Protos Networks Announces Strategic Partnership with Adaptive Shield

Chester, England – Monday, August 19th, 2024 – Protos Networks is excited to announce a new partnership with Adaptive Shield, a prominent SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) security player. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in Protos Networks’ mission to deliver comprehensive, cutting-edge cyber security solutions for our customers.

Addressing the Critical Security Risks Associated with SaaS Platforms

Adaptive Shield is a SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform that enables IT and security teams to gain complete control over all business-critical SaaS applications. The solution offers an innovative way for organisations to identify, manage and mitigate security risks and misconfigurations across their entire SaaS ecosystem.

As organisations increasingly adopt SaaS applications, it has never been more critical to ensure that they are configured and operate securely. The partnership between Protos Networks and Adaptive Shield comes when businesses face a growing array of cyber threats targeting their cloud environments. For example, in May 2024, attacks against SaaS-based database and analytics provider Snowflake led to breaches against many enterprises, including Ticketmaster and Santander. The attack was successful as the threat actors had previously stolen or bought legitimate credentials, but the breached accounts did not enable multi-factor authentication (MFA). Checking cloud applications for MFA enablement is one of the thousands of SaaS security checks Adaptive Shield carries out and reports on.

Protos Networks has built a reputation for delivering the best and most innovative cyber security solutions to meet the needs of our customer base. By integrating Adaptive Shield’s powerful SSPM platform into our portfolio, we will enhance our ability to provide clients with real-time visibility into their SaaS security posture, ensuring their applications are secure and compliant with industry standards.

Some of the critical use cases of Adaptive Shield include:

• SaaS Misconfigurations: Automate in-depth security checks across the entire stack, receive contextual recommendations, create tickets and collaborate with app owners for swift remediation.
• SaaS-to-SaaS & Shadow Apps: Detect and control all sanctioned and unsanctioned 3rd party SaaS applications connected to your core SaaS hubs and the level of risk they pose to your business. 
• Identity Security: Gain consolidated visibility of user accounts, roles, permissions, behaviour and classification. Identify high-risk users to prioritise remediation, detect dormant accounts and identify unintentionally active users with access to sensitive data.
• Identity Threat Detection & Response: ITDR ensures you have visibility of identity-centric threats originating from the SaaS ecosystem, such as unusual activities, malicious applications or any indication of compromise.
• Device-to-SaaS Security: Gain unprecedented context and visibility to easily see and manage the risks that stem from SaaS users and their associated devices. Monitor user devices that access your SaaS stack with a view of device vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
• GenAI Security: Monitor and remediate security risks caused by AI configurations or AI-driven SaaS applications. Detect AI shadow apps adopted by users and interconnected GenAI applications and the level of risk they pose.

Integrations

Adaptive Shield features over 140 integrations, with new SaaS app integrations constantly added and the ability to create custom integrations. IT and security teams can easily connect to any SaaS app in their SaaS stack to Adaptive Shield.

The Importance of this Partnership

As businesses increasingly shift to digital platforms, SaaS applications like Box, Salesforce, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 now make up around 70% of the software tools used by companies. While these SaaS providers continuously improve their security measures, organisations must ensure these settings are correctly configured and managed.

To address this critical need, Protos Networks has partnered with Adaptive Shield to offer an all-encompassing solution for SaaS security. Adaptive Shield brings its advanced SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform to the table, while Protos Networks leverages its expertise in delivering leading managed security services. We are committed to helping businesses secure their SaaS environments more effectively.

Darren Kewley, Technical Director at Protos Networks, said, “Protos Networks is thrilled to announce our partnership with Adaptive Shield. Adding Adaptive Shield’s SaaS security posture management (SSPM) capabilities to our portfolio addresses a significant and growing area of cyber security risk for our client base. More importantly, however, Adaptive Shield will significantly reduce the threats posed by misconfigurations to our customers’ ever-growing range of SaaS platforms.”

Maor Bin, CEO and Co-Founder of Adaptive Shield, also expressed enthusiasm for the partnership, stating, “we’re excited to announce a significant step forward in our mission to deliver a powerful SaaS security solution across the UK. By partnering with Protos Networks, a company renowned for its expertise and commitment to excellence, we’re confident this collaboration will drive value to enterprise customers,”

Looking Ahead

In the coming weeks and months, Protos Networks will host joint webinars with Adaptive Shield and can host dedicated customer demonstrations and trials. If you’d like to find out more, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.