Cisco Cloudlock Wisconsin Public Schools

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Cisco Cloudlock Case Study

Wisconsin Public Schools

Introduction

This case study of Wisconsin Public Schools is based on a December 2017 survey of Cisco Cloudlock customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Cloudlock gives us app control and insight to information that should not be stored by users in the cloud."

Challenges

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

Purchased Cloudlock to solve the following challenges:
- More securely enable cloud app adoption
- Protect sensitive organizational data
- 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 organization uses:

Purchased Cloudlock for the following reason:
- Ease of deployment
- Threat insight
- 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 organization achieved the following results with Cisco Cloudlock:

Realized value from Cloudlock in < 1 day.
Achieved the following outcomes with Cloudlock:
- 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 up to 50%.
States Cloudlock’s role in their cloud app security is very important.

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Wisconsin Public Schools

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