Next-Gen CASB Blog

The hustle and bustle of InfoSec Europe has come to an end. There was a lot of bustle – I estimate in the range of 22,000 to 25,000 visitors over three days – and it was clear that there was a lot of hustle going on across the vendor stands.

There was a definite upturn in the number of vendors exhibiting at InfoSec this year. This created a massive challenge – differentiating and getting your message out despite all of the noise. From endpoint, to network, to SOC, to AI, to cloud, and beyond, it was definitely a show that highlighted the sheer number of vendors addressing different problems. On the occasions that I made it away from booth duty, I took the chance to meet a number of alliance partners and look at the various technologies in the show.

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tom Murphy, the CISO of Northwestern University – a Bitglass customer. After corresponding for a few months, hoping he would meet with us to make a customer testimonial video, it finally happened! Like most interviews, it took us a few minutes to set up, but, once the interview started, he was unstoppable!

For anyone unfamiliar with it, Northwestern University, based in Illinois, is one of the country’s leading research and academic institutions with twelve colleges across three campuses, 20,000 students, and 3,000 faculty members (that’s a lot of data).

Bitglass just returned from a fun, technology-packed week at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit!  With cloud access security brokers (CASBs) being the hottest topic at the conference, we had a busy booth full of potential prospects eager to learn more about Bitglass and, of course, to get their hands on one of our limited edition "Rock the CASB – Zero-day Tour" t-shirts. Key takeaway? Cloud security continues to be top of mind, with enterprises of all sizes and from all industries seeking out CASBs for a broad range of applications – far beyond the Office 365 interest of the past. Organizations are moving to the cloud more than ever and are performing extensive research on cloud security solutions.

In this blog series, The Faces Behind the Next-Gen CASB, we will be interviewing Bitglass employees from different departments within the company. We want to show you what it's like to work for the Next-Gen CASB! In this post, we will hear from David Shephard. Read on to learn more!