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Protect Data in Enterprise Cloud Applications with NextLabs Data-Centric Security
Enterprise cloud applications hold confidential customer and business data. As companies contend with a more distributed workforce, the proliferation of mobile and cloud technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and new regulatory requirements, they need a dynamic approach to data security that allows enough flexibility to achieve business objectives while safeguarding valuable data.
NextLabs Application Enforcer provides granular access control and data governance for enterprise cloud applications. Through NextLabs’ patented Dynamic Authroization platform, organizations can leverage attribute-based access control (ABAC) and centralized policy management to improve their security and compliance posture, with policies enforced in real time. Controls include:
- Transaction- and data-level access management across all applications on the platform
- Information barriers that segregate regulated data or confidential projects to avoid data spills and contamination
- Separation between the records a user may view and the subset they may create, edit, or delete
- Role segregation policies created and enforced across the platform
Why Use Application Enforcer for Cloud Applications?
Protect Sensitive Data – Policies control access to business functions and sensitive customer data based on attributes such as user roles and metadata; each product supports the attribute sources of its own platform.
Ensure Compliance – Manage, educate, enforce, and audit access policies to sensitive corporate data to meet regulations such as GDPR, SOX, and HIPAA.
Reduce Security and Compliance Management Costs – Attribute-driven dynamic authorization removes the need for costly customizations, multiple instances, or the management of individual authorization and user groups.
Improve Business Agility – Authorization logic is managed through an externalized, standard-based policy framework, slashing application development time and automating change management processes.
Application Enforcer Products
Secures the confidential customer and sales data held in the Salesforce CRM platform, controlling access to business functions and records, and enforcing segregation of duties in real time.
Secures data across ServiceNow’s IT service, operations, and business management applications, and adds granular data filtering so users see only the requests, incidents, or other records they are entitled to – authorization determined by attributes such as department, position, or project assignment, compared against record attributes such as incident severity or type of issue.
Common Capabilities Across Cloud Applications
- Attribute-Based Access Control – Policies examine the attributes of the data being accessed, the context of the request, and the user’s identity to control access to data, business transactions, and batch processes. Changes to those attributes are taken into account automatically, reducing the customized code otherwise needed to modify roles when a user’s business function, assignment, or location changes.
- Centralized Policy Management – Authorization policies are stored in CloudAz, NextLabs’ cloud-based centralized policy server, and can be managed directly by data or compliance owners using single natural language statements, with no coding expertise required. CloudAz governs policies across all applications and services, not only the cloud platform in question.
- Dynamic Runtime Policy Enforcement – The policy engine evaluates the real-time value of policy attributes to determine whether a user is authorized at runtime, eliminating the need for administrators to track roles, permissions, and data ownership as users move between department or as records are modified.
- Centralized Audit and Monitoring – User activity and data access are tracked and stored in a central audit server, covering both platform and non-platform applications, with analytics on user behavior and access patterns delivered through dashboards, reports, and automated monitoring.
Deploy Across Your Cloud Applications
Whichever enterprise cloud applications your organization runs on, NextLabs Application Enforcer applies one consistent, attribute-driven layer of access control and data governance – protecting business-critical data in real time while keeping authorization out of application code.
