Cisco made its official entry into the access security Brokers (CASB) Cloud market by partnering with Elastica, a cloud application security service provider.
The agreement includes a reseller agreement that provides services CASB Cisco Elastica customers. The partnership reinforces Cisco's security portfolio, in order to enable its customers better security risks and address compliance associated with the application and adoption of cloud services.
Ben Munroe, Senior Director of Business Group Security Cisco product marketing, told Channel Partners "It's very apparent our customers are turning to the cloud." However, many are approaching cloud and security with resistance, it is obvious to us to help them on this journey.
Elastica think security in the same way that we do, "he said." It is this notion of looking threats, look at it before, during and after an attack ... and have a strategy in place.
As part of the agreement, Elastica offers customers Cloud Cisco SOC your portfolio, a new range of cloud application security services to help companies eliminate the exposure of sensitive and regulated data, identify and prevent activities malicious and achieve greater visibility and control over the use of cloud computing applications.
This is the first agreement between the two companies.
According to research firm Gartner Inc. security vulnerabilities in large organizations are at their highest point, and the impact of advanced attacks came to the attention level meeting room and provided funds to many organizations to "better their chances against such attacks."
In addition, Gartner expects the IT services market in the world exceed $ 1100000000000 2017.Rehan Jalil, CEO Elastica, said that most of this money will be spent on applications and cloud security, with a growth opportunity for your business .
"Our mission is to make use of the implementation of secure cloud," he said. "Our hope is to grow the business and also be beneficial for the client. From our point of view, the possibility of applying cloud is a global phenomenon."
Together, Cisco and Elastica transform IT risk monitoring their shade and controls; visibility and control to improve network security and Web; detection capabilities and exploitation, protection and research.
"Cisco Selected as a powerful channel is a measure of mutual benefit, with Elastica gain wider range of clients and Cisco can offer a product that well complements existing networking giant deals," said Adrian Sanabria, analyst Safety at 451 Research.
Cisco has about 70,000 channel partners and 380 sites around the world that are doing business in more than 165 countries.
