Wed.Aug 18, 2021

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Optimizing Global Campaigns In The Region

Forrester IT

Forrester’s 2021 Global Marketing Survey revealed that three of the top five challenges regional teams face when implementing campaigns are the inability to develop campaigns based on customers’ needs, the lack of coordination across siloes, and a need for the right tools and technology to do the job well. As a result of these challenges, […].

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How CIOs Can Reduce Bias When They Are Hiring

The Accidental Successful CIO

The goal for a CIO is to increase IT department diversity Image Credit: Ikhlasul Amal. With a little luck, we’ve all gotten the message by now: having a more diverse IT department makes for a better IT department. However, despite the fact that most companies have spent a lot of money trying to teach everyone about the power of diversity, we still don’t seem to have done a very good job of making our departments diverse.

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Software Composition Analysis Is A Core Tool To Protect Your Software Supply Chain

Forrester IT

Over the past year, breaches like SolarWinds and Kaseya have woken us up to the realities of software supply chain risk. Whether through infiltrating the software delivery pipeline, deliberately uploading malicious components to popular repositories, or taking advantage of existing vulnerabilities in open source components, attackers are leveraging gaps in supply chain controls to compromise […].

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My CompTIA Cloud+ Favorites: Cloud Security

Association of Information Technology Professional

Cloud security layers help administrators understand concepts like secure access, the shared security model and the principle of least privilege.

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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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The State Of Privacy In Asia Pacific: A Wake-Up Call For Marketers

Forrester IT

Marketers in Asia Pacific (APAC) are aware of the importance of privacy, but their consumer data privacy practices are still immature across strategy, process, people, and tools. This exposes brands in APAC to the risk of failing customer expectations and losing trust from the rising number of privacy-conscious consumers. My latest report The State Of […].

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Windows 11 Intune Enrollment Process

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 Windows 11 Intune Enrollment Process appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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Create SCCM Device Collection for Visual Studio Upgrade

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 Create SCCM Device Collection for Visual Studio Upgrade appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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Stop, Look, And Listen Before Expanding Your Use Of Workplace Augmented Reality

Forrester IT

A new Forrester report explains how business leaders should approach broader deployment of AR as one piece of larger employee experience (EX) programs that encourage employees to engage more creatively with the future of their work.

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Easy Guide to Deploy Wallpaper using 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 Easy Guide to Deploy Wallpaper using SCCM appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Where Do UK Consumers Stand On The Financial Well-Being Spectrum?

Forrester IT

To help financial services firms understand where UK consumers stand on the financial well-being spectrum, Forrester surveyed 2,519 online adults in 2020.

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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 top 3 cryptocurrency scams of 2021

Tech Republic Security

Kaspersky says that fake exchanges, fake mining hardware and wallet phishing are the most popular crypto scams of the year, many of which it said have a higher-than-usual level of detail.

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Optimising Global Campaigns In The Region

Forrester IT

What can regional marketing teams do to break through silos and ensure campaigns are relevant to local audiences? Consider these four steps.

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Hackers are getting better at their jobs, but people are getting better at prevention

Tech Republic Security

Expert says people are becoming smarter about the links they click on and noticing the ones they shouldn't, giving hope for the future of cybersecurity.

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IoT could drive adoption of near-premises computing

Tech Republic Data Center

Near-premises computing offers the robustness of a central data center at the edge. It's time to take a look at this option.

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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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FIX: SCCM Task Sequence Failed to Apply Driver Package 0x80070057

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 FIX: SCCM Task Sequence Failed to Apply Driver Package 0x80070057 appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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ICS vulnerability reports are increasing in number and severity, and exploit complexity is dropping

Tech Republic Data Center

71% of vulnerabilities found in the first half of 2021 are classified as high or critical, and 90% are of low complexity, meaning an attacker can expect repeated success under a variety of conditions, says Claroty.

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Expert: Cyberattacks in the energy sector put lives in danger

Tech Republic Security

Zero-trust is a good way to prevent hackers from gaining control of our infrastructure and energy industries, expert says.

