handling sensitive data once it moves from SaaS apps into databases?
in many environments, data constantly flows from SaaS platforms like Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, and similar tools into internal databases, warehouses, or BI pipelines through exports, integrations, and automated syncs. The difficult part seems to be understanding whether the original access and sharing permissions around that data were already too broad before ingestion even happened.
What makes this especially messy is that SaaS permissions tend to change gradually over time. External collaborators get added temporarily, links remain active longer than expected, and inherited access quietly expands visibility without anyone intentionally creating a security issue.