Action

This section of the API Data Protection policy page specifies the action to be taken when a policy violation occurs. The actions vary depending on the app chosen. For some apps, the only action is alert. Similarly, restrict access options vary depending on the app chosen.

Security classification on Box is a feature that enables customers to classify files based on their confidentiality and enforce security policies associated with that confidentiality level. This helps organizations protect sensitive information and encourage smarter user behavior when handling that content.

API Data Protection helps in automating the content classification for organizations. The feature leverages Netskope’s DLP engine to identify sensitive data and classify the user’s content automatically. Netskope introduces a new policy action called Data Classification. Like any other policy action, a user can set up the data classification, to classify sensitive files. There are three file classification options: confidential, internal only, and unrestricted. You can drill further down and set priority for the file classification. There are three priority options: P0, P1, and P2. Priorities can be set in order of importance with P0 being the highest priority followed by P1 and P2. This option is disabled by default as it requires API Data Protection to make additional API calls to Box for each file classification. To enable this feature, there are two steps:

To improve collaboration, Box supports inviting collaborators to edit individual files. Previously, users needed to be invited to the file’s parent folder to edit a single file. There is a new invite/add collaborators option at the file level. Once invited, the collaborator has editor or viewer permission. All enterprise and folder-level settings related to collaboration are inherited to file-level collaboration.

If a file has an internal collaborator, Box tags the file as internally shared. Similarly, if a file has external collaborators i.e., a user outside the Box enterprise, Box tags the file as externally shared. Netskope calculates the file exposure based on the file and parent-level collaboration.

If the administrator applies the restrict access policy action, Netskope removes the folder and file-level collaborators.

If the administrator applies the restrict sharing to view policy action, Netskope restricts the access level of a collaborator of the file and the collaborator inherited from the parent folder to view only.

Up until release 47, allowlist and blocklist domain profiles under Restrict Access were linked to the domain profiles under Content > File Sharing Options to Scan policy workflow. These two are independent of each other. An administrator access based on domain profiles. In addition, administrators can now allow (allowlist) or deny (blocklist) certain users (user profile) from accessing files and folders.

Before restricting access to a domain or user profile, you need to create the profile from the Policies > Profiles page. Once the profile is created, they get listed as part of the Restrict Access action. Restrict Access is available as part of the Action policy workflow. You must select Restrict to select Allowlist Domains, Blocklist Domains, Allowlist User , or Blocklist User from the Restrict Access Level drop-down list. Based on the choice, the Domain Profile or User Profile dropdown list is displayed.