Rapid adoption of software as a service (SaaS) has amplified visibility challenges for security and IT teams, and SaaS usage introduces new challenges at an amplified magnitude.
According to a recent survey by Axonius, while 66% of organizations are spending more on SaaS apps than IaaS than ever before, 60% of respondents ranked SaaS security fourth or lower on their list of current security priorities.
SaaS data sprawl is the result of the decentralized distribution of information in different applications, making it difficult for IT and security teams to determine where all the data resides, where sensitive or personally identifiable information (PII) is being processed, and who has access to the data.
