Weekly Roundup May 24, 2018

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2 min readMay 24, 2018

Finally, an infosec administrator’s dream: Okta gives us a way to auto-nag users over their poor password choices in real-time.
Asana gives you a good reason to give them and Slack more money: a new integration that puts conversations and tasks in one place.
If you’re using Azure, you may like these updates to emulation, resource consumption based on access tiers, and more. We’d say something snarky about Microsoft, but we actually like Azure.
Dropbox releases cool new mobile app features, including tools for teams and for quick access to important documents. It’s cool, but have we reached peak material design? You decide.
Atlassian teaches us how to prepare for the remote-friendly future of work. Investing in sweatpants producers not mentioned.

Concur gives you good reasons why you should automate your AP process. Also, why you should sign up for Concur. From Concur.
Google’s spreadsheet syncing offers one more reason to not secretly install Excel.
Step 1. Use Segment to build consent management into your website in less than a week. Step 2. Oops it’s already May 25.
If you use both Jira and Excel, this macro helps them work together better. Python developers now fervently working to automate by an additional 0.001 seconds.

GDPR sucks, but this video from an expert at Workday may make it suck less.
Google further incentivizes owning multiple phones with enforced password policies on their mobile device management product. Will cell phone holsters make a glorious return?
Okta tutorial on building secure node authentication with Passport.js and OpenID Connect and I work in Marketing not IT, so I have nothing of value to add to this post. Please be gentle