SaaS intrusion trends and logging visibility with Julie Agnes Sparks

LimaCharlie

Nov 6, 2025

Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as we explore the critical challenges of SaaS security logging and detection engineering with Julie Agnes Sparks, Security Engineer at Datadog.

At Defender Fridays, we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

In this episode, Julie shares hard-won insights on the state of SaaS security logging and why organizations struggle to detect and respond to breaches in critical applications like Salesforce, Zendesk, GitHub, and GitLab. With recent high-profile SaaS breaches on the rise, this conversation is essential for any security team relying on cloud applications.

Key Topics:

Why SaaS audit logging is fundamentally broken and how vendors deprioritize security visibility
The pay-to-play problem: How enterprise logging features can cost $10K+ and still leave gaps
Emerging attack trends targeting critical SaaS applications (Salesforce, Zendesk, Discord, GitHub)
Practical detection engineering strategies when you're stuck with terrible logs
How AI can help (and where it falls short) in threat hunting and alert triage

Connect with Julie:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-a-sparks/

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