Enterprises are adopting the cloud in a big way, and their cloud access security broker (CASB) use cases are maturing. They are moving from outdated concepts like log-based discovery to enforcing sophisticated activity- and data-level policies.
Netskope customers have deployed Netskope’s ALL-MODE architecture (with more than three-quarters of them going beyond a single mode) to achieve their most critical use cases. We have noted 15 of these use cases in our recent e-book, The 15 Critical CASB Use Cases, and we’re highlighting them and more (and we want to hear from you too!) in this blog.
Here’s use case #8: Monitor or control users’ activities within collaboration and social media services without blocking those cloud services.
Collaboration and social media services are two of the top three used segments of cloud services today. Whereas most usage is completely innocuous, some of it can pose real risk to an organization. For example, in the financial services industry, especially for broker/dealers, users’ posts can get the organization in hot water. If an employee at an investment firm posts on Twitter that IBM is a “sure thing,” both he and the firm can be in violation of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
How can CASB help? A CASB sits in between the user and the social media (or other, such as collaboration) service and monitors for DLP violations such as the combination of a stock ticker symbol and the words “guarantee,” “recommend,” or “sure thing.” To achieve this, the enterprise must deploy in an inline, forward proxy