CloudLock (Cisco)

Sunnova manages residential solar panels. In this case, there's data coming from different sources and way. They really need a way to have a fundamental understanding of their data to meet regulatory, policy and confidential APIs.

Protecting a dynamic workforce and client trustWith corporate parents like Microsoft and Accenture, IT consultancy Avanade was literally born to deliver digital innovation and results for clients and their customers through the Microsoft ecosystem. 4,000 clients in 24 countries later and now the #1 Microsoft services company in the world, Avanade is creating the digital future, which at times entails first overcoming the limitations of the digital present and recent past.The future of work is heading outside of the office. To be most effective for clients, the vast majority of professionals work outside of offices at client sites, airports, hotels, and everywhere else they can leverage the cloud to deliver the ubiquity clients need.A highly mobile workforce means that it’s very difficult to use traditional security methods to protect endpoints, workstations, and clients, since it’s very difficult to enforce mechanisms and security controls when users are off the corporate network, Security solutions like firewalls or web proxies don’t help protect endpoints when they’re not actually in the office, which created unacceptable risk.

As Cloudera grew, the time-intensive access controls it relied on to help safeguard its data secured in Cloud-based applications struggled to scale. To secure its users, apps, and very sensitive data in cloud applications, Cloudera added a cloud access security broker (CASB) solution to track and monitor all cloud activity and gained unparalleled visibility to speed remediation and mitigate risk. Protecting that data—much of it highly sensitive, personally identifiable, and subject to regulation—is Cloudera CISO Eddie Garcia’s top priority.