Bitglass Report: Less than Half of Enterprises Have Visibility into External Sharing, DLP Policy Violations in the Cloud

Singapore – April 16, 2018 –  Bitglass, the Next-Gen CASB company, today announced the findings
of its “Cloud Hard 2018: Security with a Vengeance” Report, which features
survey insights from over 570 cybersecurity and IT professionals on their
approach to cloud security. Visibility and compliance challenges continue to
haunt organizations, with 44 percent of respondents claiming they have
visibility into external sharing and DLP policy violations in their cloud
application and environments. More shocking was the fact that 85 percent of
organizations acknowledged they were unable to identify anomalous behavior
across cloud applications.

The cloud security market is
growing in large part because traditional security infrastructure has failed.
Where next-gen firewalls and built-in capabilities are insufficient for
regulatory compliance, internal compliance, and cloud data protection,
dedicated cloud security becomes critical. Specifically, 84 percent of
respondents say traditional security solutions don’t work or have limited
functionality in the cloud.

“Cloud security is here to
stay as is evident by the concerns and challenges survey respondents
highlighted,” said Bitglass CMO Rich Campagna. “Enterprise security teams are
concerned about the next-generation of cloud threats that pose a risk to
corporate data. There has already been immense progress in the past five years
as security personnel come to the realization that legacy security tools
and processes are not enough to secure their ever-changing ecosystem.”

When asked about biggest
security threats to their organization, most cited misconfigurations (62
percent) similar to the numerous AWS S3 leaks over the past
year, followed by unauthorized access (55 percent). 39 percent said external
sharing was the most critical threat while 26 percent highlighted malware and
ransomware.

●      Less than half (44%) have visibility into external sharing
and DLP policy violations.

●      Only 15% of organizations surveyed can see anomalous
behavior across apps.

●      While 78% have visibility into user logins, only 58%
have visibility into file downloads and 56% into file uploads.

●      To protect mobile data, 38% of organizations install agents
and 24% use a trusted device model, where only provisioned corporate-owned
devices are allowed access to company systems.

●      11% have no mobile access control solution in place,
granting access to any smartphone or tablet.

●      69% of organizations rely solely on endpoint solutions for
malware protection, tools which cannot detect or block malware at rest in the
cloud or employees’ BYO devices.

For more findings and to view
the complete report, please visit: https://pages.bitglass.com/CloudHard_LP.html

Bitglass, the Next-Gen CASB
company, is based in Silicon Valley with offices worldwide. The company’s cloud
security solutions deliver zero-day, agentless, data and threat protection for
any app, any device, anywhere. Bitglass is backed by Tier 1 investors and was
founded in 2013 by a team of industry veterans with a proven track record of
innovation and execution.