Fri.Sep 01, 2017

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How to improve security against email attacks and for GDPR compliance

Computer Weekly

About 200 billion emails are sent every day, but because of its importance email is constantly exploited by attackers, and yet is often overlooked in cyber security strategies

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Is Data Backup Really That Important

IT Toolbox

So, we have technology and access to affordable, yet best backup software, but should we really use it? Let?s see if the following information can help you answer this question.

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Almost all UK law firms vulnerable to email fraud, study shows

Computer Weekly

Robust defence of law firms’ email systems is critical to the £26bn industry in the face of increased impersonation attacks aimed at stealing money and data, claims security firm OnDmarc

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5 Technologies Ready To Take The Financial World By Storm

IT Toolbox

When the financial industry changes it sends shockwaves around the world. We're just hoping the next time anything significant occurs it's fairly positive. There is a good chance it will be and it's all thanks to new technology. Although these technologies aren't brand new they've not quite hit the mainstream yet. Fortunately, it won't be the case much longer.

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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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Content delivery innovation improves user experience for e-tailer

Computer Weekly

WorldStores Group, the owner of a number of online home and lifestyle retail brands, has transformed its customer experience with enhanced content delivery capabilities from Instart Logic

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How to Come Up with a Killer Logo for Your Business

IT Toolbox

A logo is the dazzling crown jewel of your brand, the cornerstone of its visual identity. Thus, despite being a small subsection of branding, it is actually a crucial one. Have in mind that the picture is worth a thousand words.

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Juniper to buy advanced threat protection security startup Cyphort

Network World

Juniper today announced intentions to acquire Cyphort, a Santa Clara-based startup that offers an advanced threat detection, analytics and mitigation platform. Juniper says it will integrate Cyphort’s technology with its Sky Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) product line. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD : DEEP-DIVE REVIEW: How Cyphort makes advanced threat protection easier than ever + Cyphort’s software platform detects advanced threats, evasion techniques and zero-day vulnerabilities using a combinatio

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US Open tennis uses IBM AI to create video highlights

Computer Weekly

Fans of the US Open are able to access match highlights provided by IBM's Watson artificial intelligence system

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SQL Challenge 19: Summary Path to Success

IT Toolbox

Sound concept, soggy execution?

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European investors back cloud, IoT and big data for insurance sector

Computer Weekly

Investors are putting their money behind suppliers of technology to the European insurance sector

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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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Why large financial institutions struggle to adopt technology and data science

Dataconomy

Data innovation and technology are a much discussed but rarely successfully implemented in large financial services firms. Despite $480 Billion spent globally in 2016 on financial services IT, the pace of financial innovation from incumbents lags behind FinTech which received a comparatively puny $17 Billion in investment in 2016. What. The post Why large financial institutions struggle to adopt technology and data science appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Two-thirds of British people have used contactless cards

Computer Weekly

The take up of contactless payment technology continues at a pace, according to research by Visa

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Riding Three Change Curves to Make a Leap of Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

CREATIVITY, has to become the philosophy of an organization, innovation is part of corporate culture. Change is inevitable, with increasing speed. Rapid business model innovation, digitization, consumerism and many other factors are creating new challenges and opportunities for enterprises’ surviving and thriving. However, in today's work environment, it takes a lot of energy to break old habits, outdated thought processes, get out of the comfort zone, make change part of your routine, and ride

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Security Think Tank: Patching, backup and access control key to resilience

Computer Weekly

What key things should organisations be doing in terms of cyber defences to ensure they are resilient?

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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.