Macnica Networks Corp. (hereinafter President to as Macnica networks, which analyzes threats targeting Japanese organizations on a daily basis and provides security solutions ) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agency agreement with AS Adaptive Shield Ltd. (Headquarters: Israel, CEO & Co-founder: Maor Bin) to sell Adaptive Shield. With this, we will help companies solve the operational issues of configuration auditing when using Software as a Service (hereinafter referred to as SaaS) and help improve operational efficiency.

In recent years, companies have been introducing telework, and the use of SaaS applications such as web conferencing systems, communication tools, and online storage is increasing rapidly. While SaaS applications are extremely easy to use, expandable, and easy to implement, they often handle confidential corporate data and require a high level of security when used. For this reason, SaaS providers invest a large amount of development resources to strengthen the security of the services they provide, but in reality, many security incidents such as information leaks from SaaS applications have occurred recently. Many of these incidents are not due to security flaws in the SaaS itself, but due to misconfigurations by the user companies.

SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) is attracting attention as a solution to such inadequate settings on the cloud. SSPM mainly provides a function to continuously check compliance with security settings and various compliances for safe utilization of SaaS applications.

Among them, the Adaptive Shield solution that we contracted this time has three main features.

• Supports auditing over 30 types of SaaS applications (as of July 2021)
• Diagnose the setting status of SaaS applications and quantify the score by utilizing two types of access, API and credential sign-in
• Create optimal security check items for each SaaS application based on security domains and compliance. Clarify the setting procedure for visualizing the fulfillment status of the check item and taking measures

Commenting on this announcement, Maor Bin, CEO & Co-founder of Adaptive Shield, said:
"Adaptive Shield's mission is to give security teams comprehensive control over their organization's SaaS applications. To that end, Adaptive Shield provides visibility into all SaaS misconfigurations, including global configurations, user roles and permissions. , provide detailed insights and remediation suggestions.To accomplish this mission, we are very honored to partner with Macnica networks, which is highly regarded in the cybersecurity field in Japan.This collaboration Through this, we will further accelerate the use of SaaS applications by Japanese companies and contribute to improved efficiency."

At Macnica networks, in addition to the solutions that we have been handling so far, such as CASB for all cloud applications and CWPP/CSPM for IaaS and PaaS, by providing Adaptive Shield this time, we will also cover the SaaS area. We will help companies strengthen their cloud security.