5 Things CISOs Need to Consider Before Buying a CASB

Cloud access security brokers (CASBs) are as important to data security teams as firewalls and malware detection in the cloud and remote working era. With many CASB products and services on the market, CIOs and CISOs need to consider which features are essential.

With more enterprises migrating services and data to the cloud, and remote workers using a wider variety of devices to access corporate files and data, the need to ensure that data is protected is a key issue for all businesses.

Many high-growth businesses that rely on the cloud and lack IT knowledge believe that their cloud application providers secure their data, or are also responsible for guaranteeing data protection.

Neither is true, which is why cloud access security brokers are such a growing trend in cloud security. This software provides IT security teams with four key features.

• CASBs give visibility into data access and usage
• They help enforce compliance and security policies
• They identify malicious activity, giving alerts when data security is at risk, when information is misused or sent beyond safe borders
• CASBs provide threat protection, increasingly automated to deal with the huge volumes of data and the growing range of bots and malware trying to break into all firms