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Average Cost of a Data Breach in 2020: $3.86M

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Read Marc Wilczek’s commentary on the average cost of a data breach in 2020 on Dark Reading : A recent survey of 3,200 people in 524 organizations that suffered data […].

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Data Governance for 2020 and Beyond

Forrester IT

Companies have short attention spans when it comes to data governance. Even for organizations with sustained programs, the continuous push and pull of new regulations, projects, or data and analytics investments create constant disruption. Here is the […].

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Future Of Retail 2020: Retail Marketers Face Privacy and Data Ethics Regulations

Forrester IT

To understand how Forrester’s predictions will unfold in the retail industry in 2020, my colleague Madeline Cyr and I interviewed experts within Forrester for our “Applying 2020 Predictions To Retail” series.

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Forecasting In Uncertainty: Despite The Pandemic, US Tech Jobs Grew In 2020 Led By Data And Security Positions

Forrester IT

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 31 released its 2020 Occupational Employment Survey. We use this data for our estimates and forecast of US business and government spending on tech staff, utilizing both the data on tech jobs by industry and on average annual salaries for different tech positions.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals. Database benchmarks for education and resource prioritization.

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Introducing The Forrester Wave™: Graph Data Platforms, Q4 2020

Forrester IT

We recently published “The Forrester Wave™: Graph Data Platforms, Q4 2020” evaluation to help organizations make the appropriate decision when choosing a vendor. Although Forrester has been covering graph databases for more than a decade, this is the first vendor comparison report.

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10 insights from the 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

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The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report opens with an Oscar Wilde quote from “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: “Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes.” In other […].

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Enterprises are pouring money into data management software – to the tune of $73 billion in 2020 – but are seeing very little return on their data investments.

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Data Analytics in the Cloud for Developers and Founders

Speaker: Javier Ramírez, Senior AWS Developer Advocate, AWS

You have lots of data, and you are probably thinking of using the cloud to analyze it. But how will you move data into the cloud? How will you validate and prepare the data? What about streaming data? Can data scientists discover and use the data? Will the data lake scale when you have twice as much data?

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?

Speaker: Mark Ridley, Owner and Founder, Ridley Industries

In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage. March 11, 2020 11AM PST, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT.

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How Preparation and Strategy Can Be Used to Fight and Defeat Any Ransomware Attack

Speaker: Karl Camilleri, Cloud Services Product Manager at phoenixNAP

million attacks, the threat marked a 148% increase compared to 2020 and was the most expensive year on record! As a result, data protection needs to be a concern for most banks, businesses, and information technology specialists. The days of a “once in a while” attack against businesses and organizations are over.

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Pandemic Response: Lessons Learned From COVID-19

In March 2020, the world was hit with an unprecedented crisis when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. As the disease tragically took more and more lives, policymakers were confronted with widely divergent predictions of how many more lives might be lost and the best ways to protect people.