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The hidden costs of insecure file sharing: A horror story
IT horror stories happen year-round. Protect your organization from data breaches with smart file sharing security.
Letter to Customers: Serving the IT Community During COVID-19
As the COVID-19 outbreak unfolds, and companies are finding themselves thrust into a distributed workforce, IT is at the forefront of enabling this “new normal.” And we want you to know: we’re here for you. Lean on us. We’ve been through a lot together, and that’s not about to change. We’d like to help.
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Enabling Remote Work? BetterCloud Can Help
We’re seeing an unprecedented shift to remote work, which brings new challenges for IT. Here are a few easy ways BetterCloud can help IT enable remote work, so you can keep your employees productive and secure. We hope these tips can help you build a successful, secure remote work culture that withstands crises and beyond.
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Announcing Content Scanning: File Security Your Users Will Love
Here at BetterCloud, we fundamentally believe that enabling productivity should not be at odds with securing your organization’s most sensitive data. And starting today, they don’t have to be. We are proud to announce the release of Content Scanning. BetterCloud’s Content Scanning bolsters your data protection strategy and gives IT teams the power to secure files and sensitive information across SaaS applications, without inhibiting employee productivity.
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Transforming Teams to Lead with SaaS: Insights from Gartner
Many of the existing ways of managing IT are no longer applicable to environments dominated by SaaS. Gartner analysts recently released a new report describing how Infrastructure and Operations leaders must transform the roles and skills of IT teams as they shift to SaaS. We found that Gartner’s insights validate many of the components of BetterCloud’s SaaSOps framework.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Expire Public Links in Dropbox by Using BetterCloud Workflows
SaaS apps are known for making the workplace more collaborative; file sharing is one of the SaaS features that makes this seamless collaboration, both internally and externally, possible. But what happens when you share a link with a person that you don’t want to have indefinite access to the information? BetterCloud gives you the ability to build a backstop to this problem using a simple workflow.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Run a File Audit to Find Exposed Sensitive Information
At the end of January, BetterCloud released File Audits for G Suite, Box, Dropbox, and Slack. This new feature will help you mitigate risks by scanning for sensitive content in existing files that live in your SaaS environment. Check out our article to learn about how you can use File Audits to improve your SaaS environment.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Level Up Your Onboarding Workflow with These New Salesforce Actions
Last week, BetterCloud released 19 new Salesforce actions to help you automate the tasks that Salesforce administrators are concerned about. In this product tip, we show you how to create an onboarding workflow that incorporates some of these new actions.
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CCPA Regulations: What IT Professionals Need to Know
CCPA became effective January 1 of this year, but do you understand what this new privacy law means and how it applies to your IT job? If you’re unsure about CCPA, or just want to double check that you’ve checked all the boxes, you’ll want to check out this piece by Data Privacy Advisor Jodi Daniels.
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The IT Leader’s Glossary for SaaS Operations
Getting a handle on SaaSOps? Looking to become a SaaSOps Star? This glossary is the place to deepen your understanding of the basic components of SaaSOps. Learn all the terms, phrases, and acronyms that you need to know as a SaaSOps professional.
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Start Protecting Data with This 3-Step SaaSOps Action Plan
How do you manage and secure tens of millions of interactions in the digital workplace? Start protecting your SaaS data with this SaaSOps action plan.
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How Risky Is an Interaction? Here’s How to Tell (and Level Up Your SaaSOps Security)
Some interactions in the digital workplace are far riskier or more important than others. But how do you know which ones really matter to you? Here are 13 things to think about when classifying interactions.
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SaaSOps Security: See How Easily Interactions Sprawl Out of Control
See for yourself why two core tenets of SaaSOps—file security and least privilege—are notoriously tough to tackle.
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