Dropbox woos enterprise IT with new admin and security tools
Several file-sharing companies have been billed as "Dropbox for the enterprise." Turns out Dropbox wants that title as well. The company has made that point clear as it has rolled out features aimed at alleviating IT departments' skepticism of the service's viability and trustworthiness in a corporate setting.
Dropbox's latest bid in wooing IT professionals is a new admin panel and sharing controls for Dropbox for Teams, the company's file-sharing service aimed at teams of users in a corporate environment. The update adds new tools for managing team members, monitoring activity, controlling permissions, and boosting security.
The new admin console is designed to provide a panel for managing team members. For starters, admins have the ability to add or remove members -- and create new admins for a group, according to Dropbox. Any change in Active Directory is automatically reflected in the team Dropbox.
