Wing Security has made significant strides in enhancing the security of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications by discovering human and non-human identity behaviors. This novel methodology provides organizations with the ability to create a deep, contextualized understanding of the identities at play within their SaaS environments. Wing Security’s non-intrusive, intelligent approach increases efficiency by providing an added layer of protection without compromising productivity. This approach eliminates the reliance on agents or proxies, enabling organizations to efficiently chart their identity terrain.
Wing’s technology goes beyond discovering what threats may exist to enabling an organization to quickly detect and respond to vulnerabilities in their SaaS applications. By addressing the root causes of these vulnerabilities, Wing aims to prevent future attacks while equipping security teams with tailored mitigation strategies. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Wing Security’s revolutionary approach to identity defense, and explore some of its key features and benefits.
Comprehensive Identity Mapping
Wing Security’s real breakthrough is its ability, powered by AI, to automatically generate a true identity map of an organization’s SaaS ecosystem. This mapping takes into consideration human users, service accounts, and API keys. By learning patterns of user behavior, Wing gives developers an all-encompassing picture of what identity interactions look like across multiple applications.
In fact, our organizations fail to grasp how varied identities contort and intersect across dozens of SaaS platforms. Wing’s solution reduces the fuss. It empowers security teams to visualize all interactions easily, avoiding the intrusiveness usually associated with traditional security measures. This new capability increases their situational awareness. More importantly, it arms organizations with the ability to detect weaknesses that can otherwise fall through the cracks.
Wing’s identity mapping doesn’t stop at recognizing threats either. It is an important building block for better proactive security measures to take place. Specifically, organizations can identify the first indicators of attackers methodically testing credentials in the reconnaissance stage. They accomplish this by identifying cross-account user agent duplication. This intelligence is key to preventing attacks before they become real.
Rapid Detection and Customized Mitigation
Wing Security stands out most for its speed of threat detection and the unique mitigation playbooks it offers organizations. The playbooks are designed around specific types of attacks and the corresponding SaaS applications they affect. This personalization ensures that security teams are provided with actionable steps that they can execute immediately.
For example, if Wing senses an attempted data exfiltration from GitHub, it alerts you to the possibility that an attacker is using elevated privileges to reach internal repositories. In this instance, the playbook will provide targeted actions to help address this growing threat. These measures can be as simple as revoking access within minutes of detecting a potential misuse or deploying stronger oversight of user actions between key applications.
Wing’s threat timeline feature goes a long way towards making its findings much more useful. It provides a chronological view of detections next to attacker TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures) based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Click this timeline to see the growing number of detections for each threat. It further breaks down the threats by tactics, such as initial access and privilege escalation. For instance, if a compromised account triggers four detections that escalate privilege via role assignment in Entra ID, security teams can remediate. They have the ability to take this new threat and contextualize it within more severe threats.
Wing makes these contextual information by pairing them with detection data. This allows security teams to focus on and address the most serious threats before anything else. Such prioritization is vital in an age where cyber threats are both more advanced and pervasive than ever before.
Addressing Underlying Risks
In addition to identifying threats and providing immediate responses, Wing Security emphasizes the importance of addressing underlying risk factors within an organization’s SaaS configurations. The platform assists organizations in evaluating their security posture by identifying misconfigurations or vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers.
If Wing identifies a risk related to lack of access controls or stale permissions, it will address the risk. Most importantly, it will steer organizations in addressing these shortcomings to better their security posture. By focusing on these root causes, organizations can make enormous strides in reducing the risk of a future incident.
The tailored mitigation playbooks provide short-term answers to what are sometimes urgent problems. Beyond just market transparency, they promote long-term security improvements by creating a culture of constant vigilance and recalibration. This proactive focus is foundational for any organization looking to get ahead of the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape.