As enterprises adopt cloud services and seek out a cloud access security broker (CASB), the use cases they are pursuing are maturing. They are moving well beyond log-based discovery and looking to govern usage, secure data, and protect against cloud threats.
Netskope customers have deployed Netskope’s ALL-MODE architecture (with nearly 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 #2: Govern cloud access by device type.
Organizations are adopting cloud apps and suites in record numbers. The most popular, Office 365, has taken off like wildfire, for the first time topping the list for most-used apps in the enterprise, even inching ahead of Facebook, according to the latest Netskope Cloud Report.
However, one of the biggest things holding organizations back from adopting apps and suites like Office 365 in a wholesale way is governance issues, especially when it comes to the myriad device types accessing the suite. As an aside, when we here at Netskope deliver Cloud Risk Assessments to our customers and prospects, they are often surprised by the number of unique devices accessing their cloud services – the number is often at least 2-3x the number of users on the network.
When it comes to downloading sensitive business plans or non-public financials, many organizations are fine to have that content accessed or even downloaded by an authorized user on a managed device . IT knows it has a reasonable chance of protecting that content on those devices. How