Enable Cloud Malware Protection for Dropbox Tenants
Umbrella supports Cloud Malware protection for all files within your Dropbox deployment, including those in Dropbox teams folders.
Table of Contents
Prerequisites
- You must have an active Dropbox tenant and the person doing the installation must be a Dropbox Team Admin
- Chrome or Firefox (recommended) with pop-up blockers and ad blockers disabled (only for the duration of
authorization)
Limitations
- A tenant that fails to authenticate cannot be deleted.
Authorize a Tenant
- Navigate to Admin > Authentication.
- Under Platforms, click Dropbox.
- Under the Cloud Malware section, click Authorize New Tenant to add a Dropbox tenant to your Umbrella environment.

- In the Dropbox Authorization dialog box, check the checkbox to verify you meet the prerequisite, then click Next.

- Add a Tenant Name and then click Next.

- Select a Response Action for Umbrella to automatically apply to Dropbox files found with malware, then click Next.
- Choose Monitor to cause Umbrella to log files detected with malware. You will be able to manually quarantine these files from the Cloud Malware report.
- Choose Quarantine to:
- Move the file into a folder named Cisco_Quarantine > Malware in the root path of the admin who authorized the tenant, remove all collaborators, and change the file owner to the Dropbox admin.
- Replace the file in its original location with a text file named filename.ppt_Quarantined.txt explaining to the original file owner that the file is identified as malware and for more information to contact their organization administrator.

- Click Next. You are redirected to the Dropbox login page.

- Log in to Dropbox with admin credentials to grant access.

You are redirected to Umbrella and a message appears showing the integration was successful. It may be up to 24 hours for the integration to be confirmed and appear as Authorized.
- Click Done to complete.

Edit a Tenant
You can change the Response Action you have selected for a tenant.
- Navigate to Admin > Authentication.
- In the Platforms section, click Dropbox.
- In the Cloud Malware section , from the Edit column, click Edit. You can edit any tenant.

- Select a Response Action for Umbrella to automatically apply to Dropbox files found with malware, then click Next.
- Choose Monitor to cause Umbrella to log files detected with malware. You will be able to manually quarantine these files from the Cloud Malware report.
- Choose Quarantine to:
- Move the file into a folder named Cisco_Quarantine> Malware in the root path of the admin who authorized the tenant, remove all collaborators, and change the file owner to the Dropbox admin.
- Replace the file in its original location with a text file named filename.ppt_Quarantined.txt explaining to the original file owner that the file is identified as malware and for more information to contact their organization administrator.

- Click Next to complete.

- The new Response Action is displayed.

Revoke Authorization
- Navigate to Admin > Authentication.
- Under Platforms, click Dropbox.
- Under Action, click Revoke. You can revoke any authorized tenant.

- Click Revoke. The selected account is no longer authorized.

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Updated 5 months ago