Wed.Dec 08, 2021

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EDR: Only Mostly Dead?

Forrester IT

What comes up in conversations on endpoint detection and response (EDR) lately? A slightly different *DR. It’s impossible to deny that extended detection and response (XDR) has taken hold of the security market as the successor to EDR. In the debut Forrester report on XDR, we even described EDR as “dead” — but perhaps a better phrase […].

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5 Types of Penetration Testing and How to Apply Them

Association of Information Technology Professional

Pen testing happens when a cybersecurity professional uses their knowledge and specialized tools to intentionally attack a network or app and assess a client’s existing safeguards. Here are five of the most commonly applied types of penetration tests and what they entail.

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A Recap of Website Promotions on Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

Forrester IT

To get a closer look at what retailers did online during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we reviewed 75 retailer and brand home pages, spanning several product categories. Here are the highlights.

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Android malware infected more than 300,000 devices with banking trojans

Tech Republic Security

The initial apps in Google Play were safe, but the creators found a way around the Play Store's protections to install malware on Android users' devices. Here's how it happened and how to stay safe.

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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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On The Eve Of Another COVID-19 Year, Planning Matters More Than Ever 

Forrester IT

Amid lingering uncertainty, it may be tempting to question the value of long-range planning. The post-COVID landscape will look very different from the landscape pre-COVID — and B2B leaders who are unprepared will lose out. .

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Intune Audit Logs Track Who Created Deleted Device Configuration Policy

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Intune Audit Logs Track Who Created Deleted Device Configuration Policy appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Balancing Productivity & Job Satisfaction During the Great Resignation

Information Week

The Better.com CEO who fired 900 via Zoom said his company will be checking up to make sure employees are actually working. Remote work and a delayed return to office have spurred some organizations to be more proactive in measuring productivity.

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Setup Notification Logo for Software Center in SCCM

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Setup Notification Logo for Software Center in SCCM appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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The new Firefox 95 might be the most secure web browser on the market

Tech Republic Security

The latest version of Firefox is now available and includes an important step forward for web browser security.

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TM Forum and the GLF partner to increase telco diversity and inclusion

TM Forum

TM Forum has taken a new step to bring about greater diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) in the communications industry by partnering with the global wholesale carriers association, ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF). Their aim is to collaborate to make the telecoms industry a world leader in (DE&I). The move follows TM Forum’s recent successful trial of a new Global.

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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 Should CIOs Deal With Companies Who Don’t Do E-Commerce?

The Accidental Successful CIO

T.J. Maxx is not shifting to e-commerce. Image Credit: JJBers. Over the past few years there has been a revolution been going on in retail. An industry that used to be based on people coming to their bricks and mortar stores has been shifting more and more to doing business online as the e-commerce market has exploded and retailers have come to understand the importance of information technology.

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DTW Recap: An ecosystem in action

TM Forum

The coming year promises to bring more rapid change to the telecoms industry. One of the most accurate barometers of what our industry faces was the recent. TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World. It amassed industry leaders, disruptors and innovators to examine current trends while offering a glimpse into the future. In a constantly changing industry, it provided an important platform for industry leaders to address the challenges and opportunities communications service providers (CSPs)

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Telemedicine: Doctors and patients are both worried about privacy and data security

Tech Republic Security

Kaspersky survey finds 34% of telehealth providers admit to a wrong diagnosis due to poor video or photo quality.

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How reskilling led to cybersecurity management role

TM Forum

Toni-Ann Grant’s career at BT has not followed a straight line. Instead, a mix of opportunity and curiosity led her to her current position as the head of BT’s Cyber Assessment Labs. She shared with TM Forum's Inform how she has built a career during BT’s ongoing business and technological transformation and discussed how BT sets out to attract and nurture cyber talent in a heated job market.

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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 Intentional Futurist in the C-Suite: Watch These Signals

Information Week

Businesses can leverage these key signals to anticipate and successfully respond to future disruption in real-time.

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Reimagining operations & customer centricity

TM Forum

The telecoms industry is undergoing great change across operational technologies, IT, service forms and the customer relationship. Once clear definitions of who the customer is are blurring. Instead, many of the opportunities that telcos have identified for the next decade entail complex B2B2X business models. This report gathers five articles by industry analyst, Teresa Cottam.

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Prepare to take the CISSP certification exam that can turbocharge your cybersecurity career

Tech Republic Security

If you are a cybersecurity professional with at least five years of experience, you can take the exam that will boost your career with an elite certification. Here's a great way to prepare.

