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JPMorgan Chase CISO Warns Security of SaaS Models is Unsustainable, Third-Party Security Must Improve to Prevent Catastrophe

May 6, 2025

Opet notes that the SaaS model is usually the default option for whatever software a company might need, and often is the only option available. That means a global concentration of risk such that numerous third-party security breaches could cascade.”

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How CISOs Can Cope With the Information Decentralization Era

June 23, 2023

While SaaS increases business efficiency, it also represents a significant challenge for CISOs, who now have less direct control over their organizations’ data, including business information, proprietary information, and even employee data, that is now overwhelmingly in various SaaS systems.

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The New Shadow IT – The Importance of Having Visibility Into Your SAAS Usage

May 3, 2023

SaaS applications are not going anywhere, and we must face the fact that they have access to our company’s most sensitive data. With SaaS, the shadow IT challenge has expanded and deepened even further.

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Why Backing up SaaS Is Necessary

April 24, 2023

SaaS solutions are widely used and are mission-critical for their users. As such, they should be treated with the utmost importance, just like their mission-critical non-SaaS business applications. Solutions are now available for vendor-agnostic SaaS backup.

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Are You Aware of the Shared Responsibility Model? The SaaS Data Loss Risk You Might Not Know You’re Taking

December 29, 2022

SaaS vendors are responsible for ensuring the security of their cloud environments, but each customer is responsible for securing their data in those clouds. The best way to secure assets such as business-critical data on the cloud is an account-level backup and recovery tool.

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Software May Be Eating the World and Your IT Budget

December 13, 2022

The economic landscape requires due diligence when it comes to enterprise level SaaS spending. Shadow IT hides wasteful spending, and organizations must manage costs associated with bulky and hidden SaaS platforms.

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How Zero Trust Secures Business-Critical SaaS Application Data

December 8, 2022

The time is now for business leaders to implement zero-trust protocols to address cloud misconfigurations beyond the identity layer and into the SaaS app ecosystem, as doing so has become critical for organizations to be able to maintain a good security posture. Zero Trust Data Access (ZTDA) does just that.

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The “Ghost SaaS” Threat and Why Security Teams Should Take It Seriously

June 1, 2022

Security teams need to be vigilant - both on what SaaS services employees are connecting to, and whether those platforms are safe and remains safe for use in the organization.

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This is What We Mean by Protecting Crown Jewels

April 14, 2022

Our reliance on SaaS across every facet of contemporary business operations has extended accessibility to nearly all enterprise resources. It is critical to properly acknowledge this shift to mitigate the full extent of risk this represents.

Hand on keyboard with cloud icon on monitor screen showing SaaS and shadow IT

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Shadow SaaS Is on the Rise in the Hybrid Work Era; Here’s How To Regain Control

July 29, 2021

IT security teams need to develop a SaaS management strategy to mitigate and address their shadow applications to mitigate the security and compliance risks shadow IT poses to their organizations.

SaaS

JPMorgan Chase CISO Warns Security of SaaS Models is Unsustainable, Third-Party Security Must Improve to Prevent Catastrophe

How CISOs Can Cope With the Information Decentralization Era

The New Shadow IT – The Importance of Having Visibility Into Your SAAS Usage

Why Backing up SaaS Is Necessary

Are You Aware of the Shared Responsibility Model? The SaaS Data Loss Risk You Might Not Know You’re Taking

Software May Be Eating the World and Your IT Budget

How Zero Trust Secures Business-Critical SaaS Application Data

The “Ghost SaaS” Threat and Why Security Teams Should Take It Seriously

This is What We Mean by Protecting Crown Jewels

Shadow SaaS Is on the Rise in the Hybrid Work Era; Here’s How To Regain Control

The Co-op Confirms Significant Data Theft from an Apparent Dragonforce Ransomware Cyber Attack

Harrods Hit in Third Cyber Attack Targeting a UK Retailer

Microsoft Makes All New Accounts Passwordless As of May 1, Pushes Biometric Passkeys