Weekly Roundup February 8, 2019 – Azure, Bitbucket, Concur, and More

Why read this with nearly infinite news on the internet? We try to pick good articles you might like, and we think you might chuckle a little at our interpretation of the headlines. 

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The latest from Alpin: Interview with Alpin’s Co-Founders – Colorado Security Podcast

SaaS Product Updates

Azure introduces a healthcare AI bot. AI Uprising step 1: the AI bot realizes that only humans that are “alive” suffer from health ailments…

G Suite introduces whitelisting feature… and if you want to blacklist bad apps, check out Alpin!

You can now use Bitbucket Pipelines in Jira Software as Atlassian continues to heroically prevent GitHub from owning the market. Keep fighting, Bitbucket!

Tips and Tricks

Nice tips for using periodic reminders in Slack. But not how to turn them off. We still get a Tropical Friday reminder that someone set last summer!

5 tricks for Word 365: mostly pretty cool things you can do, but the ink editor… I wonder how efficient it is compared to using a keyboard? Looks a little slow.

Concur shares three mileage reimbursement best practices, and they also subtly imply that their customers could be overspending on mileage by up to $0.5B total… if they’re not all using GPS tracking.

Security

“Cyber-security remains lax in…. most of the world” Yeah, we know. We know 🙁

“Government Should Name And Shame Companies With Poor Cyber Security” says article. But why would a list of most companies help anyone?

Apparently legal departments are getting much more serious about AI and the cloud. That’s a big deal. Have you been to a legal department lately? There is still so much PAPER at some places

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