Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) 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.
The top pain points for SaaS security stem from:
- Lack of control over the growing SaaS app estate
- Lack of governance in the lifecycle of SaaS apps: from purchase to deployment, operation and maintenance
- Lack of visibility of all the configurations in SaaS app estate
- Skills gap in ever-evolving, accelerating, complex cloud security
- Laborious and overwhelming workload to stay on top of hundreds to thousands (to tens of thousands) of settings and permissions.