Compliance frameworks like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) have become essential blueprints for building resilient security programs. While organizations race to meet NIST standards, the rapid adoption of SaaS apps has introduced significant challenges in maintaining compliance, visibility, and control over identity and access.
Enter Savvy, an identity-first solution designed to bridge these compliance gaps and align your organization with NIST requirements. Let’s explore how Savvy’s innovative capabilities map directly to NIST guidelines, helping organizations secure their SaaS environments and achieve compliance faster.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Core Functions with Savvy
The NIST CSF’s five core functions—Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover—serve as a guide for managing cybersecurity risks. Savvy supports these functions through its advanced identity and SaaS security capabilities:
Here’s how Savvy enhances each:
1.Identify: Discover Every Identity and App
Savvy empowers organizations with unparalleled visibility into their SaaS environments, ensuring compliance with NIST’s asset management and governance requirements:
- Continuous SaaS Inventory: Automatically discover all apps in use, including sanctioned, unsanctioned, and shadow IT apps.
- Identity Visibility: Map both human and non-human identities across your SaaS ecosystem.
- Risk Prioritization: Identify and prioritize high-risk applications (e.g., apps lacking MFA or bypassing SSO).
By uncovering hidden risks and blind spots, Savvy ensures you have the foundational knowledge to secure your environment—a critical step toward NIST compliance.
2.Protect: Enforce Identity Hygiene
Savvy’s capabilities align with NIST’s Access Control (AC) and Data Security (DS) standards by focusing on securing user access and reducing credential risks:
- Enforce MFA: Automatically detect and remediate MFA misconfigurations across all apps.
- Secure Credentials: Address weak, reused, or exposed credentials in real time.
- Just-in-Time Guardrails: Guide users with tailored prompts to prevent risky behavior without disrupting workflows.
Savvy integrates seamlessly into your existing SSO and IAM tools, ensuring identity-first protection at every layer of your SaaS environment.
3.Detect: Monitor and Surface Risks
NIST emphasizes continuous monitoring to identify anomalies and events. Savvy goes beyond traditional detection methods:
- SSO Bypass Detection: Identify instances where apps circumvent SSO protections.
- Supply Chain Risks: Surface app-to-app connections and third-party integrations that could expose your organization to breaches.
- Continuous Monitoring: Maintain a real-time view of your entire SaaS landscape, detecting unknown or unauthorized apps as they emerge.
With Savvy, you gain the insights needed to proactively detect identity-based threats.
4.Respond: Automate Remediation
Responding quickly and effectively to identity-related incidents is critical for compliance. Savvy delivers:
- Automated Remediation: Address toxic combinations of risk, such as unprotected admin accounts or apps lacking MFA, with zero manual intervention.
- Incident Playbooks: Tailored response plans for identity-related security events.
- Simplified Offboarding: Ensure complete offboarding of users from all SaaS applications, closing a major compliance gap.
Savvy ensures your organization stays ahead of threats while meeting NIST’s requirements for Response Planning and Analysis.
5.Recover: Build Resilience
Savvy’s continuous visibility and automation capabilities help organizations comply with NIST’s requirements for recovery planning and improvement:
- Identity Lifecycle Management: Ensure smooth transitions during incidents by maintaining updated app inventories and access policies.
- Post-Incident Insights: Learn from security events and refine identity hygiene practices.
- Operational Efficiency: Free your team to focus on strategic initiatives by automating routine tasks.
Leveraging NIST CSF 2.0 Updates with Savvy
The release of NIST CSF 2.0 introduces critical updates that align closely with Savvy’s capabilities. Key highlights include:
Governance
The new “Govern” function underscores accountability, roles, and policies. Savvy supports this by:
- Enforcing consistent policies like MFA and SSO across SaaS apps.
- Automating governance processes with actionable identity insights and reports.
Supply Chain Risk Management
Savvy provides deep visibility into SaaS supply chains by:
- Mapping app-to-app risks and third-party integrations.
- Detecting vulnerabilities in real time to minimize exposure.
Actionable Implementation
With pre-built playbooks and just-in-time guardrails, Savvy translates NIST’s recommendations into tangible actions, making compliance attainable for organizations of any size.
Solving Real-World Compliance Challenges
Savvy’s identity-first capabilities address some of the most pressing SaaS security challenges organizations face when achieving NIST compliance:
- SaaS Sprawl: With the average organization using over 200 SaaS apps, Savvy’s comprehensive inventory ensures no app goes unnoticed.
- Credential Hygiene: Weak or reused credentials remain a leading cause of breaches. Savvy eliminates these risks by enforcing secure identity practices.
- Incomplete Offboarding: Orphaned accounts are a compliance nightmare. Savvy automates offboarding workflows, closing this critical gap.
- SSO Bypass: Traditional IAM tools struggle to detect SSO bypass incidents. Savvy’s patented approach ensures your SSO solution works as intended.
Achieving CMMC Compliance with Savvy
Savvy goes beyond traditional tools to deliver compliance benefits while reducing operational complexity. Key advantages include:
- Comprehensive Visibility: Detect risks across your entire SaaS environment, including previously invisible attack surfaces.
- Automation at Scale: Eliminate manual tasks with Savvy’s automated workflows.
- Identity-First Security: Focus on securing the root of most breaches—identity.
By aligning with NIST standards, Savvy helps you achieve regulatory compliance, improve security posture, and build a resilient identity security strategy for the future.
