Combatting the Evolving SaaS Kill Chain: How to Stay Ahead of Threat Actors

This AppOmni contributed article explains how SaaS has become the primary attack surface, presents a modern SaaS kill chain, and breaks down a September 2023 Scattered Spider/Starfraud (ALPHV-affiliate) intrusion that used phishing + MFA bypass, post-auth reconnaissance, lateral movement into cloud resources, privilege escalation, and ransomware. It highlights risks from machine identities, misconfigurations, excessive SaaS-to-SaaS permissions, and recommends SaaS hygiene, machine identity inventory, and Zero Trust posture management to reduce risk.