Security
4 insider threats that should keep you up at night
Learn about four of the most common, and most insidious, types of insider threats that you should be on the lookout for in your SaaS environment.
How to keep institutional knowledge from walking out the door
As boomers retire, companies risk losing critical institutional knowledge. Learn how to smoothly transfer this expertise before it walks out the door.
6 things you should look for when selecting a secure SaaS vendor
Selecting the right SaaS vendors can prove instrumental in propelling your organization to the next level. However, that’s only one piece of the puzzle. You also need to select vendors with the right security measures in place. This is especially true if you are giving them access to other SaaS applications that are critical to your organization or process sensitive information. But how do you know if a SaaS vendor is secure? We sat down with BetterCloud’s Security Compliance Director Mosi Platt to find out.
The essential steps, tools, and technologies for achieving a zero trust security model in your SaaS environment
It’s time to get tactical. In the third and final part of our blog series, we discuss the necessary tools and technologies to implement a Zero Trust security model in your SaaS environment.
Rolling out a zero trust security model? Here’s what you need to think about
In part two of our blog series, we discuss 12 best practices when implementing a Zero Trust security model for effective SaaS management.
Taming SaaS security challenges with the zero trust security Model
Today, the new reality is that network-based security is no longer adequate. Companies need to invest in a new security architecture to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio. Enter: Zero Trust. Part one of our blog series explores why a new security framework is essential right now.
Paranormal (User) Activity: 4 Terrifying IT Stories on Insider Threats
For IT and security professionals, spooky season can feel like a year-round experience. Research shows that insider threats — specifically, those caused by end users — are keeping folks up at night. At BetterCloud, we’re seeing insider threats take shape in a variety of surprising forms. Here are four frightening tales from implementation sessions with new customers where we uncovered both malicious and negligent employees jeopardizing confidential business information.
Activity-based alerts: Giving IT more granularity and control
You spoke, we listened. At our annual customer conference last year, the number one feature you requested was activity-based alerts. These are alerts for things like suspicious user logins or the downloading of confidential files. So we built it. So far we’ve released alerts for Okta, Dropbox, and G Suite, with more on the way for Box, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Activity-based alerts are the next frontier for companies securing mission critical SaaS apps. Here’s how they give IT more control and insights than ever before.
Here’s What We Found in One Customer’s SaaS Environment That Caused Their IT Director to Say “Nooooo”
The widespread adoption of SaaS apps is creating new risks and ways to expose data. Unbeknownst to IT, these blind spots lie undiscovered below the surface, waiting like a dormant volcano to erupt. Over the last few months at BetterCloud, we’ve uncovered major blind spots during dozens of implementation meetings with new customers, and what we found in their SaaS environments stunned many IT teams. Here’s what we discovered.
The 6 essential elements of a successful SaaS management strategy
In recent years, SaaS adoption has been like the Wild West: a somewhat chaotic “free-for-all” frontier with lots of unknowns. After interviewing, surveying, and talking to thousands of modern IT professionals over the last few years, we’ve identified six elements that are integral to successful SaaS management. Here’s a holistic strategy that will set you up for IT success.
