Bitglass

This post was originally published here by  Rich Campagna. After hundreds of CASB deployments in the nearly 5 years since Bitglass was founded, we have customers in every major industry vertical. Regulated industries like healthcare and financial services rely heavily on Bitglass, but cloud security problems are fairly horizontal in nature, impacting everyone. With such a diverse customer base, it’s fascinating […]

This post was originally published here by  Rich Campagna. Another day, another massive data breach, this one involving Uber and the theft of data on more than 57 million drivers and customers. Like the recent high profile AWS S3 misconfigurations leading to unwanted exposure of sensitive data, the Uber hack could have been prevented with basic Cloud Access […]

This post was originally published here by  Rich Campagna. We recently hosted a Bitglass customer roundtable during one of our training classes. The roundtable included several large healthcare organizations, and the topic quickly veered towards Data Leakage Prevention and using standard keyword and regular expression patterns to detect Protected Health Information (PHI). I was shocked […]

This post was originally published here by  Salim Hafid. Many organizations struggle with unknown apps. Whether it’s a new EFSS service, a messaging platform, or any other web-based service, new apps are driving corporate data outside the firewall and oftentimes beyond managed “sanctioned” cloud applications like Office 365. To manually identify new upload paths is an impossible task […]

This post was originally published here by  Chantelle Patel. The growing demand for mobility in the workplace is causing IT departments to rethink how they allow users to access corporate data. Bring your own device (BYOD) programs are becoming more popular in large enterprises because they offer increased savings and flexibility for employees working remotely. While there […]

This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna In the past couple of years, enterprises have devoted massive time and resources to securing well known SaaS applications like Office 365, Salesforce and Box, often relying on tools like IDaaS and Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs). These deployment projects typically represent a very visible first step towards cloud adoption for a […]

This post was originally published here by  Jacob Serpa. Although the cloud is a boon to productivity, flexibility, and cost savings, it can also be a confusing tool to utilize properly. When organizations misunderstand how to use it, they often expose themselves to threats. While there aren’t necessarily more threats when using the cloud, there are different […]

This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. Recently, a trivia-loving employee at Bitglass uncovered an interesting job opening on a leading financial institution’s careers page. The position was titled “Cloud Access Security Broker Principal Architect” and was focused on ensuring the full implementation of a cloud access security broker (CASB). This obviously highlights the growing importance […]

This post was originally published here by  Rich Campagna. It should come as no surprise that Higher Education, like every other industry, is increasingly turning to Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) like Bitglass to protect sensitive data in the move to the cloud. After all, these organizations are adopting cloud applications more aggressively than most industries, enticed […]

This post was originally published here by   Rich Campagna . Hardly a day goes by without a widely reported breach or hacking event in a major enterprise. Deloitte has the misfortune of being today’s top information security news story. In this case, it’s been reported that Deloitte email servers, hosted on Microsoft Azure, were compromised after […]