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5 signs we're finally getting our act together on security

Network World

The high-water line in information security gets higher each year. A recent IBM survey of 600 business leaders in the United States found that one in two had experienced a ransomware attack in the workplace, and that companies paid the ransom 70 percent of the time. For example, ransomware has surged in the last year.

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The Importance of an Online Encryption Policy

CTOvision

IBM’s latest Cyber Security Intelligence index report shows that: 1.5 Companies are attacked with an average of 16,856 times a year. There is a 12% year-to-year increase in security events to educate and inform organizations. There are 91,765,453 security events annually. Corporate B2B and B2C companies.

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Public Cloud IaaS : A Price/Performance vs. Security Analysis

Cloud Musings

IBM''s recent " Under Cloud Cover " study highlights the rapidly of this global transformation: "According to our global study of more than 800 cloud decision makers and. From IBM "Under Cloud Cover": Competitive advantages from. I''ve used this data to produce the Price/Performance vs Security chart below. Click to enlarge).

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The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

Vox

Guests found themselves waiting in hours-long lines to check in and get physical room keys or getting handwritten receipts for casino winnings as the company went into manual mode to stay as operational as possible. Even websites for its many properties went offline for a while. Ransomware attacks aren’t unusual these days.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Diego Maldonado

SecureWorld News

Naval Service, Federal Civil Service, serving in several roles as an IT Specialist, Information Systems Security Program Manager, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Privacy Officer, as well as in the commercial space with IBM, The Newberry Group, and other technology related companies in various roles covering Program and Project Management, (..)

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RSA Conference 2015 – San Francisco 20-24 April 2015

CTOvision

Offering five full days of educational training from experienced industry practitioners, the RSA Conference is widely regarded as one of the world''s leading forums for enterprises and technical information security professionals. See promising young companies who are developing the next generation of cyber security solutions.

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO Business Intelligence

There are several ways companies deploy LLMs, like giving employees access to public apps, using prompt engineering and APIs to embed LLMs into existing software, using vector databases to improve accuracy and relevance, fine-tuning existing models, or building their own. Dig Security addresses this possibility in two ways.