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Obsidian Security Extends Reach to SaaS Application Integrations

Obsidian Security today announced that it has extended the reach of its platform for protecting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to include any integrations. Additionally, the company is now making it possible to limit which specific end users of a SaaS application are allowed to grant and authorize new SaaS integrations by enforcing least privilege policies. Finally,..

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์นผ๋Ÿผ | AI๊ฐ€ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” SaaS, ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ๊ธฐํšŒ, ๋„˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ณผ์ œ๋Š”?

10์—ฌ ๋…„ ์ „ ์ฒ˜์Œ SaaS ์˜์—ญ์— ๋ฐœ์„ ๋“ค์˜€์„ ๋‹น์‹œ, ์ด ๊ฐœ๋…์€ ๋งค์šฐ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋‹ค. ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™•์žฅ ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋“ค์–ด ๊ทธ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ SaaS์™€ AI์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์ด๋‹ค.

AI๋Š” ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์—๋‚˜ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ํ–‰์–ด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ SaaS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ถ•์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ฑ… โ€˜์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•  SaaS ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ(Get SaaS Insights Before You Invest Millions)โ€™์˜ ์ €์ž์ด์ž SaaS ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋ฐ AI ์ „ํ™˜์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•ด ์˜จ ํ•„์ž๋Š”, ์ด ๊ฐ™์€ ์œตํ•ฉ์ด ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์žฌํŽธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

SaaS์™€ AI๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ, IT ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•  ์ฃผ์š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์™€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ณผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์งš์–ด๋ณธ๋‹ค.

SaaS์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์€ AI

์ง€๋‚œ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” AI๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ์ธ์‹๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด๋‹ค. AI๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, SaaS ์—…์ฒด๋Š” ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ AI๋ฅผ ์ตœ์šฐ์„ ์— ๋‘๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ์žฌ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์›Œํฌํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ ์ž๋™ํ™”์—์„œ ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ์ž๋™ํ™”๋กœ

์ดˆ๊ธฐ SaaS ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ž๋™ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ท„๋‹ค๋ฉด, AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ SaaS ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ • ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ž๋™ํ™”ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ์ธก ๋ถ„์„, ์ž์—ฐ์–ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ, ํ–‰๋™ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํŠธ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ, ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋ณต๊ตฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ, ์ƒํ™ฉ ์ธ์ง€ํ˜• ์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋“ฑ์€ ์ด์ œ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™” ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•„์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ ์—”ํ„ฐํ”„๋ผ์ด์ฆˆ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์€ ๊ทœ์น™ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ž๋™ํ™”์—์„œ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋ชจ๋ธ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ „ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ฐ€๋™ ์ค‘๋‹จ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ๋„๋Š” ๋†’์•„์กŒ๋‹ค. ์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธด๊ธ‰ ๋Œ€์‘ ํ•„์š”์„ฑ๋„ ๋‚ฎ์•„์กŒ๋‹ค.

AI๋Š” SaaS๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋… ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ 1: ๋งž์ถคํ™”๋Š” ์„ ํƒ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ํ•„์ˆ˜

์œ ํ†ต๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜๋ฃŒ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ „ ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋งž์ถคํ™”๋ฅผ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ์‚ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. SaaS ์ œํ’ˆ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” SaaS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ด ๋„ทํ”Œ๋ฆญ์Šค๋‚˜ ์Šคํฌํ‹ฐํŒŒ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ธธ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋งž์ถคํ™” ์š”์†Œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ๋Œ€์‹œ๋ณด๋“œ
  • ๊ฐœ์ธ๋ณ„๋กœ ์„ค์ •๋œ ์›Œํฌํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ
  • ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ์ถ”์ฒœ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ ํŒจํ„ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋Š” ์ ์‘ํ˜• ์ธํ„ฐํŽ˜์ด์Šค

ํ•„์ž๋Š” ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋งž์ถคํ™”๊ฐ€ SaaS ๋„์ž…์— ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ์ง์ ‘ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ์ž๋ฌธ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ๋Š” AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ•™์Šต ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ์ดํ›„, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ โ€˜์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์ž์‹ ์„ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€™๊ณ  ๋А๋ผ๋ฉด์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๊ฐ€ 60% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ •์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ 2: AI๊ฐ€ SaaS์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์—ญํ•™์„ ์žฌํŽธ

SaaS๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋… ๋ชจ๋ธ๊ณผ ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ธํ”„๋ผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— AI๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ฐจ์›์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์š”๊ธˆ ์ฑ…์ •

ํ–‰๋™ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง๊ณผ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๋ฐœ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, SaaS ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์–ป๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๊ตฌ๋…๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ
  • ๊ตฌ๋…๊ณผ ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ
  • AI ๋น„์ค‘์ด ๋†’์€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „์šฉ ์š”๊ธˆ์ œ

์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ชจ๋ธ์€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ˆ˜์ต ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ–‰๋™์„ ์ •๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด AI๋‹ค.

