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You have enough to deal with when it comes to critical day-to-day operations. Onboarding and offboarding employees and contractors, maintaining networks and shared resources, troubleshooting end user technical issues, combatting security threats… the list goes on and on. So long as you have visibility into the issues at hand, and the tools to react and respond to them, there isn’t much that can keep a well-organized team down.
Unless of course, IT is happening in the shadows.
It may sound like a bad horror movie, but shadow IT is a real phenomenon that happens for (mostly) the right reasons; employees seek solutions that help them be more productive, more efficient, and more reliable. The problem is that they seek out these solutions without IT’s oversight and governance. Since modern shadow IT is largely made up of SaaS applications that exist outside of IT’s organizational boundaries, this can lead to operational inefficiencies, bloated costs, and unknown security vulnerabilities.
To help you and your organization get a better handle on the unsanctioned (and sanctioned) use of SaaS applications across your fleet, JumpCloud is announcing the general availability (GA) of JumpCloud SaaS Management.
This release empowers IT admins to uncover all SaaS applications used on managed devices so you know exactly what is being used and by whom. JumpCloud SaaS Management helps to efficiently manage SaaS sprawl, prevent shadow IT, increase SSO coverage, and reduce SaaS costs, ensuring a secure, compliant, and optimized SaaS usage across your organization.
Why JumpCloud SaaS Management
Organizations today struggle to manage SaaS applications used across different departments. With the ease of adoption for SaaS tools, the number can easily spiral out of control, causing SaaS sprawl and potential security gaps. Unknown or unauthorized SaaS apps, often referred to as shadow IT, can bypass security policies and lead to security risks, compliance violations, and unnecessary spending.
For small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the managed service providers (MSPs) that serve them, these challenges are even more prominent. Limited resources make it difficult to implement and maintain SaaS management practices. SMEs and MSPs often lack the dedicated IT staff and tools needed to track and manage multiple SaaS applications effectively, leading to data exposure, loss of intellectual property, and difficulty in meeting regulatory requirements.
While some MSPs use various solutions to manage these risks, such as firewall or router reporting, these methods are less effective with the shift to hybrid and remote work. JumpCloud helps capture SaaS usage information in near real time and share it with clients.
JumpCloud’s SaaS Management solution empowers IT teams to efficiently secure and manage SaaS applications across their organization. Organizations can leverage JumpCloud to simplify SaaS application discovery, prevent shadow IT, increase SSO coverage expansion, and achieve compliance mandates all from a single, comprehensive, unified platform.
Key Benefits of SaaS Management
Gain Visibility and Control
With JumpCloud’s SaaS discovery and monitoring capabilities, you can achieve the optimal balance between security and productivity for your workforce.
You have complete visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned applications, including SSO logins, to help take control of data sprawl across your organization, letting IT admins change the old-fashioned, manual SaaS tracking methods with a precise automated one.
Optimize SaaS Costs
JumpCloud makes it easy for IT admins to detect unauthorized and underutilized SaaS applications.
Consolidate and track licenses to negotiate better terms, explore usage trends, reallocate resources, and reduce unnecessary expenditures, ensuring that every SaaS application aligns with organizational goals and budget.
Secure SaaS Access & Usage
Ensure a smooth and secure work experience for your employees without interrupting their work.
IT admins can automatically warn users when they visit an unapproved SaaS domain or block access to those altogether and offer secure alternatives instead. Users can enjoy secure, frictionless access to authorized SaaS tools.
Key Capabilities
| Discover Shadow IT | Admins identify and track SaaS applications and accounts through the JumpCloud browser extension. |
| Block Access to Unauthorized Apps | Admins prevent access to unauthorized applications that are not approved by IT and suggest alternatives. Mitigate security and compliance risks by displaying warnings and policies that guide employees to take appropriate actions. |
| Increase SSO Coverage | Admins determine which applications are already integrated with JumpCloud SSO and identify additional apps that can be connected to enhance secure SSO access. |
| Track SaaS Usage | Admins monitor usage of SaaS applications and report on employee engagement to minimize unnecessary spending on applications that are not actively utilized. |
Get Started with JumpCloud SaaS Management Today
Existing JumpCloud customers and MSP partners can start using JumpCloud SaaS Management capabilities today at no additional cost, with extended capabilities for Platform Prime.
If you are new to JumpCloud, feel free to sign up for a free trial to experience the benefits of JumpCloud SaaS Management firsthand.
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