Proactive Identity Defense: How to Prevent Supply Chain Breaches Before They Happen

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The recent Salesloft-Salesforce OAuth attack underscored a growing enterprise challenge: Non-Human Identities (NHIs), such as OAuth tokens, can be weaponized to infiltrate critical SaaS platforms. In this case, attackers didn’t breach Salesforce directly—they compromised an OAuth token belonging to the Salesloft connected app, using it to extract sensitive Salesforce data. This incident highlights the urgent need for proactive identity defense that goes beyond static safeguards.

Andromeda addresses this challenge by continuously baselining identity behavior, detecting anomalies in real time, and automating response to stop breaches before they spread.

The Risk Behind Compromised OAuth Tokens

OAuth tokens are essential for SaaS integrations, but when compromised, they grant attackers the same access as the legitimate application. Unlike human users, NHIs often lack oversight, governance, and monitoring, making them prime targets for adversaries.

The Salesloft incident showed how a single stolen NHI could trigger a cascading supply chain breach across hundreds of Salesforce environments.

Andromeda’s Approach to Proactive Identity Defense

Andromeda secures both human and non-human identities by:

• Inventorying All Identities – Mapping every NHI across SaaS, cloud, and connected apps.
• Rightsizing Permissions – Enforcing least privilege to limit attack surface.
• Establishing Human Accountability – Linking each NHI to a responsible owner.
• Dynamic Risk Profiling – Continuously learning each identity’s normal behavior.

By tracking client IPs and API usage frequency, Andromeda establishes a behavioral baseline. Any deviation from this pattern triggers immediate detection and response.

How Anomalies Are Detected in Real Time

In a scenario like the Salesloft-Salesforce breach, Andromeda would have identified:

• New Client IPs – Unfamiliar locations accessing the OAuth token.
• Unusual API Behavior – Bulk extraction activity inconsistent with the token’s historical usage.

These deviations would have immediately raised red flags, enabling automated defense actions.

Automated Response That Stops Breaches

When anomalies are detected, Andromeda automatically:

• Zeroes Out Permissions – Blocks access by removing privileges for the connected app.
• Notifies the NHI Owner – Alerts the responsible human owner in real time.
• Revokes the Compromised Token – Cuts off attacker access instantly.

This combination of detection and automated enforcement ensures compromised tokens cannot be leveraged to complete a supply chain breach.

Why Behavioral Security is the Future

Traditional security controls—static credentials, manual reviews, and dashboard alerts—cannot keep pace with today’s dynamic SaaS and AI-driven environments. By focusing on behavior, Andromeda shifts the defense model from reactive to proactive, ensuring that even if a credential is stolen, it cannot be used to compromise sensitive systems.

Conclusion

The Salesloft-Salesforce OAuth attack proves that NHIs are the new enterprise weak link. Andromeda delivers proactive identity defense by baselining behavior, detecting anomalies, and automating response—transforming compromised credentials from a breach enabler into a non-event.