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  • BetterCloud Report Reveals Operational Complexity and Risk Concerns as Organizations Reach Tipping Point in SaaS Adoption

    Responses from nearly 700 IT leaders and practitioners confirm organizations are embracing SaaSOps as a proven framework for their SaaS challenges

    NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — BetterCloud, the leading SaaSOps platform for managing and securing the digital workplace, today released its first SaaSOps report: “2020 State of SaaSOps.” Among its many significant findings, the report found that a rise in SaaS adoption is prompting concerns over operational complexity and risk.

    Since 2015, the number of IT-sanctioned SaaS apps has increased tenfold, and it’s expected that by 2025, 85 percent of business apps will be SaaS-based. With SaaS on the rise, nearly half (49 percent) of respondents are confident in their ability to identify and monitor unsanctioned SaaS usage on company networks—yet more than three-quarters (76 percent) see unsanctioned apps as a security risk. And when asked what SaaS applications are likely to hold the most sensitive data across an organization, respondents believe it’s all apps including cloud storage, email, devices, chat apps, password managers, etc.

    Respondents also highlighted slow, manual management tasks as a prime concern when managing SaaS environments. IT organizations spend over 7 hours offboarding a single employee from a company’s SaaS apps, which takes time and energy from more strategic projects.

    “In the earlier part of the year, organizations around the world were faced with powering their entire workforces from home and turned to SaaS to make the shift with as little disruption to productivity as possible,” said David Politis, CEO, BetterCloud. “Up until this point, most companies were adopting a cloud-first approach for their IT infrastructure — that strategy has now shifted to cloud only. But SaaS growth at this scale has also brought about challenges as our 2020 State of SaaSOps report clearly outlines. The findings also show increased confidence and reliance on SaaSOps as the path forward to reigning in SaaS management and security.”

    Click here to download the report.

    Among the key findings:

    • On average, organizations use 80 SaaS apps today. This is a 5x increase in just three years and a 10x increase since 2015.
    • The top two motivators for using more SaaS apps are increasing productivity and reducing costs.
    • Only 49 percent of IT professionals inspire confidence in their ability to identify and monitor unsanctioned SaaS usage on company networks—yet more than three-quarters (76 percent) see unsanctioned apps as a security risk.
    • The top five places where sensitive data lives are: 1. Files stored in cloud storage, 2. Email, 3. Devices, 4. Chat apps, and 5. Password managers. But because SaaS apps have become the system of record, sensitive data inevitably lives everywhere in your SaaS environment.
    • The top two security concerns are sensitive files shared publicly and former employees retaining data access.
    • IT teams spend an average of 7.12 hours offboarding a single employee from a company’s SaaS apps.
    • Thirty percent of respondents already use the term “SaaSOps” in their job title or plan to include it soon.

    For the report, BetterCloud surveyed nearly 700 IT leaders and security professionals from the world’s leading enterprise organizations. These individuals ranged in seniority from C-level executives to front-line practitioners and included both IT and security department roles. The respondents’ companies represented a wide range of company sizes and industries—most were established businesses with significant experience using SaaS apps. Almost all of those surveyed use either G Suite or Office 365 as their primary cloud productivity suite.

    To learn more about the growing SaaSOps market and how to prepare, download the full report from the BetterCloud website.

    About BetterCloud
    BetterCloud is the leading SaaSOps platform that enables IT professionals to discover, manage and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications in the digital workplace. Thousands of forward-thinking organizations like Zoom, Walmart, and Square now rely on BetterCloud to automate processes and policies across their cloud application portfolio. A pioneer of the SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud has built a community of more than 45K IT professionals who are embracing the new role of SaaSOps within IT organizations.

    BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with offices in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA.  The company’s total amount raised to date is $187 million. Investors include Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Greycroft Partners. For more information, please visit www.bettercloud.com.

