SaaS security
Protect your SaaS applications
Expel integrates directly with apps like GSuite, Slack, and GitHub and monitors activity 24x7 to stop risky user behavior, data exposure, or sneaky configuration changes.
Our difference
See what’s happening in your SaaS applications
Our detection strategy results in secure SaaS applications by focusing on suspicious user activity and giving you a clear view of real risks.
Monitor suspicious user activity
We look for the human element—unusual logins, sketchy data downloads, or unauthorized access—to spot threats that others might miss.
Detect suspicious changes
We track admin setting changes, new privileged accounts, and unexpected external data sharing to keep your critical SaaS applications locked down.
Cover key MITRE ATT&CK tactics
Get coverage for initial access, persistence, privilege escalation, and credential access using your existing SaaS authentication and admin logs.
Expel MDR
Our approach to SaaS security
Expel watches your cloud-based apps like Google Workspace, Dropbox, and Slack to protect sensitive data. Our approach provides critical visibility into how that data is used and focuses on detecting behaviors that signal data exfiltration, such as unusual login patterns, excessive downloads of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or unauthorized access to sensitive files. When a threat is detected, we provide context-rich alerts and can automatically take action, like disabling a user account, to shut it down fast.
MDR Benefits
Why Expel for SaaS security?
It’s not just about finding SaaS security threats. It’s about making your entire security program stronger, starting with the apps your organization uses every day.
Get more from your SaaS security
We don’t rely on out-of-the-box vendor alerts. We integrate directly with your SaaS applications to build high-fidelity detections that find what others miss.
Context that helps you act faster
Alerts are automatically enriched with user roles, location, and other metadata, giving analysts the full picture to triage alerts from any source.
Keep your code secure
We monitor code repositories like GitHub for suspicious changes and risky user activity to protect your developers’ workflows.
See the signal, not the noise
Our advanced detection engine and analytics means your team spends less time on phantom threats and more time on what matters.
Connect SaaS activity to other threats
SaaS signals support investigations across identity or insider risk scenarios, connecting risky behaviors to the big picture across your tech stack.
Continuously updated detection logic
We author hundreds of user authentication detections and add more regularly, so our analytics are always current with the latest attacker techniques.
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SaaS security resources
What is SaaS security?
Learn about critical security measures for cloud-based applications, common threats, and essential protection strategies for your organization's SaaS environment.
Three tips for getting started with cloud application security
If you're feeling like your SaaS security knowledge is a bit cloudy, these three pro tips will get you started on the right path.
Cloud Decoded (part 2): What attackers don’t want you to know
This is part two of Expel's blog series on decoding the cloud. It dives in to what attackers don't want you to know.
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