SaaS Security Program
The average company uses hundreds of SaaS and PaaS tools across their environment. Sending them questionnaires does absolutely nothing to protect you from the real risk of misuse and misconfiguration within your environment.
For Sidekick, protecting SaaS and PaaS tools is about bringing a program approach that systematically drives down and manages risk.
Don’t slow your organization down, help it innovate and scale, safely.
How To Engage
Critical Supplier and Vendor Assessments
SaaS Security is so much more than a tool, or even a set of tools. It’s part of strategically positioning your company to prevent threats from arising in the first place.
Critical Supplier and Vendor Assessments
Ideal for: Mid-size to larger organizations that have many vendors but some that are mission critical and tied to strategic risk.
What you get: Focused assessments of your critical suppliers covering a threat model, configuration posture assessment, and a holistic review of the core security activities being leveraged for each supplier.
SaaS Security Program Management
SaaS security is so much more than a tool, or even a set of tools. It’s part of strategically positioning your company to prevent threats from arising in the first place.
SaaS Security Program Management
Ideal for: Organizations leveraging many SaaS and PaaS providers to run all aspects of their organization.
What you get: A complete security program that spans all the core domains of the CSF framework from inventory and discovery, prevention, monitoring, response, and recovery. Sidekick designs, implements, and runs your program.
How It Works
Understand Risk To You
SaaS providers are evaluated against the actual risk they pose in your environment. What data do they have access to? What do they connect to? Who has access? How reliant are you on them?
Relational Threat Model
Outline a threat model of the SaaS provider and the ecosystem it sits within. This includes tools, users, trust boundaries, and business processes. It’s vital to assess relations, not just parts.
Identify Core Security Activities
Identify the core activities you have in your control to manage SaaS risk. This spans from contract clauses, SSO integrations, monitoring, and configuration posture management.
Vulnerability Identification
Vulnerabilities are identified through gaps in control coverage and misconfigurations in the tools or integrations. This is also rooted in a process of identifying shadow IT or un-managed tools in the environment.
Reporting and Remediation
Reporting risks and mapping them back to relevant compliance standards is one thing. Supporting with systematic remediation and proactive steps to prevent the next time is where our engineering teams build alongside yours to build the program.
Critical Supplier Assessment Deliverables
- Supplier Threat Model: A relational and deployment specific threat model for the supplier and all of the integration points involved along the way.
- Configuration Posture Report: An evaluation of each supplier’s security configurations and controls, ensuring they meet your organization’s security and compliance standards.
- Holistic Security Review: A comprehensive assessment of the security practices applied to the supplier as well as the supplier’s security practices, focusing on their ability to protect your organization’s critical assets and data.
- Risk Prioritization and Recommendations: Actionable insights and risk ratings for each supplier, helping you prioritize efforts and mitigate high-risk relationships.
- Confidence Report: A summary report outlining your suppliers’ overall security posture, complete with recommendations for any necessary remediation.
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Program Management Deliverables
- SaaS Security Program Design: A fully customized SaaS security program tailored to your organization’s unique risk profile and cloud service usage.
- Program Implementation and Integration: Hands-on support in integrating the SaaS security program with your existing security operations, ensuring seamless adoption.
- Ongoing Security Monitoring and Reporting: Regular monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of your security program, including updates on new threats or changes to your SaaS landscape.
- Risk-Based Adjustments: Continuous risk assessments and updates to the program to adapt to evolving threats and the dynamic nature of cloud services while maintaining compliance along the way.
Trust By Organizations Big and Small
"Sidekick has been a true partner in helping us build out our security and privacy program here at the District. Their support has covered a wide spectrum for us, both technical and procedural. They've worked with us on performing risk assessments, developing security policy, deploying privacy initiatives, application penetration testing and managing new risks like generative AI. They’ve worked with us through the entire process and their ongoing support has been invaluable. Sidekick really has lived up to their name for us.”
– CISO, School District of Philadelphia
What You Get With Sidekick On Your Team
Break the Mold
You’ve experienced the lack of efficiency and effectiveness of SaaS Security and TPRM how it’s done currently. You get a partner who gets it and is ready to do it differently.
Confidence
Have confidence that you’re able to confidently answer questions from your board or key stakeholders and assure them your supplier ecosystem is safe.
Scale
Tools only get you so far. Without a program to systematically fit them together and communicate the outputs, they fall apart quickly. Sidekick builds programs set to scale.