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2017 is here. here’s what it leaders expect.
Cloud applications are used in over half of enterprises globally and demand is growing rapidly. To better understand the priorities for IT leaders in 2017, we surveyed over 100 executives at the Gartner Symposium on planned deployments, security needs, and more. For many large enterprises, cloud has become necessary given the fexibility and mobility demands of a […]
Australian government offers $45 million funds to American Cloud Security firm
Australian Government has made it official that it is going to offer a $45 million fund to American Cloud Security firm Bitglass through Future Fund. The sovereign wealth fund is joined by Venture Capital sponsors which are New Enterprise Associates, Norwest Venture Partners, Singtel’s investing business subsidiary Innov8. Founded in 2006, the Future Fund holds […]
what’s so special about a CASB: part five
Performance and Scalability are becoming an integral piece of organizations’ cloud security strategies. In Part 1we learned how businesses have evolved to become more mobile and thus required comprehensive data protection that extended beyond the cloud. In Part 2 we covered the importance of real-time inline data protection. In Part 3 we delved into the type of policies and controls […]
what’s so special about a CASB: part four
Discovery Beyond Shadow IT In Part 3 we learned about Bitglass’ unique capabilities that protect your data in real-time, end-to-end. While in-band security is critical, CASBs aim to provide comprehensive data protection, which includes out-of-band threats. Bitglass’ Breach Discovery solution goes a step beyond identifying Shadow IT apps by detecting all data exfiltration threats, including malware hosts, anonymizers, TOR networks […]
what’s so special about a CASB: part three
In Part 1 of this series, we explored how cloud security has evolved to encompass cloud apps and unmanaged device access. In Part 2, we learned how Bitglass is the only Cloud Access Security Broker that can provide total data protection in-line and in real-time end-to-end (from the cloud application to any device). So what features does Bitglass provide? How do we […]
what’s so special about a CASB: part two
In Part 1, we saw the need for security systems to evolve in order to meet an ever growing trend of work and data going mobile and moving outside the corporate network. Between the emerging cloud application space and employees’ desire to use their own devices, a traditional firewall isn’t enough to ensure data security or data […]
what’s so special about a CASB: part one
How often do your employees or coworkers work from home? How about from Starbucks? Hotels? Airports? What devices are they using? Are they only checking email while on their phone, or are they working on sensitive documents as well? Do they happen to use personal tablets, laptops, or desktops? As I sit here writing this […]
Microsoft Teams vs Slack Security
The big news in the tech world this week is that Microsoft unleashed it’s “Slack killer” enterprise team messaging application, appropriately named, Microsoft Teams. Slack, which in just a few short years has grown to over 4 million daily active users, more than 1 million paid users, and a staggering $4 billion valuation, was quick to respond to […]
Where does Salesforce platform encryption fall short?
Mike Schuricht wrote an interesting post about Where does Salesforce platform encryption fall short? that I would like to share. “Salesforce Shield (Salesforce’s platform encryption product) has now been on the market for about a year and a half. The goal is to encrypt data at rest in Salesforce with a bring your own key (BYOK) approach […]
