Thu.Apr 16, 2020

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The Drop In Consumer Energy Is Decelerating

Forrester IT

To measure precisely what kind of emotional toll COVID-19 is taking on consumers — and how current consumer sentiment will influence imminent behavior — we are applying Forrester’s Consumer Energy Index, our data-driven framework that captures how ready and willing consumers are to reach out to brands. The onset of COVID-19 in the US in […].

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Small businesses unprepared for remote working, most don’t provide cybersecurity training

CTOvision

Stay-at-home orders for more than 40 states have forced millions of businesses to establish remote workforces that rely solely on internet-enabled applications and products to conduct business. The overnight move to a “virtual workplace” has increased cybersecurity concerns for small business owners, but many still have not implemented remote working policies to address cybersecurity threats, […].

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Car Makers Vs The Vacuum King: Product Innovation in The Time Of COVID

Forrester IT

If necessity is the mother of invention, the COVID-19 pandemic is the mother of all necessities. So, it’s hardly surprising we’re seeing a host of product innovation bubble up around the world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the search for new ventilator designs and manufacturing capability. Over the past month a host of […].

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You’re One Misconfiguration Away from a Cloud-Based Data Breach

CTOvision

Read why Suresh Kasinathan says that small and medium businesses are just a misconfiguration away from a cloud-based data breach on Dark Reading : Not all instances of data exposure in the cloud are the product of malicious intentions from either internal or external actors. In its “2019 Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR), for instance, […].

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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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To Accelerate Transformation, Think Beyond The RFP When Seeking Services Partners

Forrester IT

Thanks to Emma Huff, a senior RA on our team, for this post. When it comes to digital transformation, your service providers are not “extra hands on deck”. They can and should be partners in strategic thinking and bring to the table industry best practices, creative design, operational execution, and organizational change management. The Forrester Analytics Global Business Technographics® Business And Technology Services Survey, 2019 revealed […].

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Reframing Insider Threat: What Does it Mean When Everyone’s Working from Home?

CTOvision

Read why y Carl Eberling says that companies need to reframe their insider threat strategy to include work from home during COVID-19 pandemic on BW Smart Cities : There’s no shortage of articles and blog posts discussing the near-term implications of our current situation. Cloud services and applications fill the void to help ensure employee […].

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Microsoft: Cyber-Criminals Are Targeting Businesses Through Vulnerable Employees

CTOvision

Microsoft has warned that cyber-criminals are preying on people’s vulnerable psychological states during the COVID-19 pandemic to attack businesses. During a virtual press briefing, the multinational technology company provided data showing how home working and employee stress during this period has precipitated a huge amount of COVID-19-related attacks, particularly phishing scams.

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COVID-19 Raises Consumers’ Health Consciousness

Forrester IT

COVID-19 afflicts more than the patients who contract the virus. The pandemic threatens the physical and emotional health of consumers who are contending with disrupted lifestyles and months of isolation. Our latest data shows that consumers are increasingly sensitive to their personal health; as of April 10th, consumers report forming new behaviors to protect or […].

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Businesses Skating on Thin Ice Using Third-Party Services

CTOvision

Read James Efron take a look at why third-party services are risky for business on Security Boulevard : Every year businesses lose millions of dollars in data breach incidents. A survey by Ponemon Institute revealed a 3% increase in third-party data breaches in 2018, with 59% of companies experiencing a breach due to third parties […].

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Summit 2020: AI Can Heighten Your Senses, But Don’t Let It Reduce Your Common Sense

Forrester IT

Artificial intelligence can help marketers fulfill their mission of influencing prospects and clients. But using these tools well requires keen human judgment.

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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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How ransomware attackers are doubling their extortion tactics

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals are threatening not only to hold sensitive data hostage but also to release it publicly unless the ransom is paid, says cyber threat intelligence provider Check Point Research.

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Reignite Your Workforce Strategy With Adaptive Talent Management

Forrester IT

Confronted with the need to realign, reskill, or retain talent, the COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed what many organizations feared (and knew): Yesterday’s approaches to talent management do not support today’s future-of-work strategies. A new approach that focuses on talent adaptivity is required. I’m pleased to introduce some new research that explores how to “Future-Proof Your […].

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Complete Checklist To Troubleshoot Intune WIP Issues For Absolute Beginners!

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. [New Post Alert!] Facing issues with WIP policy? A complete Checklist to help your troubleshooting. The post Complete Checklist To Troubleshoot Intune WIP Issues For Absolute Beginners! appeared first on How to Manage Devices by Joymalya Basu Roy.

