The distributed adoption and management of SaaS has led to increased shadow IT challenges and misconfiguration risks, making SaaS and AI applications a prime target for attackers. Many security teams struggle to identify and track the growing number of SaaS and GenAI tools adopted by business users, especially as AI usage expands rapidly through SaaS-delivered services.
Adding to the complexity, platform admins are often embedded within business functions such as Salesforce admins in sales, Workday admins in HR, and GitHub admins in engineering. This dramatically increases the likelihood of misconfigurations and AI-related oversights due to misunderstandings of the shared responsibility model.
Recent attack campaigns targeting Salesforce, Snowflake, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Okta, and others underscore this trend. Attackers are increasingly focused on SaaS and AI platforms because they often house sensitive data, powerful permissions, and high-value non-human identities.
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.
SaaS Sprawl
55% of employees adopt SaaS without security’s involvement
Configuration Management
SaaS complexity is a top challenge for 43% of organizations
AI Risks
56% are concerned about overprivileged GenAI tools
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
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Comply with Industry Standards
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Secure Human Identities
Ensure strong authentication, least privilege access, and clean offboarding for employees and contractors
Govern Non-Human Identities
Manage API keys, service accounts, and OAuth tokens to prevent excessive privileges and reduce integration-related risk
Reduce SaaS Data Exposure
Identify overshared files, public links, and personal-account access to eliminate unnecessary external data exposure
Detect and Respond to Threats
Monitor activity across human and non-human identities and quickly surface suspicious behavior for investigation and response
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Mandy Andress | CISO
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“Valence allowed us to see which platforms were exposing data that we didn’t necessarily know about, and enabled us toquickly eliminate those file exposures.”
Mandy Andress | CISO
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Mandy Andress | CISO
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