AI์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ

AI ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ์˜จ๋ณด๋”ฉ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ ‘์ ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ดํƒˆ๋ฅ ์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค. AI๊ฐ€ ์–ธ์ œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๋‚ดํ• ์ง€, ์–ด๋–ค ๋„์›€์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ• ์ง€, ์–ธ์ œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋„ํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ 3: AI ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ SaaS ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ๋ถ€์ƒ

์ด์ œ๋Š” AI๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜AI ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ SaaSโ€™ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์€ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง€๋Šฅํ™”์™€ ์˜ˆ์ธก, ์ž์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์— ๋‘๊ณ  ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ํŠน์ง•์ด๋‹ค.

๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋กœ๋Š” AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ CRM, ์ž์œจํ˜• ๋ณด์•ˆ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ, ์˜ˆ์ธก ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ, AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์˜ˆ์ธก ๋„๊ตฌ, ์ž๋™ํ™”๋œ ์ปดํ”Œ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์Šค ์—”์ง„ ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ SaaS ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์„ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋‘ ์œ ํ˜•์„ ๋น„๊ต์  ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด SaaS์— AI๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์ด๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” AI ์—†์ด๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์ž‘๋™ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์˜ SaaS๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์œ ๋‹ˆ์ฝ˜ ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ํ›„์ž์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํฌ๋‹ค.

AI์™€ SaaS์˜ ์œตํ•ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

๊ธฐํšŒ 1: AI๋กœ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์›

๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์›์€ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ SaaS ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ๋น„์šฉ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ํฐ ์˜์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๊ผฝํ˜€ ์™”๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ AI๊ฐ€ ๋„์ž…๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์› ๋ฐฉ์‹๋„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ์ • ์ธ์‹ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ฑ—๋ด‡, ์ด์Šˆ ์ž๋™ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜, ์˜ˆ์ธกํ˜• ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ๋ผ์šฐํŒ…, ์ž๋™ ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ, ์Œ์„ฑ ํ…์ŠคํŠธ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ ๋ฐ ์ž์—ฐ์–ด ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ•„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ SaaS ์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ๋Š” AI ์ง€์› ์–ด์‹œ์Šคํ„ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ์ง€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ๋งŒ์— ๋ฏธ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“์ด 40% ์ค„์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ์€ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์‘๋‹ต์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ง€์› ์ธ๋ ฅ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์˜ ๋Œ€์‹  ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋๋‹ค.

๊ธฐํšŒ 2: ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ„์„

AI๋Š” SaaS ํŒ€์— ์ด์ „๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

  • ๋„์ž…๊ณผ ํ™•์‚ฐ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ํŠน์„ฑ
  • ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ดํƒˆ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ํ–‰๋™
  • ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๋กœ
  • ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ • ์ „๋žต
  • ์ดํƒˆ ์œ„ํ—˜์— ๋†“์—ฌ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ์ง

๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋ถ„์„ ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์–ด๋–ค ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์ณค๋‹ค๋ฉด, AI๋Š” ๊ทธ ์›์ธ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ผ์–ด๋‚  ์ผ์„ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ์ธก ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด SaaS ํŒ€ ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ์ดํƒˆ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์‚ฌ์ „์— ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋ณ‘๋ชฉ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ์œ ๋„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ œํ’ˆยท์‹œ์žฅ ์ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋†’์€ ์ •ํ™•๋„๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธฐํšŒ 3: ํ™•์žฅ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ธํ”„๋ผ

AI๋Š” ๋ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ต์Šค(DevOps)์™€ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์„ ํ˜์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋™ ํ™•์žฅ, ์ด์ƒ ์ง•ํ›„ ํƒ์ง€, ์˜ˆ์ธกํ˜• ๋ถ€ํ•˜ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ, ์ž๋™ํ™”๋œ ๋ฐฐํฌ ๊ฒ€์ฆ, ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ์ž์› ํ”„๋กœ๋น„์ €๋‹์ด ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ•„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ๋Š” AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ถ€ํ•˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•ด ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๋น„์šฉ์„ 20% ์ด์ƒ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ์ž์› ์ˆ˜์š” ๊ธ‰์ฆ์„ ์‚ฌ์ „์— ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•ด ์„ ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ž‘์—… ๊ฐœ์ž…์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ ์ €ํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

