Empowering A New Generation of Highly Secure and Efficient SaaS
SaaS has grown rapidly and continues to thrive but must evolve as the execution window continuously shrinks and GenAI matures. NXT1 is empowering the new generation of highly secure and efficient SaaS creators to unlock their potential.
The shift to SaaS has opened the door to transformative solutions that have reshaped our digital world. Yet, this has brought new challenges: escalating cyber threats, increasing customer expectations, complex compliance policies, evolving data sovereignty requirements and now more than ever, the need for operational and financial efficiency.
The Current Approach to Security is Failing
The traditional way to mitigate cyber risk (defending against adversaries) is to collect best of breed tooling, and then design, integrate, operate, update, and lifecycle the technologies you use to protect, detect, and respond to cyber risk. This is very expensive, labor-intensive, and, for most, it has been a failed strategy. Look no further than Verizon DBIR or Mandiant Global Threat Reports for proof.
Having worked with dozens of SaaS, even well-funded software vendors struggle to keep up, despite spending up to 15% of their revenue on security. As this challenge evolves (use of AI and eventually Quantum), securing and maintaining operations globally becomes nearly impossible for those without significant resources and budget.
A Simplified Approach for Improved Security, Velocity, and Profitability
Each SaaS is unique to the problem founders and developers are focused on solving. Beyond the application layer, including all the nuances, every SaaS vendor is responsible for infrastructure, security, compliance, users, subscriptions, transactions, monitoring, operations, and support. We estimate that these core capabilities represent 60-80% of a SaaS offering, meaning most vendors must face and solve the same fundamental challenges.
We believe those software vendors who are able to remove the complexity, friction, and expense will get to market up to 80% faster than their competition, with a better product – accelerating their customer adoption into both existing and new markets, and elevating investor interest.
Further, we believe the following:
– Software builders should be able to simply plug in to and inherit all the capabilities they need, so they can remain hyper focused on development and differentiation of their software.
– Security must be at the forefront of every SaaS. It needs to be the foundation for development, operations, and customer success, during all aspects of the product’s lifecycle.
– Current security approaches will be systematically defeated by AI-enhanced cyberattacks.
– Customer expectations for access, use, and security will redefine the software market.
– Security needs to be simplified and cost effective over the entire SaaS lifecycle.
– Compliance and data sovereignty should be baked in, automated, and easily adaptable to future requirements.
– Integrating multiple, best of breed third-party tools, or bolting on technologies, introduces unnecessary supply chain risk, support and maintenance issues for software providers.
– Integrating the latest market capabilities into SaaS products should be achievable without overhauling architecture and breaking existing capabilities.
– For consumers, trust will become as important as capabilities, if not more.
– Lastly, we believe in significantly reducing time-to-market, increasing profitability, and minimizing risks for founders and investors.
The NXT1 Vision
At NXT1, we envision a world where software creators are free to focus on building their groundbreaking solution while our platform provides the comprehensive, secure foundation to accelerate their path to market and operate with unprecedented efficiency.
Fueled by a secure by design, serverless platform, NXT1 transforms the SaaS market with day 1 capabilities that almost every SaaS requires, LaunchIT creates the gold standard for SaaS products, revolutionizing SaaS security, compliance, product delivery, the customer experience, and vendor support models.
NXT1 shifts security and typical SaaS overhead from a cost center to a strategic growth enabler, accelerating SaaS revenue and improved EBITA with robust, scalable, and integrated security operations that reduce investor risk, innovate business models, simplify customer experience, and make OpEx irrelevant.
Accelerate Time to Market (TTM) from Years to Months
1 Month ROI. NXT1 LaunchIT eliminates long, drawn out months of development, recoding, integration, and testing for both new SaaS and traditional software transforming into secure SaaS. Immediately connect your software repository to LaunchIT—an enterprise security platform purpose built for SaaS—inheriting the security, scalability, revenue operations, subscription management, and user management. When you’re ready, publish your SaaS to the marketplace, accept subscriptions, and manage customers all from a single dashboard.
