Dropbox yesterday rebranded its enterprise service as Dropbox for Business, and announced plans for the much-requested single sign-on (SSO).
Dropbox has been available to businesses since 2011 via Dropbox for Teams. But the company said that Dropbox has outgrown that name, prompting the updated moniker. With SSO, users can sign in to a central identity provider and securely access all business apps, like Dropbox.
“For users, SSO means ease, One fewer password to remember and one fewer step to get to your work. For IT admins, it means additional security and administrative management” Anand Subramani, a product manager at Dropbox.
Dropbox has partnered with identity provider organizations, including Ping Identity, Okta, OneLogin, Centrify, and Symplified, to roll out the new SSO feature. Other companies can integrate, as well, via Dropbox’s use of the security assertion makeup language (SAML) standard for authentication.
This comes two months after Dropbox introduced its redesigned admin control and added new sharing options to help businesses manage groups. Executives can view the activity of individual team members or the entire group, as well as set sharing controls, require two-step verification, and even reset employees’ passwords.
Interested organizations can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Dropbox for Business, or just jump right into the service, which starts at $795 per year for unlimited storage, plus live support and various team-management tools.
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