Security "Bits"

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. 

How do cloud security architectural design decisions affect vendors’ ability to provide a performant, scalable, and reliable platform?

Take the example of an offsite meeting.  Thousands of normally geographically dispersed employees converge on a single location for a few days.  Other cloud security solutions built on the appliance model cannot scale to meet the dynamic demand profile. 

What can help you find what needs protecting in the crowded sea of apps going through your network? Shadow IT Discovery has the answer, with solutions that offer ease of use and visibility into the vulnerabilities present throughout your organization. Identifying apps is the first, but at times most time consuming, step into a comprehensive cloud solution. Shadow IT Discovery makes it easy.

In a sea of millions of apps, which one is the biggest fish to fry? Firewall and proxy logs catch the traffic of users, but identifying what needs attention in such comprehensive logs can be overwhelming. Shadow IT discovery offers the ability to narrow down the search to apps that should be more closely monitored and controlled.