Product Overview: Cynet SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications have gone from novelty
to business necessity in a few short years, and its positive impact
on organizations is clear. It’s safe to say that most industries
today run on SaaS applications, which is undoubtedly positive, but
it does introduce some critical new challenges to
organizations.

As SaaS application use expands, as well as the number of
touchpoints they create, the attack surface also becomes
significantly larger.

As an answer to this emerging challenge, XDR provider Cynet has
added a new SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) tool to its
existing platform (you can learn more here^[1]). Regardless of the size
of an organization or its security team, managing the security
policy and posture of dozens to hundreds of SaaS applications is a
complex task, and one that requires the right tools to expedite and
optimize. Using SSPM can centralize many of the management and
logistics requirements and offer a more unified way to establish
security posture and harden existing defenses.

How Cynet SSPM helps organizations defend themselves

To help organizations harden their SaaS security policy, Cynet
360’s new SSPM offers a variety of protection capabilities. Cynet’s
protections provide greater visibility into the organizations’ SaaS
ecosystem, including:

• Insights into native SaaS setting configurations
• Suggestions to reduce risks by improving existing
  configurations
• Single-click automated remediation of incorrect
  configurations
• Comparison with industry frameworks with automatic
  adjustments

More importantly, Cynet’s automated tools mean that security
teams don’t have to manually review each application’s settings or
update each configuration manually once a standard has been
created.

Automated risk detection

Cynet’s SSPM evaluates configuration risks across the company’s
SaaS ecosystem. Cynet scans the existing configurations for all an
organization’s SaaS apps, identifying areas that could be
vulnerable. This allows security teams to be proactive in improving
the security posture, rather than waiting for a gap to be
exploited.

Cynet then automatically prioritizes configuration errors by
risk category and tracks all outstanding issues from a single pane
of glass.

Single-click policy resolutions

One of the bigger issues when dealing with a large SaaS
ecosystem is standardizing security policies across applications.
Especially as organizations can use hundreds of SaaS applications
for everything from HR management to project management, manually
fixing every single configuration becomes an exhausting and arduous
process.

Cynet’s SSPM allows for single-click resolution of all security
policies across an organization’s environment. When Cynet 360 finds
a security risk, it automatically recommends the best-practice
configuration settings to eliminate as much of the risk as
possible, which users can automatically implement with a single
mouse click.

Ensuring compliance with multiple regulations

One issue with using multiple SaaS applications that can often
go unmentioned is the difficult position these applications put on
regulatory compliance. Because SaaS security isn’t managed entirely
by an organization (they’re at least partly managed by third
parties), security teams must work harder to ensure every
application meets the regulatory requirements of their
organizations.

Cynet automatically aligns any SaaS application’s critical
security controls to meet regulatory standards, including HIPAA,
GDPR, and PCI frameworks that define access and monitoring control.
Users can view current security policies, and where they need to be
changed to match the required ones. More importantly, configuration
errors can be uniformly corrected without having to fix each
manually.

A single pane of glass

Cynet’s SSPM is included in the standard Cynet 360 dashboard,
meaning that SaaS issues can be detected and remediated without
having to access a completely different control center.

You can learn more about the new Cynet SSPM during the company’s
upcoming webinar (register here^[2]).

To see more about Cynet SSPM in action, visit the company’s website here^[3].