By 2027, 75% of employees will acquire, modify or create technology outside IT’s visibility – up from 41% in 2022 according to a recent Gartner report. Join Certero’s Ric Sterling and Joe Lobo as they discuss the challenge of finding ‘Shadow SaaS’, bringing it into software policy and some of the techniques and ‘guardrails’ you can deploy to limit the risk and scope for undetectable, unmanageable SaaS applications… 

• What is the challenge of SaaS discovery
• What are the Policies & Processes
• SaaS Discovery Methods & Concerns
• Hot to make Sense of SaaS
• How to futureproof your methods.

In this engaging Tech Take by Certero SAM & FinOps specialist Joe Lobo, we take a look at taming the wild frontier of software asset management in the cloud – ‘Shadow SaaS’. Joe will take us through how organizations can create a future-proof Shadow SaaS discovery and management processes to find and maintain control of web applications that are outside of IT’s traditionally centralized visibility and governance processes.

Allowing unknown SaaS applications presents a significant cost and data security risk to organizations, yet the trend is showing no sign of slowing down. Also, many early methods used to capture evidence of user web activity have been a burden to sustain and surprisingly invasive to user privacy and security.

To help businesses ‘know what they don’t know’ with Shadow SaaS and find a way to manage the issue long-term, Joe Lobo will be unveiling the new Certero SaaS Discovery solution for Shadow IT – completing the full-circle of software discovery across the full enterprise IT scope.