Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Hello everyone! This January, I joined Forrester as an analyst on the Security and Risk team. I’ll be covering topics like Network Analysis & Visibility (NAV), Zero Trust Architecture, and the Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) ecosystem. I am extremely excited to join the team and make Zero Trust more accessible for organizations to understand and […].
Association of Information Technology Professional
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
After Jean-Pierre Nzabahimana earned his master’s in cybersecurity, he got CompTIA Security+ to prove to employers he was up to the task.
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Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
You’re probably tired of hearing about 2021 cybersecurity predictions. This is something different. We’re taking a look back to what we predicted would happen in 2020, and grading our predictions. After all, why make predictions in the first place if we’re not going to reflect and assess ourselves afterwards? When we make predictions, we aim to identify what is different that we think will happen based […].
Social, Agile and Transformation
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
This is my 500th post on this blog, Social, Agile, and Transformation (and almost 700 across all websites), so I hope you will celebrate this milestone with me! I started this blog back in 2005 when a friend told me that my startup needed to be "plugged into the blogosphere." I interpreted that to mean that I should start a blog and called it CTOtoDevelopers.
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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.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
It’s official: 2020 was a sucky year for fintech funding. After rising rapidly from under $1 billion in 2010 to over $41 billion in 2019, fintech funding dropped appreciably in 2020. Overall investment in fintech was down 31% in 2020 compared to the previous year. And an already-bad year ended even worse: Q4 2020 saw […].
Information Week
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Your ability to explain artificial intelligence and its components to business leaders could mean the difference between acceptance and resistance. Here's how to do it.
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Anoop
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s understand the ConfigMgr Client Action called Discovery Data Collection Cycle in a bit more detail. The users/admins can initiate the Discovery Data Collection Cycle to speed up the discovery cycle as part of troubleshooting scenarios from Windows 10 clients.
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
In my last blog post about customer experience (CX) prioritization, I talked about the importance of balancing customer impact with business impact when making decisions about which projects to pursue. Beginning CX prioritization uses a simple but effective four-box model. As CX prioritization moves up the maturity curve, it gets more complex by adding more […].
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
A Comparitech report found that Japan and the UAE have the most expensive identities available on illicit marketplaces at an average price of $25.
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Salesforce GM & chief medical officer as Salesforce, discusses the company's new vaccine cloud technology, and how Salesforce is helping to vaccinate more than two billion people around the world by the end of 2021.
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.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
There are situations where you want to block P2P file transfers to people outside the organization during a video conference meeting. You'll need to issue a global policy.
Information Week
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
These three factors produce an IT transformation that can maximize the value from technology and people to power business agility.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Cybersecurity expectations are vague, and that has to change if there is any chance of approaching a reasonable amount of cybersecurity.
Network World
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
What will your worklife be like years from now? Today's work-from-home world has given us a glimpse of the future, as these five articles from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World illustrate.
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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.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The Global Risks Report highlights the onslaught of cyberattacks and a failure of governments to stop them.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Saykara CEO and founder Harjinder Sandhu speaking at the Health Tech stage of the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Nuance Communications has acquired Saykara , a Seattle health-tech startup that makes a voice assistant for clinicians. Nuance, based in Boston and publicly traded, will use the deal to boost its own AI-related healthcare products.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Security is important in any organization, but getting employees to follow protocol can be a challenge. Tom Merritt offers five reasons why using fear-based motivation techniques is not ideal.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook is expanding what false claims it will remove from its platforms related to COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccines in general starting today. The company began removing debunked COVID-19 claims in December of last year and notifying customers when they had interacted with a post that has false information that same month.
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Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Using psychology can help improve the odds of success against a cybercriminal's digital incursion.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge. Samsung’s new line of Galaxy S21 smartphones launched less than two weeks ago, but Amazon , B&H Photo , and Best Buy have already marked down the phones to their lowest prices to date, with up to $200 in savings. If the Galaxy S21 is the phone you’re looking for, you can grab an unlocked model with 128GB of storage for only $700 or a 256GB model for $750.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Use these practical guidelines to determine if something's a great deal or too good to be true.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The Reskill Americans co-founders, from left to right: Femi Akinde, Chief Technology Officer Mike Koss and Tim Mallalieu. (Reskill Americans Photos). Femi Akinde and Mike Koss met a decade ago at StartPad, a former Seattle co-working space where Koss was director and Akinde was a startup founder. They both eventually moved on, but stayed in close contact.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Tesla says it has invested $1.5 billion in the bitcoin cryptocurrency. The electric car manufacturer filed its annual 10-K report with the SEC this morning, and revealed the new bitcoin investment. Tesla says it will also “begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in the near future.”. Tesla customers have been calling on founder and CEO Elon Musk to accept bitcoin for vehicle purchases recently.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Timothy Wilks, a 20-year-old YouTuber, was shot and killed in Nashville on Friday night while trying to film a robbery “prank” video. Wilks and at least one friend reportedly approached a group of people in the parking lot of Urban Air, a trampoline business, while holding butcher knives, according to the Nashville … Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Microsoft is bringing Forza Horizon 4 to Steam on March 9th. It marks the first time the Forza franchise has been available on Steam, and it will include crossplay with players on Xbox consoles, the regular Windows 10 version, and those streaming Forza Horizon 4 through xCloud. Playground Games has been gradually improving Forza Horizon 4 with expansions and a battle royale-like mode.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
A new study out Monday is the latest to suggest that climate change is already making people’s lives worse, this time for those allergic to pollen. The findings indicate show pollen season in North America has gotten measurably longer and that pollen has become more plentiful over the past three decades, due in part… Read more.
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The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images. Elon Musk is putting up $100 million as part of a new X Prize Foundation competition focused on carbon removal technology. The contest, announced Monday morning, will run for four years and is open to teams around the globe. Fifteen teams will be selected for the competition within 18 months. They will each get $1 million, and 25 separate $200,000 scholarships will be given to student teams who enter.
Gizmodo
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The Aurora 7 laptop seems lifted straight from the imagination of a Hollywood prop builder working on a bad hacker flick. But with seven foldout screens, there’s little chance anyone could actually use this beast on their laps. It’s a mobile transforming workstation for those who need more screen real estate than they… Read more.
TechSpot
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
In this review we want to see how the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and 5950X compare in gaming performance using the RTX 3090, RTX 3070, 5700 XT and 5600 XT, using various graphics quality presets at 1080p, 1440p and 4K.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota). The editor who has been in charge of The Washington Post newsroom ever since Jeff Bezos bought the newspaper is stepping down at the end of the month. In a new interview with The New Yorker , Post Executive Editor Marty Baron offers a bit of insight into working for the Amazon founder, what changed at the paper under Bezos and more.
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