Today, we are honored to share that Axonius is recognized by GigaOm as a Leader in the 2024 Radar Report for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM). Axonius earned the highest scores in multiple categories across key features and business criteria and was classified as a Fast Mover in the Platform Play hemisphere of the Radar.
From the GigaOm report:
"(Axonius) provides customers with extensive capabilities and detailed insights across infrastructure that stretches far beyond SaaS posture management. It has a higher aggregate score in the decision criteria we evaluated, making it a Leader in this report."
What is SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)?
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is a solution that helps organizations to proactively discover, assess, and secure the Software as a Service (SaaS) services they use.
SaaS apps are exceedingly prevalent across companies of all sizes. Due to their self-service and pay-as-you-go nature, SaaS apps are often adopted without full oversight from IT and Security departments. The lack of IT and Security visibility can lead to risks since these apps may contain sensitive data from your company and customers (think account information in Salesforce, PII in Workday, and company IP in Google Drive or Box). SSPM addresses the risk by taking a structured approach of:
- Discover all the SaaS services in use within your organization, including unsanctioned services (aka “shadow IT”).
- Uncover risk within your SaaS services, identifying IT and security gaps that may impact your business (like managing excess privileges within apps, or identifying admin users without multi-factor authentication).
- Automate risk remediation, ensuring they are properly monitored, managed, and fixed by IT and Security.
By taking this structured approach, SSPM reduces SaaS service risk, ensures compliance, and extends security policies to cover all software used within the organization.
What makes a great SSPM solution?
SSPM solutions should:
- Offer different deployment models to support a variety of business needs.
- Offer rich technical features including SaaS-specific configurations and security policies, facilitate the support of security and compliance standards like PCI DSS and OWASP, integrate well with your existing security investments, and provide emerging features like CASB-like integration and proactive SaaS protection.
- Support your business requirements and growth in areas like flexibility, scalability, and a good security posture.
Why is Axonius a Leader in SSPM?
Axonius provided a strong and well-balanced solution, with an average score of 4.2 in both the key features and the business criteria comparisons, with the business criteria average tied for the highest. Axonius achieved the highest score in the key features categories of SIEM/data feed integrations and auditing automation, and the business criteria of scalability and security posture. Strengths include:
- Ability to gather data from different systems (we support over 1000+ integrations out of the box)
- Auditing against best practices and compliance frameworks
- Cost control features to reduce SaaS subscription and cloud operating costs
- Automation controls for fixing SaaS issues and raising IT and security tickets
The report also recognized Axonius’ capabilities beyond SaaS apps, noting the ability of the platform to provide insights and capabilities beyond SaaS posture management.
Security Posture Management should go beyond SaaS Apps
As security practitioners ourselves and in conversations with our customers, we constantly hear: "Security Posture Management is a universal issue—not just exclusive to SaaS apps."
To operate well, security teams need Security Posture Management that:
- Support all asset types in their cybersec scope: Beyond SaaS Apps, organizations must also secure managed and unmanaged devices, identities, databases, and many other asset types regardless of where they live: on-prem, in private, or public clouds.
- Uncover risks and automate remediation from a single place: Inclusive of all asset types and how they introduce risks to each other (i.e.: SaaS Apps and user accounts — as secure as they are — can be compromised via lateral movement on a vulnerable device)
- Reduce manual and redundant work: Today, most security teams manually review data, correlate signals, and cut through the noise of their sec & IT stack to get the complete picture of all assets to secure, which security risks to prioritize, and to fix security issues. For their companies, security must be attained no matter the asset type, and they end up doing the hard job of putting it all together.
To solve these challenges, we developed a unified platform that applies the same structured approach from SSPM — discover assets, uncover risks, and automate remediation — to all assets in your cyber security scope.
