Improved Access Control Through Time & Device Restriction

Marketing Team Cloud Security Expert - CloudCodes Software
  • November 5th, 2020

Device Restriction For Improved Access Control

Today is the era of the internet; the era of cloud computing, the era of BYOD (bring your own device)! Professionals all around the globe are carrying multiple devices to their offices and also accessing critical organizational data via these devices. These increases work efficiency, no doubt about that, as people can work even while they are on the go or when they are at home. So, productivity definitely increases manifolds. But, data being accessed on any of the devices, and those devices are carried anywhere. So, seeing a larger picture, any employee even without any ill intent can get that exposed to malicious hands when they leave their devices unattended anywhere, risking critical data and posing serious threats of thefts, leakages, and data loss. In light of this, improved Access Control through device restriction is something that is not just important, but the need of the hour!

Sometimes Advantages Turn Into Disadvantages

A great advantage point of cloud computing work models for enterprises is the easy and comfortable access of data from any corner of the globe; whichever location they might be at, they can still access their data and keep pace with work, thus meeting commitments in time; and thus the work never gets delayed. This increasing user mobility and data flexibility are really changing the shape of the corporate work fields and amplifying productivity considerably. But, at the same time, this flexibility is turning around the flip-side of cloud computing and this is data exposure to unwelcoming hackers owing to it; who are gaining easy and comfortable access to crucial data from any part of the world. Cloud security has really become a serious concern in today’s scenario, given such voluminous confidential data that firms hold in their cloud storage systems.

Improved Access Control For Cloud Security

For universal user access being provided by cloud computing work models, it is now crucial for enterprises to have some real-time surveillance over their critical data being transmitted in these work systems, and at the same time, to tap user behavior for this ultra-sensitive data. Applications that use cloud security services certainly have some in-built improved access control solutions for cloud data security, but these are definitely not adequate to complete check data breaches happening every day in corporate corridors. This largely welcomes Cloud Access Security Brokers into the current picture of firms’ cloud security scenarios.

Have A Better Control With Improved Access Control

CloudCodes provides customized CASB solutions, which have improved the Access Control module enabling firms to easily cap user data access so as to tap on the data being transmitted into the system for the safety of that data in the best interest of the organizations deploying such solutions. Thus, helping the firms bridge the security gaps in a foolproof way, working up as a connecting link between the firms and cloud service providers; enhancing their security systems considerably. The CASB solutions provided by CloudCodes has been enabling a large number of corporate entities to impose restrictions for ensuring complete enterprise security by delivering utmost data protection control as well as data visibility into the use of organizational data, inside and outside of the workplaces in any number of office locations; thus, harnessing complete access control for data. The Access Control module of customized CloudCodes CASB solution helps in imposing restriction policies including time restriction and device restriction etc. to ensure cloud data access only on authorized devices, and within allowed time-frames, both inside the firm and also when the users are accessing data outside the office.

Device Restriction

With device restriction policy, it’s possible to restrict the users to access organizational data over only some specific allowed devices in the office and also outside the office premises when they are on the go. With this device restriction policy, it is possible to restrict users to use just one or a few allowed and authorized devices for securer management of the company’s critical data by imposing such restriction.

Time Restriction

With the time restriction policies, it would be possible for the IT to restrict users from accessing data over some particular days or during any particular time of a day.

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