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Service assurance steps out of the shadows

TM Forum

The fundamental changes happening in network technologies and topologies that are rewriting operations are also affecting service assurance. This is driving a dramatic evolution that will move service assurance front and center in supporting operations, especially network automation. This e-book looks at how service assurance is evolving and can play a significant role in enabling CSPs achieve their automation goals now and as their networks and operations undergo profound change.

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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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Guy Who Claims He Invented Bitcoin Loses $100 Million in Court, Calls It a Win

Gizmodo

After a week of deliberation, a Miami jury has cleared Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claimed to have helped invent Bitcoin , of most claims in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit. The suit was brought by the estate of Wright’s now-deceased friend over the cryptocurrency’s intellectual property rights.… Read more.

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MacKenzie Scott says ‘no dollar signs this time’ as she finds new value in philanthropy’s meaning

GeekWire

MacKenzie Scott. (Elena Seibert Photo). MacKenzie Scott is taking a break from the headline-grabbing posts about multi-billion-dollar gifts she’s given to charity the past couple years to instead offer a lesson in what philanthropy truly means. In an essay Wednesday titled “No Dollar Signs This Time,” Scott gets to the meaning of the word that has come to describe her and other extremely wealthy individuals who demonstrate generosity by giving away large sums of money.

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Hot Network Security Acronyms You Must Know: ZTN, XDR, SASE, BYOD

Information Week

Organizations must adopt a forward-looking network security strategy that can deal with advanced threats, ensure regulatory compliance, and safeguard the network.

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Red Hat brings Ansible IT automation engine to Azure

Venture Beast

Red Hat is bringing the Ansible Automation Platform to Microsoft's Azure, helping companies manage and scale their IT environments. Read More.

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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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University of Washington’s CoMotion incubator partners with T-Mobile to provide startups with 5G

GeekWire

T-Mobile is equipping the University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs with a new 5G network to help entrepreneurs build products and services using next-generation connectivity. CoMotion Labs, part of the university’s commercialization arm CoMotion, is now the first 5G-equipped incubator in the Pacific Northwest. It also announced that the 5G Open Innovation Lab , a Bellevue, Wash.

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Sony publishes God of War PC system requirements, adds DLSS to Horizon Zero Dawn

TechSpot

When Sony announced God of War for PC in October, it confirmed the port would support Nvidia DLSS, Nvidia Reflex, higher resolution shadows, Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion, Screen Space Directional Occlusion, and 21:9 aspect ratio. The new trailer containing PC footage at 4K and 60 frames per second reconfirms these features.

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AWS and Washington state launch cloud training, but educators have big questions about rollout

GeekWire

On Monday, AWS held an event at its Skills Center in Seattle to announce an initiative to provide cloud computing education for high school students in Washington. (Ryan Warner Photography). Amazon Web Services and Washington state officials this week announced a new partnership to provide cloud computing education for high school students. AWS, the market-leading public cloud provider, aims to train and certify 2,500 Washington students within the next three years.

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Playing Call of Duty Can Improve Your Driving Skills

TechSpot

"Playing video games can make you a better driver," it's not exactly what you imagine. Ironically, studies show that first-person shooters like Call of Duty provide more benefits for drivers than driving games do.

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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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Cloud wake-up call: Amazon Web Services outage illustrates the pitfalls of online infrastructure

GeekWire

Bigstock Photo / klevo. Amazon Web Services is one of the greatest successes of modern business and technology, leveraging its first-mover advantage in the public cloud to empower companies with capabilities that they couldn’t build on their own, and creating a lucrative business for itself in the process. It sure didn’t feel so dreamy on Tuesday.

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Microsoft is updating Notepad for Windows 11 with new visuals and dark mode

TechSpot

The last time Notepad received new features was in 2018, when the developer introduced new shortcuts and improvements to the find/replace dialog and word-wrap. Since then, the text editor app has stagnated, while alternatives like Sublime Text, Notepad++, and Atom kept improving.

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Instagram head says it’s bringing back the chronological feed

The Verge

Instagram is working on a chronological feed | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. During a hearing before a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the company is working on a version of its feed that would show users' posts in chronological order, unlike its current ranking algorithm that sorts posts based on user preferences.

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Private 5G networks are becoming a thing, and Amazon's AWS wants to have a say on it

TechSpot

Virtually every major tech company out there, it seems, has talked about some way they can help enable private 5G, either via chips, hardware, or some element of the many types of software necessary to enable such a solution. At last week’s re:Invent, however, Amazon’s AWS cloud business managed to.

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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.