The Compliance Pressure Cooker
New regulations are putting more pressure on companies than ever before. For example:
- SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley): Requires strict reporting on who can access financial systems to prevent fraud.
- NIS 2 Directive: Mandates that European companies with over 250 employees or certain turnover levels document their information security processes thoroughly.
Failing these audits isn’t just a security risk; it’s a financial and reputational one.
Turning Compliance into ROI
While compliance is the driver, the “hidden” benefit of automated access reviews is SaaS Spend Management. The case study points out a common problem: companies often pay for expensive licenses that employees aren’t even using.
Squarum helps recapture this “ghost spend” by:
- Visibility into Unused Licenses: During the review process, application owners can quickly identify accounts that haven’t been active, allowing the organization to revoke and reassign those expensive licenses to other employees.
- Centralized Transparency: Management teams can generate reports from unified data, making it easy to quantify exactly how much money has been saved through license reclamation.
- Easier Procurement: Instead of using credit cards for various apps across departments, managing acquisitions through a central platform like Squarum makes the entire lifecycle easier to track and fund.
Conclusion: A Smarter Way to Govern
User access review shouldn’t be a burden. By using Squarum.com, companies can satisfy the most demanding auditors while simultaneously cleaning up their SaaS budget. It’s a rare win-win: a more secure environment and a leaner, more efficient bottom line.
Register now and perform your first user access review in 10 minutes. Squarum comes with a free plan that includes a maximum of 25 annual user access reviews.