CASBs serve as the platform for security managers in large companies to monitor for risk across their SaaS portfolios, including CRM, file sharing, HR, and enterprise resource planning apps.
The category of Cloud Access Security Brokers or CASBs emerged as a topic of much discussion last year when Gartner named it the top information security of 2016. CASBs serve as the platform for security managers in large companies to monitor for risk across their SaaS portfolios, including CRM, file sharing, HR, and enterprise resource planning apps.
As such, CASBs were ideally positioned to benefit from two secular trends in enterprise tech — the increasing concern over cyber breaches and the explosion of cloud apps. Governments (hello, Wikileaks) are also getting on board with the CASB trend, and CASBs are now competing aggressively for the government market. An interesting partnership, detected using our News Tab, is Skyhigh Networks’ deal this week with the nonprofit Center for Internet Security, which provides cybersec advice to local and state governments in the US.
Skyhigh is only one of a handful of still-private venture-backed CASB-focused companies, all of which are based in California. Below is a comparison of a few of the top private players in the space, including Skyhigh, Bitglass, Netskope, andCipherCloud.
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