    SOURCE BetterCloud

  • Bettercloud And Onelogin Partner To Transform How Enterprises Access, Manage And Secure Saas Environments

    Integration drives operational efficiency by automating end-to-end User Lifecycle Management, from securing identity and access to managing IT administrative tasks 

    NEW YORK, MAY 5, 2020 — BetterCloud, the leading SaaSOps platform for managing and securing the digital workplace, today announced a strategic partnership and technology integration with OneLogin, a leader in identity and access management. Together, BetterCloud and OneLogin automate end-to-end User Lifecycle Management (ULM), from identity and access workflows — like user provisioning, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication (MFA) — to operational management and security tasks such as advanced onboarding / offboarding, activity-based alerts, and content scanning.

    “Given the majority of companies have gone fully remote due to the current climate, it’s more important than ever that IT gain full control over their SaaS environments — and our partnership gives them the capabilities to do just that,” said Shreyas Sadalgi, Chief Business Strategy Officer, BetterCloud. “OneLogin authenticates user identity and secures user connections to SaaS applications; BetterCloud manages and secures user data and interactions within those same applications. Together, we maximize operational efficiency for joint customers, and give them the confidence and peace of mind to enable their workforces without compromising data and user security.”

    Through the strategic integration of the complementary platforms, BetterCloud and OneLogin help IT admins address the following use cases:

    • Advanced Onboarding and Offboarding: BetterCloud and OneLogin work together seamlessly to fully automate end-to-end user onboarding and offboarding. As the unified cloud directory, OneLogin performs the initial identity actions such as provisioning user accounts and assigning the appropriate access permissions and security policies to end users. BetterCloud workflows monitor changes being made in OneLogin and perform a wide range of advanced onboarding and offboarding administrative actions natively within specific SaaS applications. By leveraging BetterCloud and OneLogin, organizations can ensure that users automatically have the correct level of access and permissions to applications, data, groups, files and other in-app configurations throughout their lifecycle.
    • Mid-Lifecycle Management: With BetterCloud and OneLogin, IT teams can easily update user access rights and automate IT processes around cross-boarding, such as when an employee changes roles or is promoted at the company. OneLogin updates user access permissions, applications (within their login portal), and security policies based on the employee’s new role in real-time. BetterCloud completes the cycle by automating the workflows for executing ongoing changes within applications for all users. Together, the joint solution dramatically reduces time spent on managing individual accounts and minimizes risk of misconfiguration errors.
    • Enhanced Security & Data Protection: BetterCloud and OneLogin work together to implement a least privilege access model by granting users the minimum amount of permissions needed to complete a task, ensuring the security of users and their actions at both a macro and granular level. OneLogin provides comprehensive and centralized reporting for all user management and authentication events. BetterCloud leverages identity context from OneLogin, and data from specific SaaS applications, to provide IT teams with greater visibility into user behavior and data management across their users. BetterCloud also enables IT teams to protect their company data from the risk of insider threats, both malicious and negligent, by monitoring and enforcing policies across files, users and groups, as well as scanning for sensitive content.

    “Bringing together OneLogin’s Trusted Experience Platform with BetterCloud’s SaaSOps solutions is a powerful partnership that will continue to transform the ways companies manage and secure their environments,” said Matt Hurley, VP of Global Channels, Strategic Alliances, and Professional Services, OneLogin. “BetterCloud’s technology automates daily IT admin tasks while securing and monitoring user data and interactions, and joining forces will let us provide greater IT operational efficiency for organizations.

    Dozens of joint BetterCloud and OneLogin customers are the first to benefit from the new partnership and integration:

    “Both BetterCloud and OneLogin have been indispensable to helping our IT team keep our employees productive, while protecting our critical business data,” said Shams Mansoor, Sr. Manager of IT, Evernote. “Now that they’re partnering, we will be able to streamline IT administrative tasks to boost operational efficiency.”

    “Managing user permissions, privileges and activity used to be a Herculean task,” said Sarah Bly, Head of IT Operations, N3TWORK Inc. “Today, OneLogin helps us control who is trying to access our systems, while BetterCloud automates all IT admin activities and lets us see exactly how our employees are handling files and other pieces of important business data. Together, they are a powerhouse and provide a must-have solution for any company running their business on SaaS.”

    BetterCloud and OneLogin have established a close go-to-market partnership and structured partnership program, enabling their respective teams to cross-sell their best-in-class solutions to provide greater value to joint customers.

    For more information, please visit the BetterCloud and OneLogin partnership resource pages.