A User Account Lifecycle Management Cheat Sheet
User lifecycle management (ULM) begins when a candidate accepts a job offer and continues until that employee leaves the company, covering four key stages—onboarding, role-based provisioning and permission updates, active account management, and secure offboarding. Key Takeaways For HR and IT departments, this means creating user credentials and connecting new employees to cloud resources. COVID […]
Cloud Managed Services Market Research Report – Global Forecast to 2027
The worldwide cloud managed services market size is projected to arrive at USD 129.26 billion by 2027, showing a CAGR of 13.8% during the gauge time frame. Distant working patterns set off by the COVID-19 pandemic will quickly extend the extent of this market, notices Fortune Business Insights™ in its report, named “Cloud Managed Services […]
Video blog | Augmentt talks SaaS Security with Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
In today’s interview Derik Belair and Co-Founder and CEO of Augment Technologies sits down with Gennady Soloviev, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to discuss what does all of this SaaS usage and SaaS adoption mean from a security and a CISO perspective. Why is understanding and controlling SaaS usage so important? Video Transcript Q: […]
Video blog | Build Your Managed SaaSOps Practice in 7 Easy Steps
We all know that IT is moving to the cloud at an incredible rate, and that 85% of businesses are leveraging SaaS to improve employee and corporate performance. Most MSPs are doing a fantastic job at monitoring, securing and administrating all of that traditional IT, but what about the modern IT? All of those SaaS applications that are being […]
SaaS Trends Infographic
According to Gartner, worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 18.4% in 2021 to total $304.9 billion, up from $257.5 billion in 2020, with software as a service (SaaS) remaining the largest market segment and is forecast to grow to $117.7 billion in 2021. SaaS adoption is rampant with about 85% of small to midsize enterprises investing […]
Get Cybersecurity Right From an Employee’s First Day
Cyberattacks are an ever-present danger for organizations across the world. Take just a quick glance at recent news stories and you’ll see that attacks are happening all the time. So it’s not merely likely that an organization will be targeted. It’s inevitable–especially as companies hold larger amounts of potentially lucrative data. It means that the […]
The Importance of SaaS User Permission Management
SaaS apps are more important than ever. By extension, that means SaaS and MSPs’ fates are intertwined. Even before the arrival of COVID-19, SaaS was increasingly favoured due to the steady rise in the subscription-based economy. It’s evident in the fact that companies now spend an average of $2,884 per employee on SaaS (more than […]
Three of the Most Common Employee Offboarding Mistakes
There’s a famous phrase you’ve probably heard before: to err is human. Those words sum up why your security posture needs to focus on human actions–or the absence of them. When seen from this lens, cybersecurity becomes about much more than cleaning up after mistakes. It’s about proactively putting into place measures to prevent the […]
Why Shadow IT Could Create Major Issues for MSPs
The COVID-19 global pandemic is upending business operations around the world. The sudden and swift shift of millions of workers from on-site to remote work environments challenged and continues to challenge organizations as never before. In the rush to virtually connect remote workers to the workplace, however, employers and MSPs may have overlooked security — […]
How to Ensure Your SaaS Apps are Secure
Businesses are constantly faced with the task of balancing the advantages of productivity gains and lower costs against significant compliance and security concerns as they move their data and applications to SaaS apps. It’s clear which way the pendulum has swung. TechCrunch reported that the COVID-19 crisis has caused a surge in SaaS sales. For […]