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Thanks to acquiring SaaS security capabilities, visibility into the SaaS stack is increasing. Today, 70% of
organizations have moderate (47%) to full visibility (23%) into their SaaS applications, with those
achieving full visibility having more than doubled over the past year, the report said.

[Figure 4: Security professionals rate their visibility into SaaS applications]

Detection capabilities surrounding multi-factor authentication (MFA) attacks have also improved from to
62% from 47% a year ago. In threat detection, 62% percent of respondents state their ability to detect
abnormal user behavior, compared with 44% a year ago.

“This enhanced oversight is pivotal for effective configuration and user management. It also plays a
crucial role in identifying mistakenly or unwanted publicly shared data resources, such as documents and
repositories,” the report notes.

3: Organizations Are Still Facing Challenges, Due to Using the Wrong Tools

While organizations have improved SaaS security oversight, 73 percent surveyed pointed to achieving
visibility into business-critical apps as their biggest challenge.

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