Reducing SaaS risk is, without a doubt, a difficult challenge.
Gaining visibility into all the SaaS apps used across an enterprise is hard enough, but it becomes an even greater challenge when only a portion of the apps go through the company’s established policies for acquiring new tech. As a result, organizations lack comprehensive insight into their SaaS landscape, and it’s no wonder many IT and SecOps executives feel SaaS risk management is an unsolvable problem.
As the SaaS landscape changes and business-led IT becomes the norm, the strategies for managing SaaS risk must also adapt. A modern SaaS risk management program identifies known and unknown SaaS usage enterprise-wide and helps secure unsanctioned SaaS and reduce vulnerabilities.
But a PSA here. The organizations gaining control over their SaaS risks aren’t using traditional risk assessment models—and neither should you. SaaS usage is unique to your organization, and the conventional methods of evaluating SaaS risk don’t provide the flexibility nor capture the risk nuances specific to your company. Let’s explore what other organizations are doing differently to reduce their SaaS risks more…
