Adaptive Shield Announces Major ANZ Expansion to Bolster SaaS Security for Organizations


Adaptive Shield Announces Major ANZ Expansion to Bolster SaaS Security for Organizations
Adaptive Shield Announces Major ANZ Expansion to Bolster SaaS Security for Organizations
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Adaptive Shield, a SaaS security company, has entered the Australian and New Zealand markets as officially announced. The shift has been made in response to a rapidly expanding market for effective security solutions as companies become more reliant on critical applications including Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, GitHub, ServiceNow, Zoom, and Slack.

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Appointment of Kendal Watt

Adaptive Shield has hired Kendal Watt as the new Regional Director of the ANZ region. Watt, based out of Melbourne has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and has built successful teams for organizations such as Abnormal Security, Recorded Future, and Mimecast. 

Adaptive Shield has hired Kendal Watt as the new Regional Director of the ANZ region.

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SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Platform

Using a Software Security Posture Management (SSPM) solution, such as Adaptive Shield, allows security teams to easily monitor misconfigurations in SaaS environments, interrelated apps, shadow apps, identity security, and threats with GenAI configuration possibilities. 

AISA SydneySEC Cyber Security Conference

Adaptive Shield will present its solutions at the AISA Sydney SEC Cyber Security Conference on June 25th. Maor Bin, the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Adaptive Shield pointed towards the ANZ market adoption of SaaS security given the fact that threats are shifting quickly. The creation of such a presence indicates their intention to offer regional support for large-scale enterprise consumers. Adaptive Shield remains at the cutting edge of SaaS security with accolades such as Gartner Cool Vendor, Frost & Sullivan’s Global Technology Innovation Leadership, and the Global Infosec Awards 2024. 

Specific features of Adaptive Shield’s SSPM platform

SaaS Posture by App offers integration with over 150 apps situates configuration weaknesses within context and helps to prioritize security issues to work on. Security Checks & Alerts provide a way to notify of configuration changes or potential threats and consolidate management.

OpenSCAP covers all aspects of security threats, threat levels, and affected parties, as well as a detailed process on how to correct misconfiguration. User Inventory provides a holistic experience of users active across all the linked SaaS applications and is highly relevant for protecting sensitive users like IT admins and executives. Discovery: 3rd Party App & Shadow App Inventory provides awareness of third-party applications connected within the SaaS tech stack and accounts for new risks in SaaS-to-SaaS interactions. Data Inventory recognizes common sensitive data and prevents data loss.

Inventory of Devices relates SaaS user risk to their endpoints. Threat Center visualizes threats based on severity, application, type, or date and then suggests a course of action based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Privileged Activity Monitoring is used to monitor privileged user activity and identify abnormal activity. Scoped User Management can solve the SaaS app delegation issues.

Conclusion

Adaptive Shield offers comprehensive managed governance, ongoing analysis, and preemptive protection for foundational SaaS applications. Adaptive Shield recently announced the creation of its new partner program designed to facilitate its channel-driven growth. Local support to the ANZ customers shall be supported by Netpoleon and Restack which are existing regional partners.  


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