Security News > 2020 > August > It's Not Just an Unusual Login: Why Pay Attention to Threats Facing SaaS and Cloud?
More attention should be dedicated to strange login times and locations so that cloud and SaaS account compromises do not result in company-wide damage.
Since the unusual login location was accompanied by an unusual login time, the actions triggered a deeper analysis from my team.
The analysts initially noticed an unusual login took place because security tools in place were searching for unusual behavior - such as a strange login location and time - rather than relying on rules and signatures or pre-defining bad. While unusual logins can happen quite frequently and for various reasons, the technology in place and analysts leveraging it continued to closely monitor activity connected to the devices and users in question.
In addition to focusing on these and other unusual activities, businesses' approach to cloud and SaaS security must include a few additional key elements to ensure attackers are unable to access private company information or profit at a business's expense.
The rising reliance on cloud and SaaS has almost undoubtedly led to a rise in interest from attackers, now reevaluating the technology as potential threat vectors enabling them to access confidential information or use it as an inroad into companies' infrastructure.
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