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Redefining a digital B2B sales experience

TM Forum

Today, communications service providers (CSPs) are in the process of rapidly accelerating plans to transform their customer experience through digital-first operating models. After all, B2B customers today expect personalized, intelligent, and seamless engagement at any and every point in their journey. Learn how operators can digitally transform the customer lifecycle, remove operational complexity, improve business agility, and grow customer value.

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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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How to enable Focus follows cursor in Chrome OS

Tech Republic Cloud

Chrome OS has a hidden feature, inspired by the Linux desktop, that can make your work on the Chromebook a bit more efficient.

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My API story: Vodafone's API Architecture Guild

TM Forum

Florin Tene, Enterprise Architect, Vodafone Group, explains how and why Vodafone dedicates people, processes, guidelines, and tools to increase and support the adoption, usage, and development of TM Forum's industry-standard Open APIs as part of its 'telco to tech' evolution. Tell us about yourself and your job. image. tmf-api-story-florin-thumb-160x160.jpeg. alt_text. align. right. caption.

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Education and research sector hit by highest number of cyberattacks in July

Tech Republic Security

Facilities in the sector saw an average of 1,739 attacks per organization each week last month, according to Check Point Research.

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IT Leadership: 11 Future of Work Traits

Information Week

The COVID-19 pandemic forever changed what the future of work looks like and in 2021 it's still evolving.

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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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Zero-trust security is a great preventer of cyberattacks, expert says

Tech Republic Security

The zero-trust model prevents attacks, but also greatly limits the impact of a successful breach, such as a ransomware attack.

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Computing at the edge of space: HPE and Microsoft conduct International Space Station experiments

GeekWire

The International Space Station as seen from a departing Soyuz spacecraft. (NASA Photo). If your cell phone went out 17 times a day, for anywhere from 1 second to 20 minutes, you’d get a new wireless provider. That’s basically what astronauts on the International Space Station are dealing with, but they don’t have that option. That’s how Mark Fernandez of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) explains the state of communications between the ISS and Earth — and it’s one r

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Windows 11 will make it harder to switch from Microsoft Edge to an alternative browser

TechSpot

Since launching its Chromium-based Edge browser, Microsoft has been trying hard to push it onto Windows 10 users through various methods. It has set it as the default after large Windows updates, given "tips" on how to switch to its one and only "recommended" browser, and even pushed full-screen ads.

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T-Mobile data breach: More than 47M current and former customers affected, carrier says

GeekWire

(GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper). T-Mobile on Wednesday released more details about a “highly sophisticated cyberattack” that exposed data from more than 40 million former or prospective customers who had applied for credit with the company, as well as 7.8 million current postpaid subscribers. The stolen files do not appear to include customer financial, credit card, debit or other payment information, T-Mobile said.

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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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How to protect your privacy in Windows 10

Computerworld Vertical IT

There has been some concern that Windows 10 gathers too much private information from users. Whether you think Microsoft's operating system crosses the privacy line or just want to make sure you protect as much of your personal life as possible, we're here to help. Here's how to protect your privacy in just a few minutes. Note: This story has been updated for the Windows 10 May 2021 Update , version 21H1.

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Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated and better at going unnoticed

Tech Republic Security

Human error is still responsible for the majority of breaches, but we're getting better about watching for suspicious links, expert says.

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Blue Origin leaving humans behind as next mission will carry scientific and research payloads

GeekWire

(Blue Origin Photo). Jeff Bezos and his crewmates won’t be hopping aboard for a suborbital redo on the next New Shepard mission. The Amazon founder’s space venture announced Wednesday that the 17th flight of the reusable rocket ship will carry scientific and research payloads. Blue Origin scheduled the launch for 6:35 a.m. PT on Aug. 25 from its West Texas facility.

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Samsung confirms it’s removing ads from its stock apps later this year

The Verge

The $1,199 Galaxy S21 Ultra, which showed ads in its default apps. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Samsung has confirmed that it will stop showing ads in default apps including Samsung Weather, Samsung Pay, and Samsung Theme. It follows comments made by its mobile chief TM Roh in an internal town hall meeting reported by Yonhap. “Samsung has made a decision to cease the advertisement on proprietary apps including Samsung Weather, Samsung Pay, and Samsung Theme,” the company said in a statem

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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.