Stephen HeartyProduct Marketing Manager at Symantec, a division of Broadcom
Symantec, as a division of Broadcom, is excited to announce that we have been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security Gateways, Q2 2021.
Forrester rigorously evaluated the 8 most significant cloud security gateway vendors across 29 criteria, in three distinct areas: Current Offering, Strategy and Market Presence. We’ve invested significantly in our cloud security offerings, and view Forrester’s assessment as validation of our continued innovation, strong execution and vision. Symantec continues to serve our customers and provide a comprehensive and dependable solution to protect all of our customer’s data in the cloud.
Forrester Wave™ Leader: Cloud Security Gateways, 2021
The Importance of Both Proxy Based and API-Connectivity
One of the recommendations Forrester makes is that organisations should seek solutions that offer the flexibility of proxy technology for inline network traffic monitoring. To support remote work scenarios they observed that “API-based connectivity to cloud apps to detect data leaks, malware, threats, and anomalous activities is critically important.” Symantec’s CloudSOC solution is fully integrated with Symantec’s cloud-native Web Security Service and offers API connectors for many SaaS applications. In our view, this report recognizes the strength and breadth of our cloud security portfolio; with the highest scores possible in the following criteria:
Cloud Threat Detection
Cloud Malware Protection
DLP Reporting and Integration
DLP Policy Management
User Threat Protection CloudSOC has also made vast advancements in its unification of DLP, Role Based Access Controls, API integrations and its expanded coverage of SaaS applications.
Unification of DLPProvides CloudSOC customers the ability to use their existing policies configured in Symantec’s standalone DLP product and apply them to cloud apps via CloudSOC Gateway.
Role Based Access ControlsTo make it easier for admins to adhere to regulations based on geographic locations, CloudSOC imple ..
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