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Guide: Reduce risk and strengthen your security posture
Guide: Reduce risk and strengthen your security posture

See what's done for you on Day One, plus a list of steps you can take to reduce risk and harden your security posture with Nudge Security.

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Written by Julia Kisielius
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Reduce risk and strengthen your security posture with Nudge Security

Let's review what's already done for you on Day One of your Nudge Security trial to support common security and risk reduction goals, then look at next steps that can take you even further.

Goal

Available on Day 1

What’s next?

Reduce your SaaS attack surface and manage SaaS supply chain risks.

• Familiarize yourself with your SaaS attack surface and the steps you can take to manage it. Learn more →
• Audit your cloud estate and enroll rogue AWS accounts in central governance. Learn more →
• Respond to breach alerts affecting third- and fourth-party apps in your supply chain.
• Opt in to receive weekly email summary and data breach notifications (Settings > Profile).

Monitor your SaaS security posture.

Regular security posture checks for your IdP (Google Workspace or Microsoft 365)
Remediation workflows for each security posture finding

• Regularly review and resolve SaaS security posture findings, including identity risks, misconfigurations, and integration risks. Learn more →
• Configure connected apps for additional security posture findings (Apps > Connected Apps).
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• Consider sending security posture findings to your SIEM or SOAR tool with Nudge Security’s API. Learn more →
• Consider using Tines to send security posture findings to Jira.
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For a deeper dive into SSPM, watch the webcast on SaaS security posture management.

Manage app-to-app integration risks.

• Review your app-to-app integration inventory, focusing on high OAuth risk scores and risk insights.
• Review app-to-app integrations associated with your connected apps. Learn more →
• Audit OAuth use and manage OAuth risks at scale by revoking risky or unused access. Learn more →
• Establish a process for investigating permissive or high-risk grants. Learn more →
For more context, watch the webcast on deciphering OAuth risks.

Establish a process for onboarding new apps securely.

Security profiles for each app in your inventory, pus thousands of additional SaaS vendors

Weave Nudge into your ongoing processes for evaluating new app vendors. For example:
• Create a rule to be alerted to new app signups (Notifications > Rules).
• Perform third-party vendor reviews with our security profiles. Learn more →
• Identify what types of data new apps will process by nudging technical owners. Learn more →

• Track legal and security review statuses by updating fields within Nudge Security, or sync them with an outside system automatically using our API.

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