Dropbox has been updated adding in its most recent version several improvements that reinforce its securityy news related to integration with third-party services. Among those related to its security are end-to-end encryption and advanced key management to protect access to folders.
Advanced key management works by establishing unique encryption keys that can be set by each user. In this way, only the issuers and receivers of the keys can see the content of the folders created and hosted in the service. As for end-to-end encryption, it has been natively integrated into computer folders, which helps eliminate several software subscriptions that were previously required for anyone who wanted this layer of security. Security improvements are available for Dropbox Advances, Business Plus, and Enterprise plans.
Regarding integration with third parties, among them are news related to Microsoft products and services. From now on, Dropbox will integrate with Teams, Copilot and Co-Authoring. Thanks to this, according to the company, the service will collaborate in preventing the generation of conflicts with files, and in avoiding the existence of different versions, even for workers who collaborate from two different platforms.
The integration with Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be carried out through an extension, and as for Co-Authoring, Dropbox customers will be able to use it in real time to collaborate on compatible Microsoft 365 files directly from Dropbox, without having to go through to do so. through the Microsoft portal. Of course, for now this integration is in the testing phase. Dropbox also announced Dropbox Replay for OneDrive, which brings media files from OneDrive directly to Replay so they can receive necessary reviews and approvals there.
Among other new features of the new version of the Dropbox cloud storage platform is the redesign of its web experience, which now offers improvements in file previews and new quick actions. Also dynamic filters and smart suggestions, which for now will only reach users of Dropbox paid plans in the United States, and initially only in English.
Dynamic filters are responsible for organizing the content automatically, using criteria such as topics or the name of the project to which they belong. Smart Suggestions, meanwhile, show users files related to the content they are currently viewing.
Apart from this, Dropbox will now have new tools designed and developed for Make it easier for administrators to collect information and see activity of each team. Everything from the same point.
Thus, now the management of team members and invitations to join them, as well as their status, is done from a central panel. There are also updates to the “trust center,” which simplify risk assessment of Dropbox products and provide access to information about security, reliability, and privacy; apart from allowing internal reviews, audits and risk assessment to be completed more quickly.