In 2022, the majority of respondents stated that the top areas of concern related to SaaS security misconfiguration were data leakage protection, access control, password management and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA). By contrast, only 11 percent of respondents were concerned about phishing protection.
Top areas of concern related to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) security misconfigurations worldwide in 2022
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