Security News > 2024 > June > The rise of SaaS security teams

In this Help Net Security interview, Hillary Baron, Senior Technical Director for Research at CSA, highlights that the recent surge in organizations establishing dedicated SaaS security teams is driven by significant data breaches involving widely used platforms.

The challenge of securing a SaaS environment demands a multifaceted security strategy and that starts with a strong SaaS security team.

While not specific to setting up a security team, once the team is in place zero trust's principle of "Never trust, always verify" will go a long way to strengthening not only a SaaS security posture but that of the entire organization.

SaaS security ownership and responsibility is often distributed so having established relationships with all key stakeholders will be critical for maintaining SaaS security and responding efficiently in the event of an incident.

Fifty-five percent of respondents said that they found post M&A SaaS security to be particularly troublesome and pointed to disparate security policies, the harmonization of user permissions, and ensuring regulatory compliance across various SaaS applications as especially problematic.

Many of the people SaaS security professionals will be working with are not security experts - departments like IT, legal, HR, marketing - they'll need to do a lot of educating about security best practices to foster a security minded culture within their organization.

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