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Cloud access security brokers (CASBs) sit between SaaS applications and SaaS users to enforce a broad set of inline enterprise security policies related to how applications are accessed.
CASBs are just one component of a secure access service edge (SASE) or secure service edge (SSE) platform. These solutions focus on controlling and securing access to enterprise cloud services and SaaS applications, often by using principles of zero trust.
Sample CASB vendors include Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler.
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Gain full SaaS visibility on Day One with our patented, perimeter-less tech, incl. OAuth, historical use, adoption trends, and risk insights. Any location, network, or device.
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Align to business-led IT adoption trends. Distribute SaaS admin tasks to business owners with centralized IT oversight and governance.
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Enable productivity, don’t block it with a modern, human-centric approach backed by behavioral sciences.
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Start on Day One with a complete SaaS asset inventory. Self-service setup takes minutes with no network configs, agents, or browser plugins.
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Tolerate shadow IT blind spots with limited, low-fi network traffic inspection and little to no visibility of historical or personal device SaaS use.
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Limit your reach to a handful of known enterprise SaaS apps. Pay extra for API integrations and dedicate resources to writing and tuning policy rules.
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Lose friends and influence with “lock and block” controls that lead to frustration and shadowy workarounds.
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Delay critical decision making weeks to months until you finish deployment and gather enough network traffic data to analyze user behaviors.
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Get out your crystal ball. Pricing is not transparent or simple. We estimate it starting at $7 per user per mo., not including the pro services you’ll need.
Digital transformation over the past decade has shifted the network perimeter from the data center to the cloud. Today, the network edge extends even further, to the thousands of cloud environments operated by your SaaS providers—and to every remote employee and contractor who accesses those environments over the internet.
Cloud access service brokers (CASBs), cloud security gateways (CSGs), and secure web gateways (SWGs) emerged to manage and secure traffic and data between end users on a corporate network and the internet, cloud services, and SaaS applications. But, maintaining this network perimeter becomes increasingly untenable as SaaS use sprawls beyond a handful of key enterprise SaaS applications and as remote and hybrid workers connect directly to new and unknown SaaS applications off network and on personal devices. It’s no longer feasible to force all of your workforce’s internet traffic through this sieve.
This approach of trying to separate the good internet from the bad at an ever-changing network edge and forcing all user traffic through it is like trying to dam an ocean.
Modern network security is served with a hearty bowl of acronym soup. Here are some terms related to CASB that you might come across.
SASE stands for secure access service edge. An acronym coined by the analyst firm, Gartner, SASE describes a market category for technology solutions that provide an integrated ecosystem of enterprise networking (SD-WAN) and network security technologies, such as CASB, FWaaS, SWG, and ZTNA technologies.
SSE refers to the security service edge. Also coined by Gartner, it refers to the security side of SASE, encompassing multiple network security technologies (CASB, FWaaS, SWG, ZTNA, etc.) all integrated into a single, cloud-based platform.
Firewall as a service (FWaaS) describes a cloud-based network firewall. FWaaS vendors often provide next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities, including intrusion prevention and detection (IPS / IDS), application-aware security policy enforcement, URL filtering, threat intelligence and advanced malware prevention capabilities. Definition from TechTarget
A web proxy is a server that acts as an intermediary between a user and the internet. It can be used to bypass internet censorship, protect privacy, and improve network performance by caching frequently accessed web pages.
Secure web gateways filter unwanted software and malware from user-initiated Internet traffic and enforces corporate and regulatory policy compliance. These gateways include URL filtering, malicious-code detection and filtering, and application controls for popular web-based applications, such as instant messaging (IM) and Skype. Definition from Gartner
Don’t call zero trust a technology product (unless you want a self-appointed ZT brigade on your tail.) Zero trust is a security model popularized by Google’s BeyondCorp implementation. Zero trust architectures and ZTNA solutions are based a philosophy of “never trust, always verify,” which effectively shifts access controls and policies from the point of a user joining a network to a per-application or per-resource or other more granular basis.
