Augmentt - Transforming SaaS Security

“Although no one can dispute that SaaS has opened up endless business opportunities, it’s also created unprecedented levels of security risk faced by all businesses,” says Co-founder and CEO, Derik Belair. To overcome these security risks and utilize SaaS usage data, the idea of Augmentt came into existence during an annual sailing trip scheduled in October of 2019.

The Founders of Augmentt

Co-founder and CEO, Derik Belair leads the vision, strategy, and growth of Augmentt. Before Augmentt, Derik led the digital marketing team, cloud division at SolarWinds. Derik joined SolarWinds through the acquisition of N-able Technologies, a company he helped build and sold to SolarWinds in 2013.

Chairman and Co-founder, Gavin Garbutt plays a key role in helping the organization define its vision and strategy to ensure continued success. Gavin’s channel career began in early 2000 when he decided to launch N-able Technologies. As CEO, Gavin built the business to become a leading vendor in the RMM space and ensured its continued success through the sale of N-able to SolarWinds in 2013.

Augmentt’s Journey so Far

The primary reason for Augmentt’s birth is the risk of cyberattacks, data corruption, and breaches that small and mid-sized enterprises face with SaaS. This revolutionizing company established two months before the pandemic arrived was managed by the team spectacularly through the pandemic. They restructured hiring methods and formulated better client interaction strategies.

Augment has headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, and business hubs in Toronto and Vancouver. To strengthen communication between clients and the team, they organize virtual events, webinars, and conferences.

Roadblocks to Success

Augmentt is the only SaaS security & management platform on the market developed specifically for managed service providers (MSPs) to deepen, broaden, and add critical value to relationships with their own clients. They have created tools that perfectly fit the MSP niche.

Augmentt faced a major roadblock when businesses expected the MSP to protect their SaaS and network endpoints, however, with time, MSPs started to see the risk and potential liability concerns of not expressly addressing this and capitalizing on the opportunity to create a new stream of recurring monthly revenue from managing and securing SaaS.

Products and Services of Augmentt

Augmentt is a SaaS security & management platform that helps MSPs easily discover SaaS applications, enforce SaaS security policies, and manage crucial applications like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.

• Augmentt Discover
  This product works with over 22,000+ vendors and applications. It helps MSPs identify what SaaS application their client’s employee base uses. The unique algorithm of their product provides the MSP with applicable data on finance, security, productivity, and security.
• Augmentt Engage
  This multi-tenant SaaS management platform simplifies user management, improves security, and increases productivity. MSPs can access company and employee details in no time. It is available on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
• Augmentt Backup
  This product is a safety net for data at risk of cyberattacks and breaches. Industry-leading technology, CloudAlly, is used to formulate Augmentt’s data backup, recovery, and security. It offers unlimited storage and retention of daily archives so that you can recover lost data, even a single file or email.
• Augmentt Secure
  Security blindspots can easily be identified, and security policies can be immediately implemented with Secure. A complete Microsoft 365 security package for MSPs. It enhances the security posture of clients of the MSPs and reduces cybersecurity threats. It provides compelling threat reports to make it easy to sell security services and track ongoing security score improvements with customer-facing reports.

Augmentt – Best from the Rest

The company has created a platform where MSPs can deepen relationships with their clients through SaaS-specific tools. They understand the MSP niche and offer what fits their functionality and the global market. They place the MSPs as the leaders and managers of the emerging world of the Cloud.

Augmentt for their People

Augmentt believes in innovation, no matter what its source is. They hire talented people with different cultural backgrounds, creating a team of hardworking and dynamic people who align with their corporate values. They hire people from all over America and other countries.

Augmentt for their Clients

The customer base of Augmentt is progressive MSPs that have started filling the transitional gap of traditionally managed services to Cloud and SaaS managed services. They have already started to embrace SaaS and Cloud to deliver further cost optimization, governance and security services, and operational support to their clients.

Augmentt Anticipates Expansion

The company is expecting to grow in three areas in the future:

International expansion with a focus on ANZ, APAC, and EMEA.
Expansion in the security space.
Channel expansion through distributors and resellers.

As the global market becomes more reliant on SaaS applications to do their jobs, Augmentt uniquely positions MSPs as the leaders in the space.