What is Adaptive Shield?

Adaptive Shield is a popular Security Posture Management solution that notifies security teams of potential risks in their SaaS environment and attempts to fix them.

With enterprises having thousands of employees using dozens or hundreds of apps, the need for deep visibility and remediation for SaaS security settings is crucial. Adaptive Shield helps your security save time by detecting and remediating configuration weaknesses. The solution enables security experts to prevent configuration and privileges errors, helping to make sure their organization complies with industry standards.

When a misconfiguration error is detected, Adaptive Shield will send you a step-by-step remediation description to show you exactly how to fix the misconfiguration. You can choose to either auto-remediate the misconfiguration directly from within the system or create a ticket using your preferred ticketing system.

In addition to the complete visibility that the solution provides, using Adaptive Shield you can also see a detailed timeline view of your entire SaaS environment. This allows you to monitor for changes in your system and provides you with a detailed overview on how your system changed over time.

Adaptive Shield’s visibility tools offer users three types of inventory:

1. User inventory: Gain a comprehensive view of all of the users across the entire SaaS environment.
   
   
2. Device inventory: Monitor all endpoints with access to your SaaS environment and take the necessary action depending on the security risk these devices might pose.
   
   
3. Third-party application inventory: Monitor the third-party applications that are integrated with your SaaS environment.

Adaptive Shield can integrate with many different types of SaaS applications, such as:

• Video conferencing platforms
• Customer support software
• HR management systems
• Content and file-sharing applications
• Instant messaging applications
• Marketing tools

Some of the popular tools that Adaptive Shield integrates with include:

• Asana
• Atlas Mongo.DB
• Azure DevOps
• Azure Active Directory
• Bitbucket
• Dropbox
• GitHub
• Microsoft Defender
• Datadog
• Jira

Adaptive Shield Features And Benefits

Adaptive Shield provides its users with many valuable key features and benefits. Some of the most useful ones include:

• Ease of use: Adaptive Shield is straightforward to deploy and very easy to use. Adaptive Shield seamlessly integrates with other SaaS applications and can be deployed live within minutes, providing you with clear visibility into your entire SaaS ecosystem.
  
  

• Complete system visibility: Adaptive Shield is constantly performing security checks across the entire SaaS infrastructure in order to provide users with complete visibility of their system through a single pane of glass. Using Adaptive Shield helps IT security teams integrate with other SaaS apps and decipher any security setting misconfigurations.
  
  

• Timeline view: The solution provides you with a detailed timeline view of your entire SaaS environment, allowing you to detect changes and see how your system evolved over time.
  
  

• Third party application integration: The solution can be integrated with other apps and monitors them for configuration weaknesses.
  
  
• Oversee scoped users: Often the SaaS app owners are not part of your security team. Adaptive Shield offers these users access to the platform so that they can have visibility into the apps they own and immediately fix problems when they arise. All actions taken by app owners are overseen by the security team.
  
  
• User inventory: Adaptive Shield provides you with complete visibility into your users. You can view which applications users are currently using, which applications are currently deactivated for each user, their privileges and roles, and the results of their security checks. Adaptive Shield enables complete user management across all SaaS apps. This is very useful for the protection of high-risk and privileged users such as IT admins and executives. User inventory also monitors user activity to track user behavior and detect suspicious activity.
  
  
• Device inventory: The solution’s device inventory provides you with a comprehensive view into the devices that can access your organization’s SaaS apps and provides you with tools that allow you to manage risks based on a device’s security record.
  
  
• Third-party app inventory: With Adaptive Shield, you gain visibility into all external third-party applications that are integrated with your SaaS setup.
  
  

• Security alerts: The Adaptive Shield solution constantly performs in-depth security checks and automatically alerts for any misconfiguration it detects in your apps or any suspicious user activity.
  
  

• Remediation: Adaptive Shield helps automates the remediation process of security misconfigurations throughout your company’s growing SaaS stack. When a misconfiguration is detected, Adaptive Shield provides you with a step-by-step remediation description to help you fix the issue. In addition, you can choose to automatically fix the issue directly from the system or open a support ticket.
  
  
• Integrations: Adaptive Shield constantly adds new options for SaaS app integrations. Your security team can easily integrate with any SaaS app in their SaaS stack. Adaptive Shield has a powerful API that can be used to help connect to your organization's SIEM or other platforms.
  
  
• Domain protection: Adaptive Shield helps you protect your domains from unauthorized access, phishing, and malware and allows you to manage your users’ passwords and control privacy settings.
  
  
• Compliance: Run your SaaS security checks against industry standards, such as NIST, SOC2, ISO, to ensure your SaaS environment is fully compliant. You can also build your own custom company policy.