Introduction

Welcome, and thank you for selecting FortiCASB for your cloud security and monitoring needs.

FortiCASB is Fortinet's cloud-native Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) service, which provides visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection for cloud-based services. Using direct API access, FortiCASB enables deep inspection and policy management for data stored in cloud application platforms. It also provides detailed user analytics and management tools to ensure that policies are enforced and that your organization’s data is secure.

FortiCASB works by focusing on Gartner's four pillars of security: visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection.

• Visibility—Visibility is one of the most important aspects of cloud security. FortiCASB uses a series of methods such as data scans and analytics to answer the questions: who accessed information, what was accessed, when it was accessed, and from where did the access originate.
• Compliance—FortiCASB provides file content monitoring to find and report on regulated data in the cloud.
• Data security—FortiCASB runs scans to check for sensitive data, such as social security numbers or credit card numbers. It then classifies this data under different levels of sensitivity and sends different alerts depending on the sensitivity level of the data accessed.
• Threat protection—FortiCASB uses User Entity Behavior Analytics to watch for suspicious or irregular user behavior. It also sends out alerts for malicious behavior.