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More than 80% of 2023 data breaches involved data stored in the cloud, per IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report. To deal with the evolving SaaS risks, MSPs need a proactive and comprehensive approach to security and compliance. This is where a SaaS risk assessment comes into play. A SaaS cyber assessment involves a meticulous examination of potential threats, vulnerabilities and compliance issues within the SaaS applications of MSPs and their clients. It serves as a strategic initiativ...

From small businesses to global giants, no one is immune to data breaches. In fact, software supply chain attacks will cost businesses almost $80.6 billion in losses by 2026, per Juniper. MSPs have to safeguard their internal data as well as client data from diverse threats, ranging from phishing attacks to supply chain compromises. Let’s explore why and which data breach prevention strategies MSPs should prioritise. The impact of data breach attacks The consequences of a brea...

SaaS Alerts, a cybersecurity company delivering an automated software as a service (SaaS) security platform designed to detect and stop unauthorised activity in customer SaaS applications enables managed service providers (MSPs) to extend SaaS application protection beyond core solutions.  App Wizard Called App Wizard, the latest update to the SaaS Alerts platform allows MSPs to integrate SaaS Alerts with any SaaS business application having a viable application program interfac...

SaaS Alerts has been shortlisted in the 2023-2024 Cloud Awards programme in the category - Security Innovation of the Year (SMB). The Cloud Awards Since 2011, The Cloud Awards has sought to promote and celebrate excellence and innovation in cloud computing. Entries are accepted from across the globe and multiple industry sectors. Categories for 2023-2024 include ‘Best Software as a Service,’ ‘Best Use of AI in Cloud Computing’ and ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution....

SaaS Alerts, the pioneer in cybersecurity providing an automated SaaS security platform purpose-built for managed service providers (MSPs) to identify and put a stop to unauthorised activity in customer business applications, has introduced its first-ever mobile app. The mobile application simplifies the process of reviewing and actioning on alerts while also keeping partners informed of real-time critical alerts from the convenience of their mobile devices. Seamless experience and visibility...

Imagine sailing the digital seas, protecting the clients from cyberstorms of data breaches. But wait, what’s that constant ringing of alarm bells and flashing beacons? It’s the high tides of alert fatigue, drowning the efficiency of the cybersecurity efforts. In this blog, they will navigate the turbulent waters of alert fatigue (sometimes referred to as alarm fatigue) and discover how to steer the ship to effective incident response. What is alert fatigue in cybersecurit...

The growth of SaaS applications has been nothing short of spectacular. Once considered a niche offering, cloud-based SaaS apps are now a staple for almost every industry. According to Gartner, worldwide end-user spending on SaaS is projected to increase by 17.9% to a total of $197 billion in 2023. While software-as-a-service (SaaS) is thriving, there is a growing concern for security among MSPs as well as their clients. The Annual SaaS Security Survey Report found that 55% of org...

Business email compromise (BEC) is one of the most financially damaging online crimes. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), BEC scams resulted in over $2.7 billion in losses in 2022. Falling victim to a business email compromise attack can have a devastating impact on finances as well as brand reputation. SaaS Alerts will guide users through the ins and outs of BEC so users can better detect and mitigate its risks. What Is BEC? A business email compromise i...

MSPs are the unsung heroes in the dynamic world of IT management, keeping the digital gears turning smoothly for clients. But as every superhero knows, staying vigilant of potential threats is the secret to victory. Security alerts are an MSP’s reliable sidekick in the quest to stay one step ahead of malicious actors. Think of them as the personal signal flare, ensuring they’re always in the loop when IT hiccups arise. Security alerting system The 2023 Global Risks Report by the W...

SaaS Alerts, a cybersecurity company that provides a SaaS security platform purpose-built for managed service providers (MSPs) to identify and put a stop to unauthorised activity in customer applications, has launched Fortify. This innovative tool is specifically designed to expedite the application of Microsoft security recommendations to improve customers’ Microsoft secure scores and overall security posture. Easy-to-use solutions “Our primary goal with Fortify is to enab...

