How SaaS Management Platforms Reduce Security Risk
Learn about the hidden security risks of SaaS, how SaaS management platforms reduce them, and how the best SaaS platforms help maximize security and compliance.
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How SaaS Management Platforms Save Time and Money
With constrained IT budgets in 2021, how do you improve resource use? Here’s where a SaaS management platform (SMP) shines. Learn how SMPs deliver time and money savings.
What Is a SaaS Management Platform?
What is a SaaS management platform (SMP), and what exactly does it do? Why do you need one? We cover everything you need to know about SMPs.
How to Think About Integrations in SaaS Management Platforms
As IT and security teams look to add to their SaaS operations (SaaSOps) stack, it’s important to understand the key role of integrations in SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs), particularly pre-built ones. Here’s what you need to know.
The Hidden Risks of SaaS
Your SaaS environment grows as each well-meaning employee adds another perfect, productivity-boosting SaaS application. But all too often, that new app ends up introducing enormous and unnecessary risks to your company’s SaaS environment. Here are the hidden risks of SaaS that can impact every IT organization.
The 2021 SaaS Sprawl Management Checklist
It’s good practice for every organization that relies on SaaS to take inventory periodically. Without knowing and monitoring for potential SaaS app account creep, your SaaS environment becomes a risky, expensive and unmanageable clutter. Without actively managing them, the dangers mount. But what can you do?
The Importance of Limiting the Risk of Unauthorized SaaS Applications
It’s clear that shadow IT and SaaS sprawl is bigger than any IT administrator is currently aware of. That’s why it’s critical to look at hidden risks of unauthorized SaaS apps, and how to limit risk to remain in compliance with security policies. Here’s how you can get started.
Insight Alert #4: Winning on Employee Experience With New Hire IT Onboarding
In prior Insight Alerts, we discussed trends in SaaS usage, visibility in the SaaS environment, and how CASB users differ from SaaSOps users. In this last Insight Alert based on our 2020 State of SaaSOps report survey data, we explore IT onboarding trends and how SaaS management and SaaSOps platforms make a difference.
Insight Alert #3: Why It’s Essential to Have Full App Visibility
Last week’s Insight Alert compared SaaSOps users and CASB users. And the week before that, we explored SaaS usage trends published in our 2020 State of SaaSOps report. In this third Insight Alert of the series, we explore what the State of SaaSOps survey data says about how enterprises have (or don’t have) full app visibility to discover all SaaS apps used throughout the organization.
Insight Alert #2: What Are CASBs and How Do Their Users Compare to SaaSOps Users?
In last week’s Insight Alert, we explored SaaS usage trends published in our 2020 State of SaaSOps report, as well as some new insights not included in the report. This week, we get answers to a question we frequently hear from prospects and customers: How is a SaaSOps platform different from a cloud access security broker (CASB)?