Bitglass Listed in Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Access Security Brokers

CAMPBELL, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 29, 2015) - Bitglass, the total data protection company, today announced that Gartner's Market Guide for Cloud Access Security Brokers* (CASBs) lists Bitglass as a representative vendor. CASBs fill critical security and compliance gaps in public cloud applications like Office 365, Salesforce, and Box, allowing enterprises to migrate to the cloud, securely. According to Gartner, CASB is a "required platform for organizations using cloud services, and security leaders should use this research to shortlist CASB providers," and find they, "address gaps in security resulting from the significant increases in cloud service and mobile usage."

Gartner's Market Guide for CASBs details macro IT trends driving expansion and maturation of the market among them the accelerating move to cloud services and the shift in enterprise to non-PC form factors like tablets and smartphones.

Bitglass' Cloud Adoption Report from earlier this year also highlighted accelerating adoption of public cloud apps, finding that 48% of organizations are using a cloud-based productivity and email suite.

"As more organizations adopt cloud-based solutions, we are seeing rapid adoption of CASBs," said Nat Kausik, CEO, Bitglass. "IT leaders are turning to CASBs because they need a comprehensive solution that provides visibility and control across all devices."

Bitglass offers the only complete CASB solution, helping organizations secure data stored in the public cloud with API, forward- and reverse-proxy modes for comprehensive protection across all cloud app operating modes. This architecture delivers unmatched functionality, including patented full-strength, searchable cloud encryption, agentless mobile data protection, contextual access control, file level encryption and tracking, and more. The technology is in use across hundreds of organizations in every major vertical.

Gartner Market Guide Findings:

• "CASB is a required security platform for organizations using cloud services, and security leaders should use this research to shortlist CASB providers."
• "By 2020, 85% of large enterprises will use a Cloud Access Security Broker product for their cloud services which is up from fewer than 5% today."
• "Through 2020, 95% of cloud security failures will be the customer's fault."
• "The CASB feature set described by the four pillars in existing Gartner research will remain as compelling features for the foreseeable future, regardless of provider consolidations or the merging of product feature sets."

Download the full Gartner Market Guide, compliments of Bitglass, here: http://pages.bitglass.com/Gartner-CASB-Market-Guide-2015.html

*Market Guide for Cloud Access Security Brokers by Craig Lawson, Neil MacDonald, and Brian Lowans, October 22, 2015.
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About Bitglass
Bitglass (bitglass.com) is a Cloud Access Security Broker that delivers innovative technologies that transcend the network perimeter to deliver total data protection for the enterprise -- in the cloud, at access, on mobile devices, on the network and anywhere on the Internet. Bitglass was founded in 2013 by a team of industry veterans with a proven track record of innovation and execution. Bitglass is based in Silicon Valley.