Symantec Delivers on Rapid Integration With Blue Coat to Offer Cloud Generation Data Protection
October 26 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
DLP and CASB come together in a single solution
to provide complete visibility and control of data in the cloud
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security
company, today announced the integration of Symantec Data Loss
Prevention (DLP) with Symantec CloudSOC (formerly Blue Coat’s
Elastica CloudSOC Cloud Access Security Broker [CASB]) and Cloud
Data Protection products to address the needs of the cloud
generation. This integrated solution provides chief information
security officers (CISOs) visibility and control over all sensitive
content that users upload, store and share via the cloud,
protecting confidential information through all stages of its
lifecycle, anywhere and everywhere it travels.
“For the first time, users have a solution that protects data in
a holistic manner, regardless of where the data comes from or where
it’s going,” said Mike Fey, Symantec president and chief operating
officer. “We are moving quickly to integrate our solutions and
deliver a combined product portfolio to deliver integrated cyber
defense solutions across customers’ entire IT environment. Symantec
is uniquely positioned to bring market-leading solutions, fed by
the largest threat intelligence network, to offer unprecedented
protection to the cloud generation.”
As enterprises become more reliant on the cloud to improve
collaboration and flexibility, it’s increasingly difficult for
CISOs to keep track of, maintain compliance of and secure sensitive
company data as it flows between on-premises systems, mobile
applications and in cloud services. This data might include
personal records, protected health information or payment archives.
According to the recent Blue Coat Elastica Shadow Data Report, 23
percent of all files in cloud apps are broadly shared, and 12
percent of those files contain sensitive or compliance-related
data1. Enterprises typically use a variety of point solutions and
siloed security tools that don’t protect all the sensitive data,
creating security gaps and opening the door to leaks and
attacks.
Comprehensive Data Protection
This offering combines market-leading Symantec DLP — which
discovers, monitors and protects sensitive data across network,
endpoint, storage and cloud — with Symantec’s CloudSOC CASB and
Cloud Data Protection products to secure data and user activity in
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. By combining these
technologies, customers can now seamlessly migrate their DLP
solution to the cloud, leveraging all of their existing policies
and workflow integrations to better protect enterprise assets —
on-premises, in private clouds, and in public cloud applications
and services. The integrated Symantec solution optimizes
performance and reduces bandwidth requirements by using cloud
computing resources for data in the cloud, while staying fully
integrated with on-premises DLP rules and workflows.
Extend Visibility and Control to Cloud Apps
Symantec DLP Cloud and Symantec CloudSOC offers a comprehensive
solution that gives users end-to-end visibility and a single point
of control over sensitive data that is created, shared and
manipulated across multiple channels. Leveraging Symantec’s
industry-leading data loss prevention solution and Blue Coat’s
best-in-class, data-science-driven CASB, it protects data through
its lifecycle, eliminating cloud application blind spots,
uncovering hidden data residing in the cloud, and ensuring DLP
policies extend across cloud and on-premises applications.
Symantec DLP Cloud and CloudSOC offers customers the ability
to:
- Extend DLP Coverage: Direct
visibility of all types of content in more than 60 cloud apps,
including Office 365, Box, Dropbox, Google Apps or Salesforce
- Maximize DLP Investment:
Leverage existing DLP policies and workflows for cloud apps as well
as endpoints, networks and data centers
- Gain Full CASB Functionality:
Constant monitoring and control of all content additions, changes
and access rights in cloud apps
- Increased Performance: Optimize
bandwidth and latency by leveraging an integrated pure cloud
solution
Symantec DLP Cloud and CloudSOC offers superior content
detection, activity logging, forensic investigation and policy
enforcement capabilities to safely enable the use of sanctioned and
unsanctioned cloud applications and ensure compliance for cloud
data.
Keep Data Safe in Cloud Apps With Encryption and
Tokenization
The integration of Symantec Cloud Data Protection adds powerful
new data protection capabilities to Symantec DLP, allowing
customers to address cloud data compliance, privacy and residency
concerns. DLP policies can now be configured to selectively encrypt
or tokenize cloud SaaS application information based on the data
detected in an application’s field or file attachments. When the
policy is enforced, sensitive information is replaced with a token
or an encrypted value while still inside the organization’s
firewall, prior to going to a cloud environment for processing and
storage. Since clear-text data is encrypted or tokenized in
transit, at rest and in use within cloud applications, compliance
and IT risk teams can be confident that their regulated data is not
exposed while outside their control.
Availability
Symantec DLP Cloud and CloudSOC is now available in the U.S. and
will be available globally by Q1 2017. Symantec DLP and Cloud Data
Protection are available now. Additional information can be
viewed here.
As part of its continuous integration efforts, Symantec also
announced today the merging of Blue Coat Threat Intelligence into
its Global Intelligence Network, creating the industry’s largest
and most diverse set of threat data. Read the full announcement
here.
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, helps businesses, governments and people secure
their most important data wherever it lives. Organizations across
the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated solutions to
defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints, cloud and
infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than 50
million people and families rely on Symantec’s Norton suite of
products for protection at home and across all of their devices.
Symantec operates one of the world’s largest civilian cyber
intelligence networks, allowing it to see and protect against the
most advanced threats. For additional information, please
visit www.symantec.com or connect with us on Facebook,
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: Any forward-looking
indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future
release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future
release of the product or planned modifications to product
capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing
evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and
should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should
not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
1 Source: Blue Coat Elastica Shadow Data Report, 1H2016.
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