Cloud sharing can be insecure and expose data

Put guardrails around sharing in cloud storage

Cloud storage security

There’s no shortage of cloud storage and file-sharing services, and they come in all shapes and sizes, from personal file-sharing services used to distribute photos and videos to family and friends to enterprise-class synchronization and sharing services that are built to support sophisticated business processes. How can you make sense of them all? Start with the Netskope Cloud Confidence Index, which tracks, categorizes and assesses tens of thousands of cloud services, including hundreds of cloud storage services. According to the Netskope Cloud Report, the typical enterprise uses dozens of these services. More importantly, the report shows that most cloud DLP policy violations – around three quarters of them – occur in cloud storage services.

It’s not surprising that organizations like yours are taking a closer look at cloud storage services from a security and compliance standpoint. Although it is technically possible to block many of them, the reality is that you need to strike a balance and find a way to enable a variety of cloud storage services without negatively impacting the security of your organization. Netskope helps you find all of the cloud storage services in use, understand how they are being used, and put the appropriate activity- and data-level controls in place to safely enable these services in your organization.

Full visibility

Gain full visibility of your cloud storage services with an all-mode architecture capable of covering all cloud traffic whether your users are on premises or remote, using a web browser, mobile app, or sync client.

See traffic from sanctioned or unsanctioned cloud storage services
Gain visibility whether users are on premises or remote
Cover browsers, sync clients, and mobile apps

Granular control

Only Netskope gives you granular visibility and control over all or your cloud storage services. Rather than take a coarse-grained approach by blocking services, set your security policies based on identity, service, activity, and data. Choose from actions such as block, alert, bypass, encrypt, quarantine, and coach for policy enforcement.

Enforce policies across all cloud storage services based on identity, service, activity, and data
Define policies by service, service instance, and Cloud Confidence Level
Protect sensitive data with advanced cloud DLP
Mix and match policy elements to carve out risk without blocking services

Data protection

Many cloud storage services make it easy to share, but those same capabilities can put your sensitive data at risk. Detect and protect your sensitive content as it moves in and out of sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud storage services with the industry’s most sophisticated cloud DLP and advanced data encryption.

500+ file types and 3,000+ pre‐defined data identifiers
Advanced features such as fingerprinting, exact match, and more
Stop data exfiltration to unsanctioned cloud storage services
Protect sensitive data with strong encryption

Compliance

Understand the inherent compliance of individual cloud storage services as well as the compliance of your organization’s overall usage of cloud storage services. Maintain detailed audit trails of all activities, detect anomalies or non-compliant behaviors, manage compliance incidents thoroughly, and report on compliance status. Enforce granular, activity- or data-level policies to safely enable cloud storage services while complying with regulations.

Understand inherent compliance of individual cloud storage services
Audit all cloud storage service activities, detect non-compliant activities and anomalies, and respond to incidents
Enforce granular controls to ensure compliance

Vendor assurance

As your organization adopts new cloud services, perform due diligence on both discovered and requested services. Use the Netskope CCI to quickly evaluate the wide range of cloud services available to help your business choose those that suit their needs while also meeting your security, auditability, and business continuity requirements.

Cloud storage service due diligence with Netskope CCI
CCI database contains 20,000+ cloud services and hundreds of cloud storage services
Enterprise-readiness score for each service based on 50+ objective attributes
Compare cloud storage services side-by-side to decide which to sanction

Discovering Cloud Service Usage — Movie Line Monday

Learn about using long poll connections to help discover cloud storage service usage

In this episode of Movie Line Monday, Abhay Kulkarni, Netskope’s VP of Engineering, talks about using long poll connections to help discover cloud storage app usage for more context on cloud storage security.

Requirements

Assess risk

Find, categorize, and evaluate the enterprise readiness of the sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud storage services being used across your organization. Use an objective set of criteria to evaluate each cloud storage service discovered in your organization and factor in your organization’s usage to assess the overall risk associated with each service.

Govern usage

Govern the usage of cloud storage services based on contextual details such as user, device, location, service, activity, and data. Control real-time activities, such as edits, shares, and downloads, in your cloud storage services, and define granular policies that target and control specific risky activities, such as blocking the download of sensitive data to an unmanaged device.

Secure data

Detect sensitive content at rest in selected cloud storage services or en route to or from any cloud storage service with advanced, enterprise cloud DLP. Define granular policies – based on identity, service, activity and data – to automatically protect your data by blocking activities, restricting access, encrypting data, and more.

Compliance

Understand the inherent compliance of individual cloud storage services as well as the compliance of your organization’s overall usage of cloud storage services. Maintain detailed audit trails of all activities, detect anomalies or non-compliant behaviors, manage compliance incidents thoroughly, and report on compliance status. Enforce granular, activity- or data-level policies to enable cloud storage services while staying compliant.

Trusted by leading companies

Netskope provides an additional layer of cloud storage security for us, enabling us to protect our most sensitive data, including company IP and plans. We now have granular controls to govern access and coach employees to our sanctioned instance of Box.
- CISO, Leading Healthcare Company

Netskope January 2017 Cloud Report

Learn about the latest cloud trends across Netskope customers, including cloud storage usage at organizations and DLP policies and violations.

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