shadow-it-discovery
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Discover unsanctioned SaaS, cloud accounts, AI tools and infrastructure — via proxy/DNS/CASB logs, SSO and OAuth grant data, expense and procurement records, cloud org enrollment, email sign-up notifications and external attack surface data — and bring them under governance without just blocking. Use when assessing unmanaged technology risk, preparing SaaS governance, or after finding unknown assets.
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Files
Shadow IT Discovery
Sources
| Source | Finds |
| Proxy / SWG / DNS logs | SaaS domains used, volume of uploads, users |
| CASB (Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope, Zscaler) | App catalog with risk scores, discovered apps |
| OAuth consent / token data | Apps users connected to corporate identities (oauth-app-review) |
| Sign-up/verification emails from SaaS vendors to corporate addresses (search mail logs for "verify your email", "welcome to") | |
| Finance | Expense reports and card transactions for software/cloud vendors |
| Cloud providers | Accounts/subscriptions/projects using corporate emails outside the organization (AWS Organizations, Azure tenant discovery, GCP org) |
| External ASM | Hosts under corporate domains not in inventory (external-attack-surface-review) |
| Browser extensions | Extension inventory via EDR/MDM |
DNS example (Zeek): zeek-cut query < dns.log | awk -F. '{print $(NF-1)"."$NF}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -100 → compare with sanctioned app list.
Triage
For each discovered app/account: users and departments, data types uploaded, authentication (SSO? local passwords?), vendor security posture (vendor-security-assessment), business need.
Decide: sanction (onboard to SSO/SCIM, contract, DPA), tolerate with controls (no sensitive data, monitored), replace with an approved alternative, or block (with communication). Generative AI tools deserve explicit policy and an approved option (llm-gateway-controls).
Output
App/asset | Category | Users | Data | Auth | Risk | Decision | Owner
Related skills
asset-inventory-reconciliation, oauth-app-review, vendor-security-assessment, llm-gateway-controls
References
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Cloud Discovery: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-cloud-apps/set-up-cloud-discovery
- CIS Controls v8.1 Control 2 (Inventory of Software Assets): https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/inventory-and-control-of-software-assets
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