> don't have access to anything remotely like rsync
What...? Why not?
What...? Why not?
Your appropriately paranoid IT staff would collapse in convulsions of terror if this were possible. Fortunately, it's not. The reason Dropbox (and rsync, and lipsync) are native apps isn't because the developers are unaware that there are people in locked down environment and need a browser-based tool, it's because the apps need to be native.
IT has the machines locked down for a reason.