Authored by Frank Dickson, Group Vice President, Security and Trust at IDC, this report provides a high level overview of the Software as a Service (SaaS) security market, and the shift in both market and vendor consolidation. The growth of SaaS applications, the increasing demand to integrate SaaS applications for unified security and control, and the issue of APIs have created demand in the market for a single service offering that integrates and manages disparate SaaS applications. The report provides considerations and recommendations in assessing SaaS Security platform providers.