Wed.Apr 03, 2019

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The Pendulum Swings Back To Creativity: Decoding Accenture Interactive’s Droga5 Deal

Forrester IT

Today, Accenture Interactive announced its Droga5 acquisition. The New York and London-based creative agency joins previous Accenture creative acquisitions Fjord, Karmarama, and The Monkeys to bolster the consultancy’s creative and brand communication capabilities. Combined with Accenture Interactive’s technology, data, experience design, commerce and programmatic capabilities, the addition of Droga and others helps move them one […].

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6 Essential Skills Cybersecurity Pros Need to Develop in 2019

CTOvision

It’s definitely a job seeker’s’ market out there in the cybersecurity employment pool. According to an about-to-be-released report from ISSA and ESG, 74% of organizations today have been impacted by the cybersecurity skills shortage. Meantime, a report released last month from ISACA says that 60% of organizations need a minimum of three months to fill […].

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Oracle’s Customers Can Benefit If Its Application Maintenance Stream Starts To Dry Up

Forrester IT

Oracle customers should renegotiate their commercial relationships with this important vendor, using adoption of Oracle’s SaaS products as an incentive and cancellation of maintenance as a credible threat. Oracle’s SaaS strategy seeks to pull customers forward, but it has also undermined the value of its maintenance offering for its legacy on-premises products.

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Toyota suffers second data breach in five weeks

CTOvision

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has suffered a second data breach in the space of five weeks, leading to the data of 3.1m customers being accessed through a malicious attack. Toyota said that hackers breached its IT systems and gained access to information belonging to several of its sales subsidiaries. “We take this situation seriously, and […].

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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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How CIOs Are Using Algorithms To Tell People What To Do

The Accidental Successful CIO

Algorithms can sometimes make better decisions than people can Image Credit: x6e38. As the person with the CIO job, one of your main tasks is to assign work to the various people who work for you. As the number of people grows and the amount of work that has to be done seems to get even larger, this task that once upon a time appeared to be simple, can quickly get out of hand.

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The Importance Of A Timely Data Breach Response

CTOvision

Read why Eric Hamilton says that timely response to a data breach can save millions of dollars on Tech Times : When companies are targeted by cybercriminals, it is essential that they have plans in place in order to deal with this and enable themselves to get back online rapidly. This not only applies to […].

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Phishing attacks are a worse security nightmare than ransomware or hacking

CTOvision

Read why Steve Ranger says that phishing attacks are more disruptive than ransomware, malware or hacking on ZDNet : Phishing and fake emails are the biggest security headache for business and among the hardest to tackle. According to the 2019 Cyber Security Breaches Survey published by the UK government, the most common type of cyber […].

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Halo Jakarta! An AWS Region is coming to Indonesia!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Indonesia! The new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be composed of three Availability Zones, and will give AWS customers and partners the ability to run workloads and store data in Indonesia. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be our ninth Region in Asia Pacific. It joins existing Regions in Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as an upcoming Region in Hong Kong SAR.

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TEMPEST and EMSEC: Is it possible to use electromagnetic waves in cyberattacks?

CTOvision

Venezuela recently suffered a series of blackouts that left 11 states without electricity. From the outset, Nicolás Maduro’s government claimed that it was an act of sabotage, made possible with electromagnetic attacks and cyber attacks on the National Electric Corporation (Corpoelec) and its power stations. By contrast, Juan Guaidó’s government simply put it down to […].

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Kubernetes Cheat Sheet

Linux Academy

If you’re like me, you may have those moments where you’re at the terminal, hands hovering over your keyboard, and … nothing. I always seem to freeze up and probably rely too much on bash history. (The up arrow is my friend.). While learning Kubernetes, I ended up posting 14 or 15 sticky notes on my monitor to help me in those moments — but after a while, I could barely read what was on the screen.

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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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Product Management for Everyone

SPF13

An interactive workshop developed for and given at the Landing Festival in Berlin 2019. This workshop covers: What a product manager does. How to become a product manager. Practice thinking like a product manager. Building product manager skills.

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How to Operationalize Your Machine Learning Projects

Information Week

Operationalizing those data science, analytics, and machine learning projects is one of the top concerns of IT leaders. But the same tried-and-true best practices you've used for other IT projects can guide you on these new technologies, too.

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SCCM 1902 Prerequisite Error Network Access Protection (NAP) is No Longer Supported

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM 1902 Opt-in ring got released last week. Many organizations are trying to go through the staging environment or performing testing with the Opt-in version of SCCM 1902. More details about SCCM 1902 Prerequisite Check Failed error in this post. You will learn more how to fix for Network Access Protection (NAP) is no longer […].

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Secure Your Migration to the Cloud

Information Week

Five best practices for ensuring that your cloud strategy keeps things safe and secure.

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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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We've got you covered for in-country number dialling: 65 countries and counting!

Spearline Testing

We're continuing to grow our coverage for in-country automated testing of your global contact numbers, with a raft of new countries in the pipeline for 2019. And the latest country added to the list is Cyprus. In-country testing. The way we test contact numbers around the world is quite unique. We have our own proprietary network of servers, which are connected to standard telephone lines.

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Security: Why Education will Never be Enough

Information Week

After more than a decade of trying to educate users, IT security professionals still aren't getting their message through.

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Call For Entries: The 2019 Enterprise Architecture Awards

Forrester IT

Digital transformation, innovation, and customer obsession top businesses’ strategic agendas. Enterprise architecture (EA) teams must enable these goals with the right technology roadmap and with internal operating models that can help enterprises attain their goals. EA programs have left behind their old role of centralized and largely disengaged planning and have moved pragmatically into making […].

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.

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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.

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Three Characteristics of High-Mature Digital IT

Future of CIO

With the exponential growth of information and rapid changes, IT is uniquely positioned to observe underlying business processes and organizational structures across the enterprise, as well as integrate all essential business elements such as people, process, and technology into differentiated organizational competencies. IT should continue to evolve the digital dynamic and reinvent itself as a strategic business partner, retool IT management for adapting to the digital business dynamic, train I

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.

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The Best “Introspection” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is the series of guidebooks (27+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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A REFLECTION ON FORALLSECURE'S JOURNEY IN BOOTSTRAPPING BEHAVIOR TESTING TECHNOLOGY

ForAllSecure

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.

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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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The Monthly “Change Insight” Book Tuning: The Multitude of Change Management Apr. 2019

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.

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A Reflection on ForAllSecure's Journey in Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.