SaaS risk is on the rise: 7 action items for better management

This article outlines how organizations can mitigate expanding SaaS security risks driven by shadow IT, complex configurations, and explosive SaaS-to-SaaS integrations. It recommends assessing and quantifying risk, clarifying shared responsibility, managing identities and user behavior, implementing continuous SaaS security posture management, monitoring app-to-app connections, and strategically leveraging AI for discovery, anomaly detection, and risk scoring. It also introduces CycloneDX’s xBOM—specifically the SaaSBOM—to inventory cloud apps, APIs, endpoints, and data flows, improving governance, compliance, and supply chain visibility.