By focusing on the three V’s — volume, velocity and visibility — of Software as a Service (SaaS) security, organizations can streamline and improve their security team’s efficiency, reducing their workload and increasing protection for the company against any potential exposure or data breach.
A new DoControl report, Quantifying the Immense Risk of Unmanaged SaaS Data Access, highlights how the vast amounts of unmanaged data in today’s enterprises have led to a growing number of insider and external threats to global organizations.
In a sense, it is understandable why so much business and consumer coverage of tech security is driven by the latest high-profile breach. After all, good security that works and prevents malware and ransomware attacks does not generate headlines. However, to those of us active in information archiving and cloud security and who understand the blessings and dangers of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in the cloud, for example, it sure is maddening.
Software as a service (SaaS) has taken over, and the average enterprise now uses hundreds of unique SaaS applications to accelerate their digital transformation and business velocity. However, while SaaS has fulfilled its growth-enabling potential, most organizations have lost their grip on its consumption and use. IT and security teams can no longer depend on network or endpoint controls to govern application access.
For years, just about every update of consumer cloud applications would include new features that the user could configure around their personal taste, convenience, and preferred uses. Over time, and with increasing features and capabilities, what had begun as an application’s simple settings, was replaced by a proliferation of tabs, cascading drop-down menus, banners, breadcrumbs, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and more, creating a world of choices and individual styles.
AppOmni released findings of their latest survey highlighting the security concerns of cloud SaaS applications as they become more essential for enabling remote workers.
The days of wrapping our enterprise users and systems within a network security perimeter are long gone. In order to better innovate and compete in today’s fast moving markets, the business needs to leverage any opportunity to accelerate new initiatives and create new revenue opportunities.
Enterprise Security Services -- Concerns about the Cloud
November 14, 2012
A third of enterprises place highly sensitive data in the public cloud, despite serious concerns regarding cloud security and single sign-on capabilities.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a delivery model in which applications are hosted at an outsourced data center and sold to the enterprise security or IT user as a monthly subscription. With the physical security industry increasingly shifting to this approach, it is crucial that government buyers understand what security factors to consider when looking for a SaaS provider, according to Steve Van Till of Brivo Systems.
As Cloud Computing becomes the new platform for many aspects of our lives, from Google Mail to iTunes to banking and more, the discussion specific to security tends to focus on the What. It may be helpful to look at the Why.
