Wed.Jan 29, 2020

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As Bad Bots Evolve, Bot Management Solutions Evolve To Fight Them

Forrester IT

One of my favorite things about covering the bot management market is that bots are not just a security issue. Sure, it’s common for bots to conduct credential stuffing attacks with a bunch of stolen usernames and passwords, but that just scratches the surface of the bot problem. Attackers also use bots to perform reconnaissance […].

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15 Things Every Business Must Know About 5G

CTOvision

5G is here — but it’s also not here. And it is still coming. This can be a little confusing. Every U.S. carrier has launched some form of 5G network, and many European carriers have as well, but what exactly is it? And why should we care? It might still be several years before 5G is fully […].

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Work Hard. At Not Getting Your Phone Compromised

Forrester IT

The recent news concerning the hacking of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ mobile phone demonstrates that corporate executives are perfectly legitimate collection targets for governments. Powerful individuals should expect to be targets of criminals, activists, and governments. Furthermore, anyone in failing relationships could be a target for a partner installing “stalkerware.

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Three reasons why multi-cloud is back – and here to stay

CTOvision

Read Dominic Wellington list three reasons why multi-cloud is here to stay on Diginomica : I’ve worked in IT long enough to spot cycles. And like me, ideas will come and go. It’s like synthpop. Everyone fell out of love with it when the 80s were done, and now it’s back, stronger than ever and spawning […].

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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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Navigate GRC Purchasing Decisions With These Three Considerations

Forrester IT

The market for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) technologies is competitive, diverse, and supports a broad range of capabilities. Having many options to choose from is a good thing; having too many options without a clear sense of what you need, what you can afford, or what resources are available to utilize the technology you’ve […].

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Big Tech’s calls for more regulation offers a chance for them to increase their power

CTOvision

At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, “tech for good” was one of the key themes on the agenda. Big Tech — companies like Microsoft and Google — used their airtime to call for more regulation, particularly in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). It’s a broad term that applies to a set of […].

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Data Privacy: Top trends to watch in 2020

Tech Republic Security

Data privacy is an increasing concern for companies and individuals. Learn more about what's on the landscape for 2020.

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RCS: What’s Going On?

Forrester IT

Forrester published a piece on RCS called: “More Myth Than Magic – For Now.” (report is here if you are a client). For those of you not following RCS, it’s basically the carrier’s upgrade to SMS which is nearly 30 years old at this point. There have been a couple of recent announcements that I […].

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Snowflake is the Linux SSH GUI you didn't know you needed

Tech Republic Security

Is a Linux SSH GUI in your future? Jack Wallen believes once you try Snowflake, there's no going back.

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Measuring Business Value Is Within Your Reach

Forrester IT

Measuring the business value of a specific investment — and thus measuring ROI — is often easier said than done. It can be confusing with so much information and so many different measurements. Should you look at cost savings, sales, employee productivity, operational efficiency? Which sales, which employees, which costs? Following Forrester's TEI framework can help you get started.

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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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Get Knowledge about Unpredictable Network Internet Outages

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Have you heard about network and internet outages? Do you follow internet outage news? Here is the opportunity to learn more interesting facts about network and internet outages via quiz from Martello Technologies (Savision). Try ⏬⏬ out [link] Introduction Can you guess which of the 12 statements are TRUE or FALSE?

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AI Solution Development Requires Trusted Cooperation For The Long Haul

Forrester IT

Many AI practitioners and those exploring AI solutions expect to reap the benefits of AI technologies simply by adopting licensed API services in the cloud. However, in many cases, an out-of-the-box solution is not enough to solve ongoing business challenges. A three-month pilot implementation is usually only enough to demonstrate the value of the concept […].

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How to enable facial recognition in the BitWarden mobile password manager

Tech Republic Security

The latest version of the BitWarden Android client supports facial recognition. Find out how to enable it.

