CirroScope: Stealthy cloud security startup hatched by ex-Symantec teammates
June 5, 2013
Grazed from Network World. Author: Bob Brown.
A small team of ex-Symantec security experts has formed a stealthy Silicon Valley start-up called CirroScope that’s focused on shielding enterprises from threats stemming from their use of SaaS applications such Box, Salesforce.com and Google Apps. CirroScope is keeping things pretty quiet on its website, only explaining that the company “is building a next generation security product to help businesses adopt and use popular cloud applications with confidence and ease!“ You can request a product evaluation, and will be asked, among other things, about how many cloud apps your organization is using.
CirroScope is looking to address the threat posed to enterprises’ data by breaches involving cloud apps, whether self inflicted or not. It points to events such as breaches of Evernote and Dropbox. But it also wants to help monitor your data, via a service, to eliminate the inadvertent release of private information by enterprises into the public cloud, as has been documented on Amazon Web Services and other offerings…
The company looks to be readying a series of what it currently calls CirroShields for various apps (BoxShield, SalesforceShield, GitShield, O365Shield, AwsShield, ZendeskShield, HerokuShield, DropboxShield, EvernoteShield and EchoSignShield), plus complementary dashboards…
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