Total Cloud Security Blog

In today’s modern workforce, the enterprise attack surface is larger than ever before; with cloud apps, personal devices, on-premises resources, web destinations, and more. As a result, organizations are in need of a context-aware solution that can enforce policies wherever data goes. Fortunately, Bitglass’ secure access service edge (SASE) offering provides organizations with just that. Now that we’ve covered security for managed SaaS and IaaS in the first part of this series, we’ll move on to the next vital piece of the SASE triangle: our SmartEdge Secure Web Gateway (SWG), which secures the web and shadow IT. 

When it comes to imagining threats to enterprise cybersecurity, it is easier to conjure up ideas of malicious third parties that are plotting to infiltrate an organization. However, a considerable amount of data leakage has been caused by insider threats in recent years. Insider threats come from actors within an enterprise, whether they divulge proprietary information with malevolent intentions, or are just careless employees that unwittingly share sensitive data.

In order to adapt and thrive in the remote workforce, organizations need cost-effective security solutions that protect data, block threats, and enable business operations without diminishing financial resources. As such, Bitglass has helped a number of organizations through its cloud-first SASE platform since the pandemic began. These organizations were able to achieve better security as well as save significant amounts of money by using Bitglass’ unified platform in place of multiple, disjointed point products. The following paragraphs detail a simplified, real-world scenario to demonstrate how much money organizations with about 10,000 users can save by upgrading to Bitglass (with a 4 year capital expenditure model for depreciating hardware appliances).

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud and enable remote work and BYOD, the complexity of keeping sensitive data secured continues to grow. Enterprises that fail to adapt to the modern business world when it comes to security are likely to fall prey to data breaches and experience a host of other problems. To prevent this, organizations must have total threat protection and governance over corporate data as employees access it from remote locations and even personal devices. By leveraging Bitglass’ secure access service edge (SASE) offering (which is a combination of CASB, SWG, and ZTNA), organizations can secure managed applications, web traffic, and on-premises resources.