SaaS Alerts has been shortlisted in the 2023 SaaS Awards programme in the category of Best Security Innovation in a SaaS Product (B2B, Small Business/SMB).    The SaaS Awards In its 8th year, The SaaS Awards continues to celebrate the ultimate SaaS innovations across the globe. Entries were received from North America, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Australasia.   The programme’s categories for 2023 include ‘Bespoke SaaS Solution,’ &lsqu...

On June 9, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rolled out updates to its Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information. Because managed service providers (MSPs) play a crucial role in ensuring the security of customer data and applications, some of the responsibility for data protection now falls to them. This article will summarise some of the key updates to the FTC standards. Additionally, it emphasises the importance of monitoring SaaS business applications, particularly Microsoft 365...

As bad actors become more sophisticated, so do the technologies and techniques they use. Recently, Bleeping Computer reported on a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS or PaaS) platform named Greatness.  With this new technology, bad actors can now automate phishing campaigns with nothing more than an email list. Let’s explore how Greatness operates and outline the potential risks it poses to managed customers. How does greatness work? Greatness offers a complete phishing toolkit that...

SaaS Alerts, the cybersecurity company purpose-built for MSPs to protect and monetise their customers’ business SaaS applications announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person, and online, has named the SaaS security platform as a 2023 MSP Today Product of the Year Award winner. Customisable rules Unlike other solutions primarily focusing on network security, SaaS Alerts focuses on the user, SaaS applications, user behviour,...

First discovered in June 2022 by researchers at Astrix Security, an Israeli cybersecurity company, the zero-day vulnerability known as GhostToken is quite unique, essentially giving blanket (and invisible) access to a user’s Google account. Attack execution A user authorises a seemingly legitimate (but, in reality, evil) OAuth application. In the background, the attacker receives a token for the user’s Google account. The attacker deletes the project associated w...

SaaS Alerts, the cybersecurity company purpose-built for MSPs to protect and monetise their customers’ business SaaS applications announced the release of Unify. Building on SaaS Alerts’ award-winning monitoring, alerting, and automated response engine, Unify’s new, groundbreaking technology provides much-needed visibility into the massive security blindspot between cloud-based SaaS applications and the devices that end users leverage. SaaS-based applicati...

In the world of managed services, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is the bread and butter of any successful MSP business. It’s the reliable stream of income that allows MSPs to sustainably grow their business and provide the best possible service to their clients. Risk of a cybersecurity attack Users find themselves operating in a unique business climate. The state of the economy has made the SMB customers that MSPs support much more price-sensitive. At the same time, the ever-increasing...

It wasn’t too long ago that multi-factor authentication (MFA) was considered the Holy Grail of cybersecurity. More than a few vendors and analysts predicted that MFA would eventually prevent 99 percent of cyber attacks. But here they are. MFA is a standard security tool used by most businesses (and consumers), yet breaches are still happening. So, what happened? Where did MFA go wrong? And how can managed service providers (MSPs) get the most out of MFA solutions for their clients? Criti...

SaaS Alerts has released a new account management functionality within its SaaS security monitoring tools. The purpose of this feature is to assist Partners and their client organisations with the task of “cleaning up” inactive accounts. What are inactive accounts? Inactive accounts are user accounts that members no longer require of an organisation to gain access to their resources. A key identifier for these stale accounts is that they have not signed into the environment...

SaaS Alerts, the cybersecurity company purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to protect and monetise their customers’ core business SaaS applications revealed its 2021 growth and key performance accelerants. Since its Beta launch in August 2020 and the general availability of the platform in January 2021, SaaS Alerts has rapidly expanded its MSP partner base to include over 350 Managed Service Providers supporting over 100,000 Small-to-Midsize Business (SMB) cloud applicati...

