplace. We also agree with him when he says \u201cIt is therefore imperative for small- and medium-size companies interested in giving their employees the flexibility of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link \" href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/product\" title=\"file sharing\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">file sharing<\/a> and syncing to adopt a secure, business-class solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it is important to block these insecure services, it is equally important that these companies give their employees a secure alternative. Otherwise, employees will find a way around almost any obstacle to get their job done. The alternative should be one that puts IT in control, allowing them to track data usage \u2013 and even to restrict what files can be shared, when, where and by whom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>File sync and share is an important part of business life and it\u2019s here to stay, but businesses must make sure they have a safe, easy-to-use alternative.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately there has been a lot of\u00a0hubbub\u00a0about employees using personal clouds in the work place causing data leaks so this article by Neeraj Periwal \u2014 on MSPMentor entitled\u00a0\u201cThree Ways to Block Dropbox in the Workplace\u201d\u00a0\u2013 caught our attention. Periwal writes: \u201cGiven the security risks associated with the free version of Dropbox\u2013such as its inability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[115,149,71,56,127,119],"class_list":["post-14722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cloud-file-sharing-for-business","tag-data-security","tag-dropbox-alternative","tag-file-sharing","tag-ftp-for-large-files","tag-ftp-online-storage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61378,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14722\/revisions\/61378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}