Digital transformation drives enterprises to migrate to cloud-based solutions and services. Businesses are implementing distributed workforces and BYOD protocols for their employees and partners. Embracing the cloud-based SaaS apps and services seem to help to increase productivity and efficiency.

As a result, the proliferation of devices, locations, and apps has led to expansion of attack surface. It has altered the traditional perimeter security. Security solutions in place must secure all the data and apps constituting the cyber infra. To setup apt security controls, firms must have the visibility to all their devices, apps, users.

Cloud Access Security Broken (CASB) Solution

The cloud-native solution provides visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection for organization’s cloud-based services. It provides policy-based insights into users, behaviours, and data stored in SaaS apps.

Organizations in-line with regulatory requirements and industry mandates, this solution has predefined policies to detect violations. It generates reports for auditing and tracking.

CASB solution monitors these security risks:

• Malicious traffic
• Suspicious user activity
• Malware and sensitive data
• Compliance violations

Why Organizations must choose CASB Solution?

Organizations’ pain points with Cloud Adoption are as follows:

• Hybrid Cloud
• Digital Attack Surface
• Sophisticated Threats
• Data Security & Compliance
• Skills Gap

Highlights of CASB solution are:

• Using direct API access, it enables deep inspection and policy management for data stored in SaaS & IaaS apps.
• Admins can check provisioned cloud resource configurations for potential dangers. They also can check SaaS app data for threats, proprietary or sensitive data.
• It ensures that all users of the organization’s SaaS apps are monitored and secured.
• Seamless integration to provide a comprehensive view of the risk posture.
• Enables admins to enforce policy-based access controls for risky apps usage for all authorized & Shadow IT cloud apps used in an organization.
• Provide insights into user behaviours and their activities on cloud-based apps. Admins could monitor usage as needed. They could view user entitlements, dormant users, and also conduct detailed configuration assessments.

Key Features of CASB

• Provides visibility and protection for SaaS applications
• Centralized visibility
• Security coverage from on premise to the cloud
• Simplifies compliance with predefined policies and reports
• Monitors user behaviours and activities and manages user entitlement
• Data loss prevention (DLP) and threat detection tools
• Advanced threat detection

Wrap Up

CASB provides a well-rounded set of analysis tools to manage SaaS usage and data storage. It offers detailed user monitoring to identify risks faster. The automated tools help to manage incidents as and when they occur.

It protects from cloud-borne threats such as virus and malware propagation. It also offers security from deliberate or accidental distribution of sensitive data. It provides compliance and audit tools for SaaS apps.

Reach out to Secure Network Solutions (SNS) for CASB solution or any other Cyber Security Solutions. Contact us via [email protected]

 

Swathi
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Working IT professional and a Cyber Security enthusiast. Passionate to write about Cyber Security topics and Solutions. I share my insights as I study articles and trending topics in the field of Cyber Security.