Push goes deeper into identities on cloud apps to prevent identity-based attacks CASBs work at the network layer. They can show you the websites your employees are accessing, and from that, they infer cloud app usage — along with some false positives.
CASBs are most useful to organizations in highly regulated industries that want to lock down their environment and block employees from accessing cloud apps or websites while they’re on the corporate network or using corporate endpoints. However, they are expensive, complex to implement and take a lot of resources to manage.
Push works at an identity and application level. Push discovers all the apps your employees are using, and gives you visibility of the identities they use to access these apps. You can see how securely your employees are using each app and harden identities that are vulnerable to identity-based attacks — the #1 threat. This isn’t possible with a CASB.
Push provides much broader coverage across all the SaaS apps and identities your employees use SSPMs apply the principles of CSPM to SaaS. CSPMs are hugely valuable as they allow you to harden highly configurable, complex cloud infrastructure services like AWS. To get similar value out of an SSPM, they need to be applied to SaaS apps that are comparable in terms of complexity and configurable functionality. They are also dependent on the SaaS vendor exposing that configurable functionality via API. For these reasons, SSPMs only support a small number of SaaS apps.
Realistically, most organizations will only have a couple of core platforms that will benefit from having an SSPM: Microsoft 365, Salesforce, etc. And organizations that use SSPMs typically have a dedicated security team for each of these core platforms. So SSPMs are good for configuration hardening of one or two of your most complex SaaS platforms, but not for securing the identities across all the SaaS your organization uses.
Push provides much broader coverage across the hundreds of SaaS apps your business will use — including discovering those you don’t already know about. Push prioritizes hardening user accounts over app configurations because; 1) the vast majority of SaaS aren't that configurable, and 2) identity-based attacks against user accounts are far more common than attackers exploiting misconfigurations.
Push allows you to secure the cloud environment your data resides in, without blocking employees or invading their privacy Traditional DLP solutions were designed for legacy on-prem networks where data could be inspected as it left the perimeter. They require months of integration work to configure and develop policies, and struggle with today’s decentralized and interconnected cloud environments. As a result, they tend to block legitimate business activities and frustrate employees. This can force users into the shadows to find workarounds or lead security teams to turn them off.
Modern DLP tools serve as a black box recorder, collecting data that can be used in a retrospective investigation. To be effective, they must track device activity, network activity, and cloud application activity. But this type of surveillance is incredibly invasive and hard to justify for most organizations.
Push gives you visibility of the third-party SaaS apps your employees use while preserving employee privacy. Rather than trying to stop data from moving, Push focuses on mapping out the cloud environment it's in, and ensuring it’s protected against external threats.
Push shows you where your IdPs are being used and hardens non-IdP identities Push tracks where your IdP is being used across your cloud environment. Push discovers all your identities, including those on popular managed IdPs like Google, Microsoft and Okta that use SAML and OIDC, as well as custom or self-hosted IdPs like ADFS.
Get visibility of all your employees’ accounts, whether they are using federated identities or shadow identities. Consolidate your employees’ accounts to use a core set of federated identities with your preferred IdP and SSO, or make sure employees' unfederated identities using credentials are just as secure when this isn’t possible or practical.
