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Managing Mental Health And Burnout Is A Priority, Not A Nice-To-Have

Forrester IT

The topic of CISO burnout has been something I’ve wanted to write about for a while. It is something I speak about to CISOs around the world regularly. Even before COVID-19, CISOs had a stressful job. They were already dealing with bureaucracy, internal politics, lack of organizational support, and the constant feeling that they would be […].

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4 Telltale Signs Your Business Is Ripe for a Cybersecurity Attack (and How to Respond)

CTOvision

Read Eric ‘ERock’ Christopher list five signs about the risks to small and medium businesses and how to deal with them on Entrepreneur : We live in a time when […].

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Publicis Groupe’s Money Back Performance Guarantee Shifts The Agency/ Brand Economic Model From Paying For People To Paying For Performance

Forrester IT

Publicis Groupe announced today the creation of “The Pact, Powered by Epsilon,” a new digital media planning and buying service that offers “money-back performance commitments” that guarantee the business outcomes from digital marketing campaigns. The introduction of The Pact is a timely move to give brands a mechanism to manage the risk of marketing during […].

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Cyber-Criminals Increasingly Using Official reCAPTCHA Walls in Phishing Attacks

CTOvision

New research from Barracuda Networks has revealed that cyber-criminals are increasingly using official reCAPTCHA walls to disguise malicious content from email security systems and trick unsuspecting users. reCAPTCHA walls are typically […].

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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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Forrester Expects A $2.1 Trillion Loss In Retail Sales Globally In 2020

Forrester IT

With the ever-changing economic landscape, Forrester’s Forecastview team developed a scenario model to understand the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the retail industry. Our model examines three scenarios; a base case, best case, and worst case, which estimate retail sales at global and regional levels for the total, online, and offline space.

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Data Breaches: How to Respond to a Tipoff of a Problem

CTOvision

What should an enterprise do when someone reaches out and claims to have the company’s data or information about a breach? There’s no rule book for a response, and such an […].

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7 Secure Remote Access Services for Today’s Enterprise Needs

CTOvision

When much of enterprise IT access has become remote access, it makes sense to give more than a passing thought to secure remote access. While plenty of vendors claim to […].

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Nintendo data breach reportedly caused by credential stuffing

Tech Republic Security

Attackers used an account checker tool to identify Nintendo accounts with compromised and vulnerable login credentials, says SpyCloud.

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Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come And Never May

CTOvision

Read Frank Kendall take a look at Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and why it may never be implemented on Forbes : Improving the cybersecurity posture of the defense industrial […].

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Coronavirus-themed malware intensifies across the world

Tech Republic Security

Such threats continued to spread in April and are likely to be the new norm, at least until the pandemic subsides, according to Bitdefender.

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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 ACG and LA Built the Future of Cloud Training

Linux Academy

On July 11th, 2019 I found myself in New York City with about 10,000 other cloud enthusiasts. This was my first big cloud conference with Linux Academy and it was overwhelming, to say the least. As a newcomer, I was armed with the knowledge of my company and our awesome platform, but I didn’t know much about the other vendors throughout the venue—except one.

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This crisis will spawn a vast spectrum of increasingly distinctive and unique organizations

Trends in the Living Networks

I have long believed that organizations are becoming more different from each other and increasingly unique. Social technologies made organizations more different. In the first instance this divergence has been fueled over the last dozen years by organizations implementing social technologies to add a differentiated layer of ad-hoc networks to the existing commoditized layer of standardized processes.

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Brute force attacks against remote desktop apps skyrocket during pandemic lockdown

Tech Republic Security

A rise in remote workers has opened a window of opportunity for hackers, who are now trying to access enterprise networks by targeting Microsoft RDP accounts.

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5 sets of resources on how to do remote work well from the world’s leading virtual companies

Trends in the Living Networks

Many people and organizations have recently been suddenly thrown into a world of remote work, and are struggling to work out how to do. A few companies have long relied heavily on remote work, or even been completely virtual organizations since they were founded. A number of those companies, in line with their philosophies and principles, have openly shared their internal resources to help do remote work well.

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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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Using Analytics to Improve IT Operations and Services

Information Week

Analytics has already enhanced an array of business functions. Now it's IT's turn to benefit from analytics-driven insights.

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How to check for weak passwords on your Linux systems with John the Ripper

Tech Republic Security

Are you certain your users are working with strong passwords on your Linux servers? Let John the Ripper show you who is and who isn't.

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How to connect ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to your Nextcloud server

Tech Republic Cloud

Connecting ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to a Nextcloud Hub on-premises cloud deployment is much easier than you think.

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7 Effective Ways to Combat eBook Piracy in Publishing

Kitaboo

As the publishing world continues to grow with increased penetration of the eBook market, maintaining content/IP security and preventing piracy becomes the topmost challenge for publishers to deal with. Costing publishers billions of dollars worldwide, eBook piracy creates a significant negative impact on everyone in the distribution channel, including publishers, authors, retailers, distributors, and readers.

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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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How to install Zabbix monitor on Ubuntu Server 18.04

Tech Republic Data Center

If you need to keep tabs on your Ubuntu Server instances, install the open source Zabbix monitor and you'll have all of the information you need.

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Scammers exploiting stimulus payments with phishing attacks and malicious domains

Tech Republic Security

Since January, more than 4,000 domains related to coronavirus stimulus packages have been registered, many of them malicious or suspicious, according to Check Point Research.

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Why the World Needs CI/CD

Flexagon

There are copious resources and information on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), including definitions, best practices, and how-to guides. Additionally, there are a plethora of CI/CD tools marketed every day. But why do we really need CI and CD? Let’s start with some basic information… What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery?

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How to secure a Kubernetes cluster by preventing unwanted modules from loading

Tech Republic Security

The road to secure containers is long and winding. One stop you should take on that journey is unloading unnecessary kernel modules in your Linux containers.

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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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Why the World Needs CI/CD

Flexagon

There are copious resources and information on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), including definitions, best practices, and how-to guides. Additionally, there are a plethora of CI/CD tools marketed every day. But why do we really need CI and CD? Let’s start with some basic information… What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery?

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How Google Cloud users can combat coronavirus-themed phishing emails

Tech Republic Security

Google is striving to block Gmail messages and other content that exploit COVID-19, but there are steps users can take to fight such malware.

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Couchbase automates management with 2.0 release of Operator for Kubernetes

Tech Republic Cloud

The company expects the next release later this year to provide auto-scaling as a feature.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. Their mission is to amplify the voices of those who look at security through the prism of how it affects victims, and seeks out trusted, pragmatic, voices that focus on security impact over hype.

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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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How SMBs build their tech stacks

Tech Republic Cloud

Survey shows SMBs rely on internal and cloud-based servers.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. Their mission is to amplify the voices of those who look at security through the prism of how it affects victims, and seeks out trusted, pragmatic, voices that focus on security impact over hype.

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Introducing Azure NVv4 and Nutanix Frame

Nutanix

In this post you will learn the technology details about the NVv4 - the first Azure cloud based instance type to use virtualized AMD GPUs.

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DECIPHER SECURITY PODCAST WITH FORALLSECURE CEO DAVID BRUMLEY

ForAllSecure

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. Their mission is to amplify the voices of those who look at security through the prism of how it affects victims, and seeks out trusted, pragmatic, voices that focus on security impact over hype.

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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.