Information Security Handbook

Cloud access security brokers

The cloud access security brokers (CASB) is a very important technology to consider as you architect your cloud infrastructure. In fact, it will be very difficult to get an on-premises level of security, visibility, and security operations center integration into your cloud implementation without a tool like a CASB.

Many cloud service providers do not build the tools that you would wish for as an information security professional to manage the information security of the cloud environment. However, what many of the cloud service providers do is expose APIs that a third party can use to wrap the cloud solution in a layer of information security protections. These third-party vendors can use the cloud service provider ...