In this contributed article, Tal Shapira, Ph.D., co-founder and chief scientist at Reco, discusses the need for self-supervised learning to combat the growing attack surface that SaaS-based applications have opened up for organizations. SaaS tools and applications have revolutionized the workplace in many ways – and we certainly don’t want to put an end to that. But organizations must think carefully about the security implications of these apps and the sensitive data that’s being shared within and across them. In his piece, Tal explains that an approach based on self-supervised learning can help improve an organization’s security posture by providing a more agile and context-aware approach to security.