Enter the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

- [Instructor] Primary tool in the enterprise…focused on eliminating Shadow IT…is the Cloud Access Security Broker…or CASB for short.…A CASB can be on-premises or cloud-based,…but it's a security policy enforcement point…that's placed between your cloud service consumers…and the cloud service providers…to combine and interject enterprise security policies…as the cloud-based resources are accessed.…CASBs actually consolidate multiple types…of security policy enforcement…around your identities, your apps, and your data.…

And today, about 25% of large enterprises…already use a CASB solution,…which means Shadow IT is likely proliferating…in a large portion of the rest.…By 2020, that number is expected to grow…to 85% of enterprises using a CASB solution,…which is the clearest indicator yet…that Shadow IT is a challenge…we all face in the enterprise.…CASBs can be integrated…into your security architecture in several ways…and most organizations will use a combination of approaches.…

The first benefit of a CASB solution is visibility.…