In today’s highly distributed workplace, every employee has the ability to act as their own CIO, implementing new cloud and SaaS technologies whenever and wherever they want. While this has been a critical boon for productivity and innovation in the digital enterprise, it has upended traditional approaches to IT security and governance.
Nudge Security is the world’s first and only all-in-one solution SaaS management in one solution:
- Opening: Gain visibility into your complete SaaS footprint, including GenAI apps, free tools, tenant duplicates, deprecated apps, and more, all on day one.
- Security: Protect new accounts as they are created, detect and revoke risky OAuth permissions, and continually strengthen your SaaS security posture.
- Cost management: Discover the past 2 years of SaaS spending history and identify unused paid accounts, redundant apps and shadow costs.
- Third Party Risk Management: View security profiles for all SaaS providers and receive notifications when breaches affect the SaaS providers you use or those in your software supply chain.
- Identity Management: Orchestrate and automate day-to-day security and administration tasks so you can scale identity management without overwhelming your team.
How Nudge Security works
Nudge Security discovers every SaaS account ever created by anyone in your organization within minutes of starting a free trial and requires only one point of integration: read-only API access to your Microsoft 365 email provider or Google Workspace . No endpoint agents, network proxies, browser plug-ins, application integration, or other complex deployment steps are required.
A proprietary approach to Discovering SaaS takes advantage of a consistent design pattern: Every SaaS provider uses email to engage users, making it an ideal event log for recording new account signups and other security-related activities. By searching for and analyzing machine-generated e-mail messages (e.g. no-reply@box.com), Nudge Security creates and updates your list of SaaS accounts, users, costs, and resources without you having to tell it which apps to look for.
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| Inventory of SaaS programs |
Implementing SaaS security best practices
Nudge Security can immediately alert you when your employees discover new accounts or apps so you’re always the first to know. You’ll see who has access to what, as well as important context about how access was granted, whether through SSO, OAuth authorization, or username and password. You’ll also see which apps and accounts are (and aren’t) enrolled in MFA or SSO, so you can easily track progress toward your identity security efforts and launch automated workflows to help users enable MFA for their accounts and enroll apps in SSO.
In addition, you’ll see a complete listing of all OAuth permissions and scopes to understand where cross-application integration might allow data sharing beyond what your data governance policy allows. OAuth risk indicators help you quickly identify overpermissive areas so you can prompt app users for additional context or revoke permission in two clicks.
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| View OAuth grants marked for review |
Nudge Security also runs security health checks on your critical IdP infrastructure (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace), alerting you to:
- Misconfiguration Risks such as unlimited groups, email forwarding rules, and no SSO.
- Personal risks such as suspicious email rules, inactive privileged accounts, and delegated inbox access.
- Integration risks such as unused OAuth grants with privileged access, active integrations associated with inactive users, and unapproved grants with risky domains.
Curb SaaS waste
Nudge Security is the only SaaS management platform that discovers up to two years of historical SaaS spend within minutes of starting your free trial. As described above, our proprietary SaaS detection method finds and analyzes invoices from the past two years to extract cost data such as billing frequency, amount, renewal date, billing owner, cost center, and last transaction, providing insights for optimization platform costs.
The SaaS Cost Control Panel detects inactive and abandoned accounts associated with paid programs so you can reclaim expensive licenses and redistribute them, or right-size your contract. There’s even an automated tutorial to help you orchestrate account deletions by engaging application owners across the business in the cleanup, so you can scale SaaS management efforts without drowning in manual tasks.
Additionally, for each application used in your organization, you’ll see a Venn diagram showing the overlap of users in similar applications, and you can click on the diagram to see a list of overlapping users in each combination of applications. The bigger the circle, the more accounts there are for that app. With this information, you can better understand which tools are actively used and likely to be important for productivity, and which may be candidates for phasing out.
Improving third party risk management
Nudge Security provides vendor security profiles for each of your SaaS providers, including breach history, compliance attestations, data localization, and more. With this data, you can conduct vendor security assessments faster and faster prepare for IT compliance audits easier. And only Nudge Security shows you the SaaS supply chain of your SaaS providers, so when high-profile application breaches occur, you can quickly determine whether you’re in the blast radius of a third-party or fourth-party supply chain attack. You’ll even be alerted if the SaaS provider you use gets hacked, or if a SaaS tool used under the hood of one of your providers gets hacked.
Scalable identity management
The last thing you need is another security product that creates additional costs for your team. Our built-in playbooks automate workflows for common identity management tasks, such as validating user access, IT offboardingdeleting inactive accounts and more so you can minimize time spent on tedious manual tasks while increasing your identity management efforts.
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| Playbooks automate common SaaS administration tasks |
Get started with Nudge Security.
To discover your SaaS organization’s footprint and modernize your approach to SaaS security and management, start yours 14-day free trial today.
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| Your SaaS control panel in Nudge Security |
