Why APIs beat proxies for cloud security

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Ganesh Kirti.

While many businesses laud the benefits of cloud computing, some feel less than 100 percent confident in their ability to fully secure their cloud resources. Is it any wonder? Your corporate network might link to multiple cloud services, run by different operators. Mobile users might be accessing cloud resources simultaneously over dissimilar WANs and device types. Some users and devices fall under your management domain; others don’t.

In fact, corporate data seems to be everywhere. It’s being copied, emailed, shared, and synced wherever users happen to be working. So it’s tough to know exactly where sensitive data is being stored and who has access to it. How can you successfully enforce internal policies and industry compliance mandates under these conditions, particularly when another entity now controls part of your hosting environment?…

The answer is to use a CASB (cloud access security broker). You’ll need a certain kind — one with API integration capabilities — to do the job…

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