You do not need a Rogue employee to suffer a violation.
All you need is a free trial that someone has forgotten to cancel. A note that works on AI is quietly synchronized with your Google disk. Personal Gmail account is related to an important business instrument. It’s a shadow. And today it is not only about unauthorized applications, but also at rest, unmanaged identity, excessive SAAS tools and orphaned access. Most of it passes by even the most mature security solutions.
Do you think your CASB or IDP covers it? This is not the case.
They were not built in order to catch what happens in Saas: Oauth Spawl, Shadow Admins, Genai Access or Apps created directly on platforms such as Google Workspace or Slack. Shadow is no longer a problem of visibility – this is a full -fledged attack surface.
The safety of the wing Helps safety groups to reveal these risks before they become incidents.
Here are 5 examples of shadows in the real world that can be calmly bleeding your data.
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- Risk: Employees sign to tools using only username and password, without SSO or centralized visibility. Over time, they stop using applications, but access remains, and worse, it is not managed.
- Influence: These zombies accounts become invisible entry points. You cannot perform the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, monitor the use or withdraw access during the board.
- Example: In 2024, Cisa and Global Cyber Agencies issued a joint advisory warning that the Russian State Group APT29 (part SVR) was actively aimed at accounts to access businesses and state systems. These accounts often serve as ideal, because they go unnoticed, do not have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and remain available long after they are no longer used.
2. Generative AI quietly reading your letters, files and strategy
- Risk: Apps Saas, which work on the generative AI, usually require extensive Oauth permits with full access to mailboxes, files, calendars and chats.
- Influence: These SAAS applications often provide more access than required, sensitive data to third parties with unclear data content and modeling policy. Once the access is provided, there is no way to keep track of how your details are stored internally or what happens if the provider is broken or incorrectly customized.
- Pattern: In 2024 by accident Deepseek exposed internal training files LLM Holding sensitive data due to an incorrectly customized storage bucket, emphasizing the risk of providing third-tools Genai unattended data safety.
3. Former staff still keep the administrator access a few months after leaving
- Risk: When employees are on board new Saas tools (especially outside your ICP), they are often the only administrator. Even after they leave the company, their access remains.
- Influence: These credentials may have a constant, preferred access to tools, files or media environments, creating a long -term insider risk.
- An example of real life: The contractor installed the time tracking app and connected it to the company’s personnel system. A few months after their contract ended, they still had administrator access to staff magazines.
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4. Critical applications for business, tied to personal accounts that you do not manage
- Risk: Employees sometimes use their personal Gmail, Apple ID or other unmanaged accounts to subscribe to such business adjusts as Figma, concept or even Google Drive.
- Influence: These accounts exist completely on the borders of the IT -IT. If they are compromised, you cannot withdraw access or pursue security policies.
- Pattern: In 2023. Okta clients’ support violationHackers operate the service account without the Foreign Ministry that had access to the OKTA support system. The account was active, unclean and not tied to a particular person. Even companies with mature identity systems can miss these blind spots.
5. Shadow Saas with connecting the app to your precious stones
- Risk: Employees connect unauthorized Saas apps directly with reliable platforms such as Google Workspace, Salesforce or Slack – without its participation or review. These compounds with the addition often require extensive API access and stay active long after use.
- Influence: These integrations create hidden paths into critical systems. In the case of a compromise, they can include lateral motion, allowing attackers to turn on applications, highlight or maintain persistence without causing traditional alerts.
- Pattern: The product dispatcher has connected the road card tool to Jira and Google Drive. Integration demanded extensive access, but after the project was forgotten. When the supplier was later violated, the attackers used a protracted connection to pull the files out of the drive and turn into Jira, gaining access to internal powers and escalation. This type of lateral motion was spotted in 2024 g. Microsoft violation By the north snowstorm, where the attackers used an inherited Oauth application with the mailbox access to detect evasion and maintain constant access to internal systems.
What are you doing with that?
Shadow is not just a management problem – it’s a real safety gap. And the longer it goes unnoticed, the greater the risk and the more exposed the SAAS environment.
The safety of the wing Automatically reveals applications, users and integration of Saas-adjunction of human and inhuman identities, permits and status of the Ministry of Foreign Agents and trusted persons. Once the unknown becomes known, Wing provides multi -layered safety Saas on one platform, combining erroneous configurations, identity threats and SAAS risks into a single source of truth. Having correlated the events in supplements and identities, the wing cut the noise, puts prioritizing that matters, and provides active, constant safety.
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