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BrightCloud™ Cloud Service Intelligence
Identify and manage interactions with authorized and shadow cloudservices and applications

Cloud transitions bring new security and compliancechallenges
Organizations face numerous security and compliance challenges as they entrust
more of their applications and confidential information to cloud services. They
must control access to workloads and data stores out of their direct supervision.
They need to identify and monitor interactions with unsanctioned “shadow IT”
applications and ensure that these don’t violate corporate policies. They arealso required to maintain compliance with government and industry standards
concerning the security and privacy of protected information. Failure in any of theseareas can lead to costly data breaches and severe fines.
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Security Service Edge (SSE), Secure
Access Service Edge (SASE), and other network and security technologies helporganizations address cloud service risks, enforce security policies, and evaluate
compliance with regulations. However, these solutions can’t perform to their fullpotential without comprehensive cloud service intelligence. They need to knowwhat cloud applications and services can be trusted, and how users are interactingwith both approved and unsanctioned cloud resources.

Solution: BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence
BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence enables technology and security providers
to enforce data-centric security policies that mitigate the risk of interactions withcloud services and associated applications. It enables security solution providers
and their customers to monitor when and how users access cloud services, assess
the risks of interacting with those services, and flag interactions that violate policies
and regulations.
BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence has three components:• Cloud Application Classification ̶ Classifies each cloud application based on its
type and purpose.
• Cloud Application Function ̶ Identifies important actions undertaken by users
within supported applications, such as data uploads and downloads.
• Cloud Application Reputation ̶ Assigns a heuristic-based score to every cloud
application representing the reputation of the application provider and the relative
safety of data and information managed by that provider.
The cloud application reputation score is calculated based on criteria such asapplication and data security, corporate governance, industry compliance andcertifications, and history of security breaches. The score also incorporates
BrightCloud’s Domain Safety Score, a technology that assesses the cybersecurity
risk to users and networks from visiting a domain. This score is a unique capability
that helps address issues with HTTPS encrypted traffic that limits visibility at thewebpage level. It allows organizations to better identify malicious content hiding
within benign domains, even when traffic from the domain uses encrypted HTTPS.

Key Benefits• Ability to assess cloud
application risks to better setup and enforce appropriate
policies for access and use• Better risk management
through discriminating
reputation scores• Capability to uncovermalicious content hiding
within encrypted andbenign domains throughBrightCloud’s unique Domain
Safety Score• Improved data loss
prevention and data
discovery based on
intelligence regarding cloud
application reputation anduse patterns• Better monitoring of data use
and movement throughout
the organization

• Identify traffic associated with each cloud application

Categories for
Cloud Application
Classification• Distinguish between approved and unsanctioned cloud applications• Cloud file sharing• Classify cloud applications and control access by their category• Social networking• Track and govern specific actions being performed on cloud applications• Webmail• Assess the risk to information security of cloud applications based on
governance, compliance, and security metrics• Instant messaging

Using BrightCloud Cloud Service Intelligence, security solution providers and theircustomers can:Typical Use Cases• Office document andproductivity

Organizations often use BrightCloud Cloud Intelligence Service to:• Streaming media• Monitor network bandwidth directed toward different cloud applications• Web meetings• Enforce access policies by application• IT services and hosting• Identify and categorize unsanctioned (“shadow IT”) applications to determine newaccess policies• Sales and CRM• Enforce tailored policies for unsanctioned applications and inappropriate activities• Enforce policies for moving data across and within cloud applications• Track abnormal activity related to cloud applications (e.g., excessive downloads)

Easy Integration
Using BrightCloud’s RESTful API and comprehensive SDK, technology partners
can easily integrate our services into their solutions. BrightCloud Cloud Service
Intelligence integrates with existing security solutions through the same SDK asother BrightCloud offerings, making integration of multiple services simple.
When combined with Web Classification and Reputation and other BrightCloud®
services, Cloud Service Intelligence offers a complete operational threat
intelligence solution that addresses the security and compliance challenges facing
online organizations.

• Website builder• Security• Marketing• Development Tools• Data Analytics• Project Management• Human capital management• E-Commerce• Accounting• Generative AI

Contact us to learn more
BrightCloud.com+1 800 870 8102

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