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SaaS security ought to be a major priority for every organization. The widespread adoption of SaaS applications without IT oversight has led to a significant surge in unmanaged SaaS risks, presenting a complex security challenge. But just how extensive is the issue of SaaS sprawl, and what are the resulting risks to SaaS security?

Gaining visibility into all the SaaS apps used across an enterprise is hard enough, but it becomes an even greater challenge when only a portion of the apps go through the company’s established policies for acquiring new tech. What do other organizations do differently to reduce their SaaS risks more effectively?

Cybersecurity is much like a relentless game of “whac-a-mole”--the advent of new technologies invariably draws out threats that security teams must quickly address.

Frameworks such as NIST CSF, SOC2, and ISO/IEC 27001 are intended to improve an organization’s cybersecurity posture and demonstrate program maturity to potential customers. At least in theory. However, in practice, there’s a thin and widening crack below the surface—shadow SaaS—and overreliance on these frameworks may create a false sense of security.

Explore how Grip Security could have preempted Midnight Blizzard's recent cyberattack on Microsoft, effectively intervening at several junctures prior to the data exfiltration.

As enterprises strive to modernize legacy identity and access management (IAM) systems as companies embrace business-led IT, understanding and mitigating the risks associated with shadow SaaS is crucial.

The Grip SaaS Security Control Plane now integrates with Slack to enable the seamless flow of real-time risk alerts directly to designated channels.

One of the significant challenges that companies have faced in complying with 23 NYCRR 500 is their tendency to prioritize traditional Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions while neglecting the critical issue of shadow IT SaaS.

Organizations often recognize the imperative of implementing MFA across their SaaS environments to protect sensitive data and maintain compliance. Here, we explore the benefits of “MFA Everywhere”, the projects driving it, and why it is so difficult to achieve.

SSPM solutions are one facet of a broader enterprise SaaS security issue. SaaS-Identity risk management is an emerging principle the focuses on the intersection of identities and SaaS apps, mitigating risk at the most foundational level — accounts and access.

By managing user identities, authentication mechanisms, and access permissions effectively, organizations can bolster their security posture and reduce the risk of data breaches and unauthorized activities; the foundations of SaaS-Identity Risk Management.

Grip Security has secured $41 million in series B funding, bringing our total funding to an impressive $66 million.

This article takes a lighthearted approach, leveraging the captivating Mission: Impossible narrative to shed light on a serious topic and promote a heightened awareness of cybersecurity practices.

We explore the implications of identity-first security on identity governance and identity security, converged identity and access management (IAM), the adoption of the cybersecurity mesh architecture, and interdisciplinary fusion teams that will shape the future of IAM.

Automated, one-click user offboarding for hundreds of active and dormant SaaS services and apps

Taking a step back and understanding the problem of SaaS discovery, Grip has developed a method that has the advantages of all the other discovery methods without the downsides.

Stay audit-ready and enable secure access controls, protections, and safeguards for identities — whenever and wherever SaaS is used

Grip has teamed up with CrowdStrike and its cutting-edge Falcon Identity Threat Protection module for unified identity security — whenever and wherever SaaS is used — a game-changing solution that empowers businesses to fortify their identity perimeter and safeguard modern work.

With extensive analysis of the SaaS landscape, Grip uncovered an astounding 74,979 unique SaaS applications. Our research and global data collection have allowed us to gain valuable insights across the SaaS-Identity attack surface.

Discover the crucial role of identity management in fortifying security for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms in this insightful Forbes Tech Council article.

Protect your organization from security breaches with our guide to understanding Identity Access and Management (IAM). Learn how to secure your data today.

While zero-trust security offers significant advantages over traditional perimeter-based controls, it also comes with its own set of challenges. Here are the top five challenges of zero-trust security:

Discover the limitations of SSPM in protecting the identity fabric of SaaS security and explore alternative solutions for a comprehensive security strategy.

Here, we cover the synergy between SOAR and identity security, outlining their individual functionalities and exploring the benefits that arise from their integration.

When a data breach occurs at a critical SaaS provider and gains media attention, it often creates a sense of urgency for security teams.

Learn how to extend zero trust security to SaaS apps you don't control. Discover strategies and best practices to enforce identity security policies.

Protect your organization with Identity Fabric for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR). Learn how to enhance security and mitigate identity-related risks.

We examined the risks of identity sprawl across 46 unique enterprises, constructing a SaaS-Identity fabric and found that every organization is affected by the ever-expanding growth of SaaS and identity decentralization.

