Happy Thursday! We’ve got a lot of new exciting updates at Lumos. We’ve given our homepage a whole new savings reporting dashboard and added new features to make it easier to find potential cost savings and govern your apps. Plus, scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to learn more about an upcoming webinar we’re hosting on Zero Trust with Banyan Security and Code42.
We have a lot to get through in this email, so let’s get to it!
Savings
See Your Savings in One Place
Lumos helps organizations like yours save money through a variety of different ways such as identifying and removing shadow IT, removing inactive or underutilized accounts, and keeping track of upcoming renewals in our vendor management tab. However, quantifying all the value you were realizing wasn’t the easiest. We’re changing that with our new Savings Reporting.
Now you have an easy dashboard to reference where you can easily see:
Total Realized Savings - The costs you’ve already saved using Lumos through removing accounts
Total Upcoming Savings - The costs you will save in the future during upcoming true ups and renewals
Savings Reporting takes into consideration the costs of different licenses within an application (for example, a Zoom Basic is $0, a Zoom Pro is $20/u/mo, and a Zoom Webinar goes up to $400/u/mo). You can connect your contracts in our Vendors tab and see exactly how much you’re saving, down to which licenses you’ve removed. Plus, we help you keep track of reclaimed licenses so you’ll always have an accurate report at the end of the day.
Now when your finance and leadership teams ask how much you’re saving, you’ll have an easy answer and somewhere to point them.
Keeping track of inactive accounts across all your SaaS apps can be a headache. Yet, these unused accounts are costing your organization money that could be spent elsewhere. With our inactive workflows feature, you can create an automated workflow that deprovisions an account based on inactivity for a certain number of days to help your organization become more capital efficient.
With our newest updates to inactivity workflows, you can:
Choose to exclude certain users or permissions from the inactivity trigger
Decide whether you need an approver or not to deprovision or suspend an account
Set-up custom removal notifications for employees or app assignees
Leverage removal webhooks to build custom removal workflows for more complex application set-ups
Access reviews are a mandatory process for many organizations that need to stay compliant with certain frameworks such as SOX or SOC 2. While Lumos helps streamline the process of access reviews for accounts, we couldn’t do it for individual permissions within a user account…until now.
In the same way you conduct access reviews for accounts, you can now conduct access reviews for individual permissions. For example, you can remove a user from a Zoom Pro account but still ensure they have a Zoom Basic account to be able to do their work. This new addition ensures that the right people have the right level of access within certain applications.
Lumos helps IT admins automate the process of provisioning app access as well as permissions within the AppStore. However, some applications require a few more manual steps to provision access when automation can’t quite take it all the way.
Now, admins can save manual provisioning instructions at both the app and permissions level. These instructions will show up in manual provisioning tasks as well as Slack and email provisioning messages. Once these manual tasks have been performed, the App Admin must confirm with Lumos to resolve the access request.
Here are a few more new features that we released this month to make managing your SaaS environment easier. Reach out to the team over Slack or email to learn more!
SumoLogic SIEM Integration: Lumos now integrates with SumoLogic. You can now funnel all Lumos activity log data into SumoLogic where you can create custom dashboards and alerts.
Entitlement Support of O365: Fetch license-level information from our O365 integration such as E1, E5, and Power BI, giving you more context and visibility into your O365 accounts.
Blocking Self-Approvals: Disallow people from approving access to themselves for applications, keeping your organization more secure and reducing potential privileged access abuse.
URL as Evidence for Access Reviews: When conducting access reviews and needing to provide evidence for access removal, you can now link to external documents or websites as proof of evidence.
Bulk Launch and Notifications for Access Reviews: Now you can launch multiple applications in an access review, while also making sure that reviewers assigned to multiple applications only get a single notification with a summary of everything they need to review. Plus, the review owner can also add a custom message to provide more context.
Github Repo Access in Access Reviews: You can now see Github repo access levels during access reviews, giving you more user access visibility into your Github.
In Case You Missed Our Last Update
Here are the new features and updates from last month:
AppStore 2.0
Access Reviews for Google Cloud
Lumos’ Status Page
Pre-Approved Time-Based Access
Table Integration
Atlassian Accountfinder
HTML Rich Text Capabilities in App Descriptions
License Limit Alerts
Want to know more? Let us know!
Join Us for Our Latest Webinar: A 360-Degree Approach to Zero Trust
Maybe you’re starting from scratch with your Zero Trust program, or perhaps you’ve already implemented one but know it could use a little fine-tuning. Either way, we’ve got you covered.
Join our CEO, Andrej Safundzic, alongside Den Jones, CSO at Banyan Security, and Nathan Hunstad, Deputy CISO at Code42, for an interactive panel where they’ll go through the ins and outs of building out a Zero Trust program that protects your organization while keeping employees productive.
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