In today's digital-first business environment, SaaS applications are core to productivity, collaboration, and innovation, while AI and AI agents are rapidly becoming part of everyday business workflows. Their adoption, however, expands the organization's attack surface and creates new governance challenges. SaaS providers secure their underlying platforms, but customers remain accountable for how those services are configured, accessed, monitored, and governed.
This 20-minute session explains why SaaS security and AI governance must be treated as pillars of a modern cybersecurity strategy. It will examine identity and access governance, weak authentication, over-permissioned users, orphaned accounts, shadow SaaS and AI, misconfigured services, and emerging agentic AI risks. The session will also preview the in-flight KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on SaaS Security and AI Governance.
Key Takeaways
- Understand why SaaS and AI governance risks are growing
- Identify common visibility, access, configuration, and lifecycle gaps that expose SaaS applications.
- Explore how AI agents change governance, accountability, and permission-management
- Get an early view of the forthcoming Leadership Compass on SaaS Security and AI Governance
