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Congratulations to Marques Stewart, Senior Director of Network Infrastructure with Achievement First, for his SaaSOps Star Award nomination! With BetterCloud, Marques has created app-specific policies and workflows to handle tasks that were previously manual. And with alerts, his team knows when a user joins an app, a group, or a team, and an audit trail is immediately created. SaaSOps Stars winners will be announced at Altitude 2019. Nominate an individual or team and join us in SF for two days of great content with current and future CIOs! | | | | | ZDNet | Microsoft says that users who enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their accounts will end up blocking 99.9% of automated attacks. The recommendation stands not only for Microsoft accounts but also for any other profile, on any other website or online service. | | | | BetterCloud Monitor | BetterCloud founder and CEO David Politis recently hosted an online panel discussion with IT leaders from three unicorn companies: Vicky Couturier, IT systems director at InVision; Anthony Ancheta, IT manager at Lime; and Matt Kauffman, IT help desk manager at Toast. The panelists shared their IT philosophies, how they solve their biggest IT challenges, and their top habits for scaling IT operations. | | | | ZDNet | Microsoft is running a limited-time promotion for EA and EAS customers which will give them a year of Windows 7 extended security updates for no additional charge. | | | | ZDNet | Apple announced last week changes to the way Siri handles audio recordings of voice commands, and who gets to listen and review these interactions. In a press release, the company said it was making this feature opt-in for all users, on all devices. Apple plans to roll out software updates later this fall and ask users for their specific consent to make audio recordings of Siri commands and upload these files to its servers. |
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| | | | | MakeUseOf | A major security issue has been discovered in a number of browser extensions for both Firefox and Chrome. "These browser extensions are harvesting your data, and you should remove them immediately. The extensions are collecting massive amounts of very personal data from people’s web browsers and selling this data on to third parties. The leak is so serious that it has been termed 'catastrophic,' and it’s affecting both companies and individuals alike," writes Georgina Torbet. | | | | Time | Here are some of the most important Google Calendar tips and tricks you need to reclaim your time, mitigate mindless meetings, and keep everyone updated without a constant barrage of texts or notifications. |
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| | | | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week in the SaaS world: Google introduced the Professional Collaboration Engineer certification for G Suite admins, plus there were updates for Google Slides, the Vault API, and more. Microsoft rolled out updates to Excel, PowerPoint, Yammer, and more. Click on the link for more details! |
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