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free software is like a free puppy…always
This post was originally published here by Nat Kausik. Last year, Bitglass participated in the CASB bakeoff at an insurance company headquartered in the United States. Bitglass won the bakeoff. But then… One of the contestants in the bakeoff was a certain security company that was the incumbent vendor to the customer. Having acquired multiple […]
Agentless Mobile Security: No More Tradeoffs
This post was originally published here by Kevin Lee. Have you ever seen a “Pick two out of three” diagram? They present three concepts and force individuals to select the one that they see as the least important. The tradeoffs between convenience, privacy, and security serve as a perfect example of a “Pick two” situation for many mobile […]
EMV Chip Cards Are Working – That’s Good and Bad
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. For many years, credit card companies and retailers ruled the news headlines as victims of breaches. Why? Hackers’ profit motives lead them to credit card numbers as the quickest path to monetization. Appropriate data in hand and a working counterfeit card could be cranked out in […]
Time to Firewall Zero?
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Firewalls have been a stalwart of enterprise network security since the late 1980’s. The technology has evolved considerably in the ensuing decades, though the basic premise has remained the same – create a barrier or safeguard between internal networks and external networks. The term “network” is the […]
Lessons from the Next-Gen CASB’s Sales Kickoff
This post was originally published here by Dean Hickman-Smith. Bitglass has just concluded its 2018 sales kickoff event – aptly named “Elevate 2018.” We achieved our customer, partner, and team goals, as well as aligned the team on our Next-Gen CASB message. As we ruminate on the frenetic week, we want to offer some thoughts on what […]
Saturday Morning Security Spotlight: Breaches and Intel
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: Data on 123 million US households leaked Tech giants investing in healthcare technology Intel chips contain security vulnerability DHS suffers breach of over 247,000 records Forever 21 finds malware in PoS systems Data on 123 million US […]
Bitglass – Elevating Cloud Security in 2018
This post was originally published here by Dean Hickman-Smith. 2017 was an amazing year for Bitglass. We hired an incredible team of A-players, built a global organization, grew the business 300% over the prior year, and added over 100 channel partners in order to scale and meet customer demand for our leading cloud access security broker […]
What 2018 Brings for the CASB Market
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) have only been around for a few short years, yet have gone through rapid evolution throughout that time. There have been several distinct phases of CASB adoption in the last three years, with yet another phase beginning as we start 2018. Let’s […]
500M Breached Records – Preventable with a Next-Gen CASB
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Amazingly, yet another data breach due to misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets has hit the news this week. This one exposing the personal information of 123 million individuals! The company in question, Alteryx, is a data analytics firm — an organization that should know full well the value of data […]
Turns out everyone has budget for a CASB
This post was originally published here by Salim Hafid. Cloud security represents a fast growing part of most organizations’ budgets, but many CISOs are left deciding between costly point solutions. Fortunately, cloud access security brokers have emerged as a means of bundling critical capabilities across data protection, threat protection, identity management, and visibilityat a relatively low cost. […]
