Whether it’s CRMs, project management tools, payment processors, or lead management tools – your workforce is using SaaS applications by the pound. Organizations often rely on traditional CASB solutions for protecting against malicious access and data exfiltration, but these fall short for protecting against shadow SaaS, data damage, and more.
A new report, Understanding SaaS Security Risks: Why CASB Solutions Fail to Cover ‘Shadow’ SaaS and SaaS Governance, highlighting the pressing security challenges faced by enterprises using SaaS applications. The research underscores the growing inefficacy of traditional CASB solutions and introduces a revolutionary browser-based approach to SaaS security that ensures full visibility and real-time protection against threats.
Below, we bring the main highlights of the report. Read the full report here.
SaaS applications have become the backbone of modern enterprises, but security teams struggle to manage and protect them. Employees access and use both sanctioned and non-sanctioned apps, each entailing their own types of risk.
Security solutions that mitigate the aforementioned SaaS risks, need to provide the following capabilities:
Traditionally, CASB solutions were used to secure SaaS apps. However, these solutions fall short when it comes to covering both sanctioned and unsanctioned apps, across managed and unmanaged devices.
CASB solutions are made up of three main components: Forward Proxy, Reverse Proxy and API Scanner. Here’s where they are limited:
Plus, CASB solutions lack real-time granular visibility into app activity and have no ability to translate that into active blocking.
A paradigm shift is required: Securing SaaS applications directly at the browser level. Access and activity in any SaaS application, sanctioned or not, typically entails establishing a browser session. Hence, if we build the SaaS risk analysis capabilities into the browser, it would also be trivial for the browser to treat detected risks as a trigger for protective action – terminating the session, disabling certain parts of the web page, preventing download\upload, and so on.
Browser Security provides the following advantages:
Read more about SaaS risk management and browser security protection in the white paper
