Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We live in an IT world surrounded by buzzwords that are largely marketing gimmicks. Zero Trust, for example, is a concept no one actually understands and is slapped onto everything, including derivatives like Zero Trust networks (ZTN) and Zero Trust network access (ZTNA). Then there’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Security Service Edge (SSE) and everything that falls under these frameworks such as Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG).

Large construction firms rely on a vast network of architects, engineers, project managers, contractors, and suppliers to collaborate on projects of all sizes and complexities. While the digitization of the construction industry has made it easier for these project teams to share information, it also expands the cyber-attack surface.

In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. The latter of which malicious actors capitalize on seasonally with phishing attacks. From consumers to corporate finance and human resources (HR) departments, these social engineering attacks have become so pervasive that the IRS issued an annual advisory as a warning to businesses and consumers.

When a large oil and gas company in southeast Europe set out to migrate on-premises data and applications to public cloud infrastructure, they turned to Lookout to help address the myriad of security challenges that emerged. The Lookout Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution with advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) provided the full breadth of integrated features needed to assure all data security and compliance considerations were met while allowing for open cloud data interaction.