14 DAY TRIAL // Box announces Box Trust, a new initiative in partnership with several security, governance and compliance companies, to increase the safety of the data enterprise customers store on their infrastructure.
The security framework is built in different layers that provide services such as analytics, network controls, vulnerability management, identity and authentication, mobile security, data loss prevention (DLP), and endpoint protection governance risk and compliance.
Security measures applied to the cloud collaboration model
The list of partners has reached 19, new ones including Symantec (DLP), Splunk (data visibility and analytics), Palo Alto Networks, Sumo Logic, and OpenDNS. They all integrate third-party applications and software that work on top of the cloud storage platform through APIs.
“As businesses move from on-premise computing to the cloud, from desktops to mobile devices, and from collaboration between coworkers to sharing with a global network of partners, customers and vendors, that information needs to be able to move between people, devices and applications at unprecedented levels,” says Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box.
This transition creates new security demands from companies for protecting their information. Entities like General Electric, Toyota, Boston Scientific, Procter & Gamble, Chevron, Schneider Electric, Stanford University, Eli Lilly, Stanford Medical, and DreamWorks have thousands of employees and require content collaboration on mobile devices, which cannot happen unless adequate security is available.
In order to move information freely and securely across an organization, a new security model is needed, and this is what Box Trust is about.
To be included in the Box Trust initiative, partners are evaluated in terms of market leadership, as well as the value and quality of integration in the ecosystem.
New Box app released for iOS and Android platforms
Part of the new initiative is a mobile app designed for Android and iOS, called Box for Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM). Security products from VMWare (AirWatch) and Fiberlink Communications (MaaS360) of IBM, with Dell adding its solution in the near future, have been integrated with Box for EMM to ensure information collaboration without security risks.
The app includes the possibility to mix several mobile device management solutions and allows imposing restrictions for delivering data to other managed apps.
Other partners in the Box Trust initiative include Skyhigh Networks, HP, Okta, MobileIron, CipherCloud, Recommind, Ping Identity, Netskope, OneLogin, Guidance Software, and Code Green Networks.
Levie says that the list is still open and services of other organizations will be integrated in the platform as long as their scope aligns with the objectives of Box.
“We are excited to be a founding partner in the Box Trust security initiative to bring our Data Loss Prevention (DLP) technology to Box customers,” added Chandra Rangan, vice president, product marketing, Symantec.