AI๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋˜๋Š” SaaS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œตํ•ฉ์—๋Š” ๊ณผ์ œ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณผ์ œ 1: ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค

AI๋Š” ์ •์ œ๋˜๊ณ  ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๋ฉฐ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ „์ œ๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋งŽ์€ SaaS ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์ด ์ ์„ ๊ฐ„๊ณผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์œ ๋งํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋˜ AI ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ์™„์ „ํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ํ•™์Šต์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ AI ํ™œ์šฉ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์ ‘๊ทผ ์ œ์–ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ชจ๋ธ ํ•™์Šต์ด ์ฐจ๋‹จ๋œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ด๋‹ค.

์กฐ์ง์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌํ›„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ณผ์ œ 2: ํŽธํ–ฅ, ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธ, ์œค๋ฆฌ์  AI

๊ณ ๊ฐ์€ ์ ์  ๋” AI๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์˜์—ญ์€ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค.

  • ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ํ™œ์šฉ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹
  • AI ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹
  • ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ์ž‘๋™์˜ ๊ณต์ •์„ฑ
  • ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์‹œ ๋ณดํ˜ธ ์—ฌ๋ถ€

GDPR์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•ด ๊ฐ์ข… AI ๊ทœ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, SaaS ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ์œค๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ปดํ”Œ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์šฐ์„  ๊ณผ์ œ๋กœ ์‚ผ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ–์— ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ•„์ž ์—ญ์‹œ ํˆฌ๋ช…์„ฑ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ํŽธํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ์ถ”์ ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด AI ์›Œํฌํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ „๋ฉด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ž์›์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, AI ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ์ธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋œ๋‹ค.

๊ณผ์ œ 3: ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ

SaaS์™€ AI๋ฅผ ์œตํ•ฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค.

  • ๋จธ์‹ ๋Ÿฌ๋‹์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด
  • ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ML ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€
  • ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๋•ํŠธ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €
  • AI ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋””์ž์ด๋„ˆ

์ด๋Ÿฐ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ์ธ์žฌ ์กฐํ•ฉ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์€ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ธ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ต์œก๊ณผ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋Š” ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ด๋‹ค.

๋‹ค๋งŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ฐ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์›€์ง์ด๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค, ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ—ˆ๋ฌผ๊ณ  ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜AI ์Šค์ฟผ๋“œโ€™๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•  ๋•Œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ๋‹ค.

AI-SaaS ์œตํ•ฉ์„ ์ด๋„๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต

๊ธฐ์—…์˜ SaaS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ๊ณ ๋„ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•ด ์˜จ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ํ•„์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ „๋žต ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ๋‹ค.

1. ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋ก€๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘

๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ดํƒˆ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜จ๋ณด๋”ฉ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์› ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ธํ”„๋ผ๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜๋Š” ์˜์—ญ์„ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š”, โ€˜AI๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ AIโ€™ ๋„์ž…์€ ํ”ผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

2. ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•

์ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋Š” ์ƒ๋žตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

  • ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ
  • ๊ฑฐ๋ฒ„๋„Œ์Šค ๊ธฐ์ค€
  • ๋ณด์•ˆ ํ†ต์ œ ์ฒด๊ณ„
  • ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ’ˆ์งˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฑ…์ž„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ

3. ์ž‘๊ณ  ์ธก์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘

์„ฑ๊ณต์€ ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๋ฉฐ, ์ž‘์€ ์‹คํŒจ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ๊ตํ›ˆ์„ ๋‚ณ๋Š”๋‹ค.

4. ์œค๋ฆฌ์™€ ์ปดํ”Œ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธฐ์— ํ†ตํ•ฉ

์‹ ๋ขฐ๊ฐ€ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” AI๋Š” ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค.

