Weekly Roundup April 11th, 2018
Thank you for your interest in Alpin. Here are this week’s top articles with practical tips on being a SaaS admin and keeping you in the know, as well as one of our features. If you have any questions about these or other SaaS apps, or any of these services, we would love to hear from you.
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2 min readApr 11, 2018
SaaS Product Updates
- G Suite admins can now cluster users in separate directories with custom visibility rules in Group users into multiple directories in G Suite
- Now you can contribute new features and enhancements to all of SAM in AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Implementation is Now Open-source
- New Asana feature helps you map, share and adjust project plans in Introducing Timeline: See how your project plan fits together
- Two features to help escape hard drive constraints in Bringing Dropbox Smart Sync to all teams, plus new team selective sync
Tips and Tricks
- Your tech addictions may be bringing your company down. Here’s how to go cold turkey in IT’s worst addictions (and how to cure them)
- There are lots of ways that browser extensions can be — or become — dangerous. Here’s what to watch out for in How to Make Sure a Chrome Extension is Safe Before Installing It
- Embedding cloud-like characteristics into our DNA in Adobe CIO: How IT automation became a team eye-opener
Security
- Highlights from yesterday’s testimony in ‘You don’t think you have a monopoly?’ Read Sen. Graham’s delightful grilling of Zuckerberg
- Yet another data breach, this time a chat service harvested payment info in Delta, Sears, Kmart hit by data breach: What you need to know
- Azure’s GDPR Statement in Achieving GDPR compliance in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
- Google doesn’t recognize dots in email addresses, is this useful or an opportunity for evil? in Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they’re a phishing threat
- The nightmare of remembering passwords is, hopefully, finally coming to an end with support for two-factor options in browsers in Password-free web security is coming to Chrome, Firefox, Edge