BetterCloud Monitor | GDPR will go into effect in less than seven months. Are you prepared? We're kicking off a three-part series that covers everything IT needs to know about GDPR. In this first post, a data privacy expert explains 11 key concepts and why you need to starting preparing now.
BetterCloud | Are you tired of running queries by hand, tracking issues in a spreadsheet, and performing searches natively across multiple apps? Listen to BetterCloud founder and CEO David Politis as he describes how automating policy enforcement through BetterCloud can enhance security and streamline operations. We'll be hosting two sessions: Nov. 7 at 2 PM ET and Nov. 8 at 8 AM ET.
TechRepublic | White hat hacker Marc Rogers knows how to take down your network, or secure it. Here's why businesses and IT should pay attention.
 
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Digital Inspiration | The author of a PDF file may add print restrictions that disallow other users from printing the document. Here's a workaround using Google Drive.
MakeUseOf | With these handy tools, you can create more visually stimulating representations of your data. For printing, presenting, or providing a better view of your spreadsheets and what they contain, check out these awesome Excel add-ins.
 
Today's Tip from Controlling Your SaaS Environment
IT cannot fix what it doesn’t know is wrong. IT cannot extract critical information about its environment. Alerts are often false alarms. Trying to divine meaning from millions of audit logs is futile. Finding an event that is actually relevant and critical is like finding a needle in a haystack.

With the proper insights, IT can ensure compliance with corporate policies as well as industry and government regulations, correlate high-risk activities, prevent unauthorized data access, measure user engagement, and recoup license costs. Insights are an effective way to bolster operational security by remedying the “You don’t know what you don’t know” challenge. They help fill gaps in IT’s knowledge about its SaaS environment, essentially providing the information IT didn’t even know it was missing.
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G Suite | To give G Suite admins greater control over system apps on Android devices, Google is introducing settings in the Admin console to enable all system apps, disable all system apps, enable select system apps, or disable select system apps.
G Suite | Hangouts Meet video meetings for G Suite Enterprise edition can now be recorded and saved to the cloud, making them easy to share, view, and even play in sped-up mode.
G Suite | Google is introducing Hangouts Meet hardware—a new way to bring high-quality video meetings to businesses of any size. The hardware kit consists of four components: a touchscreen controller, speakermic, 4K-sensor Ultra HD camera, and ASUS Chromebox.
G Suite | Google is adding SAML integration for ten additional applications: Aha!, Atlassian Cloud, Datadog, Desk, Github Business, HackerOne, Mavenlink, Mixpanel, SpringerLink, and Springerlink Test.
Office 365 | Here's a look at all of the Office 365 updates from October, including a new set of cloud-powered features designed to save you time and produce better results (and lots more).
Slack | Slack provides a recap of all its October updates, which include interactive screensharing, the Google Drive bot, and other exciting new pumpkin-spiced features.
Zendesk | Here are some great new integrations designed to improve and extend your use of Zendesk.
Evernote | Google recently announced the Google Pixelbook, a high-performance Chromebook. Evernote has refined its entire app for the Pixelbook, including improved performance of the touchscreen.
 
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