Box Announces Availability of New Security Enhancements to Help Combat Cyber Threats in the Cloud
Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX) has announced major enhancements to its Box Shield security solution, introducing a new Ethical Walls feature to prevent conflicts of interest and improving malware detection capabilities. Key additions include: information barriers that restrict user collaborations, malware deep scan capabilities supporting new file types, and multi-factor authentication options. With rising cyberattack costs, these features aim to bolster client security and compliance in regulated sectors. Box’s security upgrades reflect its commitment to safeguarding customer data in an evolving threat landscape.
- Introduction of Ethical Walls in Box Shield to prevent conflicts of interest.
- Improved malware detection with enhanced scanning algorithm.
- Expansion of supported file types for malware scanning.
- New multi-factor authentication options for increased security.
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Adds New Ethical Walls Feature and Strengthens Malware Detection in Box Shield
“With the median cost of a cyberattack rising by nearly 30 percent over the past year in the
Enhancements to Box Shield
Box Shield helps prevent data leakage and proactively identifies potential insider threats or compromised accounts. Companies like
- Create information barriers, which group users based on business segments, and create mono or bi-directional restrictions on their collaboration. This allows admins to restrict information sharing that could result in questionable or conflicted business activities, which could create ethical or legal challenges.
- Generate collaboration reports, which help admins understand which existing collaborations are violating their organization’s information barrier policy and thus will be removed once the policy is enabled. This helps admins see the potential impact of creating an information barrier prior to deployment, so that they can adjust as needed to avoid losing important collaborations.
- Communicate restrictions to employees, which helps protect restricted content in a frictionless way by clearly stating to end-users who can and cannot be invited to specific content and why. This gives admins the ability to educate all employees on additional ways to keep company information secure and compliant.
In 2021, Box brought malware deep scan detection to Box Shield and over the past year Shield has scanned over 7.5 billion files and helped security teams identify over 450,000 malicious files. Today, Box is adding even more functionality to its malware deep scan capability including:
- An improved algorithm, which uses machine learning to detect even more sophisticated malware and gives increased accuracy to file scans. This allows admins to automatically detect suspicious activity faster with less false positives and intervene before it becomes a larger problem.
- Additional file types, including Microsoft 365 files will now be supported and subject to malware identification. This greatly expands Box Shield's malware deep scan coverage to include some of the most prevalent file types used by customers.
- Richer insights and granular controls, including granular download restrictions to provide admins with more flexible controls and more detailed alert messages which help admins investigate incidents quicker and cut down on threat response times.
Box Shield is also delivering new innovation to help customers prevent accidental information leakage. Generally available today, Box Shield admins have access to:
- New classification reports, available on-demand or on a schedule, that offers insight into how content is being classified across your organization. With added insight into how content is being classified, security teams can easily ensure that content is being handled appropriately across the full organization.
- Additional classification icons, which provide a simple and clear way to identify classified files in Box. These help security admins improve communication within their organization and makes it easy to identify classified content at a glance.
- Suspicious location detection exemptions, which enable admins to suppress or disable suspicious location alerts for select users, groups, or known travel to a location deemed “suspicious,” occurs. These exemptions help security teams reduce the number of unnecessary alerts.
Bolstering Box’s Core Security Platform
Additionally, Box also announced the general availability of new features and functionalities to enhance the robust security embedded within the Box Content Cloud to achieve and align with the
To learn more about today’s announcement visit https://www.box.com/security/zerotrust.
About Box
Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leading Content Cloud, a single platform that empowers organizations to manage the entire content lifecycle, work securely from anywhere, and integrate across best-of-breed apps. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading global organizations, including AstraZeneca, JLL, Morgan Stanley, and Nationwide. Box is headquartered in
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