How to Apply NIST Principles to SaaS in 2023

NIST is considered a leading authority in the field of global cybersecurity standards. Understanding how to set these standards for your SaaS ecosystem security may be challenging but is crucial.

Dive into the 5 key findings from the new SaaS-to-SaaS Access Report, Uncovering the Risks & Realities of Third-Party Connected Apps.

Our new report takes a look at the how volume of applications being connected to the SaaS stack and the risk they represent to company data.

When SaaS apps first grew in popularity, it wasn't clear who was responsible for securing the data/ Nowadays, most security and IT teams are aware of the shared responsibility model, where the provider is responsible for the app and the organization is responsible for the data. The bigger question today is where does the data responsibility lies on the organization's side?

Oftentimes, security teams assume that data stored within SaaS apps is less sensitive than other corporate IP and accept that the security tools built into the SaaS app are strong enough to provide adequate protection. This assumption, however, is leaving critical data exposed online, putting organizations at risk of data exposure, ransomware, and regulatory fines.

Adaptive Shield has partnered with Datadog, the observability service for cloud-scale applications, to provide joint customers with the ability to stream and visualize SaaS security alerts from Adaptive Shield.

The move to SaaS and other cloud tools has put an emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM), and the tools used to define IAM make up its identity fabric. Unfortunately, these tools are being pushed to their limits due to decentralized IT, evolving threats, and zero-trust tools. An SSPM solution helps add a layer to an organization's identity fabric by enabling continuous monitoring and suspicious behavior alerts.

Nissan North America security incident affected almost 18,000 customers. Read all about the breach and how to protect your organization from one like it.

User permissions are considered a headache to configure by both admins and users, but they remain crucial to protect organizations from both external attacks and internal data-sharing errors.

With an average of 100 apps being used, the average security team is flying blind without visibility and control over a critical mass of their organization’s entire SaaS app stack. It’s important that all SaaS apps be managed at scale, which is why organizations need a solution that offers both comprehensive checks and breadth of app coverage.

Over the last year, we’ve seen increasing evidence of an upcoming recession. While no one knows exactly what 2023 will bring to the labor market, organizations need to be prepared for potential downsizing.

Over the holiday weekend, Slack detected a breach after noticing suspicious activity, and in their investigation found that stolen Slack employee tokens were the source of the breach. This is one of many examples that shows how crucial it is for organizations to secure their repositories.

As executives are planning an acquisition or divestiture within the next 12-18 months, M&A due diligence is key to business resurgence, strategic growth, and capability expansion. Unfortunately, one area that’s often overlooked during M&A due diligence is a target company’s SaaS landscape.

Healthcare organizations have been cautious in moving toward cloud technologies and SaaS applications. However, as the industry begins to shift and embraces the cloud, healthcare security professionals need to understand how SaaS security impacts their Health Insurance Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA) compliance posture.

This past year has seen its fair share of breaches, attacks, and leaks, forcing organizations to scramble to protect their SaaS stacks. With SaaS sprawl ever growing and becoming more complex, organizations can look to four areas within their SaaS environment to harden and secure. 

Gartner named SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) as a must-have solution in the “4 Must-Have Technologies That Made the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2021”. Read about why having an SSPM is important and it's benefits.

A recap of a webinar with our CEO Maor Bin and Panorays's CTO Demi Ben Ari, where they discuss how to pinpoint your SaaS app risks from evaluation to usage.

The expansion of our SSPM platform enables security teams to discover and manage all SaaS apps connected to the core SaaS stack.

Forrester interviews customers across different organizations who have implemented an SSPM solution Embrace A Paradigm Shift In SaaS Protection: SaaS Security Posture Management report. This blog will discuss the key takeaways from the report.

Every SaaS app user and login is a potential threat, which is why identity and access management (IAM) is crucial for a strong SaaS security posture. However, it is IAM Governance that enables the security team to act upon arising issues by providing constant monitoring of the company’s SaaS Security posture as well as its implementation of access control. 

Groundbreaking number of integrations within the company’s SSPM platform enables security teams to easily integrate, monitor and mitigate risk across their SaaS stack.

When creating a Sandbox, the mindset tends to be that the Sandbox will have no effect on the production or operational system. This mindset is not only wrong, but extremely dangerous. This article will walk you through what is a SaaS sandbox, why it is vulnerable, and how to secure it.

The highlights from our SaaS Security Trends, Challenges and Solutions for 2022 webinar, led by our CEO Maor Bin and Okta VP of Strategy Stephen Lee.

It's been a year since the release of The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Checklist. If SSPM is on your radar, the 2023 checklist edition covers the critical features and capabilities when evaluating a solution.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) sets standards across various industries. ISO 27000:2018 and ISO 27001:2013 can be used to help build out a strong security posture. Read more to understand the two recent yet different versions of ISO compliance standards and how SSPM can help security teams ensure ISO compliance.

