Security News > 2021 > September > SaaS security is becoming a primary concern for businesses

These are categorized into four according to their type of security issues, namely virtualization level, application level, network level, and physical level security issues.

One security firm released a report in February this year, revealing that 91 percent of companies experienced API security problems while over 80 percent were uncertain if their APIs were compromised.

There is a growing demand for security validation products and services as organizations acknowledge the importance of ascertaining the efficacy of existing security controls.

Penetration tests and other security validation strategies are indeed useful, but they may create a false sense of security especially in view of the SaaS environment dynamics.

A third-party application may not be updated or a misconfiguration may arise and result in a security weakness, which is not reflected in the security validation outcomes.

The claims of better security compared to on-prem solutions also holds water to some extent because users are not left to deal with security on their own.

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