What's the best way to control cloud sprawl?

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Chief Evangelist in IT Services2 years ago

Depends on whether you’re trying to control sprawl within your cloud deployments - if so, monitoring controlling use of your data through data security posture management tools is essential. Controlling sprawling use of SaaS should be a multidisciplinary approach from policy, financial oversight of spend and expenses and CASB

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Director Certifications in Education5 years ago

Consider implementing a Cloud access security brokers (CASB) tool which will  provide visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection for any cloud-based service being used by the organization, expecially Shadow IT.

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