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“fishbowl jump” (CC BY 2.0) by Kay Kim(김기웅) Are you an ITAM tools vendor? Do you provide ITAM Managed Services? Are you a user of an innovative ITAM Tool or Service? If so, we’re looking for nominations in the ITAM Technology & Service Innovation category of...
At our UK Conference I called for SAM teams to forge strong ties with their colleagues in IT Security and Compliance. My session highlighted how we as SAM managers have much in common in terms of tools and processes with them. We are also seeing former pure-play IT Security vendors...
Should SaaS Management prioritise risk over cost savings? the cost of a breach from the perspective of PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, or GDPR is going to far outweigh any cost savings you may get from flexing which Office 365 plan your users are on. As Software Asset Managers we are used to...
The ITAM Review are delighted to announce the publication of a Market Guide for SaaS Optimisation & Subscription Management tools. This is the first in a series of Market Guides, to be published monthly, looking at various aspects of the ITAM tools and services market. Future...
As software vendors seek to migrate customers to subscription-based offerings one tactic they use is to enable currently-owned perpetual licenses to be used in cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service environments such as AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud. The incentive appears to be clear –...
The recent Ticketmaster breach is perhaps the first large-scale breach in our brave new GDPR-regulated world, and it warrants further analysis. As the dust has settled each party has spun the story in a different way, and there has been far more public disclosure of exactly what happened...
Single Sign On (SSO) provides a quick and secure way to log in to multiple services using a single username and password. Perhaps surprisingly, it can also help you manage your SaaS Subscriptions. What is SSO? SSO works by taking your initial login to a system (for example your PC),...
Ticketmaster UK recently announced that customer credit card and personal data had been compromised. This was due to a security breach at their third-party customer service technology provider, Inbenta. In accordance with GDPR requirements Ticketmaster have notified the Information...
IT Security vendor Qualys have added Asset Inventory to their Cloud Platform. They may be an unfamiliar vendor for IT Asset Managers but are leaders in the IT Security market, being the first to deliver a suite of security services such as vulnerability management and proof of compliance...
Baseline SAM is about reconciling what you own against what you’re using. ITAM tool vendors have mastered this for software installed on devices ranging from IoT sensors to mainframe computers. However, as Software-as-a-Service use grows, they are presented with both a threat to...