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Dropbox Business

Dropbox Business

FortiCASB offers an API-based approach, pulling data directly from Dropbox Business via RESTful API. Then FortiCASB portal accesses the data collected through API queries with OAuth2.0 authentication. Subsequently, FortiCASB combines these data to monitor and track Dropbox Business user activities, provides DLP Data Analysis for files stored on Dropbox Business.

Prerequisites

To use API access, your organization must be using one of the following Dropbox Business plans:

  • Standard Plan
  • Advanced Plan
  • Enterprise Plan

The user account added on FortiCASB must have the following permission:

  • Team Admin

You may either use an existing account or create a new account.

Add Dropbox Business

  1. Log into FortiCASB with your account.
  2. Go to Overview > Dashboard, click on Add New, select Dropbox, then click Add Selected Cloud App.
  3. You will be navigated to the Dropbox website for authentication.
  4. Log in to authenticate. Dropbox will prompt you to allow or deny access.
  5. Click Allow to grant FortiCASB permissions to monitor your Dropbox application.

After you click Allow, you will be redirected back to the FortiCASB dashboard.

You can check the installation result and SaaS platform monitoring status in the Dropbox dashboard.

For more information on common installation issues, see Troubleshooting

Dropbox Business

FortiCASB offers an API-based approach, pulling data directly from Dropbox Business via RESTful API. Then FortiCASB portal accesses the data collected through API queries with OAuth2.0 authentication. Subsequently, FortiCASB combines these data to monitor and track Dropbox Business user activities, provides DLP Data Analysis for files stored on Dropbox Business.

Prerequisites

To use API access, your organization must be using one of the following Dropbox Business plans:

  • Standard Plan
  • Advanced Plan
  • Enterprise Plan

The user account added on FortiCASB must have the following permission:

  • Team Admin

You may either use an existing account or create a new account.

Add Dropbox Business

  1. Log into FortiCASB with your account.
  2. Go to Overview > Dashboard, click on Add New, select Dropbox, then click Add Selected Cloud App.
  3. You will be navigated to the Dropbox website for authentication.
  4. Log in to authenticate. Dropbox will prompt you to allow or deny access.
  5. Click Allow to grant FortiCASB permissions to monitor your Dropbox application.

After you click Allow, you will be redirected back to the FortiCASB dashboard.

You can check the installation result and SaaS platform monitoring status in the Dropbox dashboard.

For more information on common installation issues, see Troubleshooting