Dangers of Adopting Unsanctioned SaaS Applications

 

A sleek little app-store sidebar was silently introduced to the right side of your session screen by the most recent programme update, as you might have seen on your most recent Zoom calls. With the touch of a button and without even pausing their Zoom session, this feature enables any business user inside your company to connect the software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps displayed in the sidebar.

The fact that anyone within an organisation can deploy, administer, and manage SaaS applications emphasises both one of the major strengths and security threats associated with SaaS. Although this technique could be quick and simple for business enablement, it also intentionally avoids any internal security review procedures. 

As a result, your security team is unable to identify which applications are being adopted and used, as well as whether or not they may be vulnerable to security threats, whether or not they are being used securely, or how to put security barriers in place to prevent unauthorised access to them. Zero-trust security principles become nearly hard to enforce. 


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