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Wireless Security | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

Wireless security is not only a huge subject, but it’s also extremely important. Remember: Wireless signals are not contained to copper or fiber like a wired network — these signals leave your office and your building and travel a good distance. It’s very easy for someone to sit in a parking lot and practice some “wardriving” in an attempt to eavesdrop on your wireless communications.

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What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? - Information Technology Blog. Blizzards, hurricanes, and rainstorms occur every year, affecting businesses, homes, and institutions. Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects. Many companies require policies to keep operating even in the aftermath of nature’s wrath.

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5 (more) IT trends to watch in 2019 and beyond

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: As technology evolves at an ever-increasing pace, it brings major changes to the IT department. In this era, the IT department moves from a back-office function to a true business partner. What trends are driving this change, and how must your IT department adapt? In this article, we examine 5 more trends to watch in the near future. photo credit: nvokicka via pixabay cc The role of the IT department is changing.

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Salesforce buys Tableau to actualize data-driven engagement

Forrester IT

Salesforce announced today its’ intent to acquire Tableau Software. This move adds a robust data visualization and insights solution to their customer engagement portfolio. Unlike other acquisitions, Tableau will operate under its own brand post acquisition. Tableau Software offers an enterprise BI solution to access, combine and cleanse data from disparate sources.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Recorded Future Posts Assessment on Geopolitical and Supply Chain Risks From the Huawei Monoculture

CTOvision

I’ve been reading cyber threat intelligence assessments since the beginnings of the digital age. Not sure if I’ve seen a million of them but it sure seems like I have. I feel like the one I just read by Priscilla Moriuchi at Recorded Future is one of the best and I would like to endorse […].

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What Can CIOs Do When The Cloud Isn’t Fast Enough?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Computing at the edge changes everything Image Credit: zorro013. The world in which we live is currently changing. Over the past few years, as the importance of information technology has grown, the internet has become a bigger and more important part of both our personal and professional lives. Every IT department makes extensive use of the internet these days to run apps, handle storage, and communicate.

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Dun & Bradstreet Moves Up The Value Chain With Intent To Acquire Lattice Engines

Forrester IT

Yesterday, Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) announced its intent to acquire Lattice Engines. Both of us have covered these companies from a number of different perspectives, and we agree that the move makes sense for two primary reasons. First, adding advanced analytics and data management capabilities from Lattice accelerates D&B’s evolution into a comprehensive data platform […].

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BBC on Retail Robots

CTOvision

This is a great video because it captures the state of robotics in the retail industry. It starts off with developments pioneered by Amazon in their warehouse and fulfillment centers, and also includes the safety devices used by humans who need to interact with these dangerous robots. The video also reviews robots in use in […].

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Microsoft Intune for SCCM Admins Part 1

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I’m hoping to give some fair bit of idea about Microsoft Intune for SCCM admins. I don’t want to make this post very long, hence planning to divide into multiple posts. In the first part of Intune for SCCM admins, I will cover the basics. NOTE! – This post is from an SCCM Admin (Windows […].

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IoT security vs. privacy: Which is a bigger issue?

Network World

If you follow the news surrounding the internet of things (IoT), you know that security issues have long been a key concern for IoT consumers, enterprises, and vendors. Those issues are very real, but I’m becoming increasingly convinced that related but fundamentally different privacy vulnerabilities may well be an even bigger threat to the success of the IoT.

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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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Banking Up For Grab In Singapore

Forrester IT

Following in Hong Kong’s footsteps, Singapore’s regulator – Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) – has confirmed that it is currently studying the possibility of issuing digital-only banking licenses to organizations with a “non-bank” parentage, which was first reported on May 7th, 2019 by various news outlets. What makes this news interesting is that it essentially […].

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Success in Due Diligence Assessments Requires Experience

CTOvision

In corporate due diligence, there really is no substitute for experience. When it comes to technology support to due diligence assessments, the team at OODA LLC has the experience you need. We have participated in due diligence assessments across a wide range of sectors, applying our deep technical knowledge and understanding of customer mission needs […].

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Enhancing Employee Engagement with Content Delivery Platform

Kitaboo

Ingrained in the roots of professional settings, content delivery platform is utilized to fulfill the leisure, academic, and workplace knowledge pursuits of users. With employees preferring digital content in the form of e-books and e-journals, the use of content delivery platforms in corporate settings can reduce the gap in skills internally formed in an organization.

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What's Driving the Tech Sector's Extreme Turnover Rate?

Information Week

The answer is multifaceted, but two of the biggest reasons for employee turnover in tech are lack of scope for career development and flat salaries.

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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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Global Warming For Iceberg Metaphors

Forrester IT

The Dark Web Is Nothing Fancy; It’s Really Just A Different Series Of Protocols Commonly when surfing the web, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the cryptographic protocol that provides confidentiality for your communication with the server. The green lock on your URL bar is an assurance, but not a guarantee, that you’re communicating confidentially with […].

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EnVeil: Pioneering data security company protecting data in use

CTOvision

Enveil is a pioneering data security company protecting data in use. It is one of the DataTribe portfolio of companies. Here is a brief overview by Enveil CEO Ellison Anne Williams: Based in the Washington, D.C. metro area, Enveil is a data security company that focuses on protecting Data in Use. In the words of […].

