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Five Dropbox admin settings worth changing on day one

Defaults are built for the widest audience. These five changes take ten minutes and remove most of the risk.

Dropbox ships with sensible defaults for the broadest possible audience. For a business tenancy, five of them are worth changing immediately.

1. Restrict external sharing to a default of view-only

Edit access should be a deliberate choice, not the default.

Ninety days is a reasonable default. Permanent public links are how data leaks quietly.

3. Require device approval

Available on Advanced. It stops company data landing on unmanaged personal machines.

4. Set up team folder structure before inviting users

Retrofitting structure after 200 people have made their own folders is an order of magnitude more work.

5. Enable and actually review the activity log

Set a monthly reminder. Most anomalies are obvious once someone looks.

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Himanshu Verma

Senior SEO

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