SaaS Security for Zendesk

Why Zendesk Needs SaaS Security

Trying to protect SaaS without the right tools or context adds complexity and ignores risk:

  • Manual review does not scale: Security settings and permissions are unique for every vendor, demanding significant time and expertise to manage across SaaS
  • SaaS requires continuous monitoring: Access and privileges persist and evolve beyond intended use without monitoring or lifecycle enforcement, growing the attack surface
  • Disparate security leaves gaps: No centralized visibility or control over third-party app authorizations, OAuth scopes, or integration activity can leave risks unnoticed
  • Attackers are focused on SaaS: Compromise of high-privilege tokens or integrations can grant attackers persistent, organization-wide access to sensitive data

How AI is changing security for Zendesk

  • Embedded AI features are secretly training on your data: SaaS vendors are quietly releasing new AI capabilities that change how your data is accessed, processed, and retained
  • Unauthorized experimentation with AI can be serious violations: Users may inadvertently put your organization in breach of contract, out of compliance with regulatory obligations, or in violation of customer MSAs
  • Security and TPRM teams lack insight into every AI interaction: Once an application passes its initial review, those security assumptions often remain unchanged for years despite new AI features being released
  • AI agents can proliferate quickly: Users can rapidly create, connect, and deploy AI agents inside applications without security oversight 
  • Agents create new data exposure risks: Invisible AI agents leak, copy, and move sensitive data at machine speeds

How Obsidian Security Defends Zendesk

  • Detect embedded AI usage: Know every time your users interact with a known AI feature with real-time browser monitoring
  • Track AI agent creation and changes: Identify when users create, edit, or delete agents via the Browser Extension to monitor how AI is deployed in real-time
  • Continuously enforce secure SaaS configurations: Obsidian scores configurations based on criticality according to built-in or custom policies and flags high-priority failures.
  • Prioritize instantly with evidence-based posture alerts: Reduce business friction while minimizing unacceptable risk within a unified interface.
  • Right-size privileged access and SaaS integrations: The Obsidian Knowledge Graph unifies identity across SaaS to flag weak MFA, inactive accounts, shadow admins, and overly broad scopes, human or non-human.
  • Automate SaaS audits to easily prove compliance: Track SaaS posture in real time and map controls to frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS, and NIST.

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