Selections from the top news items this week in the world of identity and application security. IDENTITY + THE CLOUD How to use Slack to onboard new hires From Fast Company: Okta – which provides identity and access management, or in other words: secure access, authentication, and single sign-on to software applications – lets employees securely connect to the suite of tools and services that you use at your organization, including Slack. Enterprises use Okta to manage access to Slack and other applications, which increases security and maintains compliance across devices. SaaS activity alerts can mitigate manual misconfigurations From TechTarget: SaaS activity management is becoming more important for infosec teams to combat issues of insider theft and unintentional exposure of sensitive data, BetterCloud's David Politis says. Politis: “We have it fully integrated for Okta, Dropbox and Google. We're layering it in for Box and Salesforce, so over the.