Be it CRMS, project management tools, payment processors or lead control tools – your workforce uses Saas applications on pounds. Organizations often rely on CASB traditional solutions to protect against malicious access and data exports, but they are protected against Shadow Saas, data damage and more.
New report, Understanding Saas Safety Safety: Why Casb Solutions don’t cover “Shadow” Saas and SaasEmphasizing the pressing security problems faced by enterprises using SAAS applications. The study emphasizes the growing ineffectiveness of the CASB traditional solutions and introduces a revolutionary approach to SAAS safety, which provides full visibility and protection in real time from threats.
Below we bring the highlights of the report. Read the full report there.
Why businesses need safety saAs – risks SAAS
SAAS applications became the basis of modern enterprises, but security teams are fighting for driving and protecting them. Employees gain access and use both sanctioned and non -sanctioned applications, each of which entails their own risk types.
- Unverified applications – Employees often download data files in the SAAS app, exposing data from an unknown volume of viewers. This is itself a violation of privacy. In addition, SAAS applications are often focused on opponents because they know about the information that awaits them.
- Sanctioned apps – Rivals attempts to compromise SAAS user credentials through the password, phishing and expanding the malicious browser. With these credentials, they can access the applications and then distribute on corporate conditions.
Destruction of Saas Risk Sitigation Options
SAUS security solutions should provide the following opportunities:
- Granulated visibility of the activity of all users in the application.
- The ability to find out what a harmful activity may occur.
- Stopping malicious activity.
CASB restrictions
Traditionally, CASB solutions have been used to provide SAAS applications. However, these solutions are lacking when it comes to coverage of both sanctioned and unauthorized applications on managed and unmanageable devices.
CASB solutions consist of three main components: proxy -propox, reverse proxy and API scanner. That’s where they are limited:
- Washed – Unable to Provide Access Control on Unmanaged Device
- Reverse Proxy – Unable to prevent data on unauthorized applications
- SCANNER API – impossible to prevent harmful activity in sanctioned applications
In addition, Casb Solutions lack granular visibility in real -time applications and is not able to translate it into active lock.
Browser as the final security point
A paradigm shift is required: fixing SAAS applications directly at the browser level. Access and activity in any SAAS app authorized or not usually entails the creation of a browser session. So, if we build SAAS risk analysis in the browser, it will also be trivial for the browser to consider the detected risks as a trigger for protective action – stopping the session by turning off some parts of the web page, preventing the download \ load and so on.
Browser security against Casb: The Showdown
| Browser security | Casb | ||
| Unauthorized applications | Opening Shadow Saas | Yes | Partial |
| Prevention of data impact | Yes | Partial | |
| Identity | Yes | No | |
| Sanctioned apps | Malicious access | Yes | Partial |
| Impact of data | Yes | Yes | |
| Experience data | Yes | No | |
| Damage Data | Yes | No |
The browser security gives the following benefits:
- 100% Visibility – Each Saas application, including shadow, discovers.
- Granulated execution -And the real -time security policy in the user interaction point.
- Seamless integration – Works with identity suppliers (VS) and existing security architecture without breaking user experience.
- Unmatched defense – Prevents unauthorized access, data leak and credentials on all devices, controlled or unmanaged.
Read more about SAAS risk management and browser security in the White Book
