by Angela Guess
Antone Gonsalves reports, “Symantec launched a cloud security platform that will be available to channel partners in the second half of the year. O3, which has been in beta since last year, automates data protection and governance and is designed to provide access to information based on corporate policies. O3 uses identity as a basis for allowing single sign-on to cloud services.”
Brian Duckering of Symantec commented, “O3 adds a control point for enterprises, so people are actually going through a gateway where there’s a single point of authentication… We can verify who they are and then use that same identity as they’re accessing sites.” The article continues, “O3, launched at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, will be rolled out in three phases, Duckering said. The first will encompasses access control through single sign-on and identity brokering, followed by data loss prevention and encryption technologies and compliance control through the aggregation of security events to perform audits. The strategy behind O3 is to give corporate employees access to cloud services that are necessary for their jobs, while ensuring data protection.”
photo credit: Symantec
