Major Security Differences Between Dropbox and Google Drive

Are you an enterprise planning to perform your cloud migration to Dropbox or Google Workspace platform? Along with the necessary business features, it is necessary to consider the security functionalities in both platforms.

In this blog post, we have discussed major security differences between Dropbox and Google Drive platforms.

How Does Dropbox Encryption Compare to Google Drive Encryption?

Dropbox Encryption

With Dropbox’s end-to-end encryption:

• Encrypted and decrypted only on approved devices
• Uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for securing files at rest
• AES makes the Dropbox files in your cloud storage virtually-impossible to crack
• SSL/TLS encryption to protect data while transferring between Dropbox apps and servers.

Google Drive Encryption

With Google Drive’s end-to-end encryption:

• Encrypted in transit and at rest with AES256 bit encryption to all files uploaded to Drive
• Allows you to encrypt with Workspace Client-side encryption for additional confidentiality
• Encrypted Drive files have no limit.

What Are the Major Security Differences Between Dropbox and Google Drive?

The table below discusses the major security differences between Dropbox and Google Drive:

More on Encryption in Dropbox

• Users can perform an end-to-end folder encryption for their Dropbox folders with a single check box tick. It’s that easy!
• An advanced key management facility from Dropbox is available to companies that have Dropbox’s Advanced plan.
• Only a team admin or a security admin can activate advanced encryption in Dropbox.

More on Encryption in Google Drive

• To access encrypted files, admins ask you to sign into an additional SSO service twice. Once for your company’s IDP and once with Google for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
• There is no limit for encrypting your Google Drive files.
• Maximum size allowed for encrypted Docs, Sheets, and Slides is 100 MB.
• You can retain up to 100 versions of encrypted files. When limit exceeds, less important versions get removed automatically.
• The maximum number of images in a document is 3,000 while a single image size can be up to 1 MB.

Best Practices for Securely Sharing Files on Dropbox and Google Drive

Best practices for securely sharing files on Dropbox and Google Drive:

• Make sure to set correct permissions for the necessary users.
• For highly sensitive files, set additional security functionalities.
• Use multi-factor authentication for secure file transfer.
• Take a proper backup of your high-volume files during a transition to another platform.
• If you are migrating from Dropbox to Google Drive, ensure to choose a reliable migration tool such as CloudFuze Migrate.

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CloudFuze’s Real World Case Study – Dropbox to Google Workspace Transition

Opendoor Labs faced a challenge of migrating over 1700 users and 10 terabytes of data along with 1300+ user accounts. They wanted to migrate Dropbox Paper files to Google Workspace and convert them into Google Doc and PDF formats.

Our team at CloudFuze helped them seamlessly transfer data and metadata such as:

• Timestamps
• Selective versions
• Root file and sub-folder permissions
• Folder display
• External shares.

With this, we helped them with suppressing email notifications, delta user migration, and Dropbox Paper. Learn more about the case study here.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Which is better – Dropbox or Google Drive?

Google Drive has several advanced functionalities, especially with Gemini AI features included under Google Workspace plans. It is best for businesses to choose Google Drive that provides advanced security and compliance when compared to Dropbox.

2. Where are Dropbox files stored?

Dropbox files get stored on secure online servers owned by Dropbox. These storage servers are in data centers across the United States. With this, storage servers are available in Australia, EU, UK and Japan for eligible Dropbox users. For more details, check out the official page here.

3. How often does Dropbox backup?

Updated Dropbox Backup allows users to set up automatic backups. Users can schedule backups to take place on:

• 15-minute interval
• Daily basis
• Weekly basis
• custom intervals.

You can download backup as a .zip file or download all their files to the same locations as your previous computer.

4. Is Dropbox and Google Drive the same?

Though both Dropbox and Google Drive are cloud storage platforms, they tend to vary in their features such as integration capability, storage facilities, pricing plans, security features, etc.

If you are an enterprise planning to move from Dropbox to Google Drive, use a trusted migration tool such as CloudFuze Migrate for complete replication of data and metadata.