Box

Creating a Box app

• Login to relevant Box account.

• Navigate to Dev Console.

• Select Create New App and then Custom App

• Select Server Authentication (with JWT) and enter app name, then click Create App

• In the Configuration tab, change App Access Level to App + Enterprise Access, then, enable Generate user access tokens and Make API calls using the as-user header.

• Click on Save changes

• Make sure the below Application Scopes are selected

  • Content Actions > Read all files and folders stored in Box

  • Content Actions > Write all files and folders stored in Box

  • Administrative Actions > Manage users

  • Administrative Actions > Manage groups

• In the same Configuration tab, scroll down to Generate a Public/Private Keypair

• This will result in a JSON file being downloaded by the browser

• In Authorization tab, click Review and Submit followed up with adding a description before submitting the app for review

• Make note of User ID and Enterprise ID of the App in General Settings tab

• Exit Dev Console and switch to the Admin Console

• In Admin Console, go to Apps > Custom Apps Manager and locate the newly created app and click View button

• Review the information and Authorize the app

Configuring Box connector in Dashboard

• Navigate to Administration -> Data Sources -> Box -> New scan

• Provide the values generated in the above steps from the Box application

• Click on the Folder icon in Path to select a particular folder to scan, or leave the path as empty to scan all folders

• Save the configuration

• Once the configuration is saved, click on the icon on the right and select Start trustee scan to begin the trustee scanning

• The scan results can be viewed under Dashboard > Access Governance

• Click on the icon on the right and select Start file scan to begin the files scanning

• The results can be viewed under Dashboard > Enterprise Search

File tagging

Prerequisites

• The Box Pricing Plans required for metadata writing are Business Plus, Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus. The basic Business plan does not include custom metadata and metadata templates.

• A metadata template must be created to support Getvisibility's tags. Please follow the below steps to achive this.

  • In the Admin Console, in the lefthand navigation click Content

  • Toward the top of the page, click Metadata

  • Click Create New

  • Click Name Your Template and enter name as getvisibility

  • Create a new attribute named as Classification with options as: Public, General Business, Confidential, Highly-Confidential

  
• Similarly, create two more attributes:

  • Distribution with options as: Internal, External

  • Compliance with options as: PCI, PII, PHI

• Use the Status drop down to indicate this template is Visible

• Click Save