Managed services, cybersecurity, and cloud solutions provider Blue Mantis recently announced a strategic partnership and integration agreement with HYCU, Inc., a growing company for modern data protection for on-prem, cloud services, and SaaS. The partnership will allow Blue Mantis clients using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as other SaaS platforms, to instantly identify and backup their cloud and SaaS applications, determine vulnerabilities, and remediate compliance gaps.
“In today’s multi-cloud world, many organizations rely on SaaS applications to run their businesses, yet many still struggle with SaaS sprawl, which compromises their ability to protect and backup data and ensure compliance,” said Blue Mantis CEO Josh Dinneen. “Our partnership with HYCU allows Blue Mantis to address this complex challenge head-on by providing our clients with a proven solution that delivers unmatched visibility, protection, and compliance capabilities.”
The integration of HYCU R-Graph into Blue Mantis’ service offerings provides several key advantages, including:
- Improved vulnerability identification: R-Graph’s advanced analytics capabilities will help Blue Mantis more effectively identify potential security vulnerabilities in their clients’ cloud infrastructures.
- Enhanced SaaS application protection: Blue Mantis clients will see the benefits of comprehensive data protection for the widest number of SaaS applications available in the industry currently, ensuring business continuity and minimizing data loss risks and recovery time from outages.
- Streamlined compliance management: The solution will simplify compliance processes by providing detailed insights into data storage, access, and usage across multiple cloud platforms.
- Cross-cloud data visibility: Customers will gain a unified view of their data across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, allowing for improved decision-making and resource allocation.
Coming later in Q4, Blue Mantis will offer a free version of HYCU R-Graph, a SaaS visualization solution for data protection– the first in the industry. The solution helps visualize a company’s entire data estate, including on-premises, cloud, and SaaS applications and data. Further, Blue Mantis plans on delivering a HYCU Managed Backup Services Offering to market in 2025.
“HYCU’s partnership with Blue Mantis represents a strategic alignment of our capabilities and vision,” HYCU, Inc. Founder and CEO Simon Taylor said. “Blue Mantis’ expertise in managed services, cybersecurity, and cloud solutions truly complements HYCU’s advanced SaaS and cloud data protection solutions perfectly. By teaming, we can offer companies a powerful combination of Blue Mantis’ security-first approach and HYCU’s cutting-edge resiliency and data protection solutions. We will offer a powerful way to navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments along with the emergence of SaaS application use for greater efficiency and security.”
HYCU SaaS Resilience Report
This new partnership comes on the heels of HYCU’s State of SaaS Resilience in 2024 report, a survey of over 400 “decision makers with influence over IT and data protection from France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, the UK, and the US.”
One of the key findings in the report is that while SaaS applications remain popular, they’re not always fully visible. The average mid-size enterprise has about 200 SaaS applications utilized throughout daily workflows which access and create sensitive data. Leaders surveyed, however, self-reported 10x fewer than that average number of applications, indicating the growth of shadow IT, an emerging threat in the industry.
The report also found that a large number of respondents (43 percent) said that they lack staff with the required skills to protect SaaS application data, leaving the growing number of SaaS applications in use across the organizations at risk of being unprotected and unable to recover.
Overall, the report found that more than 60 percent of successful ransomware attacks sourced through SaaS applications, underscoring the need for improved SaaS protections.
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