The Growing Importance of Securing Local Access in SaaS Applications

The post warns that “shadow authentication”—local SaaS logins that bypass SSO/MFA—is an increasingly targeted attack path, citing observations that 60% of customers initially permit local access without MFA, ~70% of recent IdP-focused breaches involved MFA subversion (e.g., SIM swap), and brute-force attempts on local pathways are rising; it advises discovering SaaS apps, enforcing SSO/MFA with documented exceptions and added monitoring, and highlights Obsidian Security’s discovery, monitoring, and prevention capabilities to reduce these risks.