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With the enormous utilization of the internet and business goals to save additional expenses, SaaS applications are coming to light. Such applications are now running in every organization, handling extensive confidential information. Therefore, it makes firms focus more on understanding SaaS application security. So, we have curated the most prominent SaaS app security aspects, covering the primary user’s perspective from each end. Let’s have a look at it.

This is the fifth of a six-part blog series that highlights findings from a new Mend white paper, Five Principles of Modern Application Security Programs. Be sure to look out for our upcoming blogs on each of the five principles. While IT and security professionals all generally agree that cyberattacks are on the rise, there remains a great deal of disparity in how they choose to prepare for those attacks.

Some economic sectors may be hitting the brakes, but the cybersecurity talent shortage persists across all industries and shows no signs of abating – not while sophisticated cyberattacks continue to rise in number and complexity. The 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study found that even as the global cybersecurity workforce is at an all-time high, it is still short by 3.4 million workers.