The Smartsheet enterprise platform has become an essential part of most organizations, as it has done much to transform the way customers conduct business and collaborate, with numerous services available to increase productivity and innovation. Within the McAfee customer base, customers had expressed their commitment to Smartsheet, but wanted to inject the security pedigree of McAfee to make their Smartsheet environments even stronger.
In June 2021, McAfee MVISION Cloud released support for Smartsheet – providing cornerstone CASB services to Smartsheet through the CASB Connect framework, which makes it possible to provide API-based security controls to cloud services, such as:
Data Loss Prevention (find and remediate sensitive data)
Activity Monitoring & Behavior Analytics (set baselines for user behavior)
Threat Detection (insider, compromised accounts, malicious/anomalous activities)
Collaboration Policies (assure sensitive data gets shared properly)
Device Access Policies (only authorized devices connect)
How does it work?
Utilizing the CASB Connect framework, McAfee MVISION Cloud becomes an authorized third party to a customer’s Smartsheet Event Reporting service. This is an API-based method for McAfee to ingest event/audit logs from Smartsheet.
These logs contain information about what activities occur in Smartsheet. This information has value; McAfee will see user logon activity, sheet creation, user creation activity, sheet updates, deletions, etc. Overall, over 120 unique items are stored in the activity warehouse where intelligence is inferred from it. When an inference is made (example: Insider Threat), the platform can show all the forensics data that lead to that conclusion. This provides valu ..
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