Macnica provides SSPM dedicated solution "Adaptive Shield" to Mizuho Financial Group ~Reducing workload through comprehensive audit of setting items and contents~

Macnica (headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture; Representative Director and President: Kazumasa Hara; hereinafter referred to as Macnica) is pleased to announce that it has provided Adaptive Shield, a dedicated SSPM (SaaS Security Posture Management) solution, to Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kihara Masahiro; hereinafter referred to as Mizuho Financial Group).

■Background
Mizuho Financial Group created its own "Cloud Settings Checklist" to check the security status of SaaS. In order to create this checklist, we conducted various surveys and collected external guidelines and best practice information, but the burden of creating it and reviewing the content once created became an issue. In addition, SaaS contracts are sometimes contracted by departments, etc., and there are many different parties to request confirmation of checklists, making it complicated. Therefore, we considered introducing a tool that could accurately grasp the SaaS configuration status without relying on human resources, and decided to introduce it after verifying that Adaptive Shield could cover the essential confirmation items that had been included in our own checklist. .

■What is Adaptive Shield? - Product overview and deciding factors for introduction -
Adaptive Shield is an SSPM-specific solution for SaaS configuration auditing. In order to safely utilize various SaaS, we provide a function that continuously checks security settings and audits of compliance status with various compliances.

The deciding factors for introducing Adaptive Shield at Mizuho Financial Group are as follows.
- Covers important items to check settings indicated by major security guidelines
・Work burden and errors due to automation of checks that were previously requested to each SaaS user department can be reduced.
・Can detect frequent additions of new SaaS functions and specification changes in real time

<Reduction of checking man-hours by introducing Adaptive Shield>

■Introduction effects and future prospects
By introducing Adaptive Shield, Mizuho Financial Group has been able to automatically check the setting status, reducing effort and ensuring accuracy. When checking settings manually, there were uncertainties such as the person in charge not noticing even if the settings were changed the day after the checklist was submitted, but continuous auditing by Adaptive Shield covers such concerns. I was able to. In the future, we aim to expand the types of SaaS and tenants that are linked to Adaptive Shield.

As the primary domestic distributor of Adaptive Shield, Macnica will continue to support customers' secure SaaS operations by leveraging the specialized knowledge we have accumulated and our unique SaaS configuration audit report service.

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