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PeteX
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2 days ago

Restricting the Dropbox desktop app to permitted (company) devices

I have dropbox business for our office and am trying to limit access/installation to company-issued devices. We don't want our employees to install and sync company dropbox account onto their own per...
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PeteX
New member | Level 1
2 days ago

Company issued computer will most definitely have encryption/password policies. Even if i can't brick the device remotely, it probably wont be able to login

Personal devices not so much.  Imagine a laptop without encryption/password lock getting stolen and that computer has company data synched to it

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    Jay
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    2 days ago

    Thanks for the details, in this instance, it wouldn't be possible to restrict the login of the Dropbox desktop application from a personal device.

     

    The only possibility would be to have an SSO login which could only be activated using information provided by the workplace. 

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