Best Practice Report

The Four Tenets Of SaaS Application Security And Protection

Check For Zero Trust Principles In Your SaaS Vendors’ Security Stance

April 16th, 2021
Andras Cser, Vice President, Principal Analyst
Andras Cser Vice President, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Merritt Maxim , Jeffrey Hammond , Benjamin Corey , Peggy Dostie

Summary

As costs of on-premises hosting increase and firms continue to deploy more software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, firms are now storing sensitive and personally identifiable information in SaaS apps — increasing the overall threat surface. This report provides actionable guidance of how security and risk (S&R) pros should contribute to the firm’s SaaS app selection and procurement process in the four most important security aspects of SaaS apps: data, identity, logging, and governance.

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