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If Your Sales Are Down, Don’t Blame Coronavirus Yet

Forrester IT

Since its origination in Wuhan, China, the coronavirus has spread to 20 countries to date and retailers around the world are worried. As the virus spreads and a travel ban affecting over 50 million Chinese residents goes into place, US retailers are busily analyzing what this means for their sales. Impact On US Retail: Likely […].

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Data Breach Litigation Preparation: What U.S. Laws Apply to Data Breaches?

CTOvision

Read Linda C. Hsu and Jena M. Valdetero explain which laws will apply to you if you are a data breach victim on Lexology : As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, […].

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Product Security And Surveillance Capitalism: Ring and Avast Fumble Privacy, Data Security, and Third-Party Risk

Forrester IT

It’s been a rough couple of months for Ring. Multiple security and privacy issues have plagued the physical security device maker, it’s responded poorly by casting blame on users, and following that the EFF identified that the Ring app is littered with third party trackers. At virtually the same time, a security product company – […].

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Why Kubernetes job searches grew by 2,125% in 4 years

Tech Republic Cloud

The most popular Kubernetes-related tech roles include DevOps engineer, software engineer, and cloud engineer. Find out how to kick off your career.

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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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SANS CTI Summit Recap: It’s All About The Process

Forrester IT

Crystal City again hosted the eighth SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit, with several hundred attendees. CTI Summit cochairs Rick Holland, Rebekah Brown, and Katie Nickels again planned a fun, entertaining, and very educational two-day event for threat intelligence professionals from around the world. If you’re a cyber threat intelligence analyst or vendor, I encourage you to attend and submit a presentation idea for 2021.

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97 of the world's 100 largest airports have massive cybersecurity risks

Tech Republic Security

An investigation of airport cybersecurity found glaring gaps in security for web and mobile applications, misconfigured public clouds, Dark Web exposure and code repositories leaks.

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How organizations should handle data breaches

Tech Republic Security

How an organization handles a breach can be just as critical as protecting against one, according to Security.org.

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Digital eBook Library- How Can Institutions & Publishers Benefit

Kitaboo

Colleges and universities have huge libraries stacked with books. Brick and mortar libraries are still standing strong and are maintained by educational institutions. But let’s be practical here, how often are students excited at the prospect of going to the library to search for a book? An internet search is all it takes to find the information they require.

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Top 10 tech policy trends to watch in 2020

Tech Republic Security

Given the tech industry's poor track record of protecting users data and controlling its environmental impact, regulators around the globe are stepping into the void.

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Data Management Meets Multi-Cloud Environments

Information Week

Many big enterprises are committed to public cloud, but they may just be getting started with data management efforts in multi-cloud environments.

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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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How to enable the OnlyOffice document server in Nextcloud 18

Tech Republic Cloud

If your Nextcloud 18 installation is missing OnlyOffice, here's how to resolve the issue.

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Best Tricks to Get More Instagram Likes Fast in 2020

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Best Tricks to Get More Instagram Likes Fast in 2020 - Information Technology Blog. Instagram has become a challenging platform to grow unless you know all the tricks that you need to follow if you need to grow your popularity organically, if you have inactive followers on your account it is not very good for your reputation as it will become evident that you have bought them or used any other means which was not organic.

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Edge Computing Frameworks Abound -- with None Yet Dominant

Information Week

The edge will benefit from the developing frameworks -- once the market coalesces around a leading framework.

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Can Femtech deliver radically personalized care to women?

Dataconomy

Patient privacy and safety have always been cornerstones of the U.S. healthcare system. But in today’s digital era, there are apps tracking the most sensitive information such as the female menstrual cycle and fertility window. The collection of this data might be valuable for the future of healthcare – the. The post Can Femtech deliver radically personalized care to women?

