Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), also known as Cloud Security Gateways, were created to address the increasing cloud security problems facing organizations as cloud and application usage increased over the last decade.
Many Gmail users were recently greeted with a message that alerted them that 2-step verification will be required to log into their accounts starting on November 9th (today). While many in the security community have been advising people to turn on 2-factor, 2-step, or any other secondary security method on every account as a way to protect the login process, the Twitterverse showed that many people were unhappy with Google’s implementation of this mandatory change.
Operating in hybrid environments can get really tricky at times. As more and more organizations are moving their sensitive data to the public cloud, the need to keep this data secure and private has increased significantly over time. While handling their valuable datasets within their respective environments, companies need to ensure utmost data security and compliance to meet the regulations set by various governments.
The shift to the cloud has greatly accelerated during the past year, and with that shift most cybersecurity incidents now involve cloud infrastructure. According to the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 73% of cybersecurity incidents involved cloud assets — a 27% increase from last year. The 2021 IBM Security X-Force Cloud Threat Landscape Report also found there are 30,000 cloud accounts potentially for sale on dark web marketplaces.
The SaaS-based Rubrik platform is built to protect and recover a wide variety of cloud-native workloads. For Microsoft Azure, this commonly equates to protecting Azure Virtual Machines and Managed Disks, where recovery options can range from entire resource replacement, in-region or cross-region exports (clones), and now file/folder recovery.
Business productivity and collaboration suites preferred by enterprise customers, such as Google Workspace, are central to an organization’s operation. In addition to storing sensitive org info, Google Workspace includes settings (e.g. Google Groups) which control access to sensitive data across a customer's entire Google Cloud org (Workspace & GCP).
