Box Acquires dLoop To Enhance Security With Fine-Grained Data Analytics Technology | TechCrunch
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Box has acquired dLoop, a startup that provides ways for IT administrators to control access to content with finer granularity. “We’ve been spending a lot of time improving the end user experience on Box, but we’re equally committed to creating better management tools for enterprise IT,” Schiller said continued. dLoop’s machine learning capabilities will ultimately allow Box to help enterprise customers identify and surface relevant content by tracking activity patterns — something that’s critical when deployments are in the tens of thousands of seats. And we are committed to doing all this without compromising user experience.” In larger enterprises, data classification is becoming a must-have in order to control what people can do with files. Alan Lepofsky, an analyst with Constellation Research, told me that neither Dropbox nor ShareFile, which is owned by Citrix, have content classification or the workflow rules engine that allows administrators to have granular control.
