Cisco CloudLock Reviews & Insights

Cloudlock helps us with pii protection by reducing dwell time of sensitive files. It also is a major element of our data loss prevention strategy, by allowing us to the transfer of files in and out of the organization. Finally it is a great indicator of accidental deletions of files in SharePoint and alerts us to the cause of missing files.

Obviously, good scenarios would be where no existing data loss prevention solution is in place, or anywhere that sensitive PII transits a SaaS cloud application. Another situation where it would excel would be for monitoring misuse of SaaS cloud resources, such as discovering personal files in a work environment storage product.

A situation where it is wholly inappropriate is for monitoring AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure environments. These services are not supported at all, but my customers and coworkers expect them to be.

We use Cisco Cloudlock to monitor access to our cloud infrastructure and protect sensitive data. Our organization has been able to identify when unauthorized data access has occurred and allowed the security team to take steps to secure and mitigate recovery. We monitor data and network access to our data from outside the US, personal email sharing, credit card information sharing, social security number sharing, apps in use, and general data risk with Cloudlock.

Cisco Cloudlock is a good fit for my organization consisting of 150 end users. While we have a small office product that can expand to cover any size organization, I would assume the overhead to monitor would increase. While my organization's business is in real estate, I would highly recommend this for all businesses that handle sensitive and private data. Being able to monitor our cloud infrastructure has allowed our security team to be more flexible in allowing approved users access as well.

Cisco CloudLock is there to protect, monitor, and secure all the sensitive content in a company, for instance, the encryption key, credit card numbers, and others. Cisco CloudLock uses the access security brokers, which are on [the] cloud, and they help the company to have safe system controls. More so, Cisco CloudLock has alert systems, which are in the form of notifications, making the system controllers away [from] the business operations. Finally, Cisco CloudLock closely monitors the sensitive database, and [keeps] a shield to keep any attack away from the system.

Cisco CloudLock is there to shield the most sensitive business database and activities, for instance, the [customer's] credit cards, the code keys, the login details, among others. More so, Cisco CloudLock protects and monitors some information in various software or systems, like that of G-suit, making the entire system reliable and convenient. Finally, Cisco CloudLock determines the response of the activity be conducted to control some of the activities that [put] a company in threat.

We basically use Cisco CloudLock to protect sensitive information along with another security measure we use with our applications. It includes very critical information like credit card numbers, encryption keys, etc. We particularly use BaNCS where we develop software that has high risk and involves banking. As the scope of the software is large and includes millions we set alerts and trigger risk mechanisms in case of inappropriate or malicious actions from the user side.

For an organization that has thousands of employees and has many projects which involve high-security software development. It is always good that we have another security layer to detect or alert in time to prevent a financial loss. If you are small organizations that don't have these risks and are low on budget then you can leave it, but I would recommend it as cyber attacks are increasing day by day.

We use Cisco CloudLock primarily to protect sensitive data from exposure in our Google Drive. Google has been able to go a long way toward replacing other forms of file sharing in our organization, but we still don't want some types of sensitive data there. With a very low false-positive rate (and certainly with no fancy regex configuration required), we can detect social security numbers and credit cards in our Google drive. Automatically notify the user, give them time to take action, and transfer the files out of their account to a secure location if they do not respond. This self-service workflow that Cisco CloudLock enables is why it can scale to such a large organization as ours. Our G Suite user count is relatively massive, but this product works well with minimal IT support. We sometimes need to flag false positives as such (usually in training documents designed to look like the data we're restricting). Cisco CloudLock also has other great features that help us manage our G Suite environment.

Cisco CloudLock is well suited to anyone that needs to monitor their Google Drive for certain types of data, especially if they don't have a lot of IT staff or a SOC to support it. It is less useful as an overall G Suite security solution. I also can't speak to the non-G Suite integrations (AWS, etc.) that they offer. Having our users be able to use Google Drive helps us ensure they aren't off on third-party services like Dropbox. Monitoring it ensures it is used as we intend.