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Morisawa Gains Unprecedented Visibility and Control of Its Cloud Environment

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Discrete Manufacturing
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Morisawa K.K., a pioneer in the Japanese phototypesetting machine industry, faced a challenge with its cloud services. Each department was making its own decisions about which cloud services were secure enough for business use, as there was no organization-wide standard. This led to concerns over the amount of risk exposure due to not having clear guidelines. The Information Systems team urgently needed to prepare a set of standards for which cloud services are acceptable or not. They were also concerned about the scalability of manually keeping an inventory of those cloud services. The team was also concerned with what criteria to use and who would decide whether or not a given cloud service would be considered enterprise-ready. Morisawa was aware that many cloud services lack the security capabilities to prevent unwanted data loss or deletion. Read More
About Customer	Morisawa K.K. is a pioneer in the Japanese phototypesetting machine industry, having invented the machine in July 1924. Today, Morisawa fonts are used for a wide range of purposes, from business texts to advertisements, books, and digital content production, as well as for e-book and other layout solutions. Recently, the company's universal design fonts 'UD digital textbook' and 'BIZ UD font' were adopted by Microsoft for use in Windows 10. In addition, the Morisawa font 'MC Catalog +' is widely adopted, especially by local governments in Japan. The company has a cloud-first stance towards new business systems and has adopted Office 365. Read More
Solution	Morisawa adopted Netskope’s Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution to gain visibility and control of all cloud services used within its large organization. Netskope’s cloud proxy sits between a user and cloud services, becoming a single control point for visibility, access control, data protection, and granular logs that enable clients to enforce their security policies. Such policies can be enforced across entire categories of cloud apps rather than needing to be set on an app by app basis, without loss to usability or user friendliness, and while adhering to a consistent security policy. Morisawa conducted a comparative evaluation of several CASB products, including Netskope. At the beginning of the evaluation and verification process, Morisawa elected to upload firewall log data to Netskope, analyzing cloud services used in-house. The preliminary questionnaire identified 54 types of cloud services; however, analysis by Netskope revealed more than double that amount in actual use. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Discrete Manufacturing

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Morisawa K.K., a pioneer in the Japanese phototypesetting machine industry, faced a challenge with its cloud services. Each department was making its own decisions about which cloud services were secure enough for business use, as there was no organization-wide standard. This led to concerns over the amount of risk exposure due to not having clear guidelines. The Information Systems team urgently needed to prepare a set of standards for which cloud services are acceptable or not. They were also concerned about the scalability of manually keeping an inventory of those cloud services. The team was also concerned with what criteria to use and who would decide whether or not a given cloud service would be considered enterprise-ready. Morisawa was aware that many cloud services lack the security capabilities to prevent unwanted data loss or deletion.

About Customer

Morisawa K.K. is a pioneer in the Japanese phototypesetting machine industry, having invented the machine in July 1924. Today, Morisawa fonts are used for a wide range of purposes, from business texts to advertisements, books, and digital content production, as well as for e-book and other layout solutions. Recently, the company's universal design fonts 'UD digital textbook' and 'BIZ UD font' were adopted by Microsoft for use in Windows 10. In addition, the Morisawa font 'MC Catalog +' is widely adopted, especially by local governments in Japan. The company has a cloud-first stance towards new business systems and has adopted Office 365.

Solution

Morisawa adopted Netskope’s Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) solution to gain visibility and control of all cloud services used within its large organization. Netskope’s cloud proxy sits between a user and cloud services, becoming a single control point for visibility, access control, data protection, and granular logs that enable clients to enforce their security policies. Such policies can be enforced across entire categories of cloud apps rather than needing to be set on an app by app basis, without loss to usability or user friendliness, and while adhering to a consistent security policy. Morisawa conducted a comparative evaluation of several CASB products, including Netskope. At the beginning of the evaluation and verification process, Morisawa elected to upload firewall log data to Netskope, analyzing cloud services used in-house. The preliminary questionnaire identified 54 types of cloud services; however, analysis by Netskope revealed more than double that amount in actual use.

Impact #1	Automate identifying cloud services in use
Impact #2	Create data protection policies across hundreds of cloud services
Impact #3	Ability to put in place granular policies

Impact #1

Automate identifying cloud services in use

Impact #2

Create data protection policies across hundreds of cloud services

Impact #3

Ability to put in place granular policies

Benefit #1	Identified more than double the amount of cloud services in actual use than initially estimated

Benefit #1

Identified more than double the amount of cloud services in actual use than initially estimated

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Morisawa Gains Unprecedented Visibility and Control of Its Cloud Environment

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