Nearly $1.3 billion was lost in 2018 to business email compromise (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) Despite CISOs apprehension about increasing dependence on SaaS applications, adoption isn t slowing down. Cybersecurity experts have been confronting these risks for years, of course, and for much of the last decade the best solution was do your due diligence . But understanding the security posture of your SAAS vendors doesn’t give you a great look into their human risk factor. The human risk is the most difficult to scrutinize and also the costliest.
Source: https://threatpost.com/cisos-support-vendor-security-ops-for-best-cloud-results/148665/