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Cisco Cloudlock Customer Testimonial

Cloudlock has allowed us to seamlessly integrate the Google Suite for Education into our organization. It has been a game changer for teacher growth and student success margins.

— Operations Director, Educational Institution

Cisco Cloudlock Case Study

Medium Enterprise Computer Software Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise computer software company is based on a December 2017 survey of Cisco Cloudlock customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Cloudlock has given us significantly better controls around cloud DLP.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco Cloudlock:

Purchased Cloudlock to solve the following challenges:
- More securely enable cloud app adoption
- Protect sensitive organizational data
- Meet compliance and governance requirements
- Better detect account compromise
- Better detect insider threats
- Provide visibility into connected cloud apps

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Cisco Cloudlock that the surveyed company uses:

Purchased Cloudlock for the following reason:
- Ease of deployment
- Threat insight
- Ease of use
- Comprehensiveness of the solution

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Cisco Cloudlock:

Realized value from Cloudlock in < 1 hour.
Achieved the following outcomes with Cloudlock:
- Increased protection against data breaches
- Improved compliance posture and lowered risk
- Improved protection against account compromises
- Achieved control over third-party cloud apps
- Improved visibility into cloud usage
- Increased confidence in expanding their use of cloud applications
Decreased their data exposure with the use of Cloudlock by 75%.

Cisco Cloudlock Case Study

Educational Institution

Introduction

This case study of an educational institution is based on a December 2017 survey of Cisco Cloudlock customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“We gained visibility into data loss with Cloudlock.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Cisco Cloudlock:

Purchased Cloudlock to solve the following challenges:
- Protect sensitive organizational data
- Meet compliance and governance requirements

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Cisco Cloudlock that the surveyed organization uses:

Purchased Cloudlock for the following reason:
- Ease of deployment
- Threat insight
- Ease of use
For connected applications, Cloudlock helped them to:
- Understand the risk of OAuth applications connected to their environment
- Block malicious and/or overprivileged applications

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Cisco Cloudlock:

Achieved the following outcomes with Cloudlock:
- Improved compliance posture and lowered risk
- Improved protection against account compromises
Decreased their data exposure with the use of Cloudlock by up to 50%.
*States Cloudlock’s role in their cloud app security is important.

Cisco Cloudlock Customer Testimonial

Cloudlock helps us secure PII and other sensitive data for students and staff.

— System Administrator, Educational Institution

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Cisco Cloudlock is a cloud-native cloud access security broker (CASB) that helps you move to the cloud safely. It protects your cloud users, data, and apps.