5. AI๋ฅผ ์ „์ œ๋กœ ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜ ์žฌ์„ค๊ณ„

์ด ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๋Š”๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ SaaS๋Š” ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ, ๋ชจ๋ธ ๋ฐฐํฌ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ•™์Šต, ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

6. ์กฐ์ง ๊ฐ„ ํ˜‘์—…์— ์ง‘์ค‘

AI๋Š” ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง ์กฐ์ง๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œํ’ˆ, ๋””์ž์ธ, ๋ณด์•ˆ, ์ปดํ”Œ๋ผ์ด์–ธ์Šค, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต ์กฐ์ง์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ด๋ค„์ ธ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

7. AI ์šฐ์„  ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜

์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” SaaS ์ œํ’ˆ์€ AI๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

SaaS์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

SaaS์™€ AI์˜ ์œตํ•ฉ์€ ๋จผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์—๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋Šฅํ˜• ์ž๋™ํ™”, ์˜ˆ์ธก ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ, ๊ฐœ์ธํ™”๊ฐ€ ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ์ œ๊ณต ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ถ•์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

AI๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์žฌํŽธํ•˜๊ณ  ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ์ ์‘ํ˜• ์•„ํ‚คํ…์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ SaaS ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ค€๋น„๋„, ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ์ด์Šˆ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ธ์žฌ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์š”๊ตฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ œ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋œ๋‹ค.

ํ•„์ž๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธฐ์— AI์™€ SaaS๋ฅผ ์œตํ•ฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‚˜์„  ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ˜์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

SaaS์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ AI ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ํ–ฅํ›„ 10๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ „ํ™˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
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The convergence of SaaS and AI: Trends, opportunities and challenges

More than 10 years ago, when I started stepping into the realm of software-as-a-service, the concept of SaaS seemed groundbreaking. The move towards cloud-based solutions altered the way companies utilize software, expanded their activities and controlled expenses. Yet recently I have observed a development thatโ€™s even more game-changing: the merging of SaaS with artificial intelligence.

AI is no longer an add-on feature or a buzzword sprinkled into slide decks. Itโ€™s becoming the backbone of how modern SaaS platforms operate, differentiate and grow. As the author of Get SaaS Insights Before You Invest Millions and as someone who has worked extensively with SaaS systems and AI-led transformations, Iโ€™ve seen firsthand how this convergence is reshaping products, business models and customer expectations.

In this article, Iโ€™ll break down the top trends, real opportunities and hidden challenges leaders need to understand as SaaS and AI rapidly fuse into the next generation of digital platforms.

AI is becoming the new foundation of SaaS

The significant change Iโ€™ve witnessed over the past three years is that AI is no longer viewed merely as a component or feature. It is evolving into a core capability. SaaS providers are reengineering their platforms to prioritize AI first in the cloud.

From workflow automation to intelligent automation

Earlier SaaS systems automated tasks. AI-powered SaaS systems automate decisions.

Capabilities such as:

  • Predictive analytics
  • Natural language processing
  • Behavior-based triggers
  • Self-healing systems
  • Context-aware recommendations

โ€ฆare becoming table stakes.

At an enterprise platform I contributed to, we transitioned from rule-based automations to AI-powered forecasts that detected system problems hours ahead of customer impact. This change decreased downtime, enhanced customer satisfaction and lowered emergency interventions.

AI is not merely enhancing SaaS; itโ€™s transforming the concept of efficiency itself.

Trend 1: Customization is turning into a requirement

All sectors โ€” from retail to healthcare โ€” personalization is becoming essential to maintain customer interest. SaaS products follow this trend well. Users today anticipate platforms to function similarly to Netflix or Spotify:

  • Tailored dashboards
  • Customized workflows
  • Intelligent suggestions
  • Adaptive interfaces based on usage patterns

I have directly observed how profoundly personalization influences SaaS adoption. In a learning platform, I consulted for implementing AI-powered learning paths boosted user engagement by 60% since users felt the product โ€œgot them.โ€

However, personalization introduces anticipations. Users expect more than software that functions โ€” They need software that suits their needs.

Trend 2: AI is reshaping the dynamics of SaaS

SaaS was appealing due to its subscription models and scalable infrastructure. AI introduces a level of value by facilitating:

Usage-based pricing

With advancements in AI for behavior monitoring and analytics, SaaS firms are able to set prices according to customer value. There is an increase in approaches:

  • Subscription + usage
  • Subscription + intelligence tier
  • Usage-only for AI-heavy features

This generates income possibilities but demands accuracy in comprehending customer actions โ€” a skill provided by AI.

