In today's digital workplace, organizations leverage numerous cloud services and collaboration platforms to enhance productivity and streamline operations. However, this expanded cloud ecosystem creates significant security challenges-particularly when employees can access corporate data using personal accounts that bypass security controls and monitoring systems. eScan's Workspace Tenant Control addresses this critical vulnerability by enforcing domain-specific and account-specific restrictions across all major cloud platforms, ensuring that employees can only access sensitive corporate resources using authorized credentials.
Workspace Tenant Control is an advanced security feature within eScan Enterprise DLP that enables organizations to implement and enforce strict access controls for cloud-hosted services. By creating boundaries around which accounts can access corporate resources, this technology prevents unauthorized data access, improves visibility, and strengthens your overall security posture.
The technology works by identifying and controlling access based on domain credentials or tenant IDs-the unique identifiers associated with your organization's cloud subscriptions. When an employee attempts to access a cloud service, eScan verifies that they're using corporate credentials rather than personal accounts, preventing potential security policy violations and data leakage vectors.
Unlike basic access control systems that simply block entire services, Workspace Tenant Control allows productive use of essential cloud tools while ensuring they're accessed only through secure, monitored corporate channels.
The system recognizes the unique identifiers associated with your organization's cloud subscriptions across all major platforms. For Microsoft 365, this is your Tenant ID; for Google Workspace, your organizational domain; and for other platforms, specific corporate identifiers.
When users attempt to access cloud services, eScan analyzes the authentication flow to determine whether corporate or personal credentials are being used. This monitoring happens in real-time without disrupting legitimate work activities.
Administrators can define granular policies determining which services require corporate credentials. These policies can be tailored by department, user group, or sensitivity level to balance security requirements with operational needs.
The system applies different restriction models based on the specific platform being accessed:
• For Google Workspace: Organization-based restrictions
• For Microsoft 365: Tenant ID verification
• For third-party platforms: Domain-validated access controls
All access attempts—both allowed and blocked—are logged and reported, providing security teams with complete visibility into how cloud services are being accessed across the organization.
The Growing Risk of Personal Account Usage
The line between personal and professional digital lives has increasingly blurred, creating significant security challenges for organizations. Recent studies have revealed alarming statistics about the use of personal accounts in workplace contexts:
When employees use personal accounts to access corporate resources, several critical security issues emerge:
The security gap created by personal account usage represents one of the most significant yet often overlooked vulnerabilities in modern enterprise security architectures.
Unlike point solutions that focus on a single cloud provider, eScan Workspace Tenant Control offers unified protection across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and numerous third-party platforms including collaboration tools, file sharing services, and code repositories. This eliminates security gaps and provides consistent protection regardless of which cloud services your organization utilizes.
Rather than blocking cloud services entirely, Workspace Tenant Control allows productive use while ensuring access occurs only through secure, monitored corporate channels. Employees can leverage the full capabilities of modern cloud tools while IT maintains complete visibility and control.
The system provides clear guidance when access is restricted, directing users to the appropriate corporate login method. This reduces helpdesk calls and ensures security measures don't impede legitimate work activities.
The solution adapts its control mechanisms based on each platform's unique authentication architecture, providing native-feeling restrictions that work with rather than against each service's design.
All access attempts—both allowed and blocked—are thoroughly documented, creating an invaluable audit trail for compliance purposes and security investigations. This visibility helps organizations demonstrate due diligence in protecting sensitive information.
Administrators can implement different policies for various departments, user groups, or data sensitivity levels. This flexibility allows organizations to balance security requirements with operational needs across different business functions.
The solution helps organizations rapidly achieve and demonstrate compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and industry standards that require strict controls over data access and storage locations.