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Cisco Cloudlock Customer Testimonial

Cloudlock has helped us achieve internal compliance for high-risk data applications in the cloud.

— Chief Information Officer, Educational Institution

Cisco Cloudlock Case Study

Large Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise professional services 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.

“I like Cloudlock’s ease of deployment, simple policy management, and the fact that I don’t need a large team to manage it.”

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
- 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
- Ease of use
- Comprehensiveness of the solution
- API-based approach
For connected applications, Cloudlock helped them to:
- Identify the OAuth applications users have self-enabled
- Understand the risk of OAuth applications connected to their environment
- Block malicious and/or overprivileged applications
- Sanction applications organization-wide

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Cisco Cloudlock:

Realized value from Cloudlock in < 1 hour.
Achieved the following outcomes with Cloudlock:
- Improved compliance posture and lowered risk
- 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 60%.
States that Cloudlock’s role in their cloud app security is critical.

Cisco Cloudlock Case Study

State & Local Government

Introduction

This case study of a state & local government 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.

“What I most value about Cloudlock is the ease of use.”

Challenges

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

Purchased Cloudlock to solve the following challenges:
- Better detect account compromise
- Provide visibility into connected cloud apps

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:
- Identify the OAuth applications users have self-enabled
- Understand the risk of OAuth applications connected to their environment
- Block malicious and/or overprivileged applications
- Sanction applications organization-wide

Results

The surveyed organization 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 protection against account compromises
- Achieved control over third-party cloud apps
- Increased confidence in expanding their use of cloud applications
Decreased their data exposure with the use of Cloudlock by 85%
States Cloudlock’s role in their cloud app security is very important.

Cisco Cloudlock Customer Testimonial

Cloudlock was really easy to setup and use. Once the policies are defined internally, it was really easy to configure them in Cloudlock and get enforceable results.

— Gael Frouin, Information Security Officer, Berklee

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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.