January, 2018

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Main Street Cybersecurity: 10 Cost Effective Strategies for confronting Ransomware

CTOvision

As we usher in the new year of 2018, we are confronted with an ever-expanding network-borne threat landscape especially from ransomware. Ransomware is a type of malicious software which is used by malicious actors to encrypt systems or data. When the ransom is paid the key is in some cases provided to unlock the data. […].

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"We are more successful onboarding new technology versus maturing it" - And five things CIO must do to drive digital platforms

Social, Agile and Transformation

I was speaking with a few CIOs at the SINC USA West conference in Scottsdale late last year on the state of managing digital technology in their organizations. One CIO told me, "We are more successful onboarding new technology versus maturing it." Here's the logic behind his thinking and why this is a real issue for organizations investing in digital platforms When a new technology is.

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Beware fake Meltdown and Spectre patches

Computer Weekly

Security experts have warned that cyber attackers will be quick to use the Meltdown and Spectre exploits, but the first attempt to capitalise on them has come in the form of fake updates

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Call for entries: 2018 Building Team Awards

Eric D. Brown

Building Design+Construction's Building Team Awards recognize newly built (opened or occupied January 1, 2017 or later) projects that best exemplify the collaboration between owner, architect, engineer, and contractor to produce buildings that exhibit architectural and construction excellence. .

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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White House Staffers Can't Use Personal Smartphones Anymore, and More Security News This Week

The Investing Edge

Meltdown and Spectre, dossier drama, and more of the week's top security news.

Security 254
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Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Intune Admin Jobs

Anoop

I keep getting questions about the future of SCCM Intune admin jobs. I got the similar questions during the last BITPro event. So I thought of writing about the SCCM job opportunities in future. I could see loads of job opportunities for SCCM admins in India and abroad because of Windows 10 migrations. Will SCCM […]. The post Future of SCCM ConfigMgr Intune Admin Jobs appeared first on Anoops.

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Financial Practices are Outdated for the Transformation Era - (And here's what you can do about it)

Social, Agile and Transformation

In talking with technology leaders about their transformational programs, the discussion often evolves to a gripe session on the mismatch between ingrained financial practices and the types of organizational practices required in transformation programs. Agile, cloud objectives misaligned with financial practices The gripes look like - We’re practicing agile on sprint and release.

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Max Schrems champions NGO to fight for GDPR rights

Computer Weekly

Privacy activist whose legal challenge of Facebook led to the scrapping of the Safe Harbour Agreement says crowdfunding a new type of non-government organisation is essential to deliver privacy rights

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Are your machine learning models good enough?

Eric D. Brown

Imagine you’re the CEO of XYZ Widget company. Your Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Chief Operations Officer (COO) just finished their quarterly presentations and were highlighting the success from the various machine learning projects that have been in the works. After the presentations were complete, you begin to wonder – ‘are these machine learning models good enough?

Big Data 138
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Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerability Fixes Have Started, But Don't Solve Everything

The Investing Edge

Meltdown and Spectre Fixes Arrive—But Don't Solve Everything.

Security 254
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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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SCCM Status Summarizers and Health Monitoring Details

Anoop

SCCM ConfigMgr CB health monitoring connected well with SCCM Status Summarizers. All the monitoring solutions like custom scripts and SCOM management pack for SCCM are using SCCM Status Summarizers to get the detailed health status of your SCCM infra. In this post, we will see details of SCCM Status Summarizers and Health Monitoring. I uploaded […].

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Mac Vs. PC: Which is Better for Your Business?

CTOvision

The debate about Mac vs. PC has been around for quite some time and may not end anytime soon. Some users prefer the Mac because of its elegant and sleek design, intuitive interface, and reliable security. On the other hand, PCs attract a large fan base because they are versatile, readily available, and affordable. Typically, […].

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How Cisco’s newest security tool can detect malware in encrypted traffic

Network World

Cisco’s Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA), a software platform that monitors network packet metadata to detect malicious traffic, even if its encrypted, is now generally available. The company initially launched ETA in June, 2017 during the launch of its intent-based network strategy and it’s been in a private preview since then. Today Cisco rolled ETA out beyond just the enterprises switches it was originally designed for and made it available on current and previous generation data center netw

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4 Ways AI Will Improve the Way You Work

Computer Weekly

When AI springs to mind, you can’t help but think of the endless possibilities it could bring. With machine learning, robotics, and more, breaking new grounds year after year. It’s exciting to think where we could be by 2030. The perception of AI, though, and what it means to our jobs, hasn’t been taken lightly. View Article. 4 Ways AI Will Improve the Way You Work.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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If data is the new oil, we’re still digging wells

Social, Agile and Transformation

Amazing to watch how much data technologies and practices have evolved over the last 10-15 years. Despite a myriad of new nosql, big data, self-service BI, data governance, data prep, machine learning, and now artificial intelligence platforms that have come to market over this time frame, the fact is many organizations are still in early stages of maturing modern data management practices.

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Agile Marketing Based on Analytical Data Insights: Improving Scrum Tactics in Brand Outreach

Eric D. Brown

This post is written by Mathias Lanni (Executive VP, Marketing – Velocidi). Agile management and scrum-style techniques have long been accepted in fields of technology development, but have been increasingly adopted outside the tech industry over the years. Fundamentally, agile tactics are a way for organizations to more quickly adapt to quickly-changing markets and customer demands, without the slow-to-change hidebound nature of top-down hierarchical organizations impeding change.

