Your employees are using dozens of cloud applications every day to collaborate and be productive—Microsoft 365, Dropbox, Salesforce, and countless others you may not even know about. This use of unsanctioned applications is called “Shadow IT,” and it’s one of the biggest blind spots in modern business security.  

Without visibility, you can’t answer critical questions:

Where is our sensitive company data being stored?

Are employees moving confidential files to personal cloud accounts?

Which high-risk applications are connected to our network?

How can we protect ourselves from malware and ransomware delivered through the cloud?

CloudTech Security’s Managed Cloud Security services, powered by a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), are the answer. We act as your security control point between your users and the cloud, giving you back the visibility and control you’ve lost.

Before you can protect your cloud environment, you must first understand it. This project-based assessment is the critical first step, designed to uncover all the cloud applications being used across your organization—both sanctioned and unsanctioned—and provide a clear, actionable report on your current risk posture.

• Who It’s For: Any business that has adopted cloud services but lacks clear visibility into how employees are using them. This is the perfect starting point for companies looking to get a handle on “Shadow IT” and understand their cloud-based risks.
• What Problem It Solves: “I know my employees are using cloud apps to get their work done, but I have no idea which ones, what data is being shared, or what security risks we’re exposed to.”
• What’s Included (The Deliverables):
  • Comprehensive Shadow IT Discovery: We analyze your network traffic logs to discover every cloud application and service being accessed by your users, providing a complete inventory of your organization’s cloud footprint.
  • Application Risk Scoring: Each discovered application is assigned a detailed risk score based on over 90 factors, including the provider’s security certifications, data handling policies, and compliance standards.
  • User Activity Analysis: A high-level overview of data usage patterns, showing which applications have the most users and the volume of data being uploaded and downloaded.
  • Cloud Risk Assessment Report: A comprehensive, easy-to-understand report that details all findings, highlights the highest-risk applications and user behaviors, and explains the potential business impact.
  • Strategic Recommendations Roadmap: A prioritized, actionable plan that provides clear recommendations for managing your cloud application usage, from blocking high-risk apps to developing formal security policies for sanctioned ones.

Pricing Model: Project-Based (Flat Fee)

This ongoing service provides the continuous visibility and control needed to protect your sensitive data and ensure regulatory compliance in the cloud. We move beyond discovery to actively enforce your security policies, preventing data loss before it happens.

• Who It’s For: Businesses that rely on sanctioned cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and need to protect sensitive data (e.g., financial records, intellectual property, PII) and maintain compliance with standards like HIPAA or CMMC.
• What Problem It Solves: “We need to prevent employees from accidentally sharing sensitive files with the wrong people or moving company data to personal cloud accounts, and we need to be able to prove our compliance to auditors.”
• What’s Included (The Deliverables):
  • Everything in the Cloud Application Risk Assessment, PLUS:
  • Continuous Cloud Monitoring: Ongoing discovery and risk analysis of new cloud applications as they appear in your environment.
  • Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy Management: We work with you to define and implement granular DLP policies to identify and protect sensitive data. This includes blocking the upload or download of specific data types to unsanctioned applications or personal accounts.
  • Collaboration Control: We configure and enforce policies to control how data is shared with external parties from your sanctioned cloud applications, preventing unauthorized data exfiltration.
  • SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM): We continuously monitor the security configurations of your major SaaS applications (like Microsoft 365) to identify and remediate misconfigurations that could lead to a breach.
  • Monthly Cloud Security & Compliance Report: A detailed monthly report summarizing all discovered activity, policy violations, and actions taken, providing a clear audit trail for compliance purposes.

Pricing Model: Monthly Retainer

Our most comprehensive offering combines strategic visibility and data protection with advanced, real-time threat defense. We act as your dedicated cloud security operations team, actively monitoring for and responding to threats that target your cloud applications and users.

• Who It’s For: Businesses in high-risk or highly regulated industries, especially those in the maritime and oil & gas sectors, that need proactive defense against sophisticated cloud-based threats like malware, ransomware, and compromised user accounts.
• What Problem It Solves: “We’re concerned about advanced threats targeting our cloud data and users. We need an expert partner who can not only set policies but also detect and respond to malicious activity in real-time.”
• What’s Included (The Deliverables):
  • Everything in the Managed Cloud Data Protection & Compliance package, PLUS:
  • Advanced Threat Protection: We implement real-time, inline controls to scan files for malware and ransomware as they are uploaded to or downloaded from your cloud applications, blocking threats before they can execute.
  • User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA): We monitor user activity for anomalies that could indicate a compromised account or an insider threat. This includes impossible travel alerts, unusual file download activity, and suspicious administrative actions.
  • Real-Time Threat Alerting & Response: When a high-risk threat is detected, we provide immediate alerting and coordinate the incident response process to contain the threat and mitigate its impact.
  • Adaptive Access Control: We implement policies that can challenge users with multi-factor authentication or block access entirely if a session is deemed high-risk based on the user, device, and location.
  • Quarterly Threat Briefing: A strategic meeting to review all detected threats, analyze trends, and provide proactive recommendations to strengthen your cloud security posture.

Pricing Model: Premium Monthly Retainer