A drag into the sync folder or a shared link is all it takes for a file to leave. Uploads are captured on the endpoint and risky transfers blocked.
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Dropbox is built for sharing outside the company — which is exactly what makes it dangerous inside one.
An employee drags a document from a shared drive into the local Dropbox folder, or uploads it directly at dropbox.com, and within moments it sits on a personal account outside the perimeter — encrypted the whole way, so perimeter tools see nothing.
Anexet takes a different route: it captures Dropbox activity on the endpoint, where the file is read and written before any encryption is applied for transit. The desktop sync client and the web version are covered the same way on managed workstations; the exact coverage per operating system is confirmed during the demo.
The local sync folder turns any file drop into an outbound transfer with no extra step.
A personal Dropbox account on a corporate device looks the same as a team-folder transfer — until you check.
Shared links and team folders push files outside the perimeter without an email attachment ever being sent.
Everything you need to bring Dropbox under control, included as your plan grows.
See who uses Dropbox, when, and how heavily. Every upload lands in the same activity timeline and productivity reports as the rest of the user's day.
Capture uploads through the cloud storage channel — the desktop sync client and the web version alike — searchable in the Client Console with the user, account, and timestamp behind each event.
Deny the Dropbox app outright on Standard, or stop only the risky uploads with security policies from Advanced; content-aware blocking by digital fingerprint, hash, or sensitivity label applies to uploads captured through the web channel on Premium.
Anexet records every upload as it happens: file name, size, destination folder or shared link, the account used, the user identity, and the timestamp — whether the file moved through the local Dropbox sync folder or a browser tab at dropbox.com.
Because capture happens on the endpoint rather than the wire, no Dropbox API integration is required, and a personal account on a corporate workstation is captured exactly like a team-folder transfer. Access to the Dropbox app can be denied outright on Standard; from Advanced, security policies block only the risky uploads while normal use continues, and with Premium content-aware rules block by digital fingerprint or sensitivity label.
From a file upload on the endpoint to a controlled, searchable record.
A lightweight agent on the workstation watches both surfaces at once: file events in the local Dropbox folder and uploads through dropbox.com.
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Each event — file, metadata, user, destination — is indexed on your on-premise server; nothing passes through an external service.
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Policies are checked the moment an upload is captured; a match triggers an alert, blocks the transfer, or both.
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Analysts review flagged events in the Client Console, trace the full activity chain for a user or file, and export evidence for incident reports.
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A lightweight agent on the workstation watches both surfaces at once: file events in the local Dropbox folder and uploads through dropbox.com.
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Each event — file, metadata, user, destination — is indexed on your on-premise server; nothing passes through an external service.
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Policies are checked the moment an upload is captured; a match triggers an alert, blocks the transfer, or both.
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Analysts review flagged events in the Client Console, trace the full activity chain for a user or file, and export evidence for incident reports.
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Common questions about how Anexet handles Dropbox.
Yes. The agent intercepts the transfer on the workstation, before encryption is applied — so encryption in transit does not prevent capture. Coverage details for your environment are confirmed during the demo.
Yes. The local Dropbox sync folder is monitored through file events, and dropbox.com uploads are captured in the browser — so switching from the app to the browser leaves no gap on managed workstations; the exact coverage per operating system is confirmed during the demo.
Yes. Transfers into shared links or team folders are captured the same way as individual uploads, and the destination account is recorded with each event — so an external share is just as visible as a plain upload.
Yes. Standard can deny the Dropbox app outright on a managed workstation; from Advanced, security policies stop only the risky uploads while normal use continues, and with Premium that blocking becomes content-aware — by digital fingerprint or sensitivity label — so a confidential document can be opened locally but never synced out.
Never. Every captured event and file stays on your own servers — by architecture, not by policy. The vendor has no access to your data.
Tell us where Dropbox shows up in your teams' work — shared links, client folders, personal accounts — and we'll match it to the right plan and arrange a demo or a free trial of Anexet Ultimate.
