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There’s a reason companies deal with shadow IT, and it’s because users aren’t getting what they need when they need it. Employees may find sanctioned tools cumbersome or inconvenient, so they default to using something that they’re familiar with and like. Or, the tools they need simply don’t exist in the sanctioned IT portfolio. Users may also venture outside of company-sanctioned apps because access requests take too long. If it’s thwarting their productivity, odds are they’ll go rogue and start shopping so they can keep doing their jobs. Check out ways to combat this growing issue! https://buff.ly/3HxuK71

Besides delivering consistency and efficiency, automating routine tasks frees your team to cut through the noise and handle actual IT issues. In practice, today’s IT automation software can take a lot off your team’s plate, like access requests, provisioning users, deflecting tickets from your IT help desk to AI, and entitlement-level configurations – all while protecting access to sensitive data. Automated user provisioning in and of itself can save your team hours every day. It’s like the tankless water heater of your whole system – keeping things comfortable without constantly worrying about leaks. https://buff.ly/3LmDQ8y

What do the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, and your first iPhone have in common? Noni Azhar, SVP IT, takes an interesting look at how advances in technology have built upon each other to culminate into what we have today. Plus, he shares some pretty awesome memories - Pong, anyone? https://buff.ly/3QpAchB #ITobsessed #ITtech

Navigating the path to getting your IT project approved can be challenging. Here are some key strategies to enhance your proposal's chances: 1. Understand Stakeholder Needs: Align your project goals with the strategic objectives of your stakeholders. 2. Build a Solid Business Case: Clearly demonstrate the ROI and benefits your project will deliver. 3. Communicate Effectively: Use clear, concise, and compelling language to articulate your vision. 4. Showcase Expertise: Highlight your team's skills and past successes to build confidence in your ability to deliver. Check out this insightful article from Lumos: https://buff.ly/4cyDdVh

🌈✨ Celebrating Pride Month at Lumos! ✨🌈 This June, we marked Pride Month with an incredible Lip Sync for Your Life competition (inspired by the queen herself, RuPaul). Our team shined brightly and brought amazing energy to the event! 🎤💃🕺 We also sported our "Shine with Pride" hats, a reminder to celebrate our authentic selves every day. At Lumos, diversity strengthens us, and we proudly support the LGBTQ community. Thank you to everyone who made this month special. Let's keep the Pride spirit alive all year! 🌟❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #PrideMonth #ShineWithPride #DiversityAndInclusion #TeamLumos #Pride2024

"Entropy is increasing. There are more apps, more entitlements, and more actors." Our CEO Andrej Safundzic recently joined the (Andreessen Horowitz) a16z podcast to talk about the vision of Lumos and how we are addressing some of the core challenges IT and Security teams are facing today by building better tools for better SaaS Management and Identity Governance. Link in the comments!

Check out the latest post from our Founder and CEO, Andrej Safundzic. Full post below, here's a snippet: "My belief is that security problems are almost always hygiene problems, and hygiene problems always have inefficiencies. To measure ROI, you can measure inefficiencies as a second-order signal for potential cybersecurity problems. Leadership understands inefficiencies more than they understand risk, and it’s super easy to translate that for them. For example, if you are spending a lot of time cleaning up your RBAC roles for your onboarding & offboarding workflows or if you are spending too much time on user access reviews, it means employees generally have too much access, which means you have an insider threat problem. What do you think?"

In our IT Heroes video series, hear how IT and Information Security Executive Nicole Holmes handles being inundated with sales pitches (and how sales should approach those in IT), what her parents think she does for a living, managing the SaaS sprawl, and some wild experiences she’s had along her IT journey. https://buff.ly/42UXlN0

Tristan Cary, Sr. Enterprise Applications Manager at Roku, shares best practices on how IT and Security teams can collaborate well: IT can achieve their goal of providing frictionless experiences to the end user and Security can achieve their goal of ensuring users don't have over-privileged access. Check out the clip! #ITandSecurity #LumosAppStore https://buff.ly/3VBWMFX

"When looking at tool efficiency, the super critical thing is that everyone internally must be on the same page." Noni Azhar, SVP of IT at Podium Sometimes the simplest things are the most challenging. Noni shares with us his process of tool consolidation that scales. Access to data around spend, managing growth, and FP&A is at the center of it all. Take a look. https://buff.ly/4bVmRFF