Securing SaaS Applications

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With the growth of business-led IT, does SaaS security need to be a specific focus in a CISO’s architectural strategy?

Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. Our guest is Steve Zalewski who also hosts Defense in Depth.

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In this episode:

• With the growth of business-led IT, does SaaS security need to be a specific focus in a CISO’s architectural strategy?
• Is the problem the architecture of the applications themselves or the fact that a non-security group is bringing these applications online? Is it both?
• Is this problem solvable?
• What technical controls can you put in place to mitigate risk from apps you deem risky?