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If there's one thing that can strike terror into a CIO's heart, it's
the security implications of the cloud. If there's another, it's the
"bring your own" technology trend. Combine the two, and
you've got the motivation behind IBM's new Cloud Security
Enforcer.

Thanks to having set up used a private email server while

U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has become a poster
child for "Shadow IT," or the phenomenon by which
employees bring their own technologies into the workplace,
but there's no denying its prevalence. One-third of Fortune
1000 employees share and upload corporate data on thirdparty cloud apps, according to a recent IBM Security study.
One in four link to cloud apps using a corporate log-in and
password.

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Announced Tuesday, Cloud Security Enforcer aims to help
companies safeguard the increasing use of bring your own
cloud-based apps at work. It combines cloud identity
management, also known as Identity-as-a-Service, with the
ability to discover any outside apps employees are using,
including those on their mobile devices. Equipped with those
combined capabilities, it enables companies to make access
more secure, IBM said.
Hosted on IBM Cloud, the tool can scan a corporate network,
find the apps employees are using and provide a more secure
way to access them. Four core capabilities help make that
happen.
First, companies can detect unauthorized cloud app usage,
enabling them to identify and securely configure the apps that
employees want to use as well as manage, view and direct
how employees can use them.

Cloud Security Enforcer can also be used to determine and

enforce which data owned by an organization can or cannot
be shared by employees via specific third-party cloud apps.
The tool can connect employees to third-party cloud apps
through security-focused connectors, including automatically
assigning sophisticated passwords. That, in turn, can help
alleviate security breaches caused by human error, IBM said.
Finally, Cloud Security Enforcer can also help protect against
employee-induced and cloud-based threats by analyzing realtime threat data from IBMs global X-Force Exchange threat
intelligence network, which scans the Internet and analyzes
more than 20 billion global security events daily.
IBM has built connectors for Cloud Security Enforcer into
Boxs cloud-based content management and collaboration
platform as well as Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps,
Salesforce.com and other popular enterprise software. Pricing
information was not immediately available.

Katherine Noyes Senior U.S. Correspondent

Katherine Noyes has been an ardent geek ever since she first conquered Pyramid of
Doom on an ancient TRS-80. Today she covers enterprise software in all its forms,
with an emphasis on cloud computing, big data, analytics and artificial intelligence.

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