SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) now gives you greater visibility and control
over the third-party plugins that are connected to marketplace apps, such as Google
Workspace and Salesforce. By navigating to
the new 3rd Party Plugins page in SSPM () you can now examine all third-party plugins from this one location.
The 3rd Party Plugins page displays information for the following marketplace
apps:
- Atlassian (includes Jira and Confluence)
- Azure
- Google Workspace
- Salesforce
- ServiceNow
- Slack Enterprise
- Zoom
The 3rd Party Plugins page displays a variety of details about the third-party
plugins. You can view each plugin's severity, which is based on the access scopes
that users granted to the plugin, and a risk score. The risk score is between 1 (low
risk) and 5 (high risk) and is calculated from over 55 application attributes
including compliance attributes, security and privacy attributes, and identity
access management attributes. By examining a plugin's severity and risk score, you
can quickly identify the riskiest plugins. For each plugin, you can navigate to more
details, such as the exact scopes that it can access. Depending on the marketplace
app, you can view the users who have installed the plugin.
Because the recent and rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence
(GenAI) apps has introduced new vulnerabilities for data leakage or deliberate
attacks, the 3rd Party Plugins page also highlights GenAI apps. You can view the
total number of GenAI plugins that were accessed, and apply a built-in filter to
show the GenAI plugins that have not been reviewed. For GenAI apps, the risk score
calculation also considers attributes unique to GenAI apps and gives extra weight to
these attributes.
Based on plugin information on the 3rd Party Plugins page and the plugin details
page, you can decide whether you want to allow a third-party plugin in your
environment. Depending on the level of permission that SSPM has to the marketplace
app, and on the capabilities that the marketplace app's API provides, you can revoke
user access to a third-party plugin directly from SSPM. When this is not possible,
you can go to the SaaS app's administration console to revoke a plugin's access. If
you linked SSPM to an issue tracking system, you can create a ticket to revoke user
access and assign it to an administrator of the marketplace app.