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How to Setup Automatic Intune Device Cleanup Rules

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this quick blog post, you will learn more details about how to setup Automatic Intune device cleanup rules. This cleanup task is similar to SCCM maintenance tasks. However, you don’t have same (like SCCM) control on Intune maintenance task. NOTE! – It’s not mandatory to set the cleanup rules within your Intune tenant because […].

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Report: Mirai tries to wrap its tentacles around SD-WAN

Network World

Mirai – the software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch massive DDoS attacks – now goes beyond recruiting just IoT products; it also includes code that seeks to exploit a vulnerability in corporate SD-WAN gear. That specific equipment – VMware’s SDX line of SD-WAN appliances – now has an updated software version that fixes the vulnerability, but by targeting it Mirai’s authors show that they now look beyond enlisting security cameras and set-top boxes

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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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Supercharge Your Employee Experience With Video

Forrester IT

Enterprises have heard their employees’ calls for increased flexibility, and now more than 25% of US information workers work from home at least weekly. But with subpar technology solutions and little face-to-face interaction, home or remote workers end up frustrated and out of the loop. Video provides a platform to engage, train, and communicate effectively […].

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Bill Gates’s view on the future of technology

CTOvision

MIT Technology Review solicited thoughts from Bill Gates on technology. Gates provided very insightful context on a wide range of technologies and presented a view of the future that is very optimistic, which is great! Some of his interests include lab grown meat, AI, virtual assistants, nuclear power, sanitation (the re-invented toilet). The overall results […].

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo

Increase in Textbook Prices Over the Years. It is believed that textbook prices have skyrocketed over the last few years. According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. With the big 5 controlling most of the textbook market, they are the ones who end up determining a standard price range to avoid further competition.

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Free course - Ethical Hacking: Hacking the Internet of Things

Network World

IoT devices are proliferating on corporate networks, gathering data that enables organizations to make smarter business decisions, improve productivity and help avoid costly equipment failures, but there is one big downside – security of the internet of things remains a problem. It makes sense, then, for enterprises to try to spot vulnerabilities in the IoT gear in their networks before they can be exploited by malicious actors. [ For more on IoT security see tips to securing IoT on your network

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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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The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2019

Forrester IT

I’m excited to share that our evaluation of data management platforms — “The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2019” — is now live. In our 34-criterion evaluation, we identified the top seven DMP vendors — The ADEX, Adobe, Lotame, Neustar, Nielsen, Oracle, and Salesforce — and racked and stacked them on current offering, strategy, […].

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Immersive Wisdom: Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality for Real-Time Collaboration

CTOvision

Immersive Wisdom provides a virtual, mixed, and augmented reality software platform for multi-user geospatial collaboration and real-time intelligence. Their solutions serve diverse industries including government, financial services and logistics. Immersive Wisdom enables real-time geospatial collaboration and intelligence across both disparate users and data sources.

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Fixing Do you want to run this file? during SCCM Deployment

Mick's IT Blog

Over the past two months, I deployed the Windows 10 1809 to all Windows 10 machines. We got through 80% of the machines with successful deployments until we reached those last 20% where they did not have enough disk space for both downloading the package and installing it. The package and install require roughly 15 gigs of space, 5 gigs for the package and 10 gigs for the installation.

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NLP, Machine Learning: Killer Combo for Unstructured Data

Information Week

To apply AI to customer service interactions, you need both machine learning and natural language processing, which is why demand for NLP skills are on the rise in the job market.

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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.

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Forrester’s Take On Salesforce’s Acquisition Of Tableau: What It Means For Customers

Forrester IT

Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau is no big surprise. Despite the massive price tag, it fits perfectly with the SaaS giant’s ambition to be come an insights-rich platform for all things customer. Watch this video to hear our take on what it means for customers. (I realize this video looks like it was shot from inside […].

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Video overview of how robots and automation are changing the workforce

CTOvision

We found this video to be an interesting overview of how robots and automation may be changing the workforce: Robots are already changing jobs as an endless array of robots enter our everyday lives. From trucking to service work to high-end jobs like doctors and lawyers, this documentary explores how robotics and artificial intelligence are […].

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Report: Mirai tries to hook its tentacles into SD-WAN

Network World

Mirai – the software that has hijacked hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices to launch massive DDoS attacks – now goes beyond recruiting just IoT products; it also includes code that seeks to exploit a vulnerability in corporate SD-WAN gear. That specific equipment – VMware’s SDX line of SD-WAN appliances – now has an updated software version that fixes the vulnerability, but by targeting it Mirai’s authors show that they now look beyond enlisting security cameras and set-top boxes

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How Chatbots Can Help Your Business and Customers

Flexagon

How Chatbots Can Help Your Business and Customers ~ It’s 2:30 on a sunny Friday afternoon. You’re just finishing up your day at work, a little tired and ready to bolt out of the office as soon as the clock strikes 3:00. Your computer is fading in and out of focus as you daydream about. Read more. The post How Chatbots Can Help Your Business and Customers appeared first on Flexagon.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.