Cloudrise Data Protection - Case Study

Cloudrise helps organizations elevate their data protection, privacy, and cloud security programs and technologies, tailoring them to meet specific business needs. With more than two decades of experience delivering data-centric advisory, implementation, optimization, and managed services, Cloudrise’s customer relationships span multiple industries, geographies, and organizational sizes.

Industry

High Technology

Region

United States

Employees

50+

Summary

The challenges

Data loss prevention

Protecting sensitive data

Adhering to regulations

Solution

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) – Confidently adopt cloud applications and services without sacrificing security.

Netskope for AWS – Understand your risk exposure, detect misconfigurations, inventory assets, enforce compliance standards, and protect against insider threats and malware.

IaaS Storage Scan – Scan IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) storage services for sensitive content and malware.

The results

Compliance

Meets industry and internal compliance standards

Synergy

Works in concert with AWS IaaS

Security

Secures all cloud applications

The Challenge

How can Cloudrise keep their customer data safe while adhering to regulations?

Cloudrise was founded by business and security entrepreneurs with experience in global markets, successful startups, and Fortune 500 companies. They have spent the past two decades delivering seamless and integrated data protection solutions to their customers, raising the bar for innovation, service delivery, and risk reduction. The company helps organizations by assessing, enabling, automating, and managing their data protection and privacy programs. Cloudrise’s own infrastructure runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the company chooses Netskope—an AWS Advanced Partner—to protect that environment.

Cloudrise focuses on keeping customer data safe while adhering to regulations. The company works to prevent unauthorized use of employee personally identifiable information (PII) and customer data. Other data loss prevention (DLP) concerns include the spread of files containing malware and access to malicious sites. Manually checking cloud configurations for Cloudrise and its customers’ infrastructure could be overwhelming. The need for a solution that automatically scans data against DLP policies is critical.

How can Cloudrise keep their customer data safe while adhering to regulations?

The Solution

Achieving data loss prevention with Netskope for AWS

Cloudrise partnered with Netskope to implement Netskope for AWS. Built on the Netskope Security Cloud, Netskope for AWS is part of a comprehensive cloud security solution that offers full control of SaaS, IaaS, and web from one cloud native platform that scales automatically. This implementation was smooth and included training for the Cloudrise delivery team that gave them a controlled environment to learn the best and most efficient ways to activate, adopt, and operationalize the Netskope platform.

Continuous security assessment: Cloudrise currently develops its platform on AWS and uses Netskope to scan the AWS environment for security areas of improvement against the AWS CIS Benchmarks and Netskope’s AWS Security Best Practices. Netskope sends alerts when misconfigurations are detected. This continuous assessment provides Cloudrise with a unified view of inventory, configuration, and compliance of resources in the AWS cloud. The company performs regular security assessment scans of the AWS environment to ensure that configurations are optimized.

Real-time activity control: With Netskope, the IT services firm has real-time visibility and control of activities and creates policies that prohibit data exfiltration from managed to unmanaged storage buckets, protecting the company from accidental or malicious insider behavior. All company employees have the Netskope client installed on their laptops and their web traffic is evaluated against Cloudrise policies for DLP, threat protection, and real-time inline cloud access security broker (CASB) protection. In addition, Cloudrise has API integrations established with Microsoft Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams to monitor for external sharing of files from those environments in accordance with data protection policies.

Cloud storage data protection: Cloudrise uses Netskope Storage Scan to discover and monitor sensitive data and prevent regulated data from being stored inappropriately. The company uses predefined DLP profiles to detect specific content, such as PII, payment card industry data, and protected health information stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Storage Scan policies can also be shared across other SaaS storage applications such as Box, OneDrive, and many others.

Information sharing improves security posture: Cloudrise also deployed Netskope Cloud Exchange to ingest event streaming logs into their SIEM and automate multi-directional IOC sharing. A container-based solution that runs on AWS Fargate, Cloud Exchange provides powerful integration tools to improve security posture and reduce TCO by ingesting and sharing information with AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch, and other services and security tools.

We provide unrivalled visibility and real-time data and threat protection when using AWS cloud services by leveraging Netskope’s security cloud solutions.

Rob Eggebrecht, CEO, Cloudrise

The Results

Ensuring visibility, protection, and control across multi-cloud environments

Netskope helps Cloudrise gain the visibility, protection for critical workloads, and control they need across multi-cloud environments to maintain best practices and meet compliance standards. Cloudrise now understands their risk exposure and can easily detect misconfigurations and manage asset inventories. Plus, the company can enforce compliance standards while protecting against insider threats and malware.

Netskope for AWS simplifies the detection and remediation of threats and misconfigurations across Cloudrise’s AWS environment to help prevent data loss and improve security posture. Netskope’s automated scanning capabilities allow Cloudrise to spend more time building great customer solutions on AWS and less time and money hiring additional staff to fight security threats.