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Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed service that provides an easy, secure way for customers to create and automate bidirectional data flows between AWS and SaaS applications without writing custom integration code. Millions of customers run applications, data lakes, large-scale analytics, machine learning, and IoT workloads on AWS. These customers often also have data stored in dozens of SaaS applications, resulting in silos that are disconnected from data stored in AWS. Organizations want to be able to combine their data from all of these sources, but that requires customers to spend days writing code to build custom connectors and data transformations to convert disparate data types and formats across different SaaS applications.
The same problem could occur with a Word document synced through Dropbox or with any number of other legitimate SaaS applications that store data in the cloud. How to improve your SaaS security What can you do to improve the sanctioning processes, compliance, and security of your SaaS applications? Aside from doing your due diligence in researching service providers, here are some suggestions.
Recently, some of the biggest names in SaaS have experienced customer support data breaches. With data playing an important role in the success of customer support, companies must ensure information security is top of mind to build relationships and develop trust with customers.
"Panorays CTO Demi Ben-Ari explains,"Panorays' unique 360-degree rating approach offers cloud provider consumers full visibility into the security posture of their providers. The Panorays partnership with the Cloud Security Alliance enables companies to quickly and easily ascertain if their cloud provider complies with standard security regulations.
SnapLogic, provider of the #1 Intelligent Integration Platform, announced that Dentsu Aegis Network, the global marketing service group, has deployed SnapLogic's leading cloud integration platform to bring together the dozens of different business applications and IT systems across its multiple brands and sub-brands. To unify their diverse IT landscape, Dentsu Aegis Network selected SnapLogic due to its flexible platform, industry leading library of pre-built intelligent connectors, and its self-service, low-code approach to integration.
ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, expanded their ClearDATA Comply Software as a Service compliance management product to include Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services. The solution automatically configures over 70 controls across 32 of the most commonly used Azure services for sensitive patient data in healthcare including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Machine Learning as well as PaaS based services like Azure SQL. ClearDATA is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has offered managed security, compliance and privacy solutions on Microsoft Azure since 2015.
RSA, a global cybersecurity leader delivering Business-Driven Security solutions to help organizations manage digital risk, is now offering RSA Archer SaaS for customers seeking to implement the RSA Archer Suite in the cloud. "The RSA Archer Suite helps organizations at any stage in their risk management maturity journey to more effectively and efficiently manage risk as they strive to keep up in today's hyperconnected world," said David Walter, Vice President, RSA Archer.
Cobalt Iron announced the extension for its Compass enterprise SaaS backup platform that offers advanced protection for network-attached storage data. "In today's enterprises, tremendous amounts of business-critical data are held in NAS systems. The amount of stored NAS data and the urgency to protect it is constantly growing; however, NAS backup and recovery techniques haven't improved much over the years," said Greg Tevis, vice president of Global Strategy at Cobalt Iron.
Cequence Security announced that its Application Security Platform with CQ botDefense is now available as a Software-as-a-Service offering hosted on Amazon Web Services. CQ botDefense SaaS has been certified as PCI DSS 3.2 Level 2 for Service Providers compliant and is in process for SOC II Level I certification.
Building on its mission to make security intrinsic to its SD-WAN platform and to offer the most robust real-time visibility and control, Masergy is empowering enterprises to immediately identify and appropriately address unauthorized SaaS applications. According to one study, the average enterprise has more than 888 unauthorized SaaS applications running unbeknownst to IT departments.