Wed.Jul 17, 2019

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Customers Value Sustainability — Brands And Retailers Must, Too!

Forrester IT

Is it just us, or is the conversation about retail social and environmental impact getting louder? My colleague Luis and I are certainly hearing a lot more about it. These are not new topics, of course, but there is a renewed fervor and tone: from documentaries on plastic in the ocean and calls from celebrity […].

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For Your Awareness: The 10 Essentials of Infosec Forensics

CTOvision

Most infosec forensics investigators walk a fine line. They must adhere to specific institutional processes, which, in many cases, are state and federal requirements. But they must also use a certain amount of pragmatism since no two investigations are exactly alike. So while there may be a corporate best practice of collecting log files from all […].

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Do Your Company’s Research Practices Lead To Better Decision Making?

Forrester IT

“Understand your customers! Do research!” Anyone who has even paid even a passing glance to the world of CX and UX over the last decade has surely heard this mandate is one form or another. And while I’m happy that so many people are recognizing the value of research as a key to business success, […].

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How Is Network Security Complexity Holding You Back?

CTOvision

Read Brian Remmel explain how network security complexity can hamper the functioning of organizations on Cisco Blog : At its most fundamental level, the objective of network security is a simple one. Organizations need to protect their people, assets, and the data that travels across and resides within their networks. They do this by setting […].

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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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Planes, Fuel, Seats, Bags, Meals, and Airline Profit – But What About CX?

Forrester IT

True or false? – Passenger experience drives airline profit! If you’d like to test yourself and your CX/marketing department on how well you can attest to the truth in the above statement, ask yourself: “How much is CX improvement worth in annual profit?” and, conversely, if you’re in a finance role, ask: “How much of […].

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Savvy Hackers Breached Sprint Customer Accounts Through Samsung Website

CTOvision

This breach is worth studying for what it reveals of attacker tactics. It should also inform defenders, like Sprint, of the importance of using commonly accepted best practices for protecting data. US mobile network operator Sprint said hackers broke into an unknown number of customer accounts via the Samsung.com “add a line” website. “On June 22, […].

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Flaw in Iomega, LenovoEMC NAS devices exposes millions of files on the Internet

CTOvision

A vulnerability in legacy Iomega and LenovoEMC network-attached storage (NAS) devices has led to many terabytes of potentially sensitive data being accessible to anyone via the Internet. Iomega Corporation was acquired in 2008 by EMC. In 2013, Iomega became LenovoEMC – a joint venture between Lenovo and EMC Corporation – and Iomega’s products were rebranded […].

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The Security Snapshot: Forrester Time Machine

Forrester IT

At Forrester, it is our goal to be ahead of the market trends so we can advise clients what is to come and how they should prepare. Each year, we publish a series of predictions reports about what be of primary concern for various roles over the course of the year. Rather than using our market […].

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Does this put downward pressure on Bitcoin prices? 55,000 cryptocurrency users affected in Bitpoint’s $28 million hack

CTOvision

Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has revealed that roughly half of its 110,000 users were affected by last week’s $3.02 billion yen ($28 million) hack, reports The Mainchi. Speaking at a Tokyo press conference, Bitpoint president Genki Oda noted that of the 3.02 billion yen stolen, customers owned 2.06 billion yen ($19 million), while 960 million yen […].

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What’s Preventing You From Becoming A Better CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to learn to listen to what their employees are trying to tell them Image Credit: Benson Kua. Hopefully we’d all like to become better CIOs. This is a great goal, the challenge that most of us are facing is that it just is not clear exactly what we need to do in order to make this happen. The good news is that researchers have been talking to the people that work for us and what they have found out is that we are pretty good at sharing information, but we’re lousy listeners.

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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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Patch Chrome with SCCM 3rd Party Software Update Feature

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. You can patch Chrome with SCCM 3rd Party Software Update Feature. In this post, you will see the details about how to patch Chrome with SCCM 3rd party software update the custom catalog. Introduction Let’s learn how to patch Chrome, 7-Zip, etc. with SCCM third-party custom catalog.

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Where to Get Trusted IT Planning Advice

Information Week

IT planning authorities are everywhere, but finding truly knowledgeable experts with your organization's best interests at heart can be a challenge.

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Black Hat USA, Linux Academy’s next stop.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy is officially a sponsor of Black Hat USA. Next month you can stop by our booth #1273 (near Theater B) to put your skills to the test and win BIG! Literally, you can win an extremely rare & enormous Linux Academy penguin. All you have to do is complete a Hands-On Lab at our booth to enter into the Pinehead the penguin raffle. We will test you on common security misconfigurations that open doors to attackers!

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What's Holding Back Edge Computing for Enterprises?

Information Week

The combination of technology readiness and business appetite puts us a little closer to wide-scale availability of a new breed of IT infrastructure.

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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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Spousevitivities at VMworld 2019

Scott Lowe

This year VMworld —VMware’s annual user conference—moves back to San Francisco from Las Vegas. Returning to the Bay Area with VMworld is Spousetivities , which is happening again this year for the 11th year at VMworld. Better get your tickets sooner rather than later, there’s quite a good chance these activities will sell out!

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Black Hat USA, Linux Academy’s next stop.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy is officially a sponsor of Black Hat USA. Next month you can stop by our booth #1273 (near Theater B) to put your skills to the test and win BIG! Literally, you can win an extremely rare & enormous Linux Academy penguin. All you have to do is complete a Hands-On Lab at our booth to enter into the Pinehead the penguin raffle. We will test you on common security misconfigurations that open doors to attackers!

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How to manage Microsoft Windows BitLocker

Network World

Use these techniques to inventory your network to determine which devices have BitLocker.

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“Change Fit” Leadership

Future of CIO

We live in a world where change is the new norm and if we don't embrace it, accept it, roll with it or make it happen, we're not going to be successful. While there are many components of leadership, one of the most important ones is the ability to adapt, model and influence change. The leadership team must push the change agenda and pull the resources to achieve it.

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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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Rearchitecting Unstructured Storage

Nutanix

Unstructured data is typically comprised of data that is not easily searchable, including such formats as audio, video, and social media postings. It has an internal structure but is not structured via pre-defined data models and may be textual or non-textual, and human- or machine-generated. It is typically stored on file and object storage.

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Charting Digital Paradigm Shift by Exploring Rationale, Intuitive, and Strategic Side of IT

Future of CIO

Information Technology is permeating into every corner of the organization. IT organization is in the middle of a sea change. It is important to realize that there are basic principles and rules that make it work and there are different styles of mentality and methodology to run IT today, practices and actions depend on the organizational maturity, competition, and customer expectations, High-mature digital organizations always look for opportunities across the business ecosystem to increase the

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IT Superheroes - Even a CIO Hero Needs a Team!

Nutanix

Recently at the annual Nutanix.NEXT Conference, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer gave a perspective on the team members CIOs need today to succeed in the evolving cloud world. Here are some of the key takeaways from her presentation.

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The Monthly Keyword Summary: Inclusiveness July 2019

Future of CIO

From one generation to the next, the substance of leadership does not change, it’s about the future, change, and influence. However, digital leadership trends will continue to emerge. Here is a set of featured blogs to dig into the “keywords” of the 21st century to brainstorming the future of digital leadership and business transformation. Inclusiveness What are the Truly Competitive Advantages of Inclusiveness Contemporary organizations are diversified with a multigenerational, multicultural wo

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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.