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Symantec Cloud SOC (CASB)

Growing use of SaaS and shadow IT

Growing demand for cloud applications

  • Typical usage example
    1. 業務系:Salesforce, Oracle, Office365
    2. Information system: Box, Dropbox, etc.
    3. SNS: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
    4. Many other free cloud services
  • Why is the use of cloud applications growing?
    1. Company perspective
      1. 社内運用工数の負荷低減のため
      2. For cost flow leveling
    1. employee perspective
      1. Convenient, easy and easy to use
      2. If you search the web, you will find many cloud applications open to the public, and you can make your work more efficient by using services that suit your convenience.
Growing demand for cloud applications

Reference) Usage status of cloud applications

Do you know how many cloud applications your company is leveraging?

The use of the cloud in the field is progressing more than the person in charge of information systems at a company thinks.

Reference) Usage status of cloud applications

  • Risk of the cloud application itself
    1. Safety of the operating company (whether there is business continuity or whether the company is operating in a risky country)
    2. Data handling policy (What is the copyright of the information exchanged on the cloud application?)
  • Risk for employees who use
    1. Are you casually uploading sensitive company information to the cloud?
      1. External information (customer information, confidential business information)
      2. Internal information (information on individual employees, including personnel affairs and salaries)
      3. Company information assets (information to support the company's business)
        E.g.) Source code and design information for our own products Other sources of business
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Information management and operation systems are necessary to prevent confidential data leakage through the use of cloud applications
Use only legitimate cloud applications and keep sensitive data out of the cloud
It is necessary to create a mechanism that does not handle

Technology to solve the risks of using the cloud

Emergence of CASBs (Cloud Access Security Brokers)

  • Generic term for technologies to solve the aforementioned issues
  • Visualize cloud service usage, identify potential risks, and apply consistent security policies

2015 Broadcom M&A CASB market Elastica

  • Plans to gradually integrate technologies using Elastica's technology, which visualizes 15,000 types of applications

The big picture of the solution

Features of Symantec CloudSOC (CASB)

(1) AUDIT (visualization of shadow IT)

Audit/Summary

 

Upload access logs such as Proxy and Firewall to Symantec CloudSOC (CASB). Uploaded access logs are analyzed by Symantec CloudSOC (CASB) for shadow IT reporting

  • You can check the usage status of cloud apps graphically.
    1. What kind of applications are used by CASB and whether the applications are safe
    2. It is possible to grasp from the list
  • Employee usage status can be checked graphically
    1. Understand which users are using which apps and to what extent
  • Score judgment function
    1. It is possible to check the persuasive analysis results of "why it is dangerous" rather than simply "this is dangerous"
    2. Help persuade employees and formulate company rules

(2) Securlet (enhanced security for Sanctioned IT (cloud applications that are approved for use))

Securlet/Usage image

Enables visualization and control of shadow data existing on cloud applications by linking with Securlet-compatible cloud applications and APIs

  • Visualization and control of shadow data
    1. Visualization of data shared externally and internally
  • Visualization of details of each data and confirmation control of sharing status
  • Visualization of data attached to external emails
  • Confirmation control of shared data on SharePoint and OneDrive
  • List of cloud applications supported by Securlet
    1. Office365
    2. Salesforce
    3. Yammer
    4. Google Apps
    5. AWS
    6. Dropbox
    7. BOX

*In addition, there are multiple compatible applications, so please consult us about API compatibility each time.

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