التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة مصر لأخبار تكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
The new edition of Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud gives businesses more visibility over
shadow IT. With the new cloud discovery feature, an IT administrator can safeguard
compliance to corporate security policies by controllingthe unauthorized use of potentially
unsecure applications and sites by employees. The control over cloud services helps
organizationsminimize the risk of corporate data being exposed to a breach, while allowing
employees to work from anywhere.
Almost every employee (99%) would sometimes like to work remotely, according to the
“State of Remote Work” report. The reality shows that this “would like” may easily turn
into “have to”.In March 2020many industry leading businesses such as General Motors,
Apple, JP Morgan, not to mention smaller businesses all over the world, have moved their
employees to home offices because of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
In such a scenario,it becomes even more important for administrators to ensureboth
corporate and employee data remains secure and private. The use of SaaS helps businesses
and employees be agile, work remotely and stay tuned even if they can’t be in the
office.But along with authorized corporate services, employees canchoose to use other
applications through their own initiative or just mix corporate and personal habits –
generating what is known as shadow IT. Whether it ismessengers, file sharing services or
any kind of small tools for work or even personal needs oncorporate devices, the level of
securityin such applications can be obscure to say the least. Even if they are used with good
intentions without approval from IT departments, doing so can still potentially lead to
compromising corporate data or even a malware infection which would threaten an
organization’s reputation.
Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud now can help IT administrators to maintain more
transparency over corporate IT and ensure that only trusted cloud services are used within
their organization. The cloud discoveryfeature allows them to establish the list of
authorized cloud services which meet corporate security policies, and to ensure following
this list is adhered to. The data about the used categories of services and dedicated
applications is visible in a dashboard where an administrator can tune the access to them
for different user profiles, setting privileges for different groups of users according to their
working needs.
In addition, tohelp organizations keep their cloud emailinboxes and collaboration tools
safe,Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud now includes Kaspersky Security for Microsoft
Office 365. Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Office 365 protects all Microsoft Office 365
applications including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online and ensures secure
file sharing through Microsoft Teams. Protection from email threats is enabled through a
neural network-based anti-phishing engine that uses more than 1,000 criteria to detect
phishing emails, as well as malicious URL database, anti-spoofing, and prevention of business email compromise. Also, scanning of files uploadedinto SharePoint Online,
OneDrive and Microsoft Teams ensures they don’t contain malware and it doesn’t spread across corporate endpoints.
“Remote working may naturally become the only way to keep business operations moving
for more and more companies, during these turbulent times. This means extrachallenges
for those who administrate IT and ensure cybersecurity within their company — because
they need to somehow control shadow ITso it doesn’t harm corporate data and doesn’t
expose a business to cyberthreats. There is no way to just easily stop this. Kaspersky
Endpoint Security Cloud arms businesses with the necessary tool to take control,along with
proven endpoint and Microsoft Office 365 protection all in one,” says Sergey Martsynkyan,
Head of B2B Product Marketing, Kaspersky.
