Capterra Glossary
CUG (Closed User Group)
A CUG is a setup that restricts information or data to certain people. A simple example is a group email set up within an email client. Sending the email to this CUG only includes these people. No one else in the organization has access to the data within the email.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About CUG (Closed User Group)
For small businesses, this is critical for data protection and management. Having only directors and managers able to access certain data, such as that relating to strategy, can protect a business from damaging data leaks.
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