Part three in a four-post series about information governance. Security is a major part of good information governance. If the rules you follow to govern your information don’t address security, you could have big problems. We don’t have to look far to see how bad things can get when private data...

Today I'm excited to announce a new Box for Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) partner, Okta, a leading provider of identity and mobility management for the enterprise.  With more and more organizations shifting to mobile and cloud solutions, it's critical that employees are able...

For years, Box has been focused on delivering the most comprehensive portfolio of security solutions for businesses that want to securely manage their content in the cloud without impacting the end-user experience. With comprehensive data protection, reporting and audit policies, compliance...

Back in December, we launched Box Trust, an initiative comprised of nineteen security partners focused on helping customers successfully embrace the new security paradigm as they work in the cloud. And at BoxWorks last month we introduced four new Box Trust partners: Elastica, Microsoft's Adallom,...

Today at BoxWorks, I shared some exciting new ways that Box is building the next-generation enterprise content management and collaboration platform. The way enterprises work has fundamentally changed and we're reimagining enterprise content management for the new way of work. At this morning's...

According to a 2014 report, more than 110 million Americans had one or more passwords stolen in the previous 12 months. That’s about half the country’s entire population and amounts to about 432 million hacked accounts. When you consider that the average employee uses 28 different cloud services —...

Today, we are excited to introduce the general availability of Box Governance, which gives customers a better way to comply with regulatory policies, satisfy e-discovery requests and effectively manage sensitive business information. We are also announcing that Box supports FINRA and SEC 17a-4...

One of the biggest challenges for company retention management efforts is the gap between policy and execution. A 2012 survey by Symantec revealed that 60% of companies have a data retention plan, but only 34% of those plans are fully operational. Even with the help of technology, organizing and...

When IT security teams are evaluating how to secure their company data on mobile devices, they typically have two options. They can either secure the whole device, which is often referred to as Mobile Device Management (MDM) or they can secure just the enterprise apps, which is usually called...

Do you wrack your brain about the best way to control your retention management efforts? In a 2012 survey by Symantec, just 34% of companies with data retention plans described them as being “fully operational.” Your company likely already has a retention strategy- but is it working? If you’re not...

For as long as humans have been using written forms of communication, we’ve been trying to conceal messages in plain sight. From the secret decoder rings in our childhood cereal boxes to the algorithms that keep our credit card information secure online, cryptography has become a fascinating part...

Work has shifted from being static to mobile. But the specific device is no longer important: when discussing mobile, content is rightly king. Whether it's customer records, financial data, employee details or blueprints for the next ‘big idea,’ content can all be classified as intellectual...

Every story has a beginning. But what most people don’t know about the history of computing is that we can trace computing's conceptual origins back past the Homebrew Computer Club, Turing’s Colossus and other modern feats of technology. The history of cryptography is rich with theories and...

As content creation has exploded, so has the complexity of managing this information to meet legal, regulatory and compliance mandates. Traditional records management solutions don't make this easy — they tend to be overly complicated and disconnected from the company’s content management system....

One of our primary goals at Box is to help organizations everywhere collaborate and share information seamlessly while maintaining visibility and control over their sensitive data. We have already made significant investments to support this combination of ease of use and security, but some of our...

Today, I'm excited to announce that Box has acquired Subspace, a startup focused on enabling secure access to data and applications on the web, mobile, and in desktop environments. Subspace has been working for two years to build world-class security technology to help individuals work from...

Today we launched Box for Financial Services, bringing Box to an industry that faces strict compliance standards and that routinely works with highly sensitive information. We’re excited to dive into three important product enhancements that are powering Box for Financial Services: Retention...

Today, we're announcing Box's latest industry effort: Box for Financial Services. As we announced at BoxWorks last fall, Box for Industries is our initiative to deliver Box's horizontal technology in industry-specific ways, solving the unique challenges of verticals through tailored solutions,...

Later today I'm speaking at the White House's Cyber Security Summit at Stanford. I'll be participating in a panel with John Holdren, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Patricia Falcone, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder...

Today we have some incredibly exciting news to share with our customers and the industry. Box is breaking the final barrier to cloud adoption with a new technology that enables companies to control their own encryption keys, while still leveraging Box's best-in-class content management and...