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Facebook Viewpoints App: Concrete Details

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Facebook Viewpoints App: Concrete Details - Information Technology Blog. Everything appears to show that Facebook wishes to give a portion of its income to its clients. The internet-based life released a fresh out of the box marketing research application called Facebook Viewpoints, which will reward people aged more than 18 for participating in surveys, research study, and market occupations.

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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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10 Predictions for the Unpredictable Agile World

Information Week

The Agile change bus will continue its journey, but this time with the additions of flow, design thinking, and improved metrics.

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Cyberattacks against endpoints rising, reaching $9 million per attack in 2019

Tech Republic Security

Attacks against endpoints have become more costly, up more than $2 million since 2018.

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CIOs Need To Know: Just Exactly What Is Artificial Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Everyone is talking about AI, but what is it really? Image Credit: PROO’Reilly Conferences. Welcome to the 21st Century. For some reason everyone seems to be talking about artificial intelligence as of late. What’s the big deal? This stuff used to only exist in science fiction movies and now it sure seems like it is in the process of taking over the world.

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Get Knowledge about Unpredictable Network Internet Outages

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Have you heard about network internet outages? Do you follow internet outage news? Here is the opportunity to learn more interesting facts about network and internet outages via quiz from Martello Technologies (Savision). Try ⏬⏬ out [link] Introduction Can you guess which of the 12 statements are TRUE or FALSE?

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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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How to share a Google calendar

Tech Republic Cloud

Google Calendars are easy to share, but you need to know about one particular pitfall of the system.

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All You Need to Know about Microsoft MS-202 Exam and Microsoft Role-Based Certifications. Practice Tests Are Here to Help You!

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - All You Need to Know about Microsoft MS-202 Exam and Microsoft Role-Based Certifications. Practice Tests Are Here to Help You! - Information Technology Blog. With the introduction of new role-based certificates, most professionals don’t know where to start to obtain the Microsoft Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate credential.

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How to share a Google calendar

Tech Republic Cloud

Google Calendars are easy to share, but you need to know about one particular pitfall of the system.

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How to better control access to your Windows network

Network World

Take stock of how people and devices access your network and block potential avenues of attack.

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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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How to add new authorization credentials to Jenkins

Tech Republic Data Center

If you're looking for a better way to store credentials in Jenkins, learn how to make use of the Credential plugin.

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Thriving SaaS Growth and Containerization Use Will Drive Cloud Market in 2020

Dataconomy

What does the cloud industry has to offer for the year 2020? What are the trends we will see in cloud adoption and cloud-to-cloud migration? How will 5G impact cloud adoption? Read on. The global economic outlook has been lukewarm heading into 2020, yet there is much reason for confidence. The post Thriving SaaS Growth and Containerization Use Will Drive Cloud Market in 2020 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Snowflake is the Linux SSH GUI you didn't know you needed

Tech Republic Security

Is a Linux SSH GUI in your future? Jack Wallen believes once you try Snowflake, there's no going back.

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The Crucial Components of Innovation Management

Future of CIO

Information is growing exponentially and technologies are changing very rapidly, innovation is no longer nice to have, but “must-have” business competency to survive for the future. Everyone in the leadership team has a gift and digital organization is very complex. The exercise of deciding just what innovation is within each organization is one of the most critical activities of an innovation effort.

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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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How to enable facial recognition in the BitWarden mobile password manager

Tech Republic Security

The latest version of the BitWarden Android client supports facial recognition. Find out how to enable it.

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The Best “Navigation” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + 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, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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7 Ways Big Data Will Impact Ecommerce in 2020

CTOvision

Read Anna Kayfitz list seven ways in which big data will impact e-commerce in 2020 on Practical Ecommerce : As ecommerce grows, so does the data that is stored. Only a fraction of that data is utilized, however. But that will likely change, as data scientists are getting better at merging, standardizing, and analyzing. Personalized stores. […].

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The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: Modernist CIOs Jan. 2020

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, crises, 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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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.