Welcome
Data is everywhere – in the cloud, on the network, and in transit – and always within reach of users. Employees are working with multiple devices, which the company may or may not own, and the motley collection of operating systems, platforms, and apps has removed the traditional on-premises boundaries IT relied on to safeguard information. Increased complexity means more risk for IT, including loss of visibility into data, bad user experience, and data leaks.
We hope you find this Gartner Research report helpful in answering key questions such as:
- What are the key trends CISO's must understand regarding the rapid adoption of cloud, enterprise SaaS and mobile?
- How do the four pillars of CASB (Cloud Access Security Brokers) – visibility, compliance, data security and threat prevention – help with infrastructure protection?
- Why is a single point of control across multiple enterprise SaaS applications important to consider?
- Predicts 2015: Infrastructure Protection
- Ray Wagner | Neil MacDonald| Adam Hils | Greg Young | Earl Perkins |
Sid Deshpande | Craig Lawson | Jay Heiser | Peter Firstbrook - 13 November 2014
- Analysts are looking ahead to notable trends in network sandboxing, cloud services, enterprise protection platforms, the supply chain and country-specific buying restrictions. CISOs should monitor these near-term events to adapt buying and risk management processes or evolve security practices.
- CASBs help enforce security policies in the data path between the user and multiple SaaS applications by focusing on a single console that can support four key pillars: visibility, compliance, data security and threat prevention.
- Sandboxing-from-a-platform solutions are being rapidly adopted.
- Supply chains demand an improved way to link users and physical assets more effectively and more securely.
- Where point security products emerge for endpoints, the majority of enterprises will wait for incumbent EPPs to incorporate that feature rather than deploy an additional product.
- For most enterprises, avoiding products from the U.S. and China will not greatly reduce their vulnerability to a motivated nation-state attack.
Key Findings
Symantec Resources
- Brochure: Symantec Data Loss Prevention – a brief summary of Symantec's DLP solution and why it uniquely addresses data protection challenges of cloud, mobile, and data in motion.
- Infographic: Bridging the Gap Between IT and Business – surprising statistics on the growth of cloud and mobile, and how Symantec Identity Access Manager solves the thorniest challenges.
- Symantec Data Loss Prevention – details on how DLP content-aware security technology addresses top challenges in protecting sensitive corporate information.
- What's New in Data Loss Prevention – details on seven new capabilities in the latest release of Symantec's DLP solution.
