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| | | Dropbox Is Getting a Massive Overhaul, Wants to Be the Center of Your Workflow | | The Verge | Dropbox wants to be one of the collaborative tools in your arsenal alongside heavy hitters like Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Slack, Salesforce, Trello, and Zoom, and today it’s unifying those ideas into a single new desktop app that it’s calling “the new Dropbox.” According to the company’s blog post, it’s designed to be a kind of meta-platform that helps you organize your “work about work,” but the highlight here is the ability to create and collaborate without ever leaving the new Dropbox app. | | Securing SaaS Apps in the Modern Workplace | | BetterCloud | SaaS apps are built for users, not for IT. They make collaboration easier–allowing users to access more data faster and to share it with outside parties. But this creates a challenge for IT, who must balance security and compliance with users’ desire for easy access and frictionless collaboration. Join BetterCloud and 451 Research leading analyst, Garrett Bekker, today for a discussion on the shortfalls of CASBs and how organizations should approach SaaS security in the modern workplace. | | Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2019 Edition | | Krebs on Security | Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix 88 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. The most dangerous of these include four flaws for which there is already exploit code available. There’s also a scary bug affecting all versions of Microsoft Office that can be triggered by a malicious link or attachment. And of course Adobe has its customary monthly security update for Flash Player. | | When Employees Are Using Software That IT Hasn’t Approved | | Harvard Business Review | If you don’t think shadow IT is happening in your organization, think again. You might just not know what your people are up to. Do you have a way to identify shadow IT in your SaaS environment? It's a data risk, and you should be able to remediate issues like this with ease. |
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| | | How to Stop Windows 10 From Automatically Emptying Your Recycle Bin | | How-To Geek | Windows 10’s Storage Sense feature automatically runs when you’re low on disk space. It automatically deletes files more than 30 days old in your Recycle Bin, too. This was on by default on a PC running the May 2019 Update. This is a useful feature! If your computer is low on disk space, you probably want more. Windows will clear old files out of your Recycle Bin. You shouldn’t be storing files in your Recycle Bin, anyway. But, if you want to stop Windows from doing this automatically, you can. | | 7 Chrome Extensions to Vastly Improve Your Browsing Experience | | MakeUseOf | While Chrome exceeds in feature-set, it sometimes leaves a few gaps when it comes to the user experience. Chrome is bulky, it takes up too much RAM, and it’s just not as pleasant to use as Safari or Firefox. But thanks to some extensions, you can fix the biggest issues with Chrome, and vastly improve the browsing experience. |
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| | | Take Action by July 8, 2019, to Ensure Your Users Can Continue to Use Third-party Apps Accessing Gmail Data | | G Suite Updates | To better protect your data, Google has made an important update to their policies governing third-party apps (web, Android, iOS, Chrome, and other apps) accessing Gmail data using G Suite APIs and OAuth2. | | Google Photos Will Stop Syncing to Drive on July 10, 2019 | | G Suite Updates | Starting on July 10, 2019, Google Photos will no longer sync to Google Drive. From that date forward, if you add or delete files in Photos, they won’t be automatically added or deleted in Drive. | | Use an Android Phone for 2-step Verification on iOS Devices | | G Suite Updates | Earlier this year Google announced the ability to use your Android phone’s built-in security key for two-factor authentication in G Suite. Now, you can use devices with Android 7.0+ (Nougat) to verify your sign-in to Google and Google Cloud services on Apple iPads and iPhones. |
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