LTS SECURE CLOUD ACCESS SECURITY BROKER : A KEY TO CLOUD SECURITY

LTS Secure Cloud Access Security Broker has proven itself to be indispensible for cloud security. These days, nearly every organization has fully integrated the cloud in its day-to-day operations. This has led to a large amount of data flowing to and from the cloud, which has made it prone to various security threats. It becomes difficult for the IT department to keep a track of all the apps, cloud providers and data employees are accessing and hence, there is a need to implement a unified security control like CASB.

The classic definition of CASB is “Cloud access security brokers (CASBs) are on-premises, or cloud-based security policy enforcement points, placed between cloud service consumers and cloud service providers to combine and interject enterprise security policies as the cloud-based resources are accessed. CASBs consolidate multiple types of security policy enforcement. Example security policies include authentication, single sign-on, authorization, credential mapping, device profiling, encryption, tokenization, logging, alerting, malware detection/prevention and so on.” Simply put, CASB acts as a gate-keeper allowing the organizations to extend the reach of their security policies beyond their own infrastructure. It ensures that network traffic between on-premises devices and the cloud provider complies with the organization’s security policies. To understand CASB better let us have a look at the four pillars of CASB: