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Webinar recap: Turning SaaS sprawl into strategic savings
Learn how to combat rising software costs and tame SaaS sprawl in this IT Brew webinar recap. Discover how the experts identify and eliminate redundant tools.
Introducing BetterCloud Platform APIs: Secure User Interactions Across All of Your Cloud Applications
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the BetterCloud Platform APIs: the only platform to monitor user interactions and remediate policy violations across all of your cloud applications. The Platform APIs extend the capabilities of our existing platform to all of the applications that power your business and add new capabilities for script creation, collaboration, and security.
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Product Tip Tuesday: How to Automatically Clean Up Empty Slack Channels
Welcome to a new series called Product Tip Tuesday, where we’ll give you a quick use case that you can apply in BetterCloud. We’ll kick things off with a customer favorite: how to automatically clean up empty public Slack channels using BetterCloud.
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What Does a Successful Security Program Look Like?
In the era of data breaches, what makes up a successful security program? BetterCloud’s Senior Security Architect Austin Whipple shares what success and failure look like in a security program. After reading this article, you’ll come away with a few ideas you can implement right away. Here’s what he’s seen work.
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A Sneak Peek at 11 IT Pros’ Desk Setups
Ever wonder how other IT pros have their desks set up? Here’s a glimpse at 11 pros’ desks and what’s on them.
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Gartner’s New Market Category: SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs)
Gartner has recognized a brand new market: SaaS management platforms (SMPs), which provide additional capabilities to fill the operational gaps left by native admin consoles. In their first-ever Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms, Gartner has identified BetterCloud as a representative vendor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On-Demand Workflows: Macros for IT (And Why Customers Love Them)
Last month, we released a heavily requested feature: On-Demand Workflows. Think of these workflows as customizable automation sequences (kind of like macros) where you can string together a collection of actions across SaaS apps and press play when you want, instead of waiting on a trigger. Here are a few of the most valuable ways you can use them.
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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.
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Requested by IT, Built for IT: 8 New BetterCloud Features
Here at BetterCloud, we’ve been working hard to answer the feature requests you’ve told us are important to you. We’re thrilled to announce eight enhancements that we released earlier this month at Altitude, our annual customer conference, in Denver.
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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.
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