SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BetterCloud,
the leading SaaS Operations Management (SaaSOps) platform, and
Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX), the world's first smart workspace, today
announced a new strategic partnership. The first phase of this
partnership involves the development of BetterCloud for
Dropbox, a deep integration between the two platforms which
will provide advanced data protection and orchestration
functionality for Dropbox teams. This new offering for Dropbox
customers will allow businesses to enforce custom security
policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical
processes.
Dropbox will resell and distribute BetterCloud for
Dropbox as its preferred solution for enabling secure and
faster adoption of Dropbox Business. As part of this partnership,
Dropbox is making a $5M strategic
financial investment in BetterCloud to fuel the growth and
development of the platform and its commercial efforts.
"At Dropbox, we've always believed that users should be able to
use the tools they love at work," said Quentin Clark, Chief Technology Officer at
Dropbox. "We know this way of working also brings challenges,
especially around how to efficiently and securely manage a
best-of-breed toolkit. That's why we're excited to partner with
BetterCloud to give our users powerful solutions to automate and
centralize management of their unique SaaS environments."
Customers of BetterCloud for Dropbox will benefit from
the following SaaS security and management controls purpose-built
for Dropbox:
- Custom Security Policies: Monitor shifts in file and
folder settings, changes in team administrators, new user-managed
groups, and more. Automated policies can alert team admins to
overexposed misconfigurations with custom conditioning and
remediation via native Dropbox admin actions.
- Data Protection for Dropbox: Automated and on-demand
content scanning within Dropbox files. Set up alerts and policies
to search for sensitive data, such as files containing personally
identifiable information (PII), files containing profanity, or
files containing financial information. Administrators can specify
policies to automatically alert and remediate files shared
externally or publicly with sensitive information in it.
- Granular Management of Dropbox Environment: Enhanced
visibility and administration features for all of your Dropbox
users, admins, groups, and files from a centralized org-wide grid.
Create least privilege roles for team admins to give IT the power
to control who can manage what within Dropbox.
- Automated Workflows for Account Capture, Onboarding,
Offboarding: Custom workflows for orchestrating IT
administrative actions related to the migration of new Dropbox
Business accounts by ensuring captured user account settings
conform with the company's security policies. By automating the
onboarding and offboarding processes, companies save time and
achieve compliance where IT can automatically transfer files,
delete data on linked devices, and free up unused licenses
immediately.
Subsequent phases of the partnership will involve deeper
embedding of the BetterCloud functionality into the core Dropbox
product and admin console.
"This announcement is especially exciting because BetterCloud
and Dropbox are both championing the same cause: enabling
productivity in the enterprise through the use of best-of-breed
SaaS applications," said David
Politis, CEO and Founder of BetterCloud. "To achieve this
vision, we're jointly focused on helping users and IT manage the
proliferation of tools that comes with this new way of working.
Dropbox is doing it for end users with its smart workspace designed
for an open ecosystem, and BetterCloud is complementing that with
its SaaSOps platform that centralizes and automates operations for
IT."
BetterCloud for Dropbox will be generally available for purchase
as an add-on SKU of Dropbox Business later this year.
About BetterCloud
BetterCloud is the first SaaS
Operations Management platform, empowering IT and security teams to
define, remediate, and enforce management and security policies for
SaaS applications. Over 2,500 customers in 60+ countries rely on
BetterCloud for continuous event monitoring, quickly remediating
threats, and fully-automated policy enforcement. The company
established the first-ever "SaaS Application Management and
Security Framework" via two published books entitled "The IT
Leader's Guide to SaaSOps" — Vol. 1: "A Six-part Framework for
Managing Your SaaS Applications" & Vol. 2: "How to Secure Your
SaaS Applications." BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. For more information, please
visit www.bettercloud.com.
About Dropbox
Dropbox is the world's first smart
workspace that helps people and teams focus on the work that
matters. With more than 500 million registered users across 180
countries, we're on a mission to design a more enlightened way of
working. Dropbox is headquartered in San
Francisco, CA, and has 12 offices around the world. For more
information on our mission and products, visit dropbox.com
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