Security Challenges with SaaS Applications

Written by Eyal Estrin. SaaS (Software as a Service) is the most common cloud service model. According to the Shared Responsibility Model, "The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure". As customers, this leaves us with very little control over services managed by remote service providers, as compared to the amount of control we have over IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), where we control the operating system and anything inside it (applications, configurat...

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