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# Misconfiguration management
## Industry challenge
Multiple settings and admin users are a configuration nightmare. Typical organizations use over 100 SaaS apps, making it challenging to manage multiple configurations since each app has unique settings.
Misconfigurations are a leading cause of sensitive data exposure, exfiltration, malicious attacks and compliance failures, and occur when there are errors in the setup of an application or service.
It can take up to weeks to detect and fix misconfigurations. If they're not fixed, misconfigurations can lead to severe consequences, including:
* **Data breaches** - If users have excessive or unauthorized permissions, they can easily access data which is off limits. If multi-factor authentication is not enforced, hackers can easily infiltrate an organization's SaaS network with only a user name and password. It's then very easy for hackers to potentially steal and publish sensitive data, such as personal information of millions of customers.
* **System outages** - Security incidents that are not detected or responded to in time can lead to disruption of critical services, resulting in significant damage.
* **Compliance violations** - Failure to meet regulatory requirements, such as purging PII after a certain period, can result in hefty fines and legal issues.
* **Financial loss** - The costs associated with mending security breaches and legal liabilities can be huge.
Organizations face an urgent need to harden their SaaS app settings without the overhead and time-consuming process of tracking app configurations.
## DoControl solution
DoControl’s Misconfiguration solution detects security drifts and compliance shortcomings across dozens of integrated SaaS apps, and allows your security team to easily remediate any gaps.
DoControl is unique in that we leverage additional data - SaaS activity, data exposure and users - to provide additional context for your SaaS misconfigurations.
To protect your organization against unauthorized access and data breaches that could be caused by misconfigurations, DoControl ensures your SaaS configurations are secure, via:
* **Misconfiguration mapping and prioritization** Evaluate the strength of your SaaS security posture and risk levels. DoControl performs comprehensive security checks on your SaaS app and user settings, and maps misconfigurations by application, security domain and level of impact.
* **Compliance checks** To be compliant, organizations can have thousands of settings that require continuous monitoring. Monitor compliance of your SaaS apps against relevant security standards, regulatory frameworks and company policy. DoControl aligns security checks with industry standards, best practices and regulations, such as CIS (Center for Internet Security) and SOC 2 benchmarks. DoControl continually compares each security check with industry benchmarks and compliance standards before giving a pass/fail score.
* **Recommended remediation** Implement recommendations to remediate inadequate security controls. DoControl offers guided remediation steps for each misconfiguration, coupled with the ability to establish automated remediation workflows triggered by misconfiguration events in real time. To save you time, automatically open a prep-populated Jira ticket.
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