Get a full understanding of cloud identity security and how to use it to enhance security and stay ahead of the game with this comprehensive guide.

Weak SaaS security is an opportunity for cyber attackers to infiltrate your organization and hijack your data. A SaaS risk management program identifies SaaS usage across your organization and identifies the risky and unattended accounts.

Understand what an identity fabric is and its significance for modern Identity Security. Learn why it's crucial for protecting digital identities.

Unlock the power of Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) to enhance SaaS security. Discover how it can improve compliance and protect your organization in our guide.

Lior Yaari, a Forbes Technology Council Member, discusses the use of an identity fabric as a solution for managing identity sprawl and enhancing security in today's complex digital environments.

SSPM is a critical layer in your identity fabric because it helps you manage and secure your SaaS environment, which is an environment packed with corporate identities — past, present, and future.

Improve SaaS security with identity governance and administration. Learn how to secure user access, automate compliance & improve user management in our guide.

The key areas that impact how organizations tackle the NYDFS standards in a SaaS-first, distributed identity reality, along with specific ways Grip can help.

Implementing identity security solutions like Grip can also help reduce manual errors to construct the enterprise identity fabric and automate protection for identities whenever and wherever SaaS is used.

Learn about the key components & benefits of Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA). Enhance security and stay ahead of the game with this comprehensive guide.

The cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) proposed by Gartner attempts to define a framework that achieves the objective of an integrated approach that is flexible, scalable, and risk based.

Leveraging identity as the key control point can enable security services to work together and deliver and improve the security posture while maintaining agility to adapt to evolving needs.

The identity control fabric is an emerging approach to managing identity in the enterprise. An identity control fabric provides a unified and secure way to manage identity across multiple systems, SaaS services, and platforms.

An explosion of SaaS adoption has led to unprecedented identity sprawl with some employees creating hundreds of SaaS accounts over the time. Most of these accounts are created with just an email and password, and this has now become the new perimeter for the modern enterprise.

Credential theft is when hackers use the logins and passwords of active users to gain access to sensitive and private data. Learn about credential theft with Grip.

Learn more about how to handle the top SaaS security concerns related to visibility, risk, and identity threats to protect your organization’s SaaS security.

SaaS security is vital to an organization's cybersecurity strategy. SaaS security detects, monitors, and protects against security vulnerabilities and attacks.

Stolen LastPass vaults filled with duplicate passwords gives cybercriminals the effect of a successful, global-scale phishing campaign without sending a single email or SMS.

According to one report, the average company uses more than 200 SaaS applications. Without an effective business password manager strategy, your SaaS security is insufficient.

One approach to addressing the human element of cybersecurity is based on what is known as the nudge theory.

How Grip SSCP delivers easy, on-demand offboarding across thousands of SaaS services in just a few clicks.

The enterprise SaaS layer is where attackers go to find weak and duplicate passwords, launch phishing and smishing campaigns, and expand SaaS compromise — mitigating identity threats across the enterprise SaaS layer depends on precision access control.

SaaS identity and access management is the aspect of security that allows authorized employees to access the resources they need at the proper times for valid reasons.

The rushed implementation of remote work solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a phenomenon is currently jeopardizing business security, known as the SaaS sprawl.

To overcome the inherent limits to identity management and SSO, security leaders rely on the SaaS security control plane (SSCP) for visibility, risk mitigation, and access control.

SaaS commands the digital enterprise. Access control to SaaS services is the equivalent to protecting the cockpit door of a Boeing 787—unauthorized access is non-negotiable.

Cloud security depends on SaaS security, because SaaS is the control interface for everything in the digital enterprise—factories and finance, engineers and DevOps, HR and IT—everything and everyone runs on SaaS.

SaaS security posture management (SSPM) is a critical component for companies to effectively respond to SaaS threats while complying with industry standards have strong security posture. But SSPM is often insufficient, incomplete, and ineffective to secure SaaS access.

SSPM solutions help companies gain visibility and secure SaaS apps. Learn how you can get the most value from an SSPM solution.

The use of SaaS has ballooned in response to the demands of modern work and the hyperspecialization of business. Let us take a closer look at predictions for SaaS in 2023.

Business-led and shadow IT is a part of organizations as more digital tools are available. Learn how shadow and business-led IT impacts your SaaS security.

What’s the best identity access management (IAM) solution to secure shadow SaaS? Learn how it can be secured just like sanctioned applications.

SaaS security is unique because of the velocity of new SaaS being adopted and the decentralized purchasing decision process.

SaaS security is not only consistent with overall cloud security, it is entailed by it—because SaaS is the principle technology used to access and control everything else, including IaaS systems and IaaS security controls.

