Category: SAAS

Arcserve Extends its SaaS Offering to Protect Emerging Data Systems

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Arcserve, a US-established full-scale ransomware protection provider in order to secure and scale data protection for Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, and Azure Active environments has expanded its SaaS Backup offering. 

Arcserve SaaS Backup provides control of imperative data by protecting against data loss and ascertaining regular availability of data with automated cloud-to-cloud backup. It also offers data recovery to small, medium, and large enterprises and channel partners.

SaaS backup features of Arcserve SaaS Backup are as follows-

Simple and easy to use: With initial setup taking less than five minutes, the system enables quick deployment, securing data across crucial SaaS workloads. Users may simply navigate data and have full control over protected data with the help of a simple interface.

Retrieval and restoration of data: Universal restore capability of Backup solutions provides a complete overview of entire backup sets. Throughout all historical data sets, a search can be performed to re-establish data deleted in the recent past or years ago. Search helps users track, preview, and restore the data. The secure preview features to aid in easy identification of the correct data that has to be restored, removing multiple restore iterations.

Security by design: SaaS Backup employing a blockchain-build algorithm offers unalterable cloud data backups and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to ascertain the security and reliability of services.

Scalability to future-proof SaaS workloads: SaaS backup solution by offering unlimited storage capacity to meet industry, regional, and company policies scale effortlessly across millions of users. Data remains available as the solutions keep it in four different copies of the backups stored in at least two data centers in the same territory, assuring data durability throughout SaaS-based workloads. 

Many companies don’t understand their responsibility for their data when it moves to a data center of a SaaS provider, no matter where it’s located. Arcserve’s latest research revealed that around 44% of businesses believe safeguarding and recovering data stored in public clouds is the responsibility of the cloud provider. As such they don’t keep backup and allow cyber fraudulent to steal data and data loss thus happens by intentional deletion, human error, or programmatic issues.

Florian Malecki, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Arcserve, said, “As more organizations move critical data to SaaS-based applications for the flexibility and ability to scale, it is crucial to have the right data protection policies and solutions in place to keep that business-critical data secure. Arcserve SaaS Backup is the best weapon against data loss. It gives customers the peace of mind that their data is secure, easily retrievable, and always accessible with immutable backups for data protection.”

CyberArk Introduces AWS Secrets Manager Secrets Hub!

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CyberArk Secrets Hub is a brand-new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution from CyberArk, the world leader in identity security. Secrets Hub streamlines the process for developers working in hybrid environments to access secrets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) through AWS Secrets Manager. At the same time, security managers maintain centralized control and the capacity to enact uniform policies over secrets using current procedures and infrastructure.

Kurt Sand, general manager, DevSecOps at CyberArk said, “As customers evolve to hybrid architectures and build applications on AWS, their developers rely on AWS Secrets Manager to simplify development and operations. However, preserving developer experience can cause conflict with centralized security goals. Secrets Hub solves this problem by allowing CyberArk customers to centrally manage and rotate the secrets used by developers using AWS Secrets Manager – delivering a cloud-native experience without any changes in their workflow. This allows security administrators to continue to create, rotate and monitor secrets through the familiar CyberArk interface across environments and developers to continue to take advantage of AWS Secrets Manager. It’s a win-win for everyone.”

In order to provide efficient secret management in hybrid environments, Secrets Hub, a component of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform, was developed in collaboration with the AWS Secrets Manager team. CyberArk Secrets Hub operates by automatically replicating CyberArk-managed secrets to AWS Secrets Manager (for use on AWS). This enables users to set up Secrets Hub permissions on the relevant AWS account, create a synchronization policy by choosing what to sync and what target to sync, create a synchronization policy by selecting what to sync, and access the synchronized secrets using AWS. This allows users to centrally manage secrets across multiple AWS accounts and hybrid environments while assisting in ensuring data segregation.

Security experts can centrally manage and enforce a single policy and standard throughout the entire enterprise, including mixed environments, without altering compliance and audit procedures. The CyberArk Identity Security Platform, created for the dynamic enterprise, enables secure access for any identity, whether human or automated, to any resource or environment from any location using any device.

SaaS- Software as a Service!

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Software as a service (SaaS) is a cloud-based software delivery model in which the cloud provider develops and maintains cloud application software, offers automatic software updates, and makes software available to customers on a pay-as-you-go basis via the internet. All hardware and traditional software, including middleware, application software, and security, are managed by the public cloud provider. As a result, SaaS customers can significantly reduce costs, deploy, scale, and upgrade business solutions faster than they could with on-premises systems and software, and predict ownership costs with improved efficiency.

What exactly is a software as a service?

The cloud delivery model is used for SaaS. A software provider will either host the application and associated data on its own servers, databases, networking, and computing resources, or an ISV will contract with a cloud provider to host the application in the provider’s data center. Any device with a network connection will be able to access the application. Web browsers are typically used to access SaaS applications.

Significance of SAAS

In today’s scenario, web-based software is adaptable enough to be customized for specific business needs as well as for individual users. Customers can modify the user interface (UI) to alter the program’s appearance and feel as well as components, like data fields, to change the data that is displayed. A few business process features can also be modified on and off at will.

Users can frequently customize their own personal workspace, such as a dashboard or task list, to display only the information they need to see and optimize their individual work styles. Even though both on-premises and SaaS systems can now be completely customized for each client, cloud-based software still offers a lot more flexibility and agility for the average business.

  • Access to innovations and rapid application development

Businesses want to utilize the most recent capabilities because innovation is so important in the digital age. Cloud-based SaaS accelerates innovation cycles and provides faster access to the most recent innovations and applications. In contrast, because of the longer development cycles typical of on-premises solutions and applications, the on-premises in-the-cloud SaaS model necessitates waiting for innovations.

  • SaaS business processes that are connected

A SaaS solution is required by organizations to support cloud-based processes such as procure-to-pay or order-to-cash without requiring costly integrations or complex management. Modern SaaS suites are built on a single, standards-based platform that includes a unified enterprise-wide data model, a unified user experience (including mobile and social), shared security levels, synchronized release schedules, and more.

This growth is anticipated to be aided by future SaaS innovation in the SaaS solutions themselves, including:

Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are becoming more widely used, and it is anticipated that they will be incorporated into all enterprise cloud applications soon. Artificial intelligence will power adaptive intelligence solutions, allowing back-office and front-office applications to learn and adapt to user data and behaviour.

Autonomous IT management, artificial intelligence, and machine learning will all play important roles in enabling more autonomous, less reliant management of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure. Aside from AI and machine learning, there is a new set of adaptive intelligent technologies driving change in all SaaS applications. Among them were chatbots, virtual reality, augmented reality, blockchain, IoT, and digital assistants. For forward-thinking providers to expand their SaaS offerings, each of these technologies is becoming more and more important.

Industry Organizations continue to be driven by depth and horizontal connectedness in SaaS solutions or vertical cloud applications. While SaaS was originally designed to provide quick vertical solutions to a single department, businesses are increasingly requiring and expecting cross-business visibility. Expect more vertical depth from providers offering cross-business suites, as well as more APIs and turnkey integrations for hybrid cloud solutions, as applications continue to evolve.