View Third-Party Plugins by SaaS App
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View Third-Party Plugins by SaaS App
A third-party plugin that is hosted in a SaaS app can pose risks to your organization
if the plugin has access to sensitive data through the SaaS app.
SSPM provides third-party plugin scans for the following SaaS apps. You must first
onboard these apps to SSPM.
- Google Workspace
- Office 365
- Salesforce
- Slack
- Jira (To enable third-party app scans for Jira, you must also onboard the Atlassian app.)
- Confluence (To enable third-party app scans for Confluence, you must also onboard the Atlassian app.)
Some SaaS apps that you connect to SSPM host functionality developed by a third
party. Various terms are used to describe the third-party functionality, such as
third-party apps, add-ons, extensions, and plugins. We will refer to third-party
functionality that is hosted in a SaaS app as a third-party plugin. However, the
documentation for your SaaS apps might use different terms.
To extend the capabilities of the SaaS app, users might have installed third-party
plugins from the SaaS app's marketplace. For example, a user might have installed
the Zoom for Google Workspace plugin to schedule Zoom meetings from Google Calendar.
Although third-party plugins enable users to extend the capabilities of a SaaS app,
they can be a security risk to your organization. To use the capabilities of a
third-party plugin, users grant the plugin some level of access to the SaaS app.
Users might inadvertently grant access to plugins that are not sanctioned by your
organization, granting the plugin access to sensitive data. An unsanctioned plugin
with privileged access might then be exploited to exfiltrate data or otherwise harm
your organization.
To help you address the threats posed by third-party plugins, SSPM gives you
visibility into the third-party plugins that are being used in your organization.
SSPM also provides a catalog of the plugins that are
available from the following SaaS app marketplaces. This catalog shows information,
such as the publisher of the plugin, the can help you judge whether you want to
allow the plugin in your environment.
SSPM detects the third-party plugins that are connected to a SaaS app, and also shows
the level of access that the plugins were granted. You can review a plugin's details
to assess the risk of a third-party plugin. These details include the plugin's level
of access and the users who have granted the plugin access. After reviewing the
details, you can take action by approving the third-party
plugin or by revoking access for individual users.
- Navigate to SaaS Security Posture Management.Navigate to the third-party plugins for an app. Do one of the following:
- Navigate to the third-party plugins from the dashboard:
- Select , and locate the Applications by 3rd Party
Plugins area. This area shows the SaaS apps that are
connected to SSPM and are scanning third-party plugins. The area
also shows the number of unreviewed plugins for each
app.Investigate each unreviewed plugin to judge whether it threatens your organization's security.
- For the app whose third-party plugins you want to review, click
the Unreviewed Plugins link.
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- Select , and locate the Applications by 3rd Party
Plugins area. This area shows the SaaS apps that are
connected to SSPM and are scanning third-party plugins. The area
also shows the number of unreviewed plugins for each
app.
- Navigate to the third-party plugins from the Applications page.
- Select .
- Locate the SaaS app, then View Details.
- Select the Connected Applications tab.
The Connected Applications view displays the following information about the third-party plugins that are installed in the SaaS app.- A list of the Connected Applications that are installed, including, for each plugin, the number of active users and the number of access scopes. The list also indicates which plugins have not yet been reviewed. You can click the name of the plugin to display additional details. Use this additional information to help determine if the plugin poses a risk to your organization.
- If supported for the SaaS app, a list of all the Users who installed plugins. For Slack, a list of the Workspaces on which plugins are installed. From here, you can determine risks by users or workspaces.
After you review the third-party plugins, you can take action as necessary.
