Axonius, a leader in cybersecurity asset management and SaaS management, today announces the release of two new capabilities within Axonius SaaS Management to help organizations understand their overall SaaS application risk. Behavioral Analytics and SaaS App-to-Device Correlation allow IT and security teams to gain added visibility and context into the users and devices accessing SaaS applications, and whether suspicious activity is occurring for critical SaaS apps.
SaaS represents an expanding component of an organization’s attack surface. The increase in adoption of SaaS applications change IT and security operations, and it adds new role and skill expectations for IT and security team members – like using scarce resources to track organization SaaS app utilization and identify misconfigured SaaS settings potentially exposing sensitive data. All this adds to more complexity and can have a profound impact on an organization’s security posture.
“A lot of sensitive data is stored in and shared between SaaS applications, and oftentimes, it’s very difficult to understand which users and devices have access to those applications,” said Amir Ofek, CEO of AxoniusX, the innovation unit of Axonius. “For IT and security teams tasked with protecting their organization’s entire SaaS app stack, they need the right information to help them better understand the who, the what, and the how of SaaS app usage. These new capabilities within our SaaS management solution will bring necessary context to the questions surrounding SaaS security.”
SaaS App-to-Device Correlation helps understand if unmanaged and unauthorized devices are being used to access various SaaS apps. By leveraging Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management and its adapters across the technology stack, Axonius SaaS Management will automatically correlate each SaaS user to their associated devices and provide a more comprehensive view of an organization’s security posture. Organizations now will have visibility into unmanaged or unauthorized devices accessing SaaS apps and be able to decrease the risk of data loss.
“SaaS App-to-Device correlation ultimately helps organizations contextualize their SaaS application data,” Ofek said. “Using both Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management and SaaS Management products, organizations gain a more complete view of their device security posture than they might receive with standalone integrations. No other solution on the market today can offer this much comprehensive and rich data.”
By adding Behavioral Analytics capabilities within Axonius SaaS Management, organizations will gain visibility into user behavior within SaaS applications over time – and be able to detect anomalies or suspicious activity that could pose organizational risk. The solution aggregates log data across various sources, including Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, and Google Workspace, to identify suspicious activity, events, and complex behavioral patterns. As a result, Axonius helps facilitate in-depth investigations by the incident response and SOC teams within the organization.
Beyond identifying suspicious behavior, the behavioral analytics capability can help organizations investigate temporary privileges granted for existing users, identify anomalous login activities that deviate from the user’s normal activity and other baselines, minimize data theft or leakage of confidential data, and more.
To learn more about these latest capabilities and to understand how Axonius can help you control complexity across your entire IT environment, visit the website or request a demo.
