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What is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)?
A common component of modern cybersecurity infrastructure, a cloud access security broker (CASB) is technology that provides monitoring and mitigates risks from employee use of cloud services. CASBs were initially developed to fill a gap in cloud security visibility left behind by traditional firewalls, next-generation firewalls, and early secure web gateways, which struggled to identify instances of the unapproved use of cloud services, otherwise known as shadow IT or rogue IT.
Since then, CASB has evolved into a fully featured cloud governance control that can both monitor and manage which cloud services employees use and how they use them, whether they're connecting from the corporate network or remotely. According to Gartner, in spite of slowing spending growth across the security industry, organizations have bolstered their CASB spending by 33% in 2020 as the category …
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Posted by: Ericka Chickowski |
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November 05, 2020 at 09:14PM
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