All news with #saas security tag

🔒 Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks UNC6040, a financially motivated cluster that uses telephone-based social engineering to compromise SaaS environments, primarily targeting Salesforce. Operators trick users into authorizing malicious connected apps—often a fake Data Loader—to extract large datasets. The guidance prioritizes identity hardening, strict OAuth and API governance, device trust, and targeted logging and SIEM detections to identify rapid exfiltration and cross‑SaaS pivots.

🔐 The Cloud Security Alliance has published the SaaS Security Capability Framework (SSCF) to establish technical minimum requirements that help SaaS providers and customers apply Zero-Trust principles and address rising third-party risks highlighted by recent Salesforce attacks. The SSCF defines controls across six domains, including identity and access management, data lifecycle, and logging and monitoring, and translates business requirements into concrete, configurable security functions such as log forwarding, SSO enforcement and incident notification. CSA positions the SSCF as a complement to, not a replacement for, frameworks like ISO 27001, while vendors stress that continuous validation and operational implementation are essential to reduce real-world risk.

🔒 The Cloud Security Alliance has published the SaaS Security Capability Framework (SSCF), a standardized set of customer-facing security controls designed to reduce long-standing gaps in third-party risk management. SSCF defines minimum technical capabilities across six domains — including identity and access, data lifecycle, logging, and incident management — that vendors should expose under the Shared Responsibility Model. The framework is intended to add transparency and consistency to SaaS security, complementing business-focused standards such as ISO 27001, and aims to evolve into practical implementation guidance, auditing criteria, and a certification scheme.

🌐Cloudflare is prototyping a SaaS-to-SaaS proxy that consolidates SaaS connections through a single front door to improve monitoring, detection, and response. Two deployment models are proposed: a customer-controlled vanity hostname proxy that returns visibility to data owners, and a vendor-side reverse proxy that strengthens platform security. Both approaches use key splitting to avoid persisting full bearer tokens and enable instant revocation. Cloudflare is seeking feedback and offering early access.

🔒 Cloudflare today launched Application Confidence Scorecards, a new capability in the Cloudflare One SASE suite that automates safety and trust assessments for AI and SaaS applications. The feature combines an Application Posture Score and a Gen‑AI Posture Score to surface certifications, data‑management practices, security controls, and vendor maturity. Cloudflare crawls trust centers and public policies, uses LLMs for structured extraction and source validation, and pairs automated scoring with analyst review to reduce errors. Scores appear in the Application Library and can inform policy enforcement, warnings, or blocks so teams can reduce Shadow AI risk without manual audits.

📞 Amazon Connect now lets administrators associate custom, predefined attributes with individual interaction segments. Attributes such as business unit, account type, or contact reason can be centrally managed and applied through contact flows or the UpdateContact API, ensuring each segment retains accurate business context during transfers and multi-party interactions. For example, engagements that start in Support and move to Sales keep distinct business unit names per segment. This capability strengthens reporting and analytics across the customer journey and is available in all AWS regions.

🔒 On September 29 at 12:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer and SC Media will host a live webinar featuring browser security experts from Push Security to examine how modern web browsers have become a primary enterprise attack surface. The session will cover malicious and shadow extensions, session token theft, OAuth abuse, and emerging ClickFix and FileFix techniques, plus mitigation strategies. Attendees will learn practical detection and response approaches to protect SaaS sessions, restore visibility at the web edge, and close gaps missed by traditional endpoint and identity controls.

🛡️ Many organizations rely on SaaS project platforms such as Trello and Asana for daily operations, but native protections and short retention windows often leave critical data exposed. The piece highlights human error, misconfiguration, and targeted cyberattacks as leading causes of loss. It recommends adding a third‑party backup layer and presents FluentPro Backup as a solution offering continuous automated backups, granular restores, one‑click project recovery, and Azure‑backed security to ensure recoverability and auditability.

🔒 Cloudflare outlines practical steps to secure generative AI adoption using its SASE platform, combining SWG, CASB, Access, DLP, MCP controls and AI infrastructure. The post introduces new AI Security Posture Management (AI‑SPM) features — shadow AI reporting, provider confidence scoring, prompt protection, and API CASB integrations — to improve visibility, risk management, and data protection without blocking innovation. These controls are integrated into a single dashboard to simplify enforcement and protect internal and third‑party LLMs.

🔒 Cloudflare introduces Application Confidence Scores to help enterprises assess the safety and data protection posture of third-party SaaS and Gen AI applications. Scores, delivered as part of Cloudflare’s AI Security Posture Management, use a transparent, public rubric and automated crawlers combined with human review. Vendors can submit evidence for rescoring, and scores will be applied per account tier to reflect differing controls across plans.

🔒 Cloudflare One users can now connect OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini to Cloudflare's API CASB to scan GenAI tenants for misconfigurations, DLP matches, data exposure, and compliance risks without installing endpoint agents. The API CASB provides out-of-band posture and DLP analysis, while Cloudflare Gateway delivers inline prompt controls and Shadow AI identification. Integrations are available in the dashboard or through your account manager.

🛡️ This post outlines the rise of Shadow AI—unsanctioned use of public AI services that can leak sensitive data—and presents how Cloudflare One surfaces and governs that activity. The Shadow IT Report classifies AI apps such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Leonardo.ai, showing which users, locations, and bandwidth are involved. Under the hood, Gateway collects HTTP traffic and TimescaleDB with materialized views enables long-range analytics and fast queries. Administrators can proxy traffic, enable TLS inspection, set approval statuses, enforce DLP, block or isolate risky AI, and audit activity with Log Explorer.

🔒 CrowdStrike has been named the only Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM). The recognition highlights the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's unified, AI-native approach—combining Falcon Shield, identity protection and cloud security—to detect and remediate misconfigurations, identity threats, and unauthorized SaaS access. Falcon Shield's extensive integrations, automated policy responses via Falcon Fusion SOAR, and GenAI-focused controls underpin its market-leading posture and support continuous visibility across human and non-human identities.