Data Protection in SaaS HR Applications: Security Analysis

This report examines data protection strategies within cloud environments, focusing on SaaS applications used by the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) for HR and personnel management. It discusses the impacts of SaaS applications, including the protection of sensitive data using Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs), and analyzes operational solutions for SaaS applications, highlighting the importance of centralized management and policy enforcement. The report identifies data security challenges such as privilege abuse, database input injection, malware, and excessive rights, and proposes operational solutions for ensuring the privacy and security of employee data, addressing digital identity, data sensitivity, and data sovereignty. It further explores security and privacy implications for DAS, including identity governance, forensics and detection, manageability, encryption, standards, compliance, and management. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of hazard leadership and the role of SaaS providers in mitigating security threats, referencing various studies and frameworks relevant to cloud security and data protection.

Data
Protection
Using Cloud

Introduction
• Consists of three various types of services
• Platforms as infrastructure and services
• Provides variety of benefits
• Able to access the strong IT resources
• System as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

SaaS Application

Impacts of SaaS Application
• Protecting Sensitive Data
• CASBs (Cloud Access Security Brokers)
• Solutions for Integrated Security Platform

DAS (The Department of Administrative
Services)
• Store the information and data of the staffs and employees
• Store the policies of staff management and personnel in the storage device
of DAS
• Provides the storage space for the information and data for various firms
• Enormous data safety is allowed by various statutory safety services
• Able to ensure the security of the information and the data

DAS (The Department of Administrative
Services)
• The shared strategies of DAS have helped to control the database.
• Improves the safety of the information and data
• DAS controls human resources in many organizations.
• The data or information of staffs and employees are centralized from
any place.
• The format of centralized data is readily available.

Operational Solution of SaaS application
• SaaS operation helps in improving the innovation of the organization.
• The implementation of SaaS has assisted in providing the safe environment of data
and information.
• The suppliers of SaaS provide the solutions for the public organizations of
Australia.
• MS Share Point and COTS provide many facilities for the Australian citizen.

Operational Solution of SaaS application
For qualifying the inclusion of the SaaS operational solution the SaaS management
includes:
• Centralized management for the various SaaS application
• SaaS operation management allows policy enforcement of security and identity
in the application.
• Associated with the task automatically with the policy management of SaaS

Operational Solution of SaaS application
• The facilities of SaaS include the hardware assembly among the organizations
• HR management conduct risks leadership speculations.
• The alternatives of operation include the risks resolution and safety attack policies.
• Operational risks leadership involves the risks mitigation process in the organization.

Data Security challenges in DAS
The safety issues of data and information are motivated by the third-party
participation such as safety, implementation monitoring and entry.
• Privilege abuse
• Database input injection
• Malware
• Excessive rights

Data Security challenges in DAS
Source: (Chowdhury, 2014)

Privilege Abuse
• Legitimate server issues in an illegitimate way that can be accessed
by clients in the organization
• DAS has allowed clients to access all the information, creating a
significant problem for server clients
• Dangerous for clients to see the image of other organizational
employees and staffs