What are the Highest Risks Third-Party Apps Pose for the Enterprise?

Since the emergence of mobile computing there's been a rise in employees' use of third-party applications -- a rise that poses security risks to corporate environments. That is one of the findings in a report Cloudlock released last week. The number of third-party apps connected to corporate environments increased by 30 fold over the last two years, the firm reported, from 5,500 to 150,000 apps. CloudLock ranked more than a quarter of the apps found in business environments (27 percent) as "high risk," which means they were more likely than other apps to open pathways into an organization for cybercriminals. Companies have not ignored that danger, CloudMark's researchers also found. More than half of third-party apps were banned in many workplaces due to security-related concerns. CloudLock is a frictionless solution that is installed in minutes and protects cloud applications and provides codeless security for custom-built apps. From crowd-sourced security analytics across billions of data points to advanced machine learning, to the data scientist-led CyberLab, CloudLock provides actionable cybersecurity intelligence across an organization’s entire cloud infrastructure. What are the greatest risk that CSOs see since the pervasive use of third-party apps? Let us know your insights here at the Cloud and Cyber Security Center.