Although human beings have proven themselves to be good at a myriad of different things, there remains an awful little that we do better than growing on a consistent basis. This commitment towards getting better, regardless of the situation, has really enabled the world to clock some huge milestones, with technology appearing as a rather unique member of the group. The reason why technology’s credentials are so anomalous is purposed around its skill-set, which was unprecedented enough to realize all the possibilities for us that we couldn’t have imagined otherwise. Nevertheless, a closer look should be able to reveal how the whole runner was also very much inspired by the way we applied those skills across a real world environment. The latter component was, in fact, what gave the creation a spectrum-wide presence and made it the ultimate centerpiece of every horizon. Now, having such a powerful tool run the show did expand our experience in many different directions, but even after reaching so far ahead, this prodigious concept called technology will somehow keep on delivering the right goods. The same has grown to become a lot more evident in recent times, and assuming one new GRC-themed development pans out just like we envision, it will only propel that trend towards greater heights over the near future and beyond.
ENow, a trusted software company with over 19 years’ experience assisting organizations across the globe, has officially announced the launch of a new security software, which is designed to combat the governance challenges present today across Microsoft Entra ID. Named as ENow App Governance Accelerator, the stated software comes decked up with an ability to provide Identity administrators complete visibility into number of apps and app registrations across their Azure AD tenant, and their permissions and settings. More significantly, it does so without enlisting help from any external systems. This visibility is given further context through a gap analysis, an analysis you can simply conduct within the ENow web interface to learn all what you need to know about remedies against potential security risks. Making the whole gap analysis thing even more prominent is how it will be based on an organization’s individual policies. Anyway, once you zero in on a course of action, ENow App Governance Accelerator will also guide you throughout the process of actually implementing it. As for what features the solution will bring on a granular level, the answer must begin from its pledge to continuously quantify application risk. By cultivating the latest picture of your organization’s app governance posture, ENow’s brainchild ensures that your tenant stays secure. Next up, we must talk about the accelerator’s knowhow when it comes to spotting out problems at a speedy clip. In practice, it does so using an extensive arsenal of over 30 checks and dedicated dashboards. We referred to dashboards; there is one to let you seamlessly track your company’s progress. Not just that, the stated dashboard is also more than well-equipped to inform users with recommendations that can be useful if the objective is accelerating your application governance project. Another detail we cannot go without mentioning would be how the accelerator explicitly moves away from PowerShell scripts. You see, instead of mandating teams to spend their time on spreadsheets and script maintenance, the new ENow App Governance Accelerator enables them to focus on activities boasting a higher brand of value.
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we still haven’t talked about the fact that this accelerator is presented in multiple specialized versions. For instance, the App Governance Accelerator Professional & Enterprise versions deliver at your disposal capabilities like augmented reporting, including Sign-In data to identify app usage, and MSAL & Platform reports to ensure that the latest authentication libraries are being used. Apart from that, the Professional and Enterprise versions in question also bring to the fore Credential Alerting and a highly anticipated integration with ServiceNow to easily open support tickets related to expiring credentials and other security risks or suspicious behavior. Lastly, the accelerator will unlock for you an uninterrupted access to expert guidance, guidance which will be provided by Microsoft security MVPs and wider community.
Outside of the ENow App Governance Accelerator, ENow has also introduced a community site featuring high-quality content. The purpose of this community is to help IT professionals find answers to security questions and improve their application security posture, share recommended practices, and receive constructive feedback from their peers and superiors. Given the availability of such information, identity architects should be able to achieve a power position where they can be proactive vs. reactive, while staying aptly-positioned to implement a successful application governance strategy for their organization.
Founded in 2004, ENow’s rise to prominence is largely orchestrated by its ability to optimize the service delivery of mission-critical Microsoft collaboration and identity infrastructure. The company’s knowhow across digital experience monitoring and analytics for Entra ID, Active Directory and Microsoft 365 are now well-known to improve service delivery, increase workplace productivity, lower total cost of ownership, and at the same time, maintain robust security against unauthorized access. ENow’s excellence in what it does can also be understood once you acknowledge that it is, at the moment, managing 550 million employees in over 130 countries, forming a ecosystem where it is monitoring over 22 billion transactions per week.