Migrating from Dropbox to SharePoint with Security & Compliance

Enterprises migrating from Dropbox to SharePoint need to ensure maximum security to safeguard their data and files. Businesses can overcome security threats and perform a seamless migration with CloudFuze Migrate.

In this blog post, we discussed security and compliance in SharePoint and how CloudFuze Migrate ensures optimal security and compliance during migration.

Key Takeaways:

  • Users can secure data in SharePoint through two-factor authentication.
  • Using reliable tools like CloudFuze Migrate is the best way to migrate from Dropbox to SharePoint securely.
  • At CloudFuze, we use CenturyLink data centers, which are highly secure and regularly audited.
  • CloudFuze adheres to GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.
  • CloudFuze Migrate provides three user-mapping options: auto-mapping, CSV-based mapping, and folder display mapping.

How Can You Secure Your Data in SharePoint?

Businesses can securely copy large files from Dropbox to SharePoint Online by following these steps:

  • Users can secure their SharePoint data through two-factor authentication.
  • Two-factor authentication prevents credentials from being used without a second factor.
  • The second factor is through an application, a text message, or a phone call.
  • When you roll out two-factor authentication, start with your global admins. Then begin with other admins, and finally, site collection admins.

Recommended Best Practices to Increase Data Security in SharePoint

Best practices to enrich security in SharePoint include:

  • Use Microsoft Entra device-based conditional access. With this, you can block or restrict access to unmanaged devices.
  • Devise policies to sign users out of Microsoft 365 web sessions after an inactive period.
  • Assess the requirement for IP-based sessions.
  • Encourage your teams to share data securely and seamlessly. You can require sign-in, use links that expire, or grant limited privileges.
  • Control content exposure to unintended parties by framing DLP policies.

What Are Common Issues to Watch for When Migrating from Dropbox to SharePoint Regarding Data Integrity?

Data integrity challenges you can face when migrating from Dropbox to SharePoint include:

  • Compromise in data security during transition
  • Data leaks into external networks during migration
  • Data transfer to shared networks
  • Data accessible to unintended members
  • Data loss during transition

Our Dropbox to SharePoint migration tool helps you seamlessly overcome data integrity challenges during your migration.

How CloudFuze Migrate Ensures Security & Compliance During Dropbox to SharePoint Transfer?

Migrating enterprise data from Dropbox to Microsoft SharePoint doesn’t end with just securely moving your Dropbox files. It’s about transferring seamlessly to a more secure, collaborative, and advanced cloud platform.

Certified Data Centers

At CloudFuze, we use CenturyLink data centers, which are highly secure and regularly audited.

  • CenturyLink is SOC 1 and SOC 2 Certified.
  • Our data centers are certified for government usage and geo-distributed worldwide.
  • We have a manual DR policy to pause the cloud instance during a natural disaster or service-impacting outage and update the DNS.
  • We test the DR switching policy every 90 days.

GDPR and ISO 27001 Compliance

We also adhere to GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance to ensure optimal security. We ensure complete data localization by hosting our migration tools in the UK and Europe.

Secure Encryption

When you transfer data from Dropbox to SharePoint or between data centers, our cloud platform secures it with best-in-class encryption. We implement RSA 2048 encryption to encrypt your Dropbox data during migration.

We ensure secure end-to-end OAuth 2.0 authentication by providing permission-based access. The OAuth 2.0 protocol also provides token-based access to prevent unauthorized access to accounts.

Accurate User Mapping

CloudFuze Migrate enables you to perform accurate user mapping during your migration through three approaches:

  • Auto-Mapping
  • CSV-Based Mapping
  • Folder Display Mapping

We ensure the proper preservation of user roles and permissions by seamlessly mapping users.

What Are the Best Practices for Migrating Files from Dropbox to SharePoint Securely?

Best practices to securely migrate your Dropbox files to SharePoint include:

  • Ensure that you choose a trusted SharePoint migration tool for your transition.
  • Check if your chosen migration partner abides with necessary international security standards.
  • Ensure that your Dropbox data will not be tampered with or lost during migration by conducting a pilot migration.
  • Accurate user mapping helps you maintain data security by helping avoid unwanted access.

Here’s a Video of our Dropbox to SharePoint Migration Tool:

CloudFuze’s Real World Case Study – Dropbox to SharePoint Migration

Michigan State University wanted to migrate business data from Dropbox to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

CloudFuze Migrate helped them migrate 1,000+ users and 50+ TB of data, along with overcoming challenges such as:

  • Maintaining the data security of sensitive data
  • Replicating features such as internal and external shares, in-line comments, sharing permissions, shared links, and version history
  • Eliminating data leak to external networks

Learn more about this case study here.

Ensure Seamless Transfer from Dropbox to SharePoint Online with CloudFuze

If you are migrating data from Dropbox to SharePoint, choosing an advanced migration tool is essential for ensuring a successful migration.

With CloudFuze Migrate, you can transfer your Dropbox data along with necessary metadata with zero downtime and 100% accuracy.

Book a free and no-obligation demo of our tool today!

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What are the security and compliance features of SharePoint compared to Dropbox?

AES 256-bit keys encrypt the saved client data in SharePoint. For more information, you can refer to the official page here.

Dropbox offers security features such as an SSL/TLS layer to protect data in transit and AES-256 encryption to protect data on the server.

2. How to migrate files from Dropbox to SharePoint?

With CloudFuze Migrate, you can transfer files from Dropbox to SharePoint in a safe and secure way.

Our migration solution helps you transfer Dropbox files, Dropbox Paper files along with necessary metadata to SharePoint with complete replication.

3. How to migrate a Dropbox shared folder to SharePoint?

Generic methods may fail to restore Dropbox’s shared folders with the correct permissions in SharePoint.

Businesses can migrate Dropbox shared folders to SharePoint using a reliable SharePoint migration tool such as CloudFuze Migrate.

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