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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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The Best “Justification” Quotes of “Digital Master”Jan, 2020

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Data breach: Why it’s time to adopt a risk-based approach to cybersecurity

CTOvision

Read why Craig Hinkley is of the view that companies should adopt a risk-based approach to cybersecurity on Helpnet Security : The recent high-profile ransomware attack on foreign currency exchange specialist Travelex highlights the devastating results of a targeted cyber-attack. In the weeks following the initial attack, Travelex struggled to bring its customer-facing systems back […].

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The Monthly “Digital Hybridity” Book Tuning: The Organizational Design and Balance Jan, 2020

Future of CIO

The purposes 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 platfor

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More Speakers Announced for Future Proof: Icons of industry and government gathering 19 March

CTOvision

OODA’s Future Proof conference will be held on March 19, 2020 at the Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner, Virginia. We want you to be there! Please mark your calendar now and register early. This event will be booked and sold out and we really hope that our our CTOvision readers to be there en mass so […].

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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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Attitude, Aptitude, Altitude of Design

Future of CIO

As our digitized world becomes hyper-connected, over-complex and interdependent, digital leaders should build a design framework with multiple system perspectives, and develop a set of practices to make design a strategic goal and show how your work contributes to defined business goals and KPIs. Design is multidisciplinary in nature. It’s important to leverage flexibility as a design principle to clearly define the future of digital business, and articulate attitude, aptitude, and altitude of d

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Wawa breach: A hacker is selling 30 million stolen credit cards on the dark web, cyber experts say

CTOvision

In late December, the popular Northeast convenience store chain Wawa disclosed hackers had obtained payment data for some of its customers. Now, the scope and the fallout from the hack is becoming apparent, as criminals this week reportedly began to sell millions of credit and debit card accounts on the Internet. According to Gemini Advisory, a […].

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Free Courses at Linux Academy- February 2020

Linux Academy

To continually support your mission to learn and grow, we encourage you to try these free courses and resources for developing and advancing your Cloud skills. Courses Free in February : Implementing Azure DevOps Development Processes. AWS Cloud Services and Infrastructure – Cost Optimization Deep Dive. Included with Community Membership. How to Get a Linux Job.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Security Metrics

CTOvision

Read Curtis Simpson’s article about you can get most out of your security metrics on Dark Reading : Much is at stake when reporting security metrics. This data is critical for management to evaluate security programs and justify further investment in security tools. The value of metrics comes from their ability to tell larger stories […].

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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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The Essentials of A Well Architected Solution

Nutanix

Well architected solutions are the gold standards that guarantee excellent end user and business experience.

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SEC Publishes Cybersecurity Practices of Financial Industry

CTOvision

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a 10-page document detailing cybersecurity practices observed to be in use in the financial industry. The observations were gathered by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections (OCIE) and are based on thousands of examinations of broker-dealers, investment advisers, clearing agencies, national securities exchanges, and other SEC registrants.

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The Essentials of A Well Architected Solution

Nutanix

Well architected solutions are the gold standards that guarantee excellent end user and business experience.

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Why Two-Way Audio Cameras Are the Way to Go

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why Two-Way Audio Cameras Are the Way to Go - Information Technology Blog. A lot of us are well aware of the importance of CCTV cameras in our home security systems. Not only are they an excellent deterrent for burglars that might be casing your home, if you put them outside, but they’re also an excellent way to get video proof of whoever broke into your home.

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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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The Essentials of A Well Architected Solution

Nutanix

Well architected solutions are the gold standards that guarantee excellent end user and business experience.

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Episode 1: How to drive inclusive hiring in tech ft. Orange Is the New Black

Hacker Earth

Welcome to #NetflixandHire where we learn some great tech hiring lessons from popular TV shows. This episode is focused on inclusive hiring. Over the course of the next 4 episodes, you’ll learn 4 ways in which you can successfully screen and hire developers in 2020. Buckle up, here we go! 2018 and 2019 brought about a surge of revelations in workplace equality with the #MeToo movement , the gender pay gap disclosure , Silicon Valley’s struggle with diversity and unconscious bias , among others.

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