CSS Launches Unified Data Security Across Cloud Platforms

New multi-cloud data security capability addresses need for unified management across AWS and Microsoft Azure  

Most enterprises utilize cloud storage today, but the number that use only a single cloud platform are few—and dwindling. While there may be operational benefits with a multi-cloud environment, customers tell us that it presents challenges to IT and security teams. Chief among these is operating independent data security solutions for each cloud. Disparate solutions can create confusion, inefficiencies and lack of unified visibility that is essential to maintaining data integrity. Other challenges include:

• Redundant and higher management overhead in terms of cost and time
• Interoperability and compatibility issues in operation and output/analysis
• Limited staff expertise

To help our customers streamline multi-cloud data security, Cloud Storage Security (CSS) is expanding our platform to support additional clouds, starting with Microsoft Azure. This new capability empowers users to apply the CSS malware protection and data loss prevention (DLP) solutions they trust and use in AWS to Azure Blob through one console with seamless integration, streamlined effort, and consolidated findings.

Through its unique selectable multi-engine malware scanning capabilities and cross-platform reach, the CSS multi-cloud solution unifies control, mitigation actions, and results in a single intuitive console, ensuring comprehensive visibility and rapid response to threats. Customers will now enjoy unified threat detection across AWS and Azure.

CSS customers who use AWS and Azure can preview multi-cloud support starting this month with general availability planned for November. Initial features include in-tenant scanning, malware detection of existing data within Azure Blob storage, unified findings available through the CSS console and quarantine capabilities.

In addition, CSS will release ongoing enhancements that include more market-leading malware detection engines, DLP quarantining capability, advanced ransomware analysis and mitigation, and cross-cloud event-based and API threat prevention.

“Emerging and evolving cyberthreats are what keep enterprise security teams up at night, and helping to eliminate gaps in coverage across multiple clouds will offer peace of mind,” said Steven Hess, CSS chief executive officer. “Extending our powerful and robust capabilities that have been tested in the fire of AWS deployments around the world, to address the increasingly complex real-world landscape of multi-cloud configurations is something our customers have been demanding. A single view of AWS and Azure is a first step toward creating a flexible secure environment without diminishing features and support for AWS.”

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