The no-jargon guide to solving shadow SaaS
SaaS vendors have changed how software is adopted into a business. Now, the majority of SaaS vendors build their products on a product-led growth model - which simply means they want users (your employees) to self-adopt their apps, start using them (and integrating with your data to do so), and become a useful tool for the employee. This change has turned the product-adoption process on its head - leaving security and IT teams blind to which apps sensitive company data is flowing into. How do you make sure your data stays secure in this new software-adoption flow? In this book, we’ll offer some practical guidance on how to manage supply chain risk without slowing down the business.
Read moreSaaS Security Solution Evaluation Guide
If you’re looking for a solution to find and secure SaaS, including employee-adopted work apps, you’re probably navigating a sea of SaaS management solution vendor websites to try to determine which products to evaluate. There are SSPMs, CSPMs, CASBs, legacy tools with a few SaaS security features, and modern tools that don’t quite fit into either category, and even within each subcategory, products vary widely on capabilities, coverage, and depth. It’s a daunting task. Our latest e-book aims to help you hone in on which solutions might be the best to consider for your specific needs, objectives, and environment.
Read moreSaaS sprawl isn't a problem (If you completely change your approach)
Employees using a new work app used to be the final step of the software-onboarding process. Now it's the first. SaaS vendors bypass IT and security and hook employees with free apps and trials. This has led to sensitive data on shadow SaaS applications (more on this later) that is accessible via unmanaged cloud accounts (accounts that aren’t protected by SSO or logged into via social login accounts). Attackers exploit this unmonitored attack surface with new takes on old techniques that are going undetected. Employees self-adopting apps might sound like a security nightmare, but it doesn’t have to be. Security teams need to regain visibility and control over company data and how it’s secured.
Read moreA Phisher’s Guide to Slack
Unlike phishing via email, IM apps and the messages within them are typically more trusted by employees, making social engineering via Slack a juicy target.
Read moreSaaS Attacks Report
Offensive security drives defensive security. We're sharing a collection of SaaS attack techniques to help defenders understand the threats they face. Our goal at Push is simple — to reduce the risk of using SaaS apps at work. Doing this well means building controls that are easy to use, easy to understand — and ultimately effective. These controls need to be effective against the most common techniques that are likely to cause real damage. To talk about this, we need to have a shared understanding of what these techniques are. To get that conversation going, we’ve pulled together all the techniques we're aware of and we've even added a bunch of new ones.
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Demonstrating ghost logins in Snowflake and how to remediate them.
Ghost logins are additional login methods than can exist simultaneously to the preferred default login method (e.g. SSO). Ghost logins often lack robust authentication controls such as MFA, meaning that stolen credentials for local logins with a username and password will remain valid even if an SSO login also exists for that account. These accounts will lack MFA unless specifically adopted by the user.
This vulnerability affects the majority of SaaS apps, including Snowflake, which was recently subject to a massive malicious campaign in which accounts belonging to over 165 Snowflake customers have been compromised.
Luke Jennings, VP R&D at Push Security, demonstrates this vulnerability in Snowflake and what you can do about it.
The command run by Luke is:
SELECT
NAME AS user_name,
EMAIL AS email,
DISABLED AS disabled,
HAS_PASSWORD as has_password,
EXT_AUTHN_DUO as mfa
FROM
SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.USERS
WHERE
DISABLED = false
AND HAS_PASSWORD = true
AND EXT_AUTHN_DUO = falseShowcasing networkless identity attacks
Attackers can own a business without touching the endpoint – Luke Jennings, VP of R&D at Push shows how easy it is to compromise sensitive business data and functionality by targeting cloud identities.
The New SaaS Cyber Kill Chain: SO-CON 2024
Once upon a time, we thought of cyber attacks in terms of recon, port scanning, enumeration, vulnerability identification and exploitation and we had various approaches we would use to frustrate attackers at every phase.
As the cat and mouse game of security continued, this eventually morphed into an endpoint compromise focused process involving initial access, exploitation, persistence, command and control and lateral movement inside a complex internal network. But with the remote working and SaaS revolution, the way organizations work has changed radically – so what does the cyber kill chain look like now?
This talk considers what a new SaaS cyber kill chain looks like for modern organizations that are fully SaaS native without any concept of an internal network, and the surprising number of attacks that are possible without touching company owned endpoints or infrastructure.
