Cloud Computing: Securing Google Apps for Business

Grazed from Mobile Enterprise. Author: Editorial Staff.

Armor5 has extended its Zero Touch Cloud Security service to Google Apps for Business, including Google Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Sheets. The Cloud Security app gives enterprises protection against data leakage, compliance exposures and privacy breaches at the last mile between the cloud and the device.

“By 2018, 25% of corporate data traffic will bypass traditional perimeter security defenses (up from 4% today) by flowing directly from mobile devices to the cloud,” according to the Gartner report: “Gartner, Predicts 2014: CSPs’ Opportunities and Challenges Will Arise from Cloud Computing and Mobility Trends.” The report advises, “As the adoption of cloud computing and mobility accelerates, new revenue opportunities will emerge, together with the need for better service reliability and security. CSP strategists should move quickly on the opportunities and address associated challenges…

Automated Safeguarding

Armor5 virtualizes the user’s experience and places the security function in the cloud, where it is isolated from the device and the network. The enterprise policy controls are seamlessly extended from the network perimeter to enforce access to cloud services without requiring any additional effort from the enterprise…

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