AI-driven product-led growth

I have assisted teams in leveraging AI insights to enhance onboarding, emphasize โ€œaha moments,โ€ and decrease drop-offs. AI precisely determines when to prompt a user, what assistance to offer and when to direct them toward valuable features.

This significantly boosts growth income. Lowers attrition.

Trend 3: The rise of AI-native SaaS products

We are stepping into the age of AI-SaaS, where AI is fundamentally embedded in the value offered. These solutions are built from scratch with a focus on intelligence, forecasting and self-direction.

Instances consist of:

  • AI-powered CRMs
  • Autonomous security platforms
  • Predictive maintenance systems
  • AI-driven financial forecasting tools
  • Automated compliance engines

At present, when I assess a SaaS startup, I can readily distinguish among:

  • Software-as-a-Service integrated with AI.
  • Dependent SaaS on AI to operate
  • The upcoming generation of unicorns will originate from the latter.

Opportunity 1: Reimagining customer support with AI

Customer support was once among the expensive aspects of managing a SaaS product.

AI is currently revolutionizing it by:

  • Sentiment-aware chatbots
  • Automated issue classification
  • Predictive ticket routing
  • Auto-generated troubleshooting steps
  • Voice-to-text and NLP-based assistance

At a SaaS product I was involved with, incorporating an AI support assistant cut down the ticket backlog by 40% within the month. Clients got replies, and support staff were able to concentrate on complicated problems instead of routine questions.

Opportunity 2: Intelligent product analytics

AI is providing SaaS teams with insight into:

  • What characteristics influence uptake
  • Which behaviors result in customer attrition
  • The way users navigate the product
  • Which pricing approaches connect
  • Which teams are at risk of attrition

Conventional analytics described what occurred.

AI clarifies the reasons behind the event. Even predicts what will occur next.

With predictive analytics, SaaS leaders can forecast churn, spot feature bottlenecks, identify upsell opportunities and improve product-market fit with far greater accuracy.

Opportunity 3: Scalable, self-optimizing infrastructure

AI is transforming DevOps and infrastructure management through:

  • Auto-scaling
  • Anomaly detection
  • Predictive load-balancing
  • Automated deployment validation
  • Intelligent resource provisioning

In one platform, we implemented AI-based load forecasting that reduced infrastructure costs by over 20%. The system predicted resource spikes, scaled ahead of time and prevented performance drops that previously required manual intervention.

AI enables SaaS platforms that learn as they grow.

Challenge 1: Data quality and governance

AI requires data thatโ€™s clean, uniform and secure. SaaS companies frequently overlook this.

Iโ€™ve witnessed promising AI concepts collapse due to:

  • The data was incomplete
  • The information lacked labels
  • The systemโ€™s structure was not created with AI in mind
  • Access controls blocked model training

Organizations must treat data as a product โ€” not an afterthought.

Challenge 2: Bias, privacy and ethical AI

Customers are becoming increasingly cautious about:

  • How their data is used
  • How models make decisions
  • Whether algorithms are fair
  • How their privacy is protected

Rules such as GDPR and emerging AI-focused legislation require SaaS companies to prioritize ethics and compliance.

I have been required to revamp AI workflows to guarantee transparency, lessen bias and maintain audit trails. These measures demand time and resources. They foster trust โ€” an essential element for the success of any AI system.

Challenge 3: The skills gap

The merging of SaaS and AI requires a kind of expertise:

  • Engineers knowledgeable about ML
  • Product-savvy ML specialists
  • Product managers, with a grasp of data
  • Designers capable of creating AI-centric architectures

Finding this blend is difficult.

Training internally is critical.

However, the fastest successes usually arise from forming functional โ€œAI squadsโ€ that work closely together instead of functioning independently.

A strategic roadmap for leaders navigating AI-SaaS convergence

Drawing from my experience assisting organizations in updating their SaaS platforms here is the roadmap I suggest:

1. Start with a clear, high-value use case

Pick something meaningful:

  • Reduce churn
  • Improve onboarding
  • Cut support costs
  • Optimize infrastructure

Avoid โ€œAI for the sake of AI.โ€

2. Build a strong data foundation

This step cannot be bypassed. Invest in:

  • Data pipelines
  • Governance standards
  • Security controls
  • Data quality ownership

3. Launch small, measurable pilots

Success builds momentum.

Failures, when small, build learning.

4. Integrate ethics and compliance early

AI without trust is unusable.

