SaaS Application Security: Threats, Risks, and Solutions for HR Data

This presentation analyzes the implementation of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in Human Resource Management (HRM), particularly for the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) company. It explores the benefits of SaaS applications, such as customer relationship management, sales management, and HRM, while also addressing critical security and privacy concerns. The report delves into operational solutions, emphasizing the importance of a secure environment for data storage and processing. It identifies potential threats like privilege misuse, input injection, malware, and distributed denial-of-service attacks, alongside shared computing services and data loss. The presentation proposes solutions like centralized management, security policy implementation, and encryption techniques to mitigate risks. It emphasizes the need for robust privacy policies, digital identity cards, and continuous monitoring to protect employee data and maintain data sovereignty. Furthermore, the report highlights ethical and legal considerations related to employee databases and suggests measures to control access, inference, and data flow to ensure data integrity and security within the cloud environment.

Cloud Computing

Introduction
 The abbreviation of the term SaaS is known as the Software as a Service.
 It is nearly connected with the application service provider.
 It is also entirely related to the on-demand service.
 There are various number of SaaS applications. It includes customer Relationship
management, Sales management and also human resource management.
 This power presentation discusses the operational solution of SaaS solution related to
the human resource management (Ahmed & Hossain, 2014). It also discusses regarding
the location of SaaS provider related to the HR management of DAS company.
 It elaborates regarding the threats and risks related to the security and privacy of the
employee data.
 This presentation discusses regarding the privacy and security implications of DAS of
data processing location.
 It also discusses regarding the issues of data sovereignty related of SaaS applications of
DAS company.

SaaS Applications

Effects of SaaS application
 Resolving the issues related to the Integrated Security Platform.
 Cloud Access Security Brokers (Almorsy, Grundy & Müller, 2016).
 Giving proper security to the important as well as the sensitive data.

Department of Administrative Services
 This company is preserving the data as well as information related to several
employees.
 It is used preserve several policies of the management of employees in their
database (Arora, Parashar & Transforming, 2013).
 It also provides several storage space for different companies.
 There can ensure the security of the data.

Contd.
 There are several kinds of techniques of DAS that can help them to control several
kinds of database.
 Improvement of the protection of the information of the DAS (Durairaj &
Manimaran, 2015).
 In several companies the control of human resources are in the DAS applications.
 Providing centralized data for the employees.
 The type of centralized data is available.

Operational Solution of SaaS application
 It is helping a company for providing the innovation to DAS company.
 It is used to give the protected environment of data in SaaS (Durairaj & Manimaran,
2015).
 The SaaS vendors provide the solutions for DAS company in Australia.

Contd.
 Provides the advantages of integration of hardware among several different
companies (Gupta & Rajput, 2013).
 The Human resource management is used to control the speculation related to risk
resolution.
 It involves the resolving the risk related to the data in a company.

Challenges related to the data security of DAS
 There are several security issues related to the data security in DAS.
 The first one is misuses of several privileges.
 Input injection of databases.
 Detection of malwares
 Huge amount of liberty.

Operational solution related to SaaS
 Management of the solution performed in centralized manner.
 Implementing several policy for SaaS that is entirely related to security and privacy.
 Automatic engagement of SaaS application for implementing several policies.

Contd.
 Assembly of hardware
 Human resource management.

Security issues related to the data of DAS
 Distributed Denial Service Attacks
 Shared Computing Services
 Data loss
 Phishing