Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Customer adoption to cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)  has been rapidly grown and growing. The most challenging aspect moving to cloud is the ability to secure the application and data that is put on the cloud. Oracle's hetrogenous security solution Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) helps customers protecting their cloud-based infrastructure, platforms, applications across vendors. CASBs have emerged as  the go-to cloud security solution. CASB has the ability to provide security to entire cloud footprint (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

Most essentially, for all Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) deployments, it provides visibility, threat protection, data security and complaince. Following are a few key advantages of CASB:

• Governance of privileged activities
• Unified incident management
• Proactive remediation
• Continuous security compliance for OCI deployments

As part of complete visibility, it provides holistic view of entire cloud environment, including users and devices.

Threat Detection with User Behavior Analytics (UBA) builds a baseline for typical behavior, down to the user and application. Also, maintain a log when and how a user deviates from the baseline. With the help of predictive analytics, you can easily identify the risky users who performs folder permission change, changing user privileges , or tampering with the configuration settings.

All your cloud compliance configuration settings can be easily maintained. Once the settings are made, CASB monitoring the settings and alerts you whenever there is a change in the setting.

CASB provides three key components to secure your data in cloud:

1. Data visibility
2. Data inspection
3. Data Accessibility

It can easily integrate with the existing cloud security solutions, such as, SWG, NGF, IDaaS, DLP and SIEM.

For more details and information, visit Oracle website:

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/paas/casb-cloud-service.html