5. Redesign your architecture for AI

This is the point at which numerous teams become halted. Upcoming SaaS needs to accommodate:

  • Live data streams
  • Model deployment
  • Continuous training
  • Event-driven processing

6. Focus on cross-functional collaboration

AI is not an engineering-only initiative. Participation is needed from:

  • Product
  • Design
  • Security
  • Compliance
  • Customer success

7. Shift your mindset to AI-first

In the future, successful SaaS products will treat AI as a core capability, not a feature.

The future of SaaS is not cloud-first

The convergence of SaaS and AI is not a distant future โ€” itโ€™s happening right now. We are entering a new era where intelligent automation, predictive insights and personalization are becoming fundamental pillars of software delivery.

From reshaping customer experiences to transforming operational efficiency and enabling adaptive architectures, AI is expanding what SaaS platforms can achieve. But it also brings challenges: data readiness, ethical concerns and new talent expectations.

In my work and research โ€” as the author of Get SaaS Insights Before You Invest Millions and through my published contributions to IEEE โ€” Iโ€™ve seen how organizations that embrace AI-SaaS convergence early gain a lasting competitive advantage. They innovate faster, deliver more value and build products that truly evolve with their users.

The future of SaaS is not cloud-first. Itโ€™s AI-first โ€” and the leaders who understand this shift will shape the next decade of digital transformation.

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SOC 2 Compliance for SaaS: How to Win and Keep Client Trust

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The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry has seen both great expansion and notable downturns in recent years, with key market shifts redefining the landscape.As companies adapt to the shifting SaaS landscape, SOC 2 Compliance for SaaS has emerged as a key priorityโ€”not just as a checkbox for security, but as a signal of trustworthiness and a commitment to protecting customer data in an increasingly cautious market. After reaching record highs in 2021, the SaaS industry faced a major downturn in 2022, with company valuations dropping by almost 50%, according to Meritech Capital.

This downturn shook the market, creating pressures around profitability and customer retention. However, now in 2024, it is a different story. That is despite the challenges, the SaaS industry is now stabilizing, with B2B SaaS companies projected to grow at an 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and B2C SaaS at 8% for the remainder of the year according to the recent report of Paddle.

This period of cautious optimism underscores an undeniable priority for SaaS companies: client trust, particularly as clients increasingly scrutinize data security and compliance practices. Getting SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) compliance has become a critical step in building this trust, as it ensures that a companyโ€™s data handling and security protocols meet the appropriate standards.

In this guide, we will learn why SOC 2 for SaaS companies is essential and offer practical steps to achieve SOC 2 compliance for SaaS in 2024.

Why SaaS companies need SOC 2?

As a SaaS company, you are handling a vast number of customer data from personal information to financial records. Now data breaches and mishandling of those information cannot only impact your reputation but can also lead to the loss of your clientโ€™s trust. As we learned in the introduction, SOC 2 is an important step that helps you build trust and transparency that you will need to assure clients that their data is protected at every level.

By being SOC 2 compliant, you will be able to stand out in a competitive market expressing your serious concern and approach to data security. That will show also how much serious you are about data security and are willing to go the extra mile to safeguard your clientโ€™s trust.

Plus, many companies often need to comply with various regulations to operate securely on a global scale which often includes frameworks like ISO 27001, a widely recognized security standard. When comparing SOC 2 vs ISO 27001, the key difference lies in their specific scope and focus.

While SOC 2 emphasizes trust principles for data security, ISO 27001 provides a broader framework for information security management. This is also true for other regulations like GDPR or HIPAA, which may apply depending on your industry or location.

Once your SaaS company becomes SOC 2 compliant, youโ€™ll not only be able to demonstrate a proactive approach to data security but also align with broader regulatory standards. This will build trust, strengthen your reputation, and position your company as a security-focused partner in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

soc2 compliance checklist

Core Trust Principles: Building blocks of SOC 2 for SaaS

SOC 2 compliance is built around five core trust principles that serve as the frameworkโ€™s foundation. Each principle addresses a crucial aspect of data protection, making SOC 2 comprehensive and adaptable to SaaS environments:

  1. Security: Measures to protect against unauthorized access, such as firewalls, encryption, and intrusion detection.
  2. Availability: Ensuring systems are accessible to users, with safeguards against downtime and disruptions.
  3. Processing integrity: Assuring that systems process data accurately, reliably, and free from errors.
  4. Confidentiality: Protecting sensitive data from unauthorized disclosure, particularly in shared environments.
  5. Privacy: Ensuring that personal data is collected, used, retained, and disposed of in compliance with privacy regulations.

