Over the past several months we’ve been talking about the Critical CASB Use Cases — there are 15 of these that we highlight, ranging from the management of unsanctioned versions of sanctioned cloud services to the control of managed vs. unmanaged device access to Microsoft Office 365. Worthy of a deeper dive are the various use cases found in the usage of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms that require a CASB. By now, many of us know that it’s quite important to include services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure when assessing the risk of cloud service usage within the enterprise. This is validated by the many organizations who have recognized that they need to protect the critical workloads running in these services as well as the sensitive data residing in them. This has made the visibility and control of IaaS platforms one of the hotter topics for us so far this year and it’s gratifying to see increasing customer interest in securing IaaS platforms. As many folks know, here at Netskope we have been working steadily to expand our coverage of these services since we delivered the CASB industry’s first real-time, inline connectors for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure way back in 2014. Today, Netskope provides both real-time, inline visibility and control of IaaS usage as well as API-based introspection across a range of IaaS platforms.
Here are some of the ways