CASBs
Financial Services: Counting on CASBs
This post was originally published here by Will Houcheime. Financial institutions handle a great deal of sensitive data and are highly conscientious of where they store and process it. Nevertheless, they are aware of the many benefits that they can gain by using cloud applications. In order to embrace the cloudās myriad advantages without compromising […]
Bitglass at RSA 2019: CASBs and Cocktails
This post was originally published here by Radhika Khatod. Bitglass attended RSA just a couple of weeks ago, and what a fun, action-packed week it was! Our booth was filled attendees who were eager to ask about our CASB and get their hands on one of our highly popular, tongue-in-cheek āIām not a decision makerā […]
Bitglass at RSA 2019: CASBs and Cocktails
This post was originally published here by Radhika Khatod. Bitglass attended RSA just a couple of weeks ago, and what a fun, action-packed week it was! Our booth was filled attendees who were eager to ask about our CASB and get their hands on one of our highly popular, tongue-in-cheek āIām not a decision makerā […]
7 Reasons Why Proxy-based CASBs are Required for Office 365
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. A competing CASB vendor blogged recently on why proxy-basedĀ Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs)Ā shouldn’t be used forĀ Office 365. The post cites “7 reasons,” all of which are variations of just one reason: their CASB breaks each time Microsoft makes changes to Office 365.Ā What they callĀ “application breakages” […]
Where have all the CASBs gone?
This post was originally published here by Ā Nat KausikĀ . TheĀ CASB market started out with a fistful of companies five years ago.Ā Now there are just a couple left. What happened? When the CASB market was nascent, most enterprises were skeptical of the cloud.Ā Indeed, companies in regulated enterprises were downright terrified of the cloud.Ā […]
CASBs and Education’s Flight to the Cloud
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. CloudĀ is becoming an integral part of modern organizations seeking productivity and flexibility. ForĀ higher education, cloud enables online course creation, dynamic collaboration on research documents, and more. As many cloud services likeĀ G SuiteĀ are discounted or given to educational institutions for free,Ā adoptionĀ is made even simpler. However, across the […]
Why Next-Gen Firewalls Can’t Replace CASBs
This post was originally published here by Ā Joe Green. A security solution is only as good as the data it protects. Some solutions focus on data protection on the corporate network, others focus entirely on cloud data, and a select few enable security at access from any network. Next-gen firewalls (NGFWs) are the traditional solution […]
Lessons from the Next-Gen CASB’s Sales Kickoff
This post was originally published here by Ā Dean Hickman-Smith. Bitglass has just concluded its 2018 sales kickoff event ā aptly named “Elevate 2018.” We achieved our customer, partner, and team goals, as well as aligned the team on ourĀ Next-Gen CASBĀ message. As we ruminate on the frenetic week, we want to offer some thoughts on what […]
CASBs in K12: Agents Need Not Apply
This post was originally published here by Ā Rich Campagna. After hundreds ofĀ CASBĀ deployments in the nearly 5 years since Bitglass was founded, we have customers in every major industry vertical. Regulated industries likeĀ healthcareĀ andĀ financial servicesĀ rely heavily on Bitglass, but cloud security problems are fairly horizontal in nature, impacting everyone. With such a diverse customer base, it’s fascinating […]
CASBs and the Long Tail of SaaS
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 likeĀ Office 365,Ā SalesforceĀ andĀ Box, often relying on tools like IDaaS andĀ Cloud Access Security BrokersĀ (CASBs). These deployment projects typically represent a very visible first step towards cloud adoption for a […]