SaaS Alerts just released the capability for managed service providers to monitor the user behavior associated with their instances of IT Glue. “If you think about what lives in IT Glue from a data perspective, it’s every network map for every customer,” said Jim Lippie, CEO of SaaS Alerts. Every asset configuration “It’s every asset configuration for every device that the customer has. It is every runbook that the MSP uses for that customer. It’s every pa...

The announcement, being made at the Kaseya ConnectIT event, is likely to bring SaaS Alerts a significant number of new MSP partners, while being the first of the MSP-focused documentation companies to get third party monitoring will also benefit IT Glue. Wilmington, NC-based startup SaaS Alerts, which makes a SaaS monitoring and alerting solution that is purpose-built for the MSP market, has announced new support for IT Glue, the major vendor in the MSP-focused IT documentation platform space....

SaaS Alerts, the cybersecurity company purpose-built for MSPs to protect and monetise their customers’ business SaaS applications released the capability for managed service providers to monitor the user behaviour associated with their instance of IT Glue, the world’s most popular IT Documentation platform for MSPs. Monitoring of IT Glue IT documentation platforms have become an essential tool for IT service providers to operate a more efficient business. With every asset configu...

In May, the Whitehouse issued an Executive Order on improving the Nation’s cybersecurity, which laid the groundwork for the nation’s response to the latest security breaches and sought to address the persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns threatening the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people. The order is aimed at improving the Government’s efforts to identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these act...

In the current world, a vast majority of a company’s sensitive data resides in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications like Office 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox, etc. In the recent 2020 State of SaaSOps report by BetterCloud, their data suggests that 85% of all application usage by 2025 will be via SaaS. For those who’re an MSP or IT service provider reading this, they should be thinking, “Oh snap!!! What can I be doing to better protect the sensitive data in th...

SaaS Alerts, the cyber security company purpose built for MSPs to protect and monetise their customers’ business SaaS applications, announced that it has closed a round of funding totaling $1.2 million. Most notably, the round was led by MSP industry veterans, including Gary Pica, David Bellini, Adam Slutskin, Paul Cissel, Pete Peterson, Kevin Lancaster, Paul Brady, John Barrows and Michael France. SaaS Alerts announces funding round completion “The technology landscape has been e...

The recent growth of funding into the SaaS application monitoring and security space makes MSPs wonder how they can expand their services and grow their business. A recent article by Joe Panettieri of ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert provided a round-up of the SaaS application security tools and software platforms that have achieved recent funding and demonstrates there is clear recognition that monitoring the user behaviour associated with SaaS applications is important and should be a part of every...

SaaS Alerts, led by CEO Jim Lippie, raises $1.2 million in early stage funding from Gary Pica, David Bellini & additional MSP industry pioneers. The lineup of investors includes Gary Pica, David Bellini, Adam Slutskin, Paul Cissel, Pete Peterson, Kevin Lancaster, Paul Brady, John Barrows and Michael France, ChannelE2E has confirmed. SaaS Alerts secures funding The funding arrives at a key time for SaaS Alerts and the MSP software industry. Indeed, thousands of MSPs have successfully exten...

Pat Sullivan brings his years of experience at helping MSPs to evolve their service models from his time and over the last decade, has introduced thousands of MSPs to cloud workspace technologies that in aggregate increased MSP revenue by tens of millions of dollars. Pat Sullivan joins SaaS Alerts team Pat Sullivan has formerly held roles with IndependenceIT, CloudJumper and most recently at NetApp. SaaS Alerts is thrilled to welcome Pat to the team!

SaaS Alerts, the industry’s first-ever unified monitoring and alerting platform purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to protect and monetise their customers’ core business SaaS applications, announces its general availability release and introduces its MSP Reslillent Response (MRR) program to provide MSPs with free unlimited use through October 1st. SaaS Alerts SaaS Alerts was designed to help MSPs monitor and protect their customers’ usage of today’s most...