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Product Tip Tuesday: Beware of Too Many Super Admins

This week’s product tip is one of our favorites—reducing unnecessary super admin privileges. Because super admins can access and manipulate every part of your organization’s SaaS applications, it’s important to keep the number of super admins in your environment to a minimum. BetterCloud gives you the tools to make this possible.

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Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically pause your workflows when you need with wait for duration

This week we’ll show you a simple step you can add to your workflows that makes them more flexible and eliminates the need to remember manual steps later. Wait for Duration allows you to automatically pause a BetterCloud Workflow at specific times, and for a specific duration, before continuing on to subsequent actions. This action gives you the flexibility to build in natural breaks to your automation, whether that’s a few hours, days, weeks, or months.

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Product Tip Tuesday: Why Using the Default Password Settings in BetterCloud Is a Must During Onboarding

BetterCloud’s default password settings provide several advantages for security and incident management. Here’s why you should use them.

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Product Tip Tuesday: Multi-Factor Authentication

It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means—a new product tip! Up this week: multi-factor authentication (MFA), a feature that will help protect sensitive company information and your employees’ personal data.

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Product Tip Tuesday: How to Automatically Detect & Remediate Misconfigured Box Settings

In light of yesterday’s news that dozens of companies inadvertently leaked sensitive data due to misconfigured Box accounts, we have a special Product Tip Tuesday: Box Edition. Many users share Box files and folders publicly without realizing the security implications. Fortunately, BetterCloud has a solution to help manage and secure your Box files and folders at scale.

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Product Tip Tuesday: Secure file sharing in Dropbox

Secure file sharing in Dropbox allows for greater visibility into your data; you can set up alerts so you know exactly when a file is shared publicly, externally, or even internally and take steps to remediate if necessary.

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Product Tip Tuesday: How to make your workflows intelligent with dynamic fields

This week, we take a look at Dynamic Fields, a BetterCloud feature that helps make your automated workflows more personalized and scalable.

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Product Tip Tuesday: How to automatically clean up empty slack channels

Welcome to a new series called Product Tip Tuesday, where we’ll give you a quick use case that you can apply in BetterCloud. We’ll kick things off with a customer favorite: how to automatically clean up empty public Slack channels using BetterCloud.

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On-demand workflows: Macros for IT (And Why Customers Love Them)

Last month, we 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.

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Paranormal (User) Activity: 4 Terrifying IT Stories on Insider Threats

For IT and security professionals, spooky season can feel like a year-round experience. Research shows that insider threats — specifically, those caused by end users — are keeping folks up at night. At BetterCloud, we’re seeing insider threats take shape in a variety of surprising forms. Here are four frightening tales from implementation sessions with new customers where we uncovered both malicious and negligent employees jeopardizing confidential business information.

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