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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.

As an answer to this emerging challenge, XDR provider Cynet has added a new SaaS Security Posture Management tool to its existing platform. Regardless of the size of an organization or its security team, managing the security policy and posture of dozens to hundreds of SaaS applications is a complex task, and one that requires the right tools to expedite and optimize.

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. While the native security controls of SaaS apps are often robust, it falls on the responsibility of the organization to ensure that all configurations are properly set - from global settings, to every user role and privilege.

A new guide from XDR and SSPM provider Cynet, titled The Guide for Reducing SaaS Applications Risk for Lean IT Security Teams, breaks down exactly why SaaS ecosystems are so risky, and how security teams can mitigate those dangers. The risk of a digital disaster is impossible to ignore - especially given the security paradigms that govern most SaaS applications.

A BetterCloud survey of more than 500 IT and security professionals reveals the latest challenges of managing SaaS at scale, particularly as digital transformation catapulted forward in 2021 - and IT kept the momentum going. SaaS security is top of mind for IT. 69 percent of respondents worry about unsanctioned SaaS apps.

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.

Enterprises worldwide continue to migrate from proprietary, licensed software to software-as-a-service subscriptions as they seek innovation, better user experience and lower cost, according to a report published by Information Services Group. The report on the global market finds enterprise SaaS demand rebounding from a slowdown caused by the COVID-19 crisis.