Lookout, Inc. announced enhancements to its
Lookout Cloud Security Platform
that are designed to help organizations better discover, assess and
protect their data as it moves across any network, from the endpoint to
the cloud. These enhancements provide organizations with a unified
solution that will expertly secure their data by maximizing visibility
and protecting access across all applications.
The Lookout Cloud Security Platform, the Company's Security Service Edge
(SSE) offering, continuously monitors the risk posture of users and
their devices to provide dynamic and granular zero-trust access based on
the sensitivity level of apps and data, enabling organizations to
protect their workers, devices, applications and data from unauthorized
access and modern-day internet-based threats. Services in the platform
include: Secure Private Access (ZTNA), Secure Internet Access (SWG) and Secure Cloud Access (CASB).
Lookout's data-centric cloud security innovation helps safeguard
customers' sensitive information as it moves across networks, clouds,
applications and devices:
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Discover and onboard all private apps with enterprise app discovery: When it comes to protecting sensitive corporate data, ZTNA offers a far more secure approach compared to traditional VPNs. Unlike
VPNs that provide access to the entire network for example, ZTNA offers
granular access control, which limits users to specific applications.
This reduces the overall attack surface and prevents lateral movement of
threats, minimizing the risk of compromised accounts or devices
compromising the entire infrastructure. Lookout Secure Private Access
discovers and helps onboard private applications running on an
organization's network hosted on-prem or in the cloud, and currently
being accessed by a VPN. Using this functionality, IT can now see all
private applications being accessed by their users and take steps to
seamlessly define and enforce access and data protection policies for
these apps.
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Extend zero trust protection with firewall as a service: The
Lookout Cloud Security Platform has an integrated cloud firewall that
extends inspection of incoming and outgoing traffic across all ports and
protocols, enabling granular visibility and access control into non-web
traffic to stop zero-day threats. With this enhancement, customers can
apply more granular security and access policies across all of their
apps (web, TCP, UDP, ICMP) and both internet and intranet traffic.
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Expand data classification and protection capabilities in Google Drive:
Google Labels Classification expands data classification capabilities
across the Lookout Cloud Security Platform through an integration with
Google Drive labels. This integration helps Lookout customers classify
sensitive data with Google Drive labels and enforce security policies
based on these labels to protect sensitive data stored in Google Drive's
API mode.
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Secure traffic and enforce policies on guest networks and IoT devices:
Organizations need visibility and control over all endpoints and users
within their network in order to reduce the risk of malware infections
and data exfiltration through these channels. Lookout has enhanced
traffic inspection capabilities, expanding data and threat protection to
guest users of company networks and traffic coming from IoT devices.
This helps ensure company networks are not compromised from these access
points, thereby preventing data exfiltration.
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Advanced threat protection from phishing and zero-day threats: Lookout
has enhanced its integration with remote browser isolation (RBI) and
cloud sandboxing to improve the user experience and provide robust
threat protection for organizations, preventing users from accessing
malicious sites and content.
"In today's digital world, data is the lifeblood of every organization,"
said Pete Finalle, Research Manager, IDC. "It is vitally important that
organizations protect their data and ensure that it is secure, no
matter where it resides or how it is accessed. Lookout's new cloud
security features offer greater assurance to IT organizations that their
data is safe and their users are protected."
"Lookout continues to innovate the Lookout Cloud Security Platform in
ways that strengthen the protection of users and data from security
threats and enhance the end-user experience," said Aaron Cockerill,
Executive Vice President of Product, Lookout. "We are the only vendor
that unifies cloud and endpoint security into one platform. With this
latest release, Lookout continues to build upon our strategic vision to
put data security at the intersection of today's workplace and modern
cybersecurity threats."