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The key is that Push tries to be friction-free by not barring activity, but it enables better practices by pushing better suggestions to everyone.<\/p>\n

Bateman likens its approach to that of Grammarly. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to but it can stop you from making mistakes,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s the same with us. Push keeps you safe. A lot of work we do on the human level is not to be the enforcer, to be the guard rail not a gate.\u201d<\/p>\n

So while there are hundreds of companies in the market offering password management, app management, desktop management, firewalls, blacklists and whitelists, and more, what\u2019s caught investors\u2019 attention here is the idea of a tool that lets people continue to work as-is.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe global workforce is moving toward greater freedom and flexibility with SaaS applications, which introduces new security complexities and challenges,\u201d says Karim Faris, general partner at GV, in a statement. \u201cThat trend presents a critical need for better, simpler tools that engage employees and take the burden off centralized IT to manage SaaS sprawl. GV is excited to partner with the Push team as they help modern security teams navigate the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this operates currently for employees who are already using Office 365 or Google Workspace emails to manage their log-ins to apps they use for work, Bateman said. If someone tries to sign up for a work app using a non-work email, that too is flagged.<\/p>\n

Push Security is designed just to work on desktops and laptops \u2014 not mobile. That\u2019s because mobile device management, which typically includes apps and other mobile usage, is already a very well-covered area. More murky are desktops where people can download SaaS from the internet very easily.<\/p>\n

The growth of SaaS has opened up a new world of productivity for workers, but it\u2019s also opened up a can of security worms. Given that a lot of apps ask to \u201caccess your contacts\u201d and other data in order to work most effectively (which is why so many log in with their work credentials in the first place), it creates a potential data leak if those accounts are not subsequently managed responsibly.<\/p>\n

In Push\u2019s research, it found that 23% of Microsoft integrations, and 17% of Google integrations monitored through its platform \u201cgranted access to high risk assets and data such as email, calendar, and shared drives\u201d and as a measure of how many places people are using these credentials, among Microsoft app integrations, only one-third were approved by IT via OAuth. (The other two-thirds, Push said, were provisioned \u201cdirectly by employees with no IT oversight or visibility.\u201d) It didn\u2019t provide corresponding data for Google-based app integrations.<\/p>\n

Push says it has added close to 500 SaaS apps to IT dashboards since it was launched less than a year ago. In other words, beyond the most popular, or approved apps used by its customers, there have been another 500 collectively picked up organically by employees across that customer base, representing a potential leakage nightmare.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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