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Businesses are flocking to software-as-a-service applications as a means to improve the efficiency of their operations and the productivity of their employees, but weak control of access to cloud apps is putting the data of many organizations at risk. According to a study by DoControl, the average 1,000-person company using SaaS apps is exposing its data to between 1,000 and 15,000 external collaborators.

Kaspersky Lab in 2014. (Alexxsun, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Roughly three in four individuals assert that companies should not submit to the demands of ransomware gangs in the event are infected, says one survey report. Yet roughly three in four parents say that school districts should pay up if they are impacted by an attack. So which is it? It could very well be both, as respondents’ sentiments likely vary depending on what they p...