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This is not to say that cloud applications are risk free. The proliferation of third party applications
built on top of these and other dominant SaaS platforms constitute a real and measurable risk

requiring that enterprises understand what is happening within their cloud ecosystem in order to
identify potential risks to corporate data and IT systems.

The Adallom Cloud Usage Risk Report identifies actual scenarios in which hackers took
advantage of common application vulnerabilities and tricked privileged users into forfeiting

sensitive corporate data. Such scenarios demonstrate the difficulty in governing third-party
SaaS applications with cross-platform functionality creating attack vectors from one service into
another.

Considering the risks inherent with mainstream cloud applications, resolve in the New Year to
stop chasing the shadows of what had been and address the threats to cloud security as they

are. If you fail to do so, do not blame me!

About the Author

Tal Klein is vice president of strategy at cloud computing and SaaS

security provider Adallom, based in Palo Alto, Calif. Previously, Tal was
senior director of products at Bromium where he led a product marketing
strategy that helped build that company into a multi-million dollar

business. He has managed integrated product strategy at Citrix and also
spent more than a decade in the webhosting industry developing
managed infrastructure services.

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