Fortinet addresses the loss of visibility, control, and compliance when data moves into sanctioned, tolerated, and unsanctioned SaaS applications. Traditional firewalls inspect in-line traffic but cannot see cloud-stored data or remote users accessing services directly. A cloud access security broker extends policy into SaaS through authentication, device profiling, DLP, malware protection, encryption, analytics, and reporting. The brief contrasts proxy CASBs with API-based services, which can inspect stored and new data without slowing traffic or complex device proxies. FortiCASB uses APIs for detection, mitigation, analysis, and reporting, integrates with FortiGate, FortiGuard, and FortiAnalyzer, supports major SaaS services, generates alerts and automated actions, and scales as a hosted

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