By adhering to the above principles, your SaaS organization can build a strong security foundation that meets client expectations and supports compliance.

Which type of SOC 2 report is suitable for SaaS?

  • SOC 2 Type 1: This report will assess the design of your companyโ€™s control at a specific point in time and verify whether the necessary controls are in place. If your SaaS company is just starting out with SOC 2 compliance a Type 1 report would be helpful as an ideal starting point.
  • SOC 2 Type 2: This report is generally comprehensive and goes a step further in evaluating the effectiveness of those controls over a defined time period (6 to 1 year). Type 2 report is ideal if your SaaS company is looking to demonstrate sustained adherence to security practices, a requirement often favored by enterprise-level clients and partners who prioritize reliability and consistency in security measures.

Considering both options, you should first evaluate your companyโ€™s current stage in the SOC 2 compliance journey and the needs of your clients. If youโ€™re just starting out, a SOC 2 Type 1 report is a good first step as I mentioned before, but then again if youโ€™re working with enterprise clients who require proof of ongoing security practices, a SOC 2 Type 2 report is more appropriate.

Key steps to achieve SOC 2 compliance for SaaS companies

1. Identify the relevant SOC 2 trust principles

Determine which SOC 2 trust principles apply to your business. While SaaS providers prioritize the Security principle, client requirements may require identifying and addressing other principles such as Availability or Confidentiality.

2. Conduct a readiness assessment

Perform a SOC 2 readiness assessment or gap analysis to identify gaps in your current security practices compared to SOC 2 requirements. This helps in understanding what controls need to be added or improved.

3. Establish and document security policies and procedures

Develop detailed, documented policies and procedures addressing each selected SOC 2 principle. These should cover areas like data encryption, access control, incident response, and more, and will serve as the foundation for your compliance efforts.

4. Implement required security controls

Based on the readiness assessment, implement or strengthen controls to meet SOC 2 standards. This can include access management protocols, network monitoring, secure software development practices, and continuous vulnerability assessments.

5. Train employees on SOC 2 requirements

Conduct regular training sessions to ensure employees understand their role in achieving and maintaining SOC 2 compliance. This step is crucial to prevent insider threats and maintain a high standard of security awareness.

6.Engage in ongoing monitoring and logging

Set up logging and monitoring systems to track access, detect security incidents, and provide evidence of control operation. For SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, monitoring must demonstrate consistent control effectiveness over a period (usually 3, 6 months to a year).

7.Conduct a readiness review with an auditor

Engage a SOC 2 auditor for a readiness review, which provides an informal evaluation of your current controls and identifies areas needing improvement. This step prepares you for the official audit by allowing time to address any remaining gaps.

8. Schedule and complete the SOC 2 audit

Once ready, schedule the SOC 2 audit with a certified public accounting (CPA) firm. For a Type 1 report, the audit will assess controls at a specific point in time, while a Type 2 audit will assess controls over an extended period.

9. Address findings and achieve continuous compliance

If the audit identifies areas for improvement, address them promptly. Once compliant, continue regular monitoring, updating policies, and conducting internal audits to maintain SOC 2 standards over time.

Check out this YouTube video to learn in detail about the SOC 2 requirements and practical tips to ensure a smooth audit process.

SOC2 Audit and Attestation

The Best way to get your SOC 2 ready

While securing SOC 2 compliance is definitely beneficial, the process could feel quite overwhelming. This is especially true for SaaS companies that are just starting out, due to complex regulations and security standards which could make it challenging to know where to start and what to prioritize.

Plus, SOC 2 compliance requires not only the implementation of strong security measures but also an ongoing commitment to maintaining them which could be time consuming and resource intensive. Now this is where VISTA InfoSec comes in. At VISTA InfoSec, we provide SOC 2 audit and attestation services, helping SaaS providers confidently achieve and sustain SOC 2 compliance.

Our approach to SOC 2 compliance is designed to take the stress out of the process. With us you will not only meet compliance standards but will also build a solid foundation of trust with your clients, proving your dedication to protecting their data. Contact us today to start your journey to SOC 2 compliance. You can also book a FREE 1 time consultation with our expert by filling in the โ€˜Enquire Nowโ€™ form.

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