What is CASB?
Migration to cloud had begun from the turn of the millennium. However, now organizations are beginning to move their business critical and sensitive systems, including data from Human Resources and Customer Relationship (CRM) to cloud. Now it is time to gain total visibility on how these sensitive data is accessed, updated, and moved.
Cloud Access Security Brokers or commonly referenced as CASB provides the capabilities to organizations to effectively secure and monitor their cloud-based data. CASB began by looking at the cloud problem of Shadow IT but nowadays it has matured to network traffic inspection to obtain the visibility on how data is being accessed and transmitted, giving the possibilities to apply security policies.
What is CASB?
Some of the major challenges organizations have are:
- Pushing their on-premises DLP capabilities to cloud
- Identification of cloud account compromises
- Shadow IT threats
- Continuous monitoring of cloud applications and the ever increase in API usage
- Protection for a workforce who continue to be highly mobile
- Separation of duties between the cloud consumer and cloud provider not clearly defined and owned
