There’s a disconnect in how we talk about applications that are no longer hosted within our own data center. When speaking with customers, we’ve observed that “software as a service” (SaaS) and “cloud-native” are terms that tend to be bundled together and used interchangeably at times.
There are instances where we hear that SaaS tends to be “all things cloud” — but that is not necessarily true. It’s important to discuss the differentiation between these two terms because they do mean different things.
The Difference Between SaaS and Cloud-Native
As the industry has evolved, the concept of SaaS and cloud-native have been poorly understood and communicated within the security realm. Technically, software can be SaaS, cloud-native, both, or neither.
To dive deeper, SaaS applications can be cloud-native — for example, the LogRhythm Axon SaaS SIEM platform is both. But what might surprise people is that not all SaaS applications are cloud-native, or you can have cloud-native applications that are self-hosted...Read More!
