Capterra Glossary
Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB)
A cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT and business model. A company (or other entity) adds value to one or more cloud services on behalf of a user of that service. That value might be the customization of a cloud service, or it could mean integrating or aggregating the cloud service with another service.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB)
An SMB might use a CSB to get more value from its cloud technology. For example, an SMB might work with a CSB if it wants to improve the security of a cloud application and support the needs of its growing business.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy