Shadow Risks in SaaS, Cybersecurity Market Has Lost Its Mind, and Rise of the CTrO – Mike Puglia – BSW #424
While many businesses rely on Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Google Workspace security features, critical blind spots remain—the recent series of high profile SaaS breaches demonstrate this. So what should you do?
Mike Puglia, General Manager of Kaseya Labs, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the risks in SaaS applications. In this segment, Mike will explore how bad actors are focusing their attacks on SaaS applications, hijacking tokens and how misconfigured integrations are used to bypass traditional defenses. Mike will also discuss how IT leaders can rethink protecting their essential SaaS business applications with tools that go beyond endpoint and MFA strategies to secure the modern user.
This segment is sponsored by Kaseya 365 User. Visit https://securityweekly.com/k365 to learn more about them!
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Mike Puglia brings over 25 years of technology, strategy and cybersecurity experience to his role as Kaseya’s General Manager of Kaseya Labs, the company’s hub for actionable threat research and analysis. At Kaseya Labs, Mike leads the team responsible for delivering timely, digestible and operationally useful cyberthreat intelligence that helps protect businesses from data theft, ransomware and emerging attacks.
Prior to joining Kaseya, Mike led the technical program management integration of real-time collaboration technologies into Salesforce’s Chatter Social Enterprise platform. Earlier in his career, he served in technical and product roles at application security company Veracode, database security company Lumigent Technologies and network security company Bluesocket.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College.
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