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Secure access to SaaS applications

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SaaS applications enable your team to be more flexible and agile than ever before, but they can also introduce security risks, visibility challenges, and access control roadblocks.

Cloudflare helps you protect your data and meet compliance standards while still allowing your employees to use the tools that work for them.

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Challenges of securing SaaS applications
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Shadow IT leaves your IT team in the dark

When your IT team can’t see the SaaS applications your employees are using, they can’t protect the data that lives within those applications.

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SaaS applications live outside of your team’s control

SaaS apps are hosted outside of the corporate network, so your IT team has limited control over the way users access those applications and move data in and out of them.

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Users may share data across the wrong applications

When employees access the wrong instance of applications, they can store and share your data in the wrong places — opening the door to potential data leaks and other security threats.

Track and analyze the applications your employees use

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Detect, catalogue, and manage all approved and unapproved applications within your organization, while maintaining full visibility over every connection and request in one centralized location.

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Apply Zero Trust security to every SaaS application

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Layer Zero Trust security measures in front of your SaaS applications, authenticating legitimate users and stopping unauthorized users or risky devices from accessing sensitive files and data.

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Protect data within your corporate applications

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Easily build and deploy Zero Trust policies to protect the data that lives within your SaaS tenants, while preventing your employees from accessing non-corporate instances of applications.

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Solution & Product Guides

Zero Trust for SaaS Apps

Cloudflare Zero Trust enables your organization with visibility into and policy controls over SaaS applications. Learn how Cloudflare helps you discover shadow IT, apply Zero Trust access policies, and data protection controls for SaaS apps.

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Introducing Shadow IT Discovery

Find out how you can use Cloudflare to detect and block unapproved SaaS applications — with just two clicks.

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Data protection controls with Cloudflare Browser Isolation

Read how Cloudflare protects sensitive data within the browser by allowing administrators to control who can copy, paste, and print data in any web-based application.

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Announcing Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway

Discover how organizations can deploy Cloudflare to their corporate devices, ensuring that employees can only log in to the corporate version of the tools they need.

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