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Integrate Windows 10 Upgrade Readiness with SCCM – Part 2

Anoop

In this post we will see step by step configuration to integrate Upgrade readiness with SCCM. Finally, we will verify the result in SCCM console. This post assume that you have a valid Azure Subscription, SCCM CB 1610+ with service connection point role and OMS workspace. This is a series of posts as listed below:- Define Windows 10 […]. The post Integrate Windows 10 Upgrade Readiness with SCCM – Part 2 appeared first on Anoops.

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Applying Quantum Physics to Data Security Matters Now and in the Future

CTOvision

There are several reasons why applying quantum physics to data security will make a difference now and in the future. However, for businesses with a need for the highest level of data security, or are merely intrigued by the advance of quantum computing and its potential impact on cybersecurity, we encourage you to look at […].

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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The moving target of IoT security

Network World

As the explosive growth of IoT tech continues; businesses, vendors and consumers all have to confront the issue that the world is more connected than ever before, with potentially gigantic consequences. The central problem with IoT security is that there is no central problem – IoT is a more complicated stack than traditional IT infrastructure and is much more likely to be made up of hardware and software from different sources.

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IoT botnet DDoS attacks predicted after exploit code published

Computer Weekly

Security researchers are urging businesses to ensure they are prepared for large-scale DDoS attacks following the online publication of code to exploit a vulnerability in Huawei HG532 routers

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What to do when the CIO still doesn’t “Get it”?

Social, Agile and Transformation

I was asked this question twice last year as a keynote speaker, one time by Chief Data Officers and the other by millenials working in marketing and other digital roles. Their sentiment was that their CIO was too slow to implement modernized digital platforms, hadn't instrumented collaborative practices, or was just perceived as a "no person" when presented with new ideas and needs.

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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Chat?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Chat software is starting to replace email Image Credit: Wikipedia. If I asked you what the most important application that your company uses is , what would your answer be? I believe that for most of us it would be email – this is how everyone in the company communicates with each other. However, there is a revolution in communication that is going on that may change everything.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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SCCM Intune Windows 10 Hands On Labs Training for IT Admins

Anoop

Acquire the SCCM, Intune, Windows 10, and Azure cloud skills at your own pace. These new skills are important for our job security as I mentioned in the post “Future of SCCM Admin Jobs“ SCCM Hands-on lab is free service provided by Microsoft to help IT Admins and Developers to learn new Technologies. The old […]. The post SCCM Intune Windows 10 Hands On Labs Training for IT Admins appeared first on Anoops.

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Which Technologies Will Help Usher in Big Data?

CTOvision

Big Data and Technology Become Intertwined The technology revolution has arrived and it is only going to grow and grow. When Gutenberg invented the printing press, the dissemination of information grew at an incredible rate. Equally important was the printing press’ ability to store information. Informational repositories can be tapped for many additional uses.

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What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security

Network World

Microsegmentation is a method of creating secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allows companies to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually. It’s aimed at making network security more granular. Microsegmentation vs. VLANs, firewalls and ACLs. Network segmentation isn’t new. Companies have relied on firewalls , virtual local area networks (VLAN) and access control lists (ACL) for network segmentation for years.

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Health sector digitisation vital to combat mental health crisis

Computer Weekly

Collaboration and digitisation within the health industry is critical to deal with the growing mental health crisis, but more support is needed from policymakers

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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The Ascent of Object Storage

Cloud Musings

Over the past few years, the data storage market has changed radically. The traditional hierarchy of directories, sub-directories, and files referred to as file storage has given way to object storage , individual storage objects. While file storage was designed to help humans interact with data, object storage is all about automated efficiency. User expectation of data usage drives file storage repository design.

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CIOs Need To Change How Their Department Deals With Sexual Harassment

The Accidental Successful CIO

Sexual harassment in the workplace is unacceptable, what’s a CIO going to do? Image Credit: Christopher Porter. Any CIO that has been reading the newspaper, watching TV, or listening to the discussions that have been going on lately has picked up on a theme – sexual harassment in the workplace. There have been some big names that have been exposed as being harassers and they have fallen and been removed from their positions.

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Video – Monitor Meltdown Spectre Vulnerabilities with SCCM

Anoop

Microsoft has released a Microsoft signed CAB file here to check and monitor Meltdown Spectre Vulnerabilities. In this post we will see a video tutorial which explains how to download, Import and deploy the configuration baseline for Microsoft Security Advisory ADV180002. Download the Microsoft signed CAB file here Subscribe YouTube Channel here This Compliance Settings configuration baseline is used […].

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Vulnerabilities In Almost Every Chip: “Could Something Like This Really happen?”

CTOvision

I've been tracking computer security issues, including vulnerabilities for decades, and have never seen anything quite like this. Newly announced vulnerabilities, which were publicly disclosed by the Register on Tuesday, are in almost every modern computer chip. The vulnerability cannot be changed in hardware of course (you would have to buy new hardware that is designed differently), […].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.