You are a security analyst for CloudSec, a company providing cloud security solutions. One of your clients, a financial institution, wants to shift its operations to a public cloud while maintaining…

A VPN secures data transmission between networks but does not provide continuous monitoring, real-time alerting for threats within cloud resources, or consistent policy enforcement across workloads.

A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) acts as an intermediary between users and cloud services, offering visibility, data security, threat protection, and compliance management. CASBs can monitor all cloud resources continuously, generate real-time alerts for security threats, and enforce granular security policies consistently across various cloud workloads, directly addressing all the client's requirements.

Multi-factor authentication enhances identity security but does not provide comprehensive monitoring of cloud resources, real-time threat alerts, or broad policy enforcement across the cloud environment.

Client-side encryption protects data at rest but does not address the need for continuous monitoring, real-time threat alerts, or consistent policy enforcement across all cloud resources.