The distributed adoption and management of SaaS has led to increased shadow IT challenges and misconfiguration risks, making SaaS applications a prime target for attackers. Many security teams struggle to identify and track the growing number of SaaS applications adopted by various business users—especially with the rise of GenAI tools, which are typically delivered as SaaS.
Adding to the complexity, platform admins are often embedded within business functions—Salesforce admins in sales, Workday admins in HR, GitHub admins in engineering—dramatically increasing the likelihood of misconfigurations due to misunderstandings of the shared responsibility model.
Recent attack campaigns targeting Snowflake, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Okta, and others underscore this trend. Attackers are increasingly focused on SaaS platforms because they often house sensitive data and powerful permissions.
To mitigate these risks, security teams must build strong partnerships with business users and SaaS admins to maintain control over applications, data, identities, and SaaS-to-SaaS integrations—while ensuring continuous monitoring to detect and respond to potential breaches.
Enterprise environments are experiencing increased SaaS risks due to complex configurations and decentralized business unit adoption.
Identity Sprawl
100% of organizations have failed to completely roll out MFA
Configuration Management
SaaS complexity is a top challenge for 43% of organizations
Data Exposure
94% of external file shares are inactive, with no recent usage by the external users
SaaS-to-SaaS Integrations
For every 1 human identity, there are 8.6 non-humans identities
Security teams are empowered with complete visibility into their SaaS ecosystems—including sanctioned and unsanctioned applications—alongside prioritized SaaS risk management, threat detection, and advanced remediation capabilities.
Centrally manage risks across your SaaS applications to identify and prioritize misconfigurations, enforce security policies, and comply with industry standards
Leverage a comprehensive inventory of all SaaS applications, identify security gaps, and reduce risks related of shadow IT, unmanaged identities, and sensitive data exposure
Monitor activities of both human and non-human identities to detect suspicious behavior and proactively hunt threats, empowering you to respond to SaaS incidents effectively
Scale risk reduction with flexible options from manual to automated remediation, including collaboration features that engage users and admins to gain necessary business context
SaaS Configuration Management
Continuously analyze SaaS security configurations to detect misconfigurations and drift from best practices
SaaS Identity Security
Discover all your SaaS identities and ensure they leverage strong authentication with least privilege
SaaS Data Protection
Secure your data with zero-trust access controls to prevent data exposure or leakage
SaaS-to-SaaS Governance
Manage access of third-party integrations, non-human identities, and service accounts
"We had the visibility that we wanted in our existing tools, but it was hard to understand, hard to analyze, very time consuming, and very manual. What took us weeks to analyze and uncover in the past, with Valence we were able to highlight and understand in minutes, if not seconds.
Mandy Andress | CISO
“The ability to automatically mitigate SaaS security risks is a game changer for our security team. Instead of manual and labor intensive workflows, Valence automatically collects the business context and encourages users to remediate risks on their own.”
Doug Graham | Chief Trust Officer
“Valence allowed us to see which platforms were exposing data that we didn’t necessarily know about, and enabled us to quickly eliminate those file exposures.”
Mandy Andress | CISO
"The reason we swapped from our previous tool was that there appeared to be a lack of innovation and little to no automation. With Valence, the partnership was a big piece."
Mandy Andress | CISO
Valence secures these business-critical SaaS applications and more, enabling security teams to quickly discover and remediate risks.
