THE BIG BLUE’S NEW CLOUD SECURITY ENFORCER

As the increasing numbers of applications and users move to cloud-based services, businesses are required to be more strictly controlled to manage policies and access to cloud services. It is considered to be a reason for the raise of a new class of security products, the Cloud Access Security Broker market (CASB).

New IBM’s Cloud Security Enforcer is a new private cloud technology supporting companies to avoid risks related to the growing use of “Bring Your Own” cloud apps by employees at work.

The Big Blue’s new Cloud Security Enforcer is promised that the use of cloud-based apps is surveilled and adjusted. The ability to detect a prospectively remarkable security exposure is one of the features improved, including the visibility into all third-party cloud apps used by employees, not just the visibility into a part of the cloud apps as it currently does. It is believed to be more secure for companies to access apps because of combination between Cloud Identity Management, or Identity as a service (IDaaS), and the capability of exploration of any using outside apps by workforce. This will help organizations feel safe as using apps when monitoring which data could be shared with the apps based on “intelligence of malicious activity happening around the world.”

According to Andy Land, Product Marketing Director at IBM Security, the IBM Cloud Security Enforcer goes beyond the capabilities of traditional Cloud Security Brokers. “We are entering this market with some unique differentiators, namely that we have Identity as a service (IDaaS) capabilities built into this product,” Land told eSecurityPlanet, “This means that employees no longer have to manage credentials such as passwords.”

One of new researches from IBM released that one-third of employees at Fortune 1000 companies are “uploading and sharing” sensitive data of company on third-party cloud apps. It is obvious that employees are more and more joining the risky practices on these tools such as registering with their personal email addresses with weak passwords or reusing company login credentials. The survey also discovered that businesses have little or no visibility into this issue to realize how risky they are encountering.

With this new tool, IBM supports organization to more efficiently operate with four key capabilities:

Companies firstly can determine unauthorized cloud app usage to recognize and securely configure the apps used by workforce, as well as manage and conduct the way employees use them.

New tool of IBM also supports organization to detect and apply the permitted data which one could be shared by employees via third-party private cloud apps.

Using new Cloud Security Enforcer, employees can connect to third-party cloud apps through security-focused connectors, including automatically assigning delicate passcodes. According to IBM, this can help security violations made by human error be eased.

Cloud Security Enforcer is also capable of supporting organization to avoid risks caused by workforce mistakes as well as cloud-based threats. It could utilize the IBM’s global X-Force Exchange threat intelligence network to collect real-time risk data. The new tool of Big Blue is then able to scan the Internet and analyze over 20 billion worldwide security events daily.

IBM has built connectors for Cloud Security Enforcer into Box’s cloud-based content management and collaboration platform as well as Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce.com and other popular enterprise software. Pricing information was not immediately available.

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