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Forrester’s Latest SaaS Security Posture Management Report Identifies Zluri as a Strong Performer Amongst Top Providers

Sharavanan

19th January, 2024

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Through in-depth research and analysis, the Forrester Wave™: SaaS Security Posture Management, Q4 2023 Report identifies key insights and distinctions of the solutions delivered by the top Software-as-a-System (SaaS) security posture management (SSPM) providers.

The primary evaluation criteria in this report are based on the ability to perform well with the current offering, market presence, and having a futuristic vision with the strategies. This document acts as a blueprint for IT and security leaders to make well-informed decisions to safeguard their crucial SaaS data.

According to Forrester, Zluri is rated as a strong performer amongst the top SSPM vendors in the market.

Why is there a need for SaaS Security Posture Management?

Managing user permissions, especially for administrators, has become increasingly intricate in SaaS solutions. To safeguard the data stored within these solutions, organizations require clear insights into both data access and the ability to modify policies for data access. 

Traditional IAM tools and manual permission review processes prove inefficient and lack scalability, particularly as organizations integrate more OAuth-connected SaaS applications. The growing volume, hierarchy, and intricacy of access and administrative policy artifacts in SaaS solutions drain resources and increase the risk of data breaches due to misconfigured access.

What should you look for in a SaaS Security Posture Management platform?

SaaS App Configuration Templates and IAM Admin are distinguishing factors for SaaS Security Posture Management. Solutions under evaluation should:

• Provide a broad set of SaaS application configuration templates.

  • Customization and extensibility ability of vendor-supplied templates.

  • Cross-referencing between compliance and best practices templates and policies. 

  • Manual and automatic misconfiguration remediation capabilities tied to a workflow.
    

• Offer extensive IAM administration capabilities for SaaS apps.

  • Graphical representation of users’ access to data. 

  • A risk-prioritized view of users and permissions that a user has in apps.

  • Inactive administrator detection.
    

• Detect threats by using the vendor’s own and third-party threat data.

  • Identify and remediate threats with vendor’s threat insights identified by AI and ML algorithms.

  • Detect enterprise data threats from third-party and consortiums (hacked passwords, vulnerable configuration, and access pattern information.)

The Zluri ‘Strong Performer’ Advantage

Zluri sports an extensive SaaS app catalog. Zluri offers SaaS discovery, governance, and optimization capabilities, including user provisioning and access reviews for SaaS users.

Zluri provides an extensive and deep functionality SaaS application catalog and is capable of permission management for SaaS apps connected to the significant platforms GitHub, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce.

The solution has an outstanding roadmap that covers third-party application risk management and privileged access management. License management, license extensibility, and integration also stand above the competition.

IAM administration in SaaS applications, threat detection, and data protection lag behind others evaluated. Hence, Zluri’s roadmap includes,

1) Building a third-party risk module using generative AI. 

2) Focusing on privileged access management in SaaS apps. 

3) Providing real-time automation for just-in-time access.

Zluri is a good fit for firms that wish to extend their identity and management governance processes to SaaS applications.

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Sharavanan

Content Marketing Specialist