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| | | | | Salesforce Declares the 9-to-5 Workday Dead, Will Let Some Employees Work Remotely From Now On | | The Verge | Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining other Silicon Valley tech giants in announcing a substantial shift in how it allows its employees to work. In a blog post published Tuesday, the company says the “9-to-5 workday is dead” and that it will allow employees to choose one of three categories that dictate how often, if ever, they return to the office once it’s safe to do so. | | SaaS Security: A Complete Best Practices Guide | | BetterCloud Monitor | While collaboration helps drive business productivity, it’s important to maintain granular control over access. Moreover, IT professionals pros have to do it in a way where neither productivity nor security is sacrificed. In this post, we’ll dive into the biggest SaaS security challenges, plus best practices to help protect your organization. | | A Windows Defender Vulnerability Lurked Undetected for 12 Years | | Wired | The flaw, discovered by researchers at the security firm SentinelOne, showed up in a driver that Windows Defender—renamed Microsoft Defender last year—uses to delete the invasive files and infrastructure that malware can create. When the driver removes a malicious file, it replaces it with a new, benign one as a sort of placeholder during remediation. But the researchers discovered that the system doesn't specifically verify that new file. | | Intel Tries To Take Down Apple’s M1 Chip With a Flurry of Benchmarks | | Engadget | If it wasn’t already clear that Intel is anxious about Apple’s M1 chip, it is now. PC World and Tom’s Hardware report that Intel has shared a legion of benchmarks claiming to show that 11th-generation Core i7 laptop processors are faster than the M1. They do suggest there are areas where Intel can claim victory, although there are also questions about Intel’s methods. |
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| | | 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google Docs Could Do | | MakeUseOf | Google Docs may seem basic on the surface but the cloud productivity tool has many overlooked features that can help you do more at work. In this article, we’ll look at several Google Doc features that you probably didn’t know about, and how you can use them to save time on creating content. Please note that these features are mostly accessible on the desktop version of the Google Docs tool. | | How To Clean Up Your Gmail Inbox by Quickly Deleting Old Email | | PCWorld | Some data, like Photos, is currently exempted—but that goes away in June. If your total data exceeds your free allotment, you’ll either have to delete data, pay Google for more storage, or risk losing whatever “extra” data Google chooses to delete. Don’t let that happen! Here are some tactics for deleting lots of email, pronto. |
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| | | The Great Suspender Chrome Extension Was Officially Banned Today | | SaaSOps Community | Google pulled an insanely popular Chrome extension because it was riddled with malware. The folks in the SaaSOps Community agreed that this was the right call, but it begs the question: What policies are in place in your org for managing browser extensions? Join the conversation by clicking the link above. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: February 8 - 12 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Google made a lot of things "generally available" last week, including group membership expiration and and security groups. Read about everything that's now generally available, plus more, in the links. |
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