Security teams are responsible for securing the organizations' SaaS app stack but they can't execute this task without full control of the SaaS app of which up to 40% are owned by business departments.

Adaptive Shield partners with Tenable, the Cyber Exposure Management company, to provide a consolidated posture management solution that correlates the risk of SaaS users and their endpoints.

A deep dive into the recently discovered GIFShell attack technique, which enables bad actors to exploit several Microsoft Teams features to act as a C&C for malware, and the best practices to protect against it.

The ease with which SaaS apps can be deployed and adopted is remarkable, but it has quickly become a double-edged sword. On one hand, the availability of SaaS tools enables employees to work from anywhere. For IT and security teams however, the adoption of SaaS apps has become a daunting endeavor. Misconfigurations are brought on by many different factors, the top three can be summed up into the three V’s.

As the investment in SaaS apps continues, new critical SaaS challenges emerge beyond the classic use case of misconfiguration and user permissions management, such as SaaS-to-SaaS access and device-to-SaaS-user posture management. This blog will give a brief overview of the trends in SaaS security.

Employees now use their personal devices, whether their phone or personal laptop, etc. to get their jobs done. If the device’s hygiene is not up to par, it increases the SaaS app attack surface for bad actors. Read more to find out how to combat these risks.

When SaaS platforms ask for permissions' access, they are usually granted without a second thought, not realizing that these addition connections present more opportunities for bad actors to gain access to their company's data. Read all about the SaaS-to-SaaS connection process and how to combat its risks.

It’s not a new concept that Office 365, Salesforce, Slack, Google Workspace or Zoom, etc. are amazing for enabling the hybrid workforce and hyper productivity in businesses today. However, there are three main challenges that have arisen stemming from this evolution.

Adaptive Shield has been recognized as a Trust Award finalist in the Best Cloud Security Posture Management Solution category for the 2022 SC Awards.

Adaptive Shield is officially On the Radar in Omdia's report for an innovative solution making a big impact in the SaaS security space. 

The old days of buying new software, installing it on the company servers, and making sure everything works is gone - all hail the new IT king, SaaS apps. Yet the ease of connection should not create a false sense of security. Every SaaS platform’s settings need to be hardened to protect the company's assets. This blog post aims to ease that burden by providing a basic SaaS security checklist to make sure the basics are covered.

After 2 years of virtual events, RSA Conference 2022 in San Francisco brought back face-to-face interaction. And wow, what an experience! From live sessions and parties to games and demos galore, RSA was packed with it all. Here’s a recap of Adaptive Shield at RSA. 

The SaaS app attack surface has widened and recent research shows that up to 63 percent of organizations have dealt with security incidents because of a SaaS misconfiguration. Here are some of the best practices for an SSPM solution to help you secure your SaaS app stack.

When it comes to keeping SaaS stacks secure, IT and security teams need to be able to streamline detection and remediation of misconfigurations in order to best protect their SaaS stack from threats. However, while companies adopt more and more apps, their increase in SaaS security tools and staff has lagged behind, as found in the 2022 SaaS Security Survey Report. 

Every year the leaders and entrepreneurs of the cybersecurity world come together for four days for the annual RSA Conference. Finally, after many years of the event being virtual, RSA is back in its physical form. This year's conference will feature numerous presentations from industry leaders offering unique insights and fresh perspectives on the world of cloud and SaaS security. We have gathered a list of the 13 top talks taking place at RSA 2022. 

A recap of a webinar with our CEO, Maor Bin and Omdia Senior Principal Analyst, Rik Turner discussing how SSPM is solving the SaaS security challenge of "too much to do, too little time".

The 2022 SaaS Security Survey Report, in collaboration with CSA, examines the state of SaaS security as seen in the eyes of CISOs and security professionals in today’s enterprises.

We are excited to announce that Gartner has named us a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendors™ in Application Security: Protection of Cloud-Native Applications. Read more to get all the details.

During the last week of March, three major tech companies - Microsoft, Okta, and HubSpot - reported significant data breaches. This blog will review the three breaches based on publicly disclosed information and suggest best practices to minimize the risk of such attacks succeeding against your organization.

To better understand how teams are dealing with their SaaS security posture, Adaptive Shield partnered with the leading organization dedicated to promoting best practices for ensuring cyber security, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), to develop the 2022 SaaS Security Survey Report.

Adaptive Shield partners with CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, to introduce a new Zero Trust SaaS Security Posture solution to the CrowdStrike Store, a cybersecurity app marketplace.

During mandatory Work From Home situations, business communication and productivity are major factors of success.

With 2021 drawing to a close and many closing their plans and budgets for 2022, the time has come to do a brief wrap up of the SaaS Security challenges on the horizon. Here are the top 3 SaaS security posture challenges as we see them.

