Spanning’s Best of 2019 – Security Boulevard

It’s that time of the year again; filled with festive cheer and thoughtful review. As 2019 draws to an end, we take a look back on the blogs and resources most enjoyed by you. The resulting list provides an insightful overview of the challenges associated with enterprise data protection. From malware, identity theft and compliance practices to data protection strategies and SaaS migrations, here is a brief recap of trending topics and Spanning’s most popular content from 2019:

#10. SaaS Data Protection Strategies & Trends

As companies move their business-critical applications to the cloud, it is important to stay aware of evolving SaaS data protection strategies. Unitrends’ study, Growing Usage of SaaS Data Protection, surveyed more than 400 organizations of all sizes and industries to examine the state of data backup, recovery, DRaaS, and the progressive use of the cloud in data protection.

A similar study conducted by ESG, Data Protection Cloud Strategies: Protecting Data To and In the Cloud, surveyed 370 IT professionals at organizations in North America. The study focused on individuals responsible for data protection technology decisions with an emphasis on those leveraging cloud services as part of their organization’s solution. Together, the two reports offer great insight into the current landscape of SaaS data protection.

#9. Web-based Application Security

Every organization, large or small, has a digital presence that is a critical business driver; thus making web-application security an important cybersecurity concern. As such, we spotlighted security issues such as Open Redirection Vulnerabilities and SQL Injection Attacks (SQLi) as part of a blog series in which we analyzed various web-based application vulnerabilities and provided tips to detect and overcome them.