Cloud Security Alliance Survey Finds 70% of Organizations Have Established Dedicated SaaS Security Teams

CSA’s 2025 CISO Plans and Priorities survey, commissioned by Adaptive Shield and based on 478 respondents, finds strong prioritization of SaaS security despite economic headwinds: 70% prioritize SaaS security, 39% increased budgets, and most now have dedicated SaaS security staff with improved visibility (70% report moderate-to-full). Persistent challenges include visibility into business-critical apps (73%), third‑party connected apps and misconfigurations (both 65%), data governance (63%), and compliance alignment (61%), with SSPM adopters reporting notably better stack visibility. Reported SaaS incidents fell to 25% over the past two years (from 53% last year), with data breaches, data leakage, unauthorized access, and malicious apps most common.