During this past year, organizations have moved towards the adoption of SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications like Microsoft O365, Salesforce, and GitHub at a more rapid pace than originally planned to help accommodate and facilitate the many employees that became remote workers, needing access to cloud applications from anywhere.
A recent Netskope blog article included a discussion of the application transformation happening in organizations today, where applications are migrating from the data center to new SaaS replacement choices. Cloud app adoption increased 22% during the first six months of 2021, where the average company with 500–2,000 users now uses 805 distinct apps and cloud services.
While SaaS applications like Microsoft O365, GitHub, and Salesforce can bring benefits including lower cost, easier management and deployment to organizations and users alike, they also introduce risk to the organization’s overall security posture and challenges to security teams.
Misconfigurations, including those of SaaS applications, continue to be one of the main reasons for attacks leading to compromised security and data breaches, accounting for approximately 52% of incidents where unintentional actions directly compromised a security attribute of an information asset. Security concerns around misconfiguration and compliance are valid, as cybercriminals have taken advantage of security misconfigurations and shortcomings in compliance. One recent well-known cyber attack, using the Solarwinds vulnerability, started with a SaaS misconfiguration. A single misconfiguration can expose an organization’s most sensitive and valuable data, leading to devastating financial and reputational consequences.
Today, we’re excited to announce Netskope SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), a new service on the Netskope Security Cloud platform, to help organizations on their journey to SASE. Netsk