Gürkan Berkan: Protecting the Business from SaaS Risks at Coupa

A lack of visibility into your SaaS stack can mean plausible deniability. But, if you want to protect your business from risk, you must have a complete picture. In this episode, Coupa’s Director of IT Compliance, Gürkan Berkan, shares how using a SaaS management tool has helped them shed light on risks like shadow IT, security, compliance, and spend – and how they’re staying on top of it today.Episode Highlights:[01:02 - 04:27] Meet Gürkan and learn about his career progression[04:31 - 05:46] Coupa's core use cases and overview[05:48 - 06:17] Gürkan's love of nature and the outdoors[06:42 - 08:38] Hot Takes with Thom[08:54 - 10:41] Experience prior to Coupa, and a lack of SaaS management[10:43 - 11:55] Using Zylo to make informed decisions in the procurement process[11:58 - 13:54] Freedom of choice in daily application preferences, and uncontrolled chaos[13:57 - 16:22] Coupa's business objectives and how SaaS factors in[16:37 - 18:02] Taking pride in spend management and reacting to an economic slowdown[18:10 - 20:01] Thinking about how to manage and measure risk compliance internally[20:02 - 21:01] Compliance reviews[21:02 - 23:04] Measurement of shadow IT[23:10 - 25:26] Mergers & Acquisitions[25:27 - 27:19] Closing out with rapid fire questions