Combatting the Evolving SaaS Kill Chain: How to Stay Ahead of Threat Actors
Jun 28, 2024
Cybersecurity / Cloud Security
The modern kill chain is eluding enterprises because they aren't protecting the infrastructure of modern business: SaaS . SaaS continues to dominate software adoption , and it accounts for the greatest share of public cloud spending. But enterprises and SMBs alike haven't revised their security programs or adopted security tooling built for SaaS. Security teams keep jamming on-prem pegs into SaaS security holes The mature security controls CISOs and their teams depended on in the age of on-prem dominance have vanished. Firewalls now protect a small perimeter, visibility is limited, and even if SaaS vendors offer logs, security teams need homegrown middleware to digest them and push into their SIEM. SaaS vendors do have well-defined security scopes for their products, but their customers must manage SaaS compliance and data governance, identity and access management (IAM), and application controls — the areas where most incidents occur. While this SaaS shared...