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| | | You Can Finally Use Your iPhone On Google Fi, But There's A Big Catch | | Forbes | Announced last week, Google has rebranded their cellular service as Google Fi. Perhaps even more importantly, you no longer have to use a Pixel phone to be able to use the service. Google Fi is now available for multiple Android devices as well as Apple iPhones running iOS. But there's a catch. | | Taming SaaS Security Challenges with the Zero Trust Security Model | | BetterCloud Monitor | Today, the new reality is that network-based security is no longer adequate. Companies need to invest in a new security architecture to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio. Enter: Zero Trust. Part one of our blog series explores why a new security framework is essential right now. | | On-Demand Workflows: Macros for IT (And Why Customers Love Them) | | BetterCloud Monitor | We recently released a heavily requested feature: On-Demand Workflows. Think of these workflows as customizable automation sequences (kind of like macros) where you can string together a collection of actions across SaaS apps and press play when you want, instead of waiting on a trigger. Here are a few of the most valuable ways you can use them. | | Microsoft's Multi-factor Authentication Service Goes Down for Second Week in a Row | | ZDNet | Talk about bad timing. Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting a number of customers. Many, but not all, of the customers who reported problems seemed to be U.S.-based. |
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| | | A Message from Your Laptop, Which Hasn’t Been Backed Up for Three Hundred and Eleven Days | | The New Yorker | "I’m doing fine, working long hours as is my custom — sending e-mails, opening browsers, closing browsers, and completing a seemingly impossible number of complex processes, all at lightning speed. Don’t worry about me. I’m happy to serve your needs, day in and day out, and for you to close me shut at nightfall, without saving any of my information, or exiting any of my tabs, all while a very full glass of water rests precariously nearby on an uneven stack of magazines." |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: November 26 – November 30 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week, Google released a handful of updates for G Suite, including the general availability of secure LDAP. Here at BetterCloud, we released new alerts and actions that help identify shadow IT and enhance security measures. In other news, Dropbox and Atlassian had a few announcements too. |
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