Symantec is helping organizations safely adopt Facebook Workplace with an integrated cloud security system to safeguard sensitive data, protect against threats, and maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
CloudSOC will support Workplace with all the capabilities that Gartner defines as core functionality for a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) including visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection using event logs, API integration, and CASB gateway for inline inspection.
Visibility
Companies can use CloudSOC Audit today to discover, monitor and control employee use of cloud applications including Workplace. Audit helps organizations meet regulatory requirements by providing key information on over 100 different risk attributes for cloud applications to help organizations perform mandatory monitoring and risk analyses. Audit provides information on usage, traffic, locations, users, and threats associated with Workplace based on event log data from popular proxies and firewalls as well as Symantec ProxySG, Web Security Service, and SEP Manager.
Audit can identify which employees are using Workplace and if employees are using another potentially unauthorized platform. Audit can be used to reduce redundancy and costs by identifying redundant apps and subscriptions. With this information organizations can identify if other apps are being used and to push their employees to use Workplace as the official collaboration platform.
Data Security
Cloud applications like Workplace make collaboration in the cloud very easy. They also make it easy to overshare confidential content. CloudSOC enables safe collaboration by governing and securing the data that is shared using Workplace. It will classify sensitive data with native DLP, identify which users are associated with files containing confidential data and control how that data can be accessed. Enterprises using Symantec DLP can extend their existing DLP to the cloud using integration with CloudSOC.
Threat Protection
Bad actors target cloud apps. An account can get compromised by malware or by a brute force attack and malicious insiders can use cloud accounts to exfiltrate data. CloudSOC will be able to identify abnormal and potentially malicious activity associated with Workplace accounts to identify threats and enforce policies to protect organizations in the cloud.
CloudSOC
We plan to add Workplace support to the CloudSOC CASB Gateway and an API-based Security for Workplace solution this year based on customer demand.