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SaaS Security Best Practices: A 2025 Field Guide

In January 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive after threat actors exploited misconfigured SaaS environments across multiple federal agencies. The attackers didn't need sophisticated zero-day exploits. They walked in through overprivileged service accounts, dormant API tokens, and single-factor authentication — problems that every

Carl B. Johnson Apr 22, 2025 7 min read
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SaaS Security Best Practices: A Hands-On Guide

The Breach That Started With a Single SaaS Login In January 2023, Mailchimp disclosed its second major breach in less than a year. The cause? A threat actor used social engineering to trick an employee into handing over credentials to an internal tool. That single compromised SaaS login exposed 133

Carl B. Johnson Sep 29, 2023 7 min read
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SaaS Security Best Practices to Protect Your Stack

The SaaS Sprawl Nobody's Watching In 2023, a single misconfigured Salesforce Community site exposed sensitive health records from a government agency in Vermont. The data was public for months before anyone noticed. The application wasn't hacked in any traditional sense — it was simply left open because

Carl B. Johnson Oct 27, 2020 8 min read