Beyond discovery: the 15 critical CASB use cases

As people and organisations adopt cloud services, cloud access security brokers (CASBs) have become a must-have for any information security team. CASBs provide critical capabilities such as governing access and activities in sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud services, securing sensitive data and preventing its loss, and protecting against internal and external threats.

In short, CASBs enable organisations to extend their information protection policies and programmes from their on-premises infrastructure and applications to the cloud. For organisations that are considering deploying CASB, it's useful to consider the specific use cases they're likely to address within these broad topic areas as they inform functional and architectural requirements.

Here's a list of the 15 most critical CASB use cases.