FireLayers Emerges from Stealth with Cloud Security Platform
February 18, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Cloud security newcomer FireLayers is emerging from stealth today with the launch of a policy-based security platform that enables IT departments to deploy pre-defined and customizable rule sets for popular applications like Salesforce.com (CRM), Microsoft (MSFT) Office 365, Yammer and Workday, among others.
The San Francisco-based company is a venture-backed initiative that aims to provide policy-based security, compliance and IT governance for cloud applications. As the company noted in its announcement, cloud apps have become critical business enablers, but they also expose those same businesses to risks and vulnerabilities…
The FireLayers platform is meant to provide customers with proactive mitigation of security and compliance gaps to protective sensitive information. Some of the features FireLayers noted in its release:…
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