Setting Up Device Trust Security Requirements

Device Trust helps you enforce your enterprise's compliance or security policies by defining a minimum set of requirements for devices used to access Box. Device Trust verification is enforced at login, for your managed users, and access is prevented unless you have enabled Audit-Only mode.  (Scroll down to the bottom of the article for details about Audit-Only mode).

Device Policy in Use

When Device Trust is enabled and restrictions are set, users that don't meet these requirements will see a screen like the one below and won't be allowed to access Box.

Enabling Device Trust for managed users

1. Go to Admin Console -> Enterprise Settings.
2. Select Device Trust tab.
3. Click Create.

Creating Device Trust policy

Once you've started the process to create a policy, first name the policy and then add a description to clarify the intention of the policy.

Applying levels of security:

If you need to add different levels of security to your company with the Device Trust policy, you can enable it for all users, for selected groups of users, or for all users excluding specific groups.

Example 

Groups in the enterprise:

• IT
• Marketing
• Leadership
  • IT Leaders
  • Marketing Leaders

Enable for selected groups: you selected the Leadership group. The Device Trust policy will be enabled for all users from Leadership (including IT Leaders and Marketing Leaders). 

Enable for all users but exclude selected groups of users: you selected Leadership. The Device Trust policy will be enabled for all users, except for everyone in the Leadership group (including IT Leaders and Marketing Leaders).

Audit-Only Mode

Before enforcing your Device Trust requirements you can test your configuration without risk of impacting your users by enabling the audit-only mode. This setting could also be used to monitor access on your Box instance.

Configure Details

Select the Box applications for which you want to enforce device trust ownership and/or security requirements. If you do not toggle on a specific application, then users will be able to access that app without being required to meet device trust requirements.

Select the scope of your restrictions. You can choose to require your users to meet both Device Ownership Requirements and Device Security Requirements, or allow them to access Box if they only meet one or the other requirements set. 

Next, select the specific checks you want to enforce for each device/operating system. Below is information about each available verification.

Ownership verification on both macOS and Windows

Define how we should recognize a macOS or Windows computer that you manage via either a Domain membership check or a security certificate presence validation. 

Security requirements for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android

As an Admin you can define minimum security requirements on devices (regardless if they are managed or unmanaged).

macOS and Windows

• Require minimum operating system version: Enables you to enforce newer versions of macOS and Windows operating systems, which incorporate enhanced security features. Supported minimum versions are (corresponding server OS versions in parentheses):
  • For Windows:
    • Windows 7
    • Windows 7 SP1
    • Windows 8 (Windows Server 2012)
    • Windows 8.1 (Windows Server 2012 R2)
    • Windows 10 (Windows Server 2016)
    • Windows 11
  • For macOS:
    • Mavericks (10.9)
    • Yosemite (10.10)
    • El Capitan (10.11)
    • Sierra (10.12)
    • High Sierra (10.13)
    • Mojave (10.14)
    • Catalina (10.15)
    • Big Sur (11.0)
    • Monterey (12.0)
    • Ventura (13.0)
    • Sonoma (14.0)

• Require antivirus is installed and up-to-date*: Helps further protect sensitive content accessed by a device by ensuring antivirus is installed and updated on that device.
• Windows: checks antivirus status in Windows Security Center
• Mac: checks McAfee (+ePO), Symantec, Norton, Trend Micro, ESET, Sophos, Kaspersky, Cisco AMP, AVG, Cortex XDR, CarbonBlack, CrowdStrike Falcon, Jamf Protect, FireEye, or Microsoft Defender

• Require firewall to be enabled*: Enables you to enforce the benefits of firewall protection on devices.
  • For Windows: Windows Security Center
  • For Mac: OS X Firewall

• Require all disks to be encrypted: Helps protect against data loss by requiring disk encryption software.
  • For Windows:
    • Bitlocker
    • Symantec Encryption Software (Powered by PGP)
    • McAfee
    • Check Point
  • For Mac:
    • Filevault
    • Check Point

* These checks are not supported on Windows Server operating systems.

iOS

• Require a device passcode: requires that a device level passcode be set.
• Jailbreak: requires that the device not be jailbroken.
• Minimum OS: requires that a minimum version of iOS and iPadOS be installed on the device. Supported versions:
  • iOS 8
  • iOS 9
  • iOS 10
  • iOS 11
  • iOS 12
  • iOS 13/iPadOS 13
  • iOS 14/iPadOS 14
  • iOS 15/iPadOS 15
  • iOS 16/iPadOS 16
  • iOS 17/iPadOS 17

Android

• Root Detection: requires that the device not be rooted.
• Minimum OS: requires that a minimum version of Android be installed on the device. Supported versions:
  • 5.0 (Lollipop)
  • 5.1
  • 6.0 (Marshmallow)
  • 7.0 (Nougat)
  • 7.1
  • 8.0 (Oreo)
  • 8.1
  • 9.0 (Pie)
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 12.1
  • 13

Additional Platform Restrictions 

Device Trust is only supported on platform where Box is supported. This means Windows, MacOS and also Android and iOS running Box Mobile applications.
If you would like to block access to Box from all device types for which device trust is not supported, click the slider to toggle on Block access for all unsupported platforms.

When Device Trust is enabled for your enterprise, the checks you have selected above are performed on any net new logins to the platforms you have chosen.

To monitor devices access:

• Reports can be generated in Admin Console > Reports > User Activity (select the Failed Device Trust Check under Login)
• Logs are available in Box Events Stream