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As part of a SOC2 audit, it is necessary to conduct security checks across the company's SaaS stack that will look for misconfigured settings such as detection and monitoring to ensure continued effectiveness of information security controls and prevent unauthorized/ inappropriate access to physical and digital assets and locations. If you're beginning or on a SOC2 audit journey, then an SSPM solution can streamline the process and shorten the time it takes to pass a SOC2 audit successfully, fully covering your SaaS Security posture.

Not to mention the fact that often the SaaS app owner sits outside of the security team in the department that most uses the app, and they are untrained and not focused on the security upkeep of the app. It all amounts to just how unrealistic it is to expect security teams to be able to stay in control of the organization's SaaS stack.

Not to mention the fact that often the SaaS app owner sits outside of the security team in the department that most uses the app, and they are untrained and not focused on the security upkeep of the app. That's why Gartner named SaaS Security Posture Management as a MUST HAVE solution to continuously assess security risks and manage the SaaS applications' security posture in the "4 Must-Have Technologies That Made the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2021".

The framework enables organizations to improve the security and resilience of critical infrastructure with a well-planned and easy-to-use framework. Although the CSF was written and updated while SaaS was on the rise, it is still geared towards the classic legacy critical infrastructure security challenges.

This past year, the pain was felt in two significant ways: through the supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19, and through the many security breaches that we saw in our key IT suppliers. Many organizations have been caught off guard by the pervasive and long lasting repercussions of the supply chain crunch from COVID-19, exacerbating other supply chain bottlenecks further downstream and causing headaches for consumers and missed revenue targets for major corporations.

With 2021 drawing to a close and many closing their plans and budgets for 2022, the time has come to do a brief wrap-up of the SaaS Security challenges on the horizon. Here are the top 3 SaaS security posture challenges as we see them.

In this Help Net Security interview, Maor Bin, CEO at Adaptive Shield, talks about the SaaS security space and how Adaptive Shield help security teams gain control over their SaaS security landscape. How has the SaaS security space evolved in the past decade? What are the main challenges in the SaaS security space?

The job of ensuring these apps' security settings are properly configured falls on the security team. Not to mention the fact that often the SaaS app owner sits outside the outside of the security team in the department that most uses the app, and they are untrained and not focused on the security upkeep of the app.

Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management category for solutions that continuously assess security risk and manage the SaaS applications' security posture. With enterprises having 1,000 or more employees relying on dozens to hundreds of apps, the need for deep visibility and remediation for SaaS security settings is only getting more critical.

There is often confusion between Cloud Access Security Brokers and SaaS Security Posture Management solutions, as both are designed to address security issues within SaaS applications. When it comes to getting full visibility and control over the organization's SaaS apps, an SSPM solution would be the better choice, as the security team can easily onboard apps and get value in minutes - from the immediate configuration assessment to its ongoing and continuous monitoring.