TechValidate Research on Cisco Cloudlock

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.

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.