Security News > 2023 > April > Study: 84% of Companies Use Breached SaaS Applications - Here's How to Fix it for Free!

According to this review, 84% of the companies had employees using an average of 3.5 SaaS applications that were breached in the previous 3 months.

The exponential growth in SaaS usage has security and IT teams struggling to keep up with which SaaS applications are being used and how.

SaaS applications are clearly a target as we see more and more SaaS related attacks.

SaaS is used by any and all employees, and while enforcing SSO and using IAM systems is important and helpful, the decentralized, accessible, and often times self-service nature of SaaS applications means employees can start using almost any SaaS they need by simply searching for it online and connecting it to their company's workspace, easily avoiding the IAM. This is especially true when considering the many SaaS applications that provide a free tool or a free version of it.

Once a clear mapping of SaaS usage is in place, the next step is to determine the risky SaaS applications.

The unique way in which SaaS is used across all business units and teams and by anyone in the organization poses the risk of data sharing using SaaS applications that are not designed for safe data sharing.

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/study-84-of-companies-use-breached-saas.html