Deploy Use of Out of Band API to Achieve Real-Time Control & Data Security

Marketing Team Cloud Security Expert - CloudCodes Software
  • March 21st, 2021

Introduction to Out of Band API

CloudCodes leads the market of CASB service with a versatile deployment infrastructure, which comprises multiple out-of-band API and inline proxy deployment states. From the initial stage, client use cases have been the layout to assist what deployment features to create and release in the marketplace. For clients who are completely focused on the sanctioned applications, IT-led online services like Microsoft Office 365 and don’t have any requirement for real-time control due to which CloudCodes out of band API deployment solution is selected. It is being used by some of the biggest Google, Office 365, Slack, and Box deployments in the world.

For consumers who wish to have users’ real-time control system on unmanaged devices using sanctioned apps, IT-led application suites like MS Office 365, deployment options are concentrated on the reverse proxy infrastructure. Also, CloudCodes has numerous clients who use a reverse proxy to protectively activate access to the sanctioned cloud application from unmanaged devices. If a use case is centered around that real-time data visibility and control over both sanctioned and unsanctioned applications from managed devices, we created a number of options for forwarding proxy. Several largest organizations deploy CloudCodes CASB solutions for securing a huge amount of users using multiple cloud platforms in real-time. CloudCodes accesses a range of magnitude more cloud transactions through this approach than any other CASB.

The development team of CloudCodes is dedicated to new innovations when it is about deploying infrastructures with the latest traffic steering addition. The upcoming innovation is acquiring some of the inline aspects of real-time data control and enforcing that to an out-of-band deployment approach. How could you possibly gain real-time data control, if you aren’t inline? This is where trending cloud service vendors like Box and Microsoft realize the importance of real-time control and have several APIs, which are originated to acquire this by activating CloudCodes solution. This activation is required to deny or approve an employee’s operation-based standards set in the CloudCodes program. The API basically waits for a conclusion before it permits the action to finish, and the entire scenario takes place in the absence of any cloud traffic flow. The outcome is reduced risk and relieve the discomfort data security groups giving a hold-your-breath moment they recently experience via standard APIs.

Examples to Demonstrate Role of CloudCodes CASB

  • Prevention Against Data Sharing – This scenario takes place when an individual selects a document holding confidential information in OneDrive and clicks on the ‘Share’ button to share it with someone who is outside the company’s domain. With typical deployment solution of CASB via API, you will have to wait for the sharing action to be created and remove it afterward. This shows an opportunity for a confidential data breach to unauthorized persons. With the use of a new API solution, users wouldn’t be able to develop share at the first chance.
  • Prevention Against Data Uploading – This occur when a person tries to upload confidential information in the OneDrive. With typical CASB deployments through API, you have to hold for the document upload action to finish before you can scan it to check whether it matches defined DLP standards or not. The duration in between the upload activity and scan differs on the basis of integration of scanning interval and webhooks enforcement but, there will always be an opportunity for a data breach to occur. This solution can secure uploading in real-time in absence of noticeable latency. Adoption of out of band API solution works pretty faster in comparison to the inline CASB solution. It provides the advantage to eliminate the chance for a confidential data breach but, potentially at the amount of user experience provided the latency originated during the waiting duration.

The real-time control promises without any requirement to be inline might sound too good to be real and in some scenarios it is. Like several good times in human’s life, there are a few trade-offs. Initially, the software requires to be an IT-led, sanctioned applications since administration access is always needed for a cloud access security broker to access an API for CSPs. Also, the program must support this feature through API, and recently only a few numbers of providers like Box and Microsoft have something publicly underway.

Inline Solutions Have Limitations So, Go For New One

We believe that the present deployment approaches will continue to occur in huge client environments, which demand real-time visibility and control. This comprises of covering end users that are mobile, remote, and on-premises, and accessing online services from managed as well as unmanaged devices. All with no trade-offs connected to real-time activities, user experience, or app coverage. That being stated, we are eager about this new deployment feature! The upcoming future looks bright in aspects of Cyber security.

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