Box strengthens cloud security with automated classification

Box announced that intelligent and automated classification will arrive soon in Box Shield, its advanced security solution for protecting content in the cloud.

It will now automatically analyze files and classify them based on their content to help businessess detecting and securing sensitive data. Box Shield is the fastest growing new product in corporate history, and security-conscious and highly regulated organizations, including NASA, are using it to secure data in the cloud.

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Product manager at Box, Varun Parmar provided more details on how businesses use Box Shield to prevent their content from ending up in the wrong hands while working from home in a press release , saying:

"The sudden shift to remote working has brought new security challenges to businesses, making it more critical than ever to prevent sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. In June, Box Shield helped customers protect their content by blocking access to shared links to classified files more than eight million times and prevented nearly one million downloads of classified files. Using advances in machine learning to automatically apply classification labels as files are uploaded or edited extends Box Shield's ability to enable secure remote work from anywhere. allows IT and security teams to configure and enforce policiess across the company to a new level of scale that would be impossible to address manually. "

Automated classification

Using advanced machine learning and data loss prevention features, Box Shield scans files in real time as they are uploaded, updated, moved or copied to specified folders and automatically categorizes them according to policies set by administrator. Businesses can take advantage of its new classification functionality automated system to scale their data classification efforts and enforce policies across the enterprise to better comply with GDPR and other regulations.

Box Shield can now also have it automatically identify several types of personally identifiable information in files, including serial numbers.social security, driver licenses, international bank account number (IBAN) codes, etc. The new functionality can even identify custom terms and phrases in files such as "Confidential Box, Internal Use Only, and" NDA Required. Policies can easily be created to apply the appropriate classification labels to files stored in an organization's cloud storage.

Box Shield's new automated classification features will begin to be available today and will roll out to eligible customers over the next month.

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