Thu.Jan 18, 2018

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Main Street Cybersecurity: 10 Cost Effective Strategies for confronting Ransomware

CTOvision

As we usher in the new year of 2018, we are confronted with an ever-expanding network-borne threat landscape especially from ransomware. Ransomware is a type of malicious software which is used by malicious actors to encrypt systems or data. When the ransom is paid the key is in some cases provided to unlock the data. […].

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Cyber attackers upped their game in 2017, warns report

Computer Weekly

Cyber attackers ranging from criminals to nation states have upped their game in the past year, “moving the needle” in terms of tactics, techniques and procedures, a report by a cyber security firm warns

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How to Identify Machines Connected via SCCM Cloud Management Gateway

Anoop

SCCM Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) is an Internet client management feature introduced by Microsoft as a pre-release feature in ConfigMgr CB 1610. This feature not only simplifies the management but also reduces the complex configuration involved in the implementation of Internet-based client management (IBCM with reverse proxy). With the release of Co-Management feature in ConfigMgr CB 1710, […].

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Create security culture to boost cyber defences, says Troy Hunt

Computer Weekly

Security suffers when there is tension between software developers and security professionals, but it is common in many organisations, says world-renowned security blogger and trainer

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Why You Need Python Machine Learning to Build a Recommendation System

Dataconomy

Recommendation systems are ever-present in our lives today. The largest web giants – such as Google, Facebook and Amazon – use algorithms to help you find search results most relevant to you, based on your previous searches and similar data from other users. In fact, pretty much any platform that has. The post Why You Need Python Machine Learning to Build a Recommendation System appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Meltdown and Spectre: to patch or not to patch

Computer Weekly

As IT recoils from the Spectre and Meltdown chip exploits, companies face patches that are incompatible, leading to crashes, reduced performance and lock-ups

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451 Research shines light on how enterprise attitudes to digital transformation are evolving

Computer Weekly

Enterprises are capitalising on their infrastructure upgrades and are increasing their use of cloud to take advantage of emerging technologies and accelerate business change, says 451 Research

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The Monthly “Digitizing Boardroom” Book Tuning: The Digital Board’s Next Practices Jan. 2018

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses toward the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the agility to adapt to changes and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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Tech has ‘disconnect’ between the skills students are taught and the abilities firms need

Computer Weekly

Many tech graduates face unemployment because their skills do not meet employers’ requirements, say experts at Change Catalyst’s London Tech Inclusion event

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 1/18/2018

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4300+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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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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Next-gen Mirai botnet targets cryptocurrency mining operations

Computer Weekly

A variant of the Satori botnet, a successor of the IoT device hijacking Mirai botnet, is designed to hijack cryptocurrency mining operations, syphoning off newly created digital coins

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The New Book “12 CIO Personas” Quote Collection III

Future of CIO

This book “12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT,” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence. 46 CIOs are fluent in both business language and IT terminology to sure the seamless cross-functional communication without “lost in translation.” 47 The top leaders such as CIOs have to be fluent in both bus

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Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

Computer Weekly

Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

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Modernizing the Energy Industry with Nutanix

Nutanix

The oil and gas sector has been hit very hard over the past few years, due to the steep downturn in crude oil and other commodity prices. You can get a sense of this by looking at the macroeconomics trends in areas with a high density of oil and gas companies.

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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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NRF 2018: Rent the Runway – focus on data proves use case for clothing rental

Computer Weekly

Clothing retailers are not traditionally known to rent products to anyone other than celebrities, but retail service Rent the Runway is using data to prove customer demand

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NRF 2018: Companies should take “lab approach” to innovation, says former GE exec

Computer Weekly

Organisations should use a lab-type approach to test ideas and drive innovation, according to the former vice-chair of GE, Beth Comstock, speaking at At NRF 2018

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Milton Keynes first to get CityFibre-backed consumer broadband

Computer Weekly

CityFibre’s FTTP broadband network will be launched to residential customers in Milton Keynes through ISP partner Vodafone

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Nordic IT executive interview: Daniel Kjellén, CEO, Tink

Computer Weekly

Sweden could have a head start in the race to open up banking through the European Union’s PSD2 regulation

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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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Bristol council in a hurry with £250,000 cloud migration project

Computer Weekly

Local authority seeks IT supplier to help it move systems to the cloud in nine-month project before colocation service ends

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Booking.com’s focus on women in tech

Computer Weekly

Travel comparison website Booking.