Security
The Top 4 Threats Posed by Improper Offboarding (and How to Overcome Them)
Whether it’s an ex-employee stealing company data, compliance violations, excessive costs, or productivity loss, improper offboarding threatens organizations of all sizes and in all industries. Thankfully, IT experts have developed best practices over the years to identify and eliminate those threats before they occur.
How First Round Capital Orchestrates Employee Offboarding for Immediate Data Security and Precision
BetterCloud, combined with Okta, helps VC firm First Round Capital orchestrate around 90% of the employee offboarding process. With more than $700mm under management, data simply cannot be publicly exposed and offboarding must happen almost immediately. Here’s how Ryan Donnon, IT and data manager at First Round Capital, ensures data security across multiple SaaS applications during offboarding in “thirty seconds.”
3 Reasons Modern Day Offboarding is Getting More Complex
When was the last time you took an honest look at your offboarding process? With data sprawl out of control, an ever increasing number of SaaS applications, and a workforce that’s quick to move on to the next gig, offboarding has become an organizational nightmare.
Notification vs. Remediation: Will the GDPR Transform Data Breach Response?
If you think the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) doesn’t affect you, think again. The regulation will impact operations for companies all around the world. However, it’s not all bad. There is a silver lining for IT.
Stop Acting Recklessly. Why You Need a Policy-Driven Approach to Multi-SaaS Automation.
To manage a multi-SaaS environment, IT turns to what they know best: automation. But not all automation is created equal. With compliance and government regulations becoming a bigger issue each day, ad hoc scripts and end-user automation tools will no longer cut it.
The Cost of Complacency: Why You Need a Comprehensive Data Loss Prevention Strategy
The average data breach costs $4 million. That’s the cost of complacency. But it won’t happen to you, right?
How the Retail Industry Learned the Hard Way: Finding Success in the Battle Against Phishing Attacks
Target, Home Depot, and Tesco have all fallen prey to massive data breaches. What can we learn from these incidents? It all starts with changing your approach to security training. By focusing on behaviors instead of awareness, you can implement security training that’ll drastically reduce the chances of being the next data breach headline.
Here's Our Take: 7 Major Takeaways from Google Cloud Next '17
Google Cloud Next ’17 offered a window into some of the brightest minds in tech, but what does it all mean for your organization?
We Let 300 IT Professionals Ask Our Cloud Security Expert Any Question They Wanted, These Were the Best
Here’s what members of our new Slack community, BetterIT, asked during our first-ever security AMA. BetterIT is a community for leading IT professionals to share ideas, discuss best practices, and talk about the solutions they use every day.
Onboarding Isn’t Just Provisioning: Are You Leaving Out This Vital Step?
So you’ve provisioned your new user in Google Apps, set him up with a shiny new account, and added him to the right groups and OU. Think your onboarding job is done? Not so fast. To really set up your users for success, there’s one more step you should take.
