📲 Workday's deadly data breach, misconfiguration magic, risky external sharing, & more!
The Workday Breach: How Hackers Accessed Sensitive Company Data...Again
Workday recently confirmed it was caught in the crossfire of a sophisticated social engineering hack via a third-party vendor.
⚠️ By impersonating IT and HR personnel, hackers were able to trick employees into handing over personal information and account credentials. With that data, attackers infiltrated the customer support system, exposing sensitive details from support tickets - names, email addresses, and phone numbers of Workday customers - many of them being very well-known enterprise organizations.
📲 More than 11,000 organizations around the world use Workday as their HR platform of choice, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500. That's A LOT of companies, A LOT of people, and A LOT of data exposed. The repercussions of this are truly daunting.
💡 Key Lessons Learned for Security Teams
🔓 Your SaaS is your weak spot - and it needs to be secured
Your security is only as strong as your weakest vendor. Even if your company’s own internal SaaS security is airtight, a vulnerable partner puts you at just as much risk! Third-party vendors are the half-open door most organizations leave open, allowing hackers to slip through undetected.
😶 Humans will always be a liability, and they need the tools to protect themselves
Social engineering works because employees - no matter how well-trained - can be deceived. That’s what makes these attacks so dangerous: the human element. Ongoing education is critical, but training alone won’t solve the problem. That’s why organizations need an effective SaaS security program layered alongside employee awareness initiatives.
🔍 Audit your SaaS regularly and actively
Waiting until after an incident is too late. Continuous visibility and monitoring across SaaS platforms must be core to your security posture. Organizations need granular access controls, strong identity management, and rapid remediation capabilities to detect anomalies, monitor behavior, and respond quickly in the face of a breach or suspicious activity.
Find the full details of the breach HERE!
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What Do You Do When An Employee Shares Sensitive Data Externally? 👀
The answer? Nothing - because DoControl already has it handled.
Our customizable workflows kick into gear as soon as the risky action is taken by an employee - informed by automated data scanning powered by 300+ classifiers, intelligent file matching, conditional patterns, flexible approval processes, and actionable remediation paths.
You never have to worry about your data falling into the wrong hands, because DoControl is working 24/7 to stop the threats in real time.
🔗 Check out the full breakdown here!
How is AI Impacting SaaS Security? 🫣
Organizations are increasingly interested in what's going on in their SaaS environment, and for good reason...
Our Co-Founder & CEO, Omri Weinberg, just shared his thoughts on this subject:
▶️ The top SaaS security risks companies STILL underestimate
▶️ Advice on when and how to integrate AI within your business safely
▶️ Ethics and privacy concerns when implementing AI within a security strategy
+ much more!
🔗 Watch the full episode of Omri here!
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