Your daily digest of tech news, IT stories, and SaaS productivity tips.
| | | | | Apple Is Bringing iCloud Keychain Support to Chrome for Windows, but It’s Not Ready Yet | | The Verge | Users caught between Apple and Microsoft may now have an easier time managing passwords: it looks like iCloud Keychain is coming to Windows 10 as a Chrome extension (via MacRumors). It’s already in the iCloud for Windows 10 app, but there’s just one small problem: the Chrome Extension isn’t available yet. | | The IT Handbook to Choosing the Right SaaS App | | BetterCloud | Choosing a new SaaS tool means combing through lists of dozens (dozens!) of similar apps. It can be hard to tell which is the right one for your organization. There’s a lot more to consider than just “Does this get the job done?” We'll walk you through a step-by-step process for evaluating SaaS applications. Learn how to research apps, ask the right questions, and evaluate apps in a sustainable, scalable way. | | Microsoft Announces General Availability of Application Guard for Office | | Neowin | Microsoft unveiled a couple of security features for Microsoft 365 early in 2020, which included Application Guard. Today, the company announced that Application Guard for Office has hit general availability. The feature basically puts documents from untrusted sources in a container before opening them in order to ward off malicious threats. | | A Record Number of DDoS Attacks Took Place in 2020 | | ITProPortal | In 2020, for the first time ever, more than 10 million Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were recorded in a single year. This is according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Netscout, whose ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) observed a total of 10,089,687 attacks last year. Compared to 8.5 million attacks in 2019, that’s a 17 percent rise year-on-year. |
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| | | Top 5 Tips and Tricks To Get the Most Out of Teams on Mobile | | OnMSFT | From chats to channels, and even documents and files, there’s definitely a lot to do in Teams on mobile during the work-from-home life. That’s why, in our latest entry to the Microsoft Teams series, we’ll give you our top-5-tips and tricks to get the most out of Teams on iOS and Android. | | How to Make Sortable Headings in Excel | | How-To Geek | Microsoft Excel becomes a powerhouse once you get into its expansive list of sorting options. Here we’ll cover its most straightforward option for sorting, a simple option that enables us to reorder data in specific columns. |
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| | | Writing BetterCloud Audit Logs to a Google Sheet | | SaaSOps Community | Our fearless Community Director Mike Stone put together a comprehensive on using BetterCloud's API to push your BetterCloud Audit Logs to an external service. It's detailed and easy to read, so take a few minutes to check it out. |
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| | | Control Background Replacement in Google Meet With a New Admin Setting | | Google Workspace Updates | Google is adding the ability for admins to enable or disable the use of custom or preset backgrounds in Google Meet for meetings organized by an organizational unit (OU) level. The setting will determine whether meeting participants can change their background when joining a meeting. |
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