Infosecurity | Rising threat levels and remote working challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic are putting increased pressure on IT security professionals, according to new data from Check Point. The vendor polled over 400 respondents from global organizations with over 500 employees to better understand the current challenges facing security teams.

BetterCloud Monitor | To get a handle on your SaaS operations, or SaaSOps for short, read our mini-checklist, the crib notes version of our IT Leader’s Guide to SaaSOps. They’ll help your organization get the most out of your SaaS applications—all without bulldozing your IT team.

BetterCloud | Your voice is important as we track and analyze IT trends amid the pandemic. Today is the last day to participate in the  IT preparedness survey, the industry's only ongoing survey to document the unprecedented rush to digital transformation and remote work. What are IT teams across industries experiencing? What will they retain when work resumes normally? Insights from the survey will be published on The Monitor blog and shared here.

Inc. | There are times when companies don't do enough to protect themselves from cyber threats. And there are times when they can do little to stop a threat. And that's why Microsoft's latest move has proven so important. In a quiet move on Monday, Microsoft acquired corp.com, a website that for 26 years, had been owned by the seller, Wisconsin-based Mike O'Connor.

CIO | When less must be more, it's essential to allocate IT resources intelligently and creatively. Here are 7 ways CIOs can meet key goals when challenged by a restricted budget.

How-To Geek | Google Chrome automatically updates itself. There’s no easy way to turn off automatic updates, but you can do it in several ways—by stopping the Google Update Service that handles automatic updates, for example. Here’s why you shouldn’t do it.

Atlassian | With Atlassian's latest platform release, Crowd 4.0 for Server and Data Center, they’ve improved performance areas while introducing new capabilities that make it easier than ever to support Crowd. But that’s only the beginning. The Crowd 4.0 release lays the groundwork for future capabilities that will set your organization up for success for years to come.