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#delete Facebook, MDM-agent, CASB-agent ..
This post was originally published here by Nat Kausik. It is now widely known that Facebook takes our personal data and hands it over to advertisers, “app developers,” and others in less than savory pursuits. Then we learn that the Facebook mobile app sniffs your phone calls and text messages. But what about those MDM agents […]
Orbitz: Why You Can’t Secure Data in the Dark
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. On March 1, 2018, Orbitz discovered that a malicious party may have stolen information from one of its legacy platforms. The compromised platform housed Orbitz customer information such as mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and full names, as well as details about nearly 900,000 payment cards. This […]
The Case for CASB: Healthcare
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Over the past couple of years, Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) have gone from a nascent, barely known technology to the de facto standard for secure public cloud enablement in every enterprise vertical. Early on, it’s tough to draw patterns across industries, but once you have a few […]
Saturday Security Spotlight: Cryptomining, AWS, and O365
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: Malicious cryptomining the top cybercrime New details emerge on unsecured AWS buckets Data Keeper ransomware begins to spread Office 365 used in recent mass phishing attacks SgxSpectre attacking Intel SGX enclaves Malicious cryptomining the top cybercrime Since September […]
Australia’s First OAIC Breach Forecasts Grim GDPR Outcome
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. The first breach under the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) Privacy Amendment Bill was made public this week. While this breach means bad press for the offending party, shipping company Svitzer Australia, more frightening is the grim outcome it forecasts for organizations subject to GDPR regulations, which go […]
Shadow IT and the End of the Endless Race
This post was originally published here by Paul Sullivan . Using shadow IT discovery is a great way to identify data leakage – but how can organizations be certain that it is effective? First-generation cloud access security brokers (CASBs) rely on manually curating lists of cloud apps in order to enable shadow IT discovery. Each app must be individually evaluated so that […]
UK Banking Giant Goes Bitglass…
This post was originally published here by Nat Kausik. The savvy IT team at this UK banking giant chose Bitglass Next-Gen CASB. Here is why… Whilst there are plenty of CASBs on the market, most offer just API-based management and ShadowIT Discovery. But, API-based management cannot address even basic security requirements. For example, when a […]
Your Data Is Still Leaving the Building
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Bitglass recently hit its 5 year anniversary as a company. So much has happened during those 5 years that it seems like nothing is the same. Our team has grown by >20x. We gone from zero to hundreds of customers, across every major vertical. We expanded […]
Where have all the CASBs gone?
This post was originally published here by Nat Kausik . The CASBmarket started out with a fistful of companies five years ago. Now there are just a couple left. What happened? When the CASB market was nascent, most enterprises were skeptical of the cloud. Indeed, companies in regulated enterprises were downright terrified of the cloud. The […]
A Tale of Two CASBs
This post was originally published here by Nat Kausik. ‘Twas the summer of 2016, when the two largest healthcare providers in the US selected CASBs. One selected the Next-Gen CASB Bitglass, whilst the other selected a First-Gen CASB. Skip ahead to 2018 and… The organization that selected Bitglass is in full production with close to 200,000 […]