We will consider topics like how the initial access stage is changing due to the availability of so many potential beachheads, what lateral movement looks like in a world with no internal infrastructure to migrate to and how persistence methods have changed and are much more resilient to common containment measures such as password resets and secure device wipes.
Finally, we'll consider how the open-source SaaS attacks matrix can be used by both red and blue teams to help navigate this new world.
Snowflake: The tip of the iceberg – Three practical takeaways from the Snowflake incident
The Snowflake breach will be for cloud identity attacks what WannaCry was for Ransomware.
Touted as potentially the biggest breach in history, the Snowflake incident is a watershed moment for identity security, impacting ~165 organizations (so far) and millions of downstream customers.
Just as we had with OS security, this is the 'security by default' moment for SaaS.
Join Luke Jennings, VP R&D at Push Security, to explore the practical takeaways from the incident. He'll discuss what Snowflake shows us about the complexity of the identity attack surface, and discuss the practical steps that organizations can take to investigate and respond effectively.
Phishing 2.0 – Detecting Evilginx, EvilnoVNC, Muraena and Modlishka
Attackers are increasingly using new phishing toolkits (open-source, commercial, and criminal) to execute AitM and BitM attacks and bypass traditional phishing prevention controls such as MFA, EDR, and email content filtering.
They're not only harvesting credentials, but stealing live session logins for high-value platforms like Okta and MS365.
In this webinar, our VP Research, Luke Jennings, demonstrates how these tools work as well as how Push uses browser telemetry to detect these toolkits running on webpages and block users from accessing them.
BlueHat 2023 - SaaS Cyber Kill Chain
Luke Jennings, Push's VP of R&D, explores the evolution of cyber attacks and the impact of the remote working and SaaS revolution on the cyber kill chain.
He discusses the new SaaS cyber kill chain for modern, fully SaaS native organizations and the surprising number of attacks possible without touching company-owned endpoints or infrastructure.
Luke discusses how initial access, lateral movement, and persistence methods have changed in a world with no internal infrastructure. He also introduces the open-source SaaS attacks matrix as a tool for both red and blue teams navigating this new landscape.
Shared Security - Compromising an Organization without Touching the Network
In this episode of Shared Security Luke Jennings VP of Research & Development from Push Security joins us to discuss SaaS attacks and how its possible to compromise an organization without touching a single endpoint or network. Luke talks about his recent SaaS attack research, why SaaS based attacks are different than traditional network based attacks, the SaaS attack matrix which can be used by both red and blue teams, and why its important that this research is shared and talked about in the cybersecurity community.
Pain in the SaaS - Talk at WithSecure
Luke Jennings, Vice President of R&D at Push Security, gives a talk about new SaaS attack techniques at WithSecure Conference
Securing employee-adopted SaaS apps
SaaS vendors are bypassing your vetting processes and getting employees hooked with free apps and trials. Attackers are targeting this new shadow attack surface with new takes on old techniques. In this webinar, Jacques will cover:
Why the traditional gated approach for onboarding new software no longer works.
How to adapt your approach to meet the challenges and enable your business.
Share insights about other teams that have embraced app self-adoption and kept a handle on risks.
Understanding the New SaaS Cyber Kill Chain
This talk will consider what a new SaaS cyber kill chain looks like for modern organizations that are fully SaaS native without any concept of an internal network, and the surprising number of attacks that are possible without touching company owned endpoints or infrastructure. In this webinar, you will:
Discover how most organizations are already hybrid SaaS and are increasingly SaaS-native
Learn what the cyber kill chain looks like when applied to SaaS-native organizations
Understand both new variations of old attacks and brand new attack techniques against SaaS-native organizations
Discover how SaaS opens up serious persistence challenges even in traditional endpoint compromise scenarios
Learn what the SaaS attacks matrix is and how it can benefit your red and blue teams
Convex Insurance
Push helped Convex Insurance enhance their identity security and gain control of shadow SaaS, closing a gap left by traditional CASB solutions.
Read moreInductive Automation
Push helped Inductive find and secure shadow accounts and apps with high-fidelity data in a way that didn’t interfere with employees’ productivity.
Read moreUpvest
Upvest partnered with Push to achieve a scalable and user-centric way to secure SaaS apps and reduce third-party risks across a complex ecosystem of integrations and apps.
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