Cloud computing is used for nearly every business operation, from data storage to work communications, but like most things, it does present some security risks. Unrestricted use of cloud applications can expose an organization's network to multiple security vulnerabilities. This leads to data leakage.
Cloud-based services
Use DataSecurity Plus to track your organization's web traffic and implement policies to protect employees from inappropriate or malicious web content.
- Cloud application discovery
- Web content filtering
- Cloud security
- Web application usage analysis
Cloud application discovery
- Monitor cloud application usage across endpoints and gain insight into your organization's encrypted web traffic.
- Ensure that all cloud applications used comply with the organization's security practices, i.e. have adequate levels of encryption and reliable third-party certificates.
- Track cloud services across multiple categories such as personal websites and blogs, legal, search engines, computer security, and more.
- Audit various failed and successful access requests to approved and unapproved applications.
Web content filtering
- Use our threat analysis database to estimate the reputation score of every cloud application accessed based on its history, age, underlying URL, and more.
- Take real-time action to stop unrestricted use of high-risk cloud services by blocking the use of prohibited or unapproved applications from one central location.
- Analyze requests to cloud applications with low reputation scores and details of upload and download activity through these applications.
- Improve employee productivity by blocking the use of non-business cloud services such as social networks, e-commerce and live streaming websites.
Cloud security
- Generate detailed reports on upload requests made across SharePoint, Exchange, OneDrive, DropBox, Box and other web services.
- Block web traffic to unsafe sites, such as spam and malware sites, or sites containing inappropriate content.
- Keep a close eye on the usage of shadow IT services and the top players using shadow IT services to determine the risk they pose to your organization's data security.
- Generate critical security insights about which web applications were accessed by which actor when, analyzing the browsers and methods used to access cloud applications.
Web application usage analysis
- Use deep packet inspection to analyze how various actors interact with cloud applications and examine details about upload and download activity.
- Analyze usage differences between web-based applications and native cloud applications, and analyze access requests from specific browsers to target events of interest.
- Use information-rich reports and graphics to analyze data sharing patterns through web services within your organization.
- Collect web application access statistics, such as website usage by upload or download volume, request count, etc.
With DataSecurity Plus ’ cloud protection module, you can:
- Get a bird's eye view of web application usage in your organization.
- Granularly track file uploads to SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft365, Box and DropBox.
- Understand which approved, unapproved, and shadow apps are in use.
- Prevent employees from accessing unproductive, unsafe and inappropriate websites.
- Detect attempts to access banned and shadow websites.
- Track which websites are visited, by whom and when.
- Determine the most visited websites, most commonly used browsers and other trends.
- Receives a list of recent HTTP and HTTPS requests from employees.
- Simplify compliance with regulations such as CIPA, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS.
- Get updated web reputation scores and monitor access to apps with poor reputation.
Best practices for cloud application security
- Enforce multi-factor authentication : Cloud security must be implemented at the end-user level to eliminate security risks arising from compromised user accounts. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) requires multiple credentials to verify a user's identity and can often successfully block the use of user accounts. exposed.
- Monitor accessed web applications : Unmanaged network traffic often allows the use of malicious websites or web applications involving sensitive data, e-commerce, entertainment, gaming content, or other websites not used for commercial purposes. Use cloud application discovery to gain deeper insights into your organization. Different categories of web applications accessed in .
- Block unapproved cloud applications : Proxy and Web Application Firewall can filter web applications accessed over the Internet, through cloud protection, evaluate cloud applications by calculating a risk score for cloud applications, and block all high-risk web applications ask.
- Implement API security measures : Application programming interfaces (APIs) contain critical information about how web applications interact, and if exposed, hackers can use APIs to create backdoors and access an organization's data. Implement API security tools and gateways to protect your cloud environment from hackers.
- Ensure cloud data encryption : Cloud applications upload, store and process large amounts of data every day. Encrypt data in motion and at rest to provide comprehensive security for cloud data and ensure that all web traffic only passes through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transmission.
- Update cloud applications and servers : Patch vulnerabilities in cloud applications to prevent hackers from exploiting and protect access to data. Pay attention to and perform cloud application updates regularly to prevent security holes from becoming backdoors for hackers.
- Manage user browser sessions : Through session hijacking, hackers can impersonate user sessions to access data, ensuring secure browser sessions through secure cookies and HTTPS-based data transfer.
- Perform regular vulnerability testing : The best way to stay on top of cloud security is to proactively anticipate and avoid threats in a timely manner, and perform regular and continuous vulnerability testing and remediation in cloud environments.