Complexity and risk worries grow as organizations move to SaaS

A rise in SaaS adoption is prompting concerns over operational complexity and risk according to a new report from SaaSOps platform BetterCloud. Since 2015, the number of IT-sanctioned SaaS apps has increased tenfold, and it's expected that by 2025, 85 percent of business apps will be SaaS-based. Yet only half (49 percent) of respondents are confident in their ability to identify and monitor unsanctioned SaaS usage on company networks. More than three-quarters (76 percent) see unsanctioned apps as a security risk and when asked what SaaS applications are likely to hold the most sensitive data across an organization, respondents named… [Continue Reading]