Next-Gen CASB Blog

What you see in the title is what we covered in our latest webinar, but what part of it is really important? All of it? Some? Or is it all just marketing blather that can be ignored? The truth lies in the middle – we are all adopting more cloud in our personal lives, whether we like it or not. Every time we buy from Amazon, we give it data about us and we support their business model, which is distinctly cloudy. Same for us as businesses – when we buy services from AWS we support the continued growth of cloud. The takeaway here is that most, if not all of our data will soon be stored off premises.

I’ve been in cybersecurity for over two decades, mostly with major vendors on the selling/marketing/building/evangelizing side. I was a VP at one major firewall vendor, a consultant to new startups and a network/security architect at a major US ISP.  Along the way, I’ve even garnered six patents on scaling cybersecurity and co-authored an RFC. To say I’m an old dog in this business would be an understatement.

Following a six-day Vegas experience, I thought it would be interesting to reflect on all the insight and knowledge gained from almost a week of eating, sleeping, and breathing cloud security. As one of the youngest Black Hat 2019 attendees, my point of view was quite unbiased and unsuspecting as I had never attended a security event before – let alone one of the biggest events in the country.

In today's cloud-first world, organizations have been utilizing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to better benefit their operations. Using tools like AWS, GCP, or Azure allows organizations to focus on business growth, as well as gain flexibility, scalability, and cost savings. While using IaaS does bring various advantages, it can also breed data leakage concerns. In our latest Glass Class, we expand on some key items that must be considered for data protection when adopting IaaS.