Numerous organizations have experienced major data breaches in recent years because of security configuration errors in their cloud applications.
A research report by Divvy Cloud earlier this year estimated as many as 33.4 billion records were exposed in breaches resulting from misconfigured cloud apps and services in 2018 and 2019 alone. Each year, the number of records exposed via such breaches has increased despite heightened awareness of the issue. Gartner estimates that through 2025, 99% of all breaches in the cloud will result from customer mistakes.
The trend has spawned the emergence of a relatively new category of security tools known as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) or SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM).
The newest entrant to that market category is Adaptive Shield, an Israel-based startup that this week emerged from stealth mode with $4 million in venture funding. Like the rapidly growing number of other vendors in the general space, Adaptive Shield's platform is designed to help organizations proactively find and address misconfigurations in their SaaS environment that could lead to exposing data.
The company claims that its technology can be deployed in minutes and can be used to automate discovery of configuration errors; to continuously monitor for them; and to provide alerts when potential new issues are discovered.
Maor Bin, co-founder and CEO of Adaptive Shield, says businesses today run nearly every facet of their operations on a wide array of interconnected cloud services. "The problem is that even though SaaS providers have been im ..
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