
And How Envizage’s On-Premises Approach Fixes It
JPMorgan Chase’s open letter to third party suppliers sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity world, declaring traditional SaaS security approaches fundamentally inadequate and demanding immediate, systematic change. Their message is clear: distributed SaaS environments with retrofitted security are unsustainable for organizations handling sensitive data.
While the industry scrambles to build increasingly complex tools to manage these risks, Envizage eliminates the risks entirely through intelligent architecture.
The SaaS Security Crisis: What’s Really Broken?
The problems JPMorgan highlighted aren’t edge cases—they’re systemic failures affecting every SaaS-reliant organization:
Authentication and Access Control Failures
Authentication Sprawl: Users bypass corporate identity systems, create shadow accounts, and disable security features for convenience. Even when MFA is available, it’s often optional.
Orphaned Access: When employees leave, primary accounts get deactivated, but dozens of disconnected SaaS accounts remain active, creating persistent risks.
Integration Vulnerabilities
OAuth Backdoors: The Microsoft Midnight Blizzard attack showed how over-permissive OAuth grants create attack pathways, often invisible to security teams.
Operational Blind Spots
Monitoring Blind Spots: Point-in-time assessments are useless when new apps and accounts appear daily. Traditional tools miss the pace of modern SaaS adoption.
The industry’s response? Build more monitoring tools, create governance frameworks for scattered applications, and accept a “shared responsibility” model with inherent risks.
Envizage’s Architectural Solution: How We Eliminate SaaS Risks
Instead of managing distributed risks, Envizage eliminates them through architectural design:
Security-First Development: Security isn’t added to our product—it IS our architecture. Our initial phased deployment ensures zero customer data exposure during implementation.
True Identity Integration: We integrate directly with your bank’s existing identity infrastructure. No shadow accounts possible—all access managed through your authoritative systems.
Full data ownership: Typically our clients don’t use our solution as a SaaS, but it is integrated on premises giving the client full ownership and management of the data. As a result our service is usually not exposed externally.
Complete Monitoring Control: Banks maintain visibility through existing systems. Our platform generates logs and events that feed directly into your established monitoring infrastructure—no blind spots, no external dependencies.
Authoritative Identity Management: Your existing HR and identity systems remain the single source of truth. When employees are deprovisioned in your systems, access to Envizage is automatically terminated through your existing processes.
The Paradigm Shift: Elimination Over Management
Traditional Approach | Envizage’s Approach |
Complex monitoring tools, governance frameworks for scattered applications, attempting to secure distributed environments. | Eliminate external data exposure, maintain existing security controls, keep sensitive data within established perimeters. |
Our Proven Delivery Model: A phased approach
Phase 1: Initial SaaS Runway Phase – Rapid deployment with fixed-fee pricing (build + license + hosting included)
Phase 2: Zero Data Exposure – No customer PII processed during initial phase. We use synthetic test data for configuration.
Phase 3: Seamless Migration – Transition to your cloud infrastructure ensures complete data sovereignty
Phase 4: Omnichannel Architecture – Data accessed through configurable visibility rules within your existing infrastructure—never transferred or copied externally.
This offers risk-free evaluation aligned with bank infrastructure cycles while delivering immediate value.
Strategic Impact
For banks: No compromise between innovation and security. Regulatory compliance through architecture, operational simplicity through familiar environments.
For the industry: Demonstrating “shared responsibility” isn’t inevitable, providing viable alternatives to complex SaaS security management.
The Bottom Line
While the industry debates managing broken SaaS security models, Envizage eliminates that need entirely. We’ve architected our solution around the principle that customer data must never leave your security perimeter.
Customer data sovereignty isn’t negotiable, and security through architecture is superior to security through retrofitting. The systematic change JPMorgan demands doesn’t require better tools to manage distributed risks—it requires better architecture that eliminates those risks entirely.
Envizage delivers the systematic data security paradigm the industry demands. If this sounds relevant to you and your organisation, let’s talk: contact-us@envizage.me