The evolution of cloud security access brokers (CASB)
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, announced the release of its latest survey report, The Evolution of the CASB. The study, which queried more than 200 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations, examined the expectations, technical implementations, and challenges of using cloud security access brokers (CASB). The results reveal unrealized gaps between the rate of implementation or operation and the effective use of the capabilities within the enterprise.
“CASB solutions have been underutilized on all the pillars but in particular on the compliance, data security, and threat protection capabilities within the service,” said Hillary Baron, lead author and research analyst, Cloud Security Alliance. “It’s clear that training and knowledge of how to use the products need to be made a priority if CASBs are to become effective as a service or solution.”