TechValidate Research on Cisco Cloudlock


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.

“Cloudlock has helped us gain visibility and control over both document sharing in Google Drive and third-party application integrations via OAuth.”

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
    • 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:
    • Comprehensiveness of the solution
    • API-based approach
  • For connected applications, Cloudlock helped them to:
    • Identify theĀ 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 week.
  • 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 more than 90%.




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Cisco Cloudlock by TechValidate.

TechValidate verifies the identity and organizational affiliation of all participants that contribute to published research data. When research participants so desire, we also guarantee their anonymity so that they may share information honestly and freely.


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