New automation capabilities help keep IT in control of SaaS
Business IT is undergoing a major shift as many organizations get closer to adopting a fully cloud-based approach. But this means that IT departments inevitably give up some degree of control over data governance, security and overall data management.
Security automation specialist BetterCloud is launching a new automation engine called Workflows that orchestrates critical, complex processes to ensure accuracy, precision, and compliance across SaaS applications.
The first solutions available on Workflows are User Onboarding, User Offboarding, and User Lifecycle Management. These automate the provisioning, deprovisioning and user access within Google for Work applications, giving IT greater control over data, costs and time in the cloud-first workplace.
"The proliferation of SaaS applications is enabling collaboration and productivity that's fueling the rise of the modern workplace, but for IT to achieve the level of control offered by onpremises environments, they need security and management solutions purpose-built for SaaS," says David Politis, CEO of BetterCloud. "Workflows is the latest step forward in BetterCloud’s mission to put IT in control of this new modern workplace. With full control over a SaaS application environment, IT can focus on more strategic work that drives their organization's growth".
Capabilities on offer include triggering a dynamic offboarding process when an employee leaves that removes primary and secondary calendar events, deletes 2-step verification backup codes, app-specific passwords and email aliases, delegates their inbox, revokes access to third-party applications and ultimately suspends their account.
Workflows can also transfer former employees' files to a manager, or service account managed by IT, as well as transferring all groups owned by a former employee to a service account managed by IT so they aren't orphaned.
It can automate settings and access changes based on organizational unit membership, such as group membership and calendar sharing permissions. In addition Workflows allows quick action to minimize the exposure of compromised accounts by resetting a user’s password, deleting 2-step verification backup codes and app-specific passwords, and invalidating 3rd-party application OAuth tokens, all within seconds.
Workflows is available now and you can find more information on the BetterCloud website.
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