Wed.Jul 10, 2019

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How 100+ yr old firms stay relevant

Forrester IT

As we’ve reported prior, the majority of legacy Fortune 500 firms are no longer market leaders because their focus remains on protecting their traditional business in this era of digital transformation. In last month’s midwestern US regional Forrester Leadership Board meeting, Stephanie Hammes-Betti, the SVP of Innovation Design at US Bank took us through the […].

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Good Governance: Do Boards Need Cyber Security Experts?

CTOvision

In Forbes: In today’s digital world, with near-instantaneous conveyance of information and data, cyber-events could (and routinely do) rapidly impact brand and shareholder value. While opinions differ on the need for cybersecurity experts on certain boards, there is a general consensus among management, boards, and investors alike that this need is growing.

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Announce Forrester’s First DMP Wave For Asia Pacific

Forrester IT

I’m excited to share that The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms In Asia Pacific, Q3 2019 is now live. It’s the first time we evaluated data management platform (DMP) vendors’ capabilities in Asia Pacific (AP). In our 39-criterion evaluation, we identified the 10 most significant ones — Adobe, BrainPad, Cxense, iPinYou, Lotame, nEqual, Oracle, Salesforce, […].

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Five Ways CEOs Can Take A More Personal Approach To Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Read why Don Scales says that CEOs need to take a more personal approach to cybersecurity on Forbes : Cyber threats are one of the top concerns facing CEOs in 2019. But not enough CEOs are acting on those concerns. They’re relying on their IT departments to handle security, as they should, but CEOs need […].

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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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CIOs Need To Learn How Best To Use Email

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to learn how to tame their email Image Credit: Simplificamos Su Trabajospan> Ah, email. What a powerful tool. What an utter nightmare! The person who has the CIO job probably uses email so often that they no longer really spend that much time thinking about it. However, that may be a mistake. What we forget is that email is a tool and if we can learn how best to use it, then we can become more effective.

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The Next AI in Government Events is 25 July 2019 at George Washington University

CTOvision

Join the next AI in Government event Thursday, July 25, 2019 from 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM at GWU. Note it’s in the morning this month! Our speaker is Adam Murray from the U.S. Department of State in the Office of International Communications and Information Policy. He will share with us how the US seeks […].

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Android Agent Smith mobile malware hits millions of devices

CTOvision

Mobile malware dubbed Agent Smith has infected about 25 million devices, mainly in India and other Asian countries, but other countries have also been affected, including the UK and US, according to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies. Disguised as a Google-related application, the malware exploits known Android vulnerabilities and automatically replaces installed apps […].

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Enhancements and Improvements and Bug Fixes, Oh My! – FlexDeploy 5.1.0.3

Flexagon

Continuous Improvements In the spirit of “continuous”, Flexagon has released a bunch of enhancements, usability improvements, and bug fixes over the past two month. FlexDeploy is our DevOps platform for CI/CD and release automation which automates and orchestrates the entire build, deploy, and release lifecycle. FlexDeploy is an open and extensible platform with lots of plugins for commercial and open source.

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Another GDPR Fine: Marriott fined $123m for 2018 data breach that hit 339m customers

CTOvision

Hot on the heels of British Airways, international hotel group Marriott is set to face the wrath of the UK‘s data privacy regulator. The country’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it plans to fine the US-based chain £99 million ($123 million) under EU GDPR laws for a data breach that exposed personal details of over 339 […].

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What Does 'Save to Transform' Mean for CIOs?

Information Week

Many companies are now pursuing the seemingly conflicting goals of cost reduction, growth, and digital transformation. This has huge implications for CIOs.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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eCh0raix — New Ransomware Targets QNAP NAS Devices

CTOvision

A new ransomware family has been found targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices made by Taiwan-based QNAP Systems and holding users’ data hostage until a ransom is paid. Ideal for home and small business, NAS devices are dedicated file storage units connected to a network or through the Internet, which allow users to store and […].

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The potential beyond the threshold of space tourism: hypersonic travel, solar system colonization and more

Trends in the Living Networks

I was just interviewed on ABC TV about the news that Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is going public through a merger with Social Capital Hedosophia, to be the first publicly listed space tourism company. A video of the interview is below. In the billionaire space race, featuring most prominently Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic, these visionaries are seeking to tap the potential of the space business.

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What Does Your Management Style Say about Your Age?

Information Week

Depending on how you answer specific questions, we might be able to guess your age.

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Final 6 Teams Announced For Wicked6 Cyber Games Las Vegas 8 Aug 2019

CTOvision

We previously mentioned the exciting cybersecurity competition wicked6, where six elite collegial cyber teams go head-to-head in the thrilling environment of a Las Vegas esports arena (HyperX Esports Arena at Luxor) on 8 August 2019 All proceeds of this event go to the Woman’s Society of Cyberjutsu, a national nonprofit that promotes training, mentoring and […].

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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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Running an Evolving IT via Consumerization, Contextualization, and Confluence

Future of CIO

In today’s digital dynamic and technical environments where Information and Technology are being used significantly around the globe for revenue-generating initiatives and business transformation. It is a strategic imperative to broaden IT outlook, embrace IT consumerization and emerging trend, envision the bigger picture, emphasize contextualization, explore the art of possibility, and ensure digital confluence.

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Some thoughts on volunteer tech support to non-profits

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Some interesting, though probably not unexpected, insights from the incredible humans at BigWideSky about “digital donation errors” made by non-profits. As part of our study, 2019 State of Nonprofit Digital Giving, we secretly donated to 100 organizations across the nonprofit spectrum from humanitarian, healthcare, environment, food, animal groups, arts & culture, youth charities and more.

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The Corporate Board’s Unbiased View

Future of CIO

The digital dynamic creates many blind spots and generates quite a few gaps due to its “VUCA” characteristics - Velocity, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Thus, the directorship in forward-thinking organizations must have capabilities to guide, inspire, advise, and motivate, set the leadership tones, develop digital “mindsets,” and drive digital transformation smoothly.

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How Is Data Affecting Your Dating Life?

Dataconomy

What algorithms do dating apps use to find your next match? How is your personal data impacting your decision to go on a date? How is AI affecting your dating life? Find out below. Technology has changed the way we communicate, the way we move, and the way we consume. The post How Is Data Affecting Your Dating Life? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: Driving Digital Transformation by Dealing with Paradoxes Smoothly July 2019

Future of CIO

The purpose of the book “ Digital Hybridity: How to Strike the Right Balance for Digital Paradigm Shift ” is to shed some light on how to strike the right balance of stability and changes; being transactional to keep spinning and being transformational to leap forward for making a seamless digital paradigm shift. Digital organizations should apply the hybrid management approach, focus on building a diverse, networked, and extended modern working environment in which the powerful digital platform

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Why LAX TechRecruit 2019 is a recruiter’s paradise

Hacker Earth

We are halfway through the year and it’s time to make the most of 2019. In today’s candidate-driven market, recruiters and HRs across the world are facing a tough time in hiring and retaining top talent, and sometimes even both. The battle for talent has become fierce and desperate times call for desperate measures. This is where LAX TechRecruit, founded by Stacey Broadwell , comes to the rescue.

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