Joint Offering Ensures That Authorized Users Can Safely Access Any SaaS App Without Exposing Companies to Unnecessary Risks

In order to enable a smooth transition from these legacy protocols to a modern environment, we have created a step-by-step guide to help you reduce risk and reinforce your organization's M365 security.

This blog breaks down the differences between Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) solutions, as both are designed to address security issues within SaaS applications.

This blog breaks down Adaptive Shield’s 2021 SaaS Security Survey Report and highlights some of the key data points.

This $30 million round A investment will enable Adaptive Shield to meet growing demand for Security Posture Management Solutions that eliminate misconfigurations across any SaaS platform including Office 365, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub and Workday

When threat actors decide to target your SaaS applications, they can use more basic to the more sophisticated methods. In this blog, I’m going to take you through a SaaS ransomware attack and discuss the 3 steps to protect yourself from being a victim.

Like most airports in the world, SaaS environments are inherently chaotic and fragmented. Read more to see how addressing the unique management challenges of the SaaS application space, can help security teams proactively take charge of their landscape.

More than 38 million records from entities that rely on Microsoft's Power Apps portals platform were exposed due to a SaaS misconfiguration. Read about the how and why in this post.

Adaptive Shield has been named Top 10 Baby Black Unicorn in the prestigious award for cybersecurity companies who have the potential of being valued at $1B.

Few people talk about managing the security aspects of Salesforce Release Updates. By understanding what Salesforce Release Updates are, why they pose a security risk, and how security teams can mitigate risk, Salesforce customers can better protect sensitive information.

The bulk of the Executive Order focuses on administrative tasks associated with it, including redefining contract language, setting timelines, and defining agency roles and responsibilities. For enterprises that don’t supply technology to the federal government, the Executive Order may feel unimportant. In reality, several of the basic tenets could be used by companies operating outside the federal IT supply chain.

Reading the NIST Framework in-depth, its complexity is apparent, and following it can be difficult. This article will review the CSF’s key elements, point out its key merits, and suggest implementations for SaaS security.

In the remote-work world, SaaS apps have become an enticing vector-of-choice for bad actors. Just think of the typical employee, working off-site, untrained in security measures, and how their access or privileges increase the risk of sensitive data being stolen, exposed, or compromised. However, it doesn’t have to be that way — a company’s SaaS security posture can be strengthened and SaaS configuration weaknesses can be avoided.

Through this collaboration with Macnica Networks, Adaptive Shield can further accelerate the safe use of SaaS applications by Japanese companies, helping them maintain a clean, safe and efficient SaaS app environment.

Remember when cybersecurity was mostly about firewalls, VPNs, and antivirus software? Those days are long gone. Now one of the most prevalent places for exploitation has to do with misconfigurations found in an organization's SaaS apps.

Not all SSPM solutions are created equal. Get the complete guide along with the printable checklist here.

As security professionals who have spent more than a few years in the industry, we know a good challenge when we see one.

Account takeovers pose a significant threat to organizations. Learn what works--and what doesn't work--to prevent them.

Shared mailboxes can create security risks. Learn how you can easily minimize these risks and reduce mailbox misconfigurations across your organization.

SaaS misconfigurations can put your organization at risk. Use this quick guide to prevent some of the most common SaaS misconfigurations.

You've probably already heard about the epic Solorigate or Sunburst breach. Read more to gain practical recommendations on how infosec and corporate security teams can better secure their source code management platforms.

Adaptive Shield, the leading SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) company, today announced that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.

Outside the domain of Snowflake’s robust native security controls, potential vulnerabilities and configuration weakness can still occur. Read more to gain insight and free access to SaaS Security for Snowflake.

With the spike in SaaS adoption, SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is critical to today's company's security. Read more to see what SSPM solutions should provide.

A recap of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship podcast, hosted by David Spark and Mark Johnson, with our sponsored guest, TIAA's Travis Hoyt.

There is a way to protect users from deceptive OAuth apps, misconfigurations and misappropriated user permissions. SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) takes an automated approach to tracking, and even remediating, the exploitable misconfigurations in organizations’ SaaS apps.

Adaptive Shield wins Next-Gen Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation and Management Award in the 9th annual Global InfoSec Awards at #RSAC 2021.

When it comes to taking old users off systems - deprovisioning - there are a few best practices that should be borne in mind and followed. Read more to get all the details.

For enterprise organizations, ensuring that all the SaaS apps are configured properly and have the correct user roles and privileges is not only a never-ending, time-consuming endeavor, but an impossible one. Here is a rundown of the main issues security teams face that make SaaS security complex, laborious and just...hard.

If you're beginning or on a SOC2 audit journey, then read about how our SSMP solution can streamline the process and shorten the time it takes to pass a SOC2 audit successfully, fully covering your SaaS Security posture.