What Is Zero Trust? All You Need to Know
Companies are increasingly adopting Zero Trust to secure their newly distributed workplaces. But what exactly is Zero Trust? And what do you need to implement it?
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SaaS Security: A Complete Best Practices Guide
As companies adopt more SaaS solutions to solve business challenges, the explosion of SaaS brings new benefits—but also new problems. In this post, we’ll dive into the biggest SaaS security challenges, plus best practices to help protect your organization.
What Is SaaS Management? The 2021 Guide
Learn what SaaS management is, plus best practices, top challenges, and how a SaaS management platform can help.
The Fundamentals of Role-Based Access Control
Statista reports that there were a whopping 540 data breaches in 2020. The solution for many IT teams? A slightly more nuanced approach known as role-based access control (RBAC). This is not exactly a new approach, but it enables you to grant access based on the specific needs of each user’s role and business unit. Let’s take a closer look.
10 Surprising Stats From the 2020 State of SaaSOps Report
BetterCloud recently surveyed nearly 700 IT leaders and practitioners from a wide range of company sizes and industries to learn more about the state of SaaS and SaaSOps. Here are 10 findings from the report that took many of us by surprise.
The Total Economic Impact of BetterCloud, a Study Conducted by Forrester Consulting
In this TEI (Total Economic Impact) study, Forrester Consulting interviewed BetterCloud customers and assessed the benefits of deploying the leading SaaSOps platform. The results? Time savings, cost savings, reduced risk exposure, and more. Here’s a recap of the study.
What 3 IT Leaders Learned from Their SaaSOps Journeys
With the rapid rise of remote work and accelerated adoption of SaaS, what can we learn from IT leaders who’ve already been managing and securing SaaS for years? Three IT pros share their best tips and lessons learned during their SaaSOps journeys.
The Dream of Remote Work Is Here to Stay: 3 Common IT Pitfalls to Avoid in a World of SaaS
Today, the dream of remote work has become a reality. But as SaaS apps proliferate across the org, pitfalls can multiply. We’ll walk you through three common slippery slopes for IT in a remote-first world.
SaaSOps and the Path Forward for IT (Live Session Recap)
Companies are hitting digital transformation at warp speed (and will most likely stay there!). So how are IT strategies changing? And what does the path forward look like?
The Tough Conversation: How to Furlough Users (and Re-Onboard Them Later)
Offboarding is a tough conversation to have right now. We know. No one wants to talk about it. But it’s IT’s responsibility to do it completely and securely for every user across every SaaS application, with an audit trail to prove it. In this post, we’ll focus specifically on how BetterCloud can create a streamlined offboarding workflow for furloughed employees.
SaaSOps: A Practice to Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps (Oktane20 Live Session Recap)
BetterCloud Founder and CEO David Politis presented a breakout session during Oktane20 Live, Okta’s virtual identity conference. The session, “SaaSOps: A Practice to Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps,” which was presented on April 2, focused on the evolution of SaaSOps and the main pillars of the practice, and included a customer panel. If you missed it, here’s a recap.
IT Community Discussion Recap: IT Leaders Share How They’re Successfully Enabling Remote Workforces
As fully remote workforces become the new normal, IT is facing new unexpected challenges. How do you empower end users to be productive (and secure)? How do you keep everybody updated? And logistically, how do you provide physical laptop inventory to remote workers? We recently pulled the IT community together to discuss all of this—and more.
2020 SaaSOps Buyer’s Guide: How to Choose the Right SaaSOps Solution for Your Organization
As the leader in SaaSOps, we created the 2020 SaaSOps Buyer’s Guide to help you understand how a SaaSOps tool is the perfect complement to your new environment and what to consider when purchasing a SaaSOps solution. This guide also helps you better understand the value a SaaSOps solution adds to your current technology stack and how to build a business case for a solution.
Transforming Teams to Lead with SaaS: Insights from Gartner
Many of the existing ways of managing IT are no longer applicable to environments dominated by SaaS. Gartner analysts recently released a new report describing how Infrastructure and Operations leaders must transform the roles and skills of IT teams as they shift to SaaS. We found that Gartner’s insights validate many of the components of BetterCloud’s SaaSOps framework.