Security as the Foundation
Inherit US Government-level security on Day 1. The LaunchIT platform adheres to CISA’s Secure By Design guidelines, NIST 800-53 (rev5), and provides a direct path to US Government FedRAMP compliance-readiness. Secure and operate your SaaS without 3rd party tools, integration complexity, maintenance, or supply chain risk.
Nowhere to Hide. It’s a simple idea: when there is 100% visibility into everything, there is nowhere for adversaries to hide. With LaunchIT, microservices spin up to handle authenticated requests, then shut down; and tooling like PowerShell, WMI, RDP, and Putty no longer exists. The result: adversaries do not have the tools, the time, or ability to evade – without being recognized.
NextGen SaaS Security with Zero Trust at the Core. Built from the ground up with zero trust principles embedded everywhere, LaunchIT manages identities with least privilege, policy enforcement points, providing network segmentation, blast radius, and data management (discover, classify, and protect).
Make the Complex Simple
Removing complexity eliminates mistakes and potential vulnerabilities, while improving developer experience. NXT1 strives to transform complex, error-prone tasks into simplified, automated workflows that streamline delivery of capabilities without friction. With a click, LaunchIT eliminates typical complexity to provide robust capabilities for SaaS. For example:
- Multi-Tenant SaaS or Private SaaS or Both. Meet your customers where they are with multi-tenant public cloud offerings OR private cloud offerings dedicated to your customer OR both – it’s up to you.
- Global Database. Building a globally redundant database that is ready to failover and fail back literally requires only two mouse clicks.
- Observability. To everything – metrics on application performance, your CI/CD Pipeline, security, compliance… everything.
Highly Efficient Operations
Accelerating your GTM is just the beginning. NXT1 can reduce OpEX by up to 90%. With LaunchIT, there are limited third-party tooling expenses, which eliminates integrations to maintain, and security teams’ effort to monitor and comply are all significantly reduced. We have been told by SaaS executives, they spend up to15% on security operations; for $100M software companies, that’s $15M and only growing with the need for AI security tools, Zero Trust and Quantum Safe data protection. NXT1 will challenge the best of breed landscape with a comprehensive security first platform that can reduce that to less than $1M. Further LaunchIT will provide early-stage SaaS and developers these capabilities out of the box for the fraction of the cost of an engineer.
Because LaunchIT is 100% serverless your cloud expense becomes highly efficient. SaaS resources only spin up when your customers are using them. With its dashboard visibility into metrics and our Cost Estimator, your team stays informed on all resources and predicted spend for the month.
Prepared to Navigate Compliance
Achieve compliance without overwhelming your team for a fraction of the cost and time. NXT1 eliminates rework with a secure by design foundation that is engineered to maintain compliance, continuously. SaaS inherits our continuous compliance automation (CCA) capabilities that integrate compliance and security policy enforcement directly into DevOps pipelines. This codifies and enforces compliance policies while continuously monitoring, correcting, and protecting against vulnerabilities caused by coding defects and misconfigurations. By reducing manual steps, CCA enhances consistency, traceability, and auditing while simplifying adherence to regulatory requirements and streamlining the path to compliance.
Facing Data Sovereignty
YES, it’s going to be a problem for every SaaS vendor. That’s where NXT1 comes in. Data sovereignty is gaining urgency with the rapid growth of data generation and global distribution of that data coupled with the wide range of data protection laws and regulations from nations (and potentially States) around the world. LaunchIT will enable developers to easily manage every individual instance of your SaaS deployed globally and automatically maintain policies based on user location.
Commitment to a Secure SaaS Future
We are committed to removing the complexities, friction, and exorbitant costs faced by SaaS vendors who believe in security as much as we do.
We invite you to join us on our journey to revolutionize the SaaS market. Together, we can create a future where secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions drive growth, innovation, and profitability.
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NXT1 LaunchIT is the developer’s platform to build and operate secure SaaS, enabling instant availability by automating cloud infrastructure management – simply code and deploy. Get started with a 14-day free trial at nxt1.cloud/free-trial.
