IDG Contributor Network: How secure is that cloud application service?

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Try to imagine life without software as a service (SaaS). It’s really hard to do, given how much all of us –businesses, organizations and individuals ­– rely upon these cloud applications services nearly every day.

The more dependent we have become upon SaaS apps, the more important it is to be aware of their liabilities. That was the point of this previous article. One of the areas I mentioned there — security, governance and compliance — deserves a closer look. Life without SaaS may be farfetched, but it’s easy to picture at least one, in a landscape of many apps, being compromised or running afoul of rules and regulations.

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