CloudLock aims to protect Google Apps from rogue apps

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Google Apps for Business users need to be protected from their own downloaded apps, according to Waltham, MA-based CloudLock, which on Monday launched a firewall for just that purpose. The Google Apps ecosystem continues to grow. CloudLock, a company that already offers PCI scanning for Google Apps, is now adding a firewall to help companies control what information in employee Google Apps accounts can be accessed by third-party applications.

The beauty of cloud is that users can easily download and install lots of cool applications — from a variety of app stores. The danger of cloud… is also that users can easily download and install lots of cool applications from a variety of app stores. That freedom of choice is a nightmare for IT shops in this bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era…

The company says CloudLock Apps Firewall can help guide organizations to discover, classify and safely enable third-party mobile and web apps that require access to users’ Google Apps data. It can assess existing applications and categorize them as trusted, not trusted or banned. Then it can automate the remediation of those applications…

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