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PandemicEX: La perspectiva de los empleados españoles sobre el Coronavirus

Forrester IT

Los primeros resultados de nuestra encuesta “PandemicEX” ya están listos, con respuestas de más de mil empleados del Reino Unido, Francia, Alemania, Italia y España para ayudarnos a descubrir cómo estos sienten que sus empresas están respondiendo al Coronavirus. Los resultados indican que los empleados españoles: Tienen bastante miedo de ser despedidos.

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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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Microsegmentation architecture choices and how they differ

Network World

Despite a string of improvements over the past several years, enterprises can no longer rely on perimeter defenses alone to keep out network attackers. Microsegmentation directly addresses the challenge of unauthorized lateral movements by dividing IT environments into controllable compartments, enabling adopters to securely isolate workloads from each other while making network protection more granular.

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Why strong connectivity is essential for Remote Working

Spearline Testing

Businesses and enterprises, both big and small have had to adapt quickly to the current environment during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully through the success of digital transformation, companies now have a multitude of ways to adapt, survive and thrive further, with remote working currently the most beneficial. A useful strategy supported through the use of major technological breakthroughs such as cloud computing, cooperation, and enhanced communication tools, remote working has never

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How Education Technology Will Revolutionize Learning

Kitaboo

The classroom reality has changed drastically in the past decade. The advent of the internet and the popularization of digital devices brought a new context for teachers and school administrators, since students started to bring technology to the school routine. The school, in turn, cannot turn its back on this new reality, but must incorporate educational technology into pedagogical practices.

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Understanding the dangers of social networking questionnaires

Tech Republic Security

With people spending more time on Facebook and Twitter, it's important to know what to watch out for. Jack Wallen addresses the social networking behaviors you should avoid at all costs.

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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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7 Ways to Improve Software Maintenance

Information Week

Here are some approaches and steps organizations can take to perform software maintenance while creating as much time as possible for new software development.

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Report: US facing four times as many DDoS attacks as China

Tech Republic Security

Atlas VPN found the United States was targeted more than any other country partially because of its size and the openness of the internet.

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Facebook will start nudging users who have “liked” coronavirus hoaxes

Vox

Facebook is finally taking an assertive step toward combating misinformation, one that’s been on the wishlist of policy experts for years. | Andrew Matthews/PA Images via Getty Images. The company will point users who have interacted with harmful information about the coronavirus to the WHO. Facebook just announced another step in trying to set the record straight about misleading information about the novel coronavirus on its platform.

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COVID-19: How cell phones are helping to track future cases

Tech Republic Security

Why cell phones can hold the key to tracking future cases of COVID-19 with artificial intelligence.

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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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Intel and Udacity announce edge AI nanodegree program for developers

Tech Republic Cloud

Graduates of the program will be able to accelerate computer vision and deep learning solutions within the Intel OpenVINO toolkit.

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Fraud guides a hot commodity on the dark web

Tech Republic Security

Such guides provide instructions so that even novices can learn how to become cybercriminals, says web intelligence company Terbium Labs.

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APIs to Track COVID-19

Dataconomy

Editor’s Note: The article was originally published by Wendell Santos, the editor at ProgrammableWeb.com. Check back there as the article will continue to be updated as new APIs related to COVID-19 are made available. Over the past two months, as COVID-19 has proliferated, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related.

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Onfido raises additional $100 million in funding for new identity standard

Tech Republic Security

The global ID verification and authentication company's latest fundraiser will further assist worldwide secure access to digital services.

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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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Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic

Vox

A GovTech staff member demonstrates Singapore’s new contact-tracing smartphone app, called TraceTogether. Apple and Google’s contact-tracing tool has better privacy, but it isn’t perfect. | Catherine Lai/AFP via Getty Images. New contact-tracing technology is supposed to go away after the pandemic. Privacy experts aren’t so sure it will. Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential co

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Project Florence: How AI-powered online learning is training nurses to fight COVID-19

Tech Republic Cloud

The adaptive education program is now free for hospitals and medical professionals around the world.

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How startup collaborations are boosting the Ruhr region

Dataconomy

Corporations need to digitalize in order to overcome their challenges. That’s especially true for the large industrial corporations in Germany’s Ruhr region and its over 50 cities and municipalities. By collaborating with startups, they are able to drive the change forward, and that’s what the Data Hub program by Gründerallianz. The post How startup collaborations are boosting the Ruhr region appeared first on Dataconomy.

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COVID-19: How cell phones are helping to track future cases

Tech Republic Security

Why cell phones can hold the key to tracking future cases of COVID-19 with artificial intelligence.

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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.