You can argue till you’re blue in the face about which cloud storage to use these days. But you can’t argue (at least not with me) about whether you should be auditing what’s going on in those tools. Sure, these services have a decent EULA and plenty of encryption. However, that doesn’t mean your own employees are following your policies. And let’s not forget how easily passwords fail.
The good news is that you can get setup to monitor your Box account with Sumo Logic in a few simple steps. Following our documentation, a simple script will talk to the Box service, retrieve audit events and bring them into Sumo Logic via a Script Source. Then just install the Box app from our service (a few simple clicks) and you’ll be able to quickly inspect how your organization is using Box.
With our off the shelf dashboards, I encourage all of you using Box to explore your deployment. You may be surprised at what you find. Odd behavior patterns can bubble up, showing you that a critically sensitive document is being overshared; or that one of your users has recently shared thousands upon thousands of documents in an apparent attempt to walk out the door with your IP; or that an unexpected user is logged in and accessing documents.
Cloud storage systems promise a lot of security and privacy but ultimately it’s still up to you to identify malicious users, policy violations and security threats. Using this great new app, you’ll find that it’s easy and effective to monitor and investigate activities in your Box account. Give it a try today and use our support portal to send us your feedback!