CASBs present some drawbacks. CISOs, information security managers, security architects, and security teams should consider an SSCP to augment CASBs for a more holistic approach to SaaS security.

Password managers are a popular option for companies to govern and secure credentials for SaaS, but they have some key shortcomings that limit their effectiveness.

When we take a closer look, we can see why so many security teams end up with only 5-15 percent of their SaaS estate shielded by single sign-on (SSO) and password managers—it's just not worth it to extend these solutions to every SaaS service.

The four primary problems of password managers causing low adoption and other failures to achieve the desired security outcome are discussed below.

0ktapus demonstrates the effectiveness of threat actors to compromise SaaS with global-scale attacks and persist within the SaaS attack surface—expanding conquest via Okta SWA credentials.

Security teams do have products that help them discover and manage SaaS apps that are being used by their employees. However, the problem is that these products still rely on the outdated assumption that the company controls the endpoint, network access, or authentication method.

Security teams should view BYOA as an opportunity in efficiency and innovation

The core principles for protecting SaaS throughout its lifecycle are fundamentally about security architecture—discovery, justification, sanctioning, securing, and decommissioning are all implicated by security architecture. As SaaS moves through its lifecycle, security architects have an outsized impact on the fate of their organization’s SaaS defense.

SaaS risk goes far beyond just the vendor’s risk, and it is now driven by enterprise specific factors that most companies still do not factor into their risk calculations because risk is still assessed as if vendor risk were the most important factor.

The trend away from shadow IT to business-led IT is a paradigm shift for security.

Twilio published an incident report on August 4, 2022 about an attack that led to employee and customer account compromise. The Grip SaaS Security Control Plane can help customers protect against potential attacks resulting from this breach.

CASB’s own design interferes with its ability to deliver meaningful SaaS security. It is now clear that any SaaS a CASB can protect, it does so by accident.

With the multitude of CASB vendors, there is a lot of noise, and it is not easy to evaluate the best CASB on the market. One method that could be an input into the evaluation of a CASB purchase are product review sites.

Business-led SaaS pushes each organization closer to threats that move faster than light, use currencies you can’t trace, and strike with push-button tools or services stitched together in a weekend—threats we’ve never had to face or mitigate until now.

Despite the industry’s best efforts, shadow IT has not gotten smaller but has increased and is close to becoming legitimized as a viable IT strategy that provides competitive benefits.

It’s never easy to be a trailblazer, especially as a female junior Data Engineer in the male-led cybersecurity ecosystem. A year later, I can now say that this was a fantastic decision!

SaaS has created unique challenges for security teams and requires them to evaluate the maturity of their SaaS security using a framework that was developed for the unique challenges SaaS creates.

There are six primary SaaS discovery methods and each one has its pros and cons. To overcome the shortcomings of today’s products, Grip developed its own method, which is now becoming the industry standard for SaaS security.

Passwords are the worst. Infamous, ubiquitous, we just can't seem to get them right. Why are we stuck securing access with methods users hate and hackers love?

Business-led IT is spurring SaaS use in the enterprise. This SaaS security checklist helps CISOs put in place the controls needed to manage the risk.

SaaS sprawl is inevitable as business-led IT continues to gain momentum. With automation and new technologies from companies like Grip, IT and security teams can partner with business leads while maintaining strong risk controls.

CASBs are the go to solution for SaaS Security. What are the pros and cons of using a CASB, and are there alternatives security leaders should consider?

Shadow SaaS is a bigger problem than you think. We did a proof of value with a company, and the results were eye opening. We found almost 7X more SaaS applications being used and even former employees who still had access.

SSO is a key component of modern security, but it falls short of delivering on SaaS security

The best defense against credential theft is resetting every password.  Unfortunately, this is easier said than done for many companies.

Grip Founders Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List

Identity and access management in the age of SaaS must fundamentally change

Grip Security’s CMO describes how the company is redefining SaaS security and why it will transform the industry.

In this piece published in ITProPortal, Bradley Busch (CISO at Tyro Payments) and Grip CEO and Co-Founder Lior Yaari explains the problems with growing SaaS use and possible solution paths

A piece published by Amour Harari, Senior Software Engineer at Grip Security

In this piece published in Security Magazine, CEO and Co-Founder Lior Yaari explain the problems with growing SaaS use and possible solution paths

Technology innovation is our only hope of maintaining a strict, low frictioned and scalable security program. Now is the time to get a Grip on the burgeoning and chaotic SaaS ecosystem.