Protecting data in SaaS platforms
Even if you've done everything right to secure your SaaS platform to protect business and customer data...
Even if you received a passing grade from your compliance auditor....
That doesn't mean tomorrow one seemingly minor change to a setting in your cloud environment won't cause your entire platform to be at risk of getting hacked.
But don't despair. Below are two suggestions on precautions you can take to help make your platform more secure...
Audit & Limit Permissions
Control who has permission to change important settings and restrict them to only the people that need them and know how to manage them.
Sounds simple but you would be surprised how many cloud environments I review that have user access and configurations setup very poorly, causing their environments to be at risk.
Automate Security Setting Checks
Automate checking of settings so that as soon as a setting gets incorrectly changed, someone is notified and can remediate it.
Or better yet, it self-corrects to the correct setting.
There are so many things to check. A manual process is going to breakdown. Automating as much as possible will enable you to scale your security governance.
Hybrid Approach
Or even better, combine both approaches above.
Questions?
If you're not even sure if any of these things are in place, the first step is to assess your current situation.
I've been managing cloud environments since before the cloud was cool. :) And we manage global cloud environments for customers.
If you need help assessing it, you can reach out to a company like ours for guidance or just to perform an initial security assessment so you can know what you're currently dealing with.