CloudCodes—bridging the security gaps between enterprises and the cloud

The Silicon Review

The most valuable business asset for enterprises and customers is data. Data must be protected from unauthorized access. Secure and always available data coupled with insightful data analytics increases client satisfaction and loyalty, drives business innovation, and, more importantly, gives you a competitive edge in the marketplace.

With time, technology and various other technology-related factors have evolved concerning how firms function digitally. Most firms now utilize the benefits of storing and sharing digital data, making their work extremely convenient and efficient.

In today’s average large enterprise, the IT department may use over 1,000 cloud applications, whether sanctioned or otherwise. But traditional security technologies can’t adequately address the inevitable security and compliance challenges.

The nature of global cloud computing means that the physical location of data is very relevant and is becoming more significant every day. Business transactions occur across international borders every second. Big data created in one region gets stored, processed, and accessed from other areas across international borders. Clients, end users, and business partners using your data may be accessing it from all over the globe.

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is a developing cybersecurity technology that specifically addresses the data protection challenges and other associated threats that come with the cloud.

Managing data throughout its lifecycle in compliance with business, privacy, and security regulatory requirements must be the top priority in cloud environments. Therefore, a trusted business partner with deep expertise in security, privacy, and cloud deployments is critical.

In today’s increasingly diverse market for cloud resources, CloudCodes is one of the best software companies offering robust CASB solutions for enterprises worldwide. Reinforcing the Cloud ecosystem, CloudCodes was founded with a clear vision to bridge the security gaps between enterprises and the cloud. The top-notch CASB solutions from CloudCodes enable enterprises with operations on the cloud to meet the challenge of a cloud security threat easily. CloudCodes CASB enables enterprises to implement stringent security policies for better data governance, security, and control over the data and the users.

Unlike other CASB vendors, CloudCodes CASB offers multiple cloud security solutions through one single console. Cloud security solutions like Access Control, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Single Sign On (SSO), Identity Management, Shadow IT, and MDM. These solutions are well integrated and flexible to suit enterprises with varied needs.

CloudCodes is a SOC Type-II certified company and was recognized by analyst firm Gartner as one of the sample vendors for SaaS Security and Cloud Security in multiple published reports.

Protecting your most crucial cloud infrastructure—CASB for AWS Security

The biggest challenge in cloud working environments is easy and quick access of data from anywhere, at any given time, and from any device. This is for sure that such flexibility results in higher productivity levels of professionals at work. At the same time, this poses a serious cloud security threat as well as critical data is exposed and thus is at the risk of being stolen, lost, or leaked. Usually, confidential, sensitive information gets revealed, and data breaches occur either by the organization’s people working within the system or even by outsiders with malicious intent.

Amazon Web Services is the main Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). While AWS provides some local security and consistent usefulness, such as administrator exchange logging, there are some inherent holes. Consolidating Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) gives information insurance and encryption, nonstop observing and consistency, logical access control, and cross-application client conduct examination. CloudCode’s CASB for AWS security ensures comprehensive protection of all data and applications running on AWS.

With expanding reception of IaaS stages, we observe SecOps groups battle to grow their security activities in IaaS conditions and stay aware of the ever-developing danger vectors. With the correct readiness, utilizing CloudCodes’ CASB for AWS gets organizations to execute security controls in IaaS stages to reduce security hazards.

CloudCodes’ CASB—Protecting AWS infrastructure with robust CASB

1. Identifying risk-

When you depend firmly on outsiders for your business needs, the nature of your accomplice’s security tasks is regularly obscure. Your partner’s hazard turns into your risk with heartbreaking results not too far off. You need finished visibility into all cloud storage administrations, putting away effort information, including AWS S3 buckets claimed by outsider associates. It’s normal for S3 containers possessed by outsiders you work with to be helpless against dangers because of misconfigurations. CloudCodes CASB helps you protect your cloud data by quickly identifying at-risk data across your cloud and securing them for you.

2. Configuration–

According to Gartner, 99% of data loss is because of the inward misconfigurations of IT framework and not outside assaults. Any company subject to a security, consistency, or confirmation structure must have nonstop observing standards to prevent data loss because of coincidental misconfigurations of PaaS and IaaS administrations. CloudCodes’ CASB helps organizations correctly configure IT framework and compliance to prevent data loss.

3. Monitoring-

The capacity to screen all client exercises is one of the most significant tasks enterprises embrace when they begin utilizing IaaS administrations. Organizations should bolster their AWS CloudTrail, which records all support orders and API calls from clients just as outsider administrations. It gives abundant information into use designs that can help answer the who, what, when, and how. This precious degree of logging is necessary to consistently review IaaS use and guarantee adherence to organization best practices. CloudCodes’ robust CASB provides hassle-free AWS monitoring for impactful data protection.

4. Compliance policy-

Cloud security‘s shared obligation model guarantees safety in the cloud by requiring businesses with custom applications conveyed in the cloud—just as their firewall, systems administration, and access strategies—to line up with accepted administrative procedures. Out of this industry, various clients working in profoundly controlled industry verticals need to hold fast to HIPAA, PCI, and SOC-2 controls. CloudCodes is a SOC-2-certified business, and its CASB provides compliance measures to integrate business with cloud security and meet regulations.

5. DLP strategies-

Clients can make Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategies dependent on passwords, information identifiers, and organized/unstructured fingerprints to tell apart where their sensitive information is. They can apply appropriate controls to guarantee the security of that information. Data Loss Protection can likewise be utilized to screen deliberately designed as open and decoded assets. If confidential information is transferred to the containers, the data can be blocked, and IT security can be advised. CloudCodes helps organizations sort through and save confidential information with CASB solutions to serve them better later.

Meet Debashish Pramanik

Debashish Pramanik is the Co-Founder and CEO of CloudCodes. He is a serial entrepreneur with a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Pune.