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SAAS-STACK-HYGIENE5 MIN READ

From Sprawl to Owned Inventory

Explain the difference between a raw SaaS list and an accountable SaaS inventory.

Same SaaS environment, two audit states. What changed? Before: a list of apps, but weak accountability. After: an owned inventory with review fields. Owner added: every app has a named business owner, so review questions route to someone accountable instead of dying in a shared mailbox. Data class added: apps touching customer, employee, or financial data rise above low-risk internal tools during triage. Access model added: SSO, MFA, admin count, and guest access become visible enough to support least-privilege reviews. Next action added: approve, contain, retire, or renew turns the inventory into a workflow, not a static export. The inventory…

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