I asked Greg, our I.T. guy at Team Expansion, if he had any good recommendations for sharing files securely across the miles. Without hesitation, he referred me to SpiderOak…
After trying it out, I can see why. It’s the simplest, most secure file-sharing solution I’ve ever seen. What’s more, you can also use it like Dropbox, only it’s more secure than that as well. (Dropbox doesn’t give you https: secure sockets encryption; SpiderOak does.) When I say “use it like Dropbox,” I mean — you and your teammate can keep file “in sync” across the miles, transparently and without delay. Finally, if you’ve heard of those online backup services like Carbonite, it’ll work for that too. Amazing. Give it a try. No referral fee here. Just one beggar telling another where to find bread. This is such a great find, we’re currently studying it to see if it would work as a full-out document-sharing solution for our entire organization, too. It was such a promising find, we thought it was worth mentioning here in the Back Page. Try it. It’ll surprise you.
I use Dropbox all the time and it is SSL encypted.
https://www.dropbox.com/help/27/en
First, I’ve got to give the folks at ICCM credit for that find.
Secondly, to Matt, Dropbox doesn’t encrypt files in their storage, only the connection between you and them. Also, there have been multiple security breaches with Dropbox.
Also might be worth checking out BoxCryptor over the top of Dropbox if you are already invested there. (Another thanks to ICCM. http://www.iccm.org.)
Greg, I’m looking to learn with these comments, not challenge what you’re saying.
You mention “multiple security breaches with Dropbox.” I am aware of 2 and the most recent does not seem to have been a problem with Dropbox’s security “walls” but rather (1) users using the same access credentials that they used on other sites and the info from those other sites was stolen and used to access a few (Dropbox didn’t say how many) Dropbox account and (2) a Dropbox employee who had e-mail addresses of Dropbox users in his/her account and that account was accessed and the e-mail addresses used to send spam. That does not seem to me to be a breach of Dropbox’s security but poor security practices by users. File encryption would have alleviated damage and the now implemented 2-factor authentication could have prevented access to accounts of user who chose to use the 2-factor authentication.
Just a comment about BoxCryptor (I haven’t used it, only done some reading on their site, including Forums): it appears that using BoxCryptor would pretty much eliminate sharing of files (at least those in a protected folder) and would increase the complexity of sharing a folder because the other users would need to use BoxCryptor as well.