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2021 Brings New Security Challenges And Regulations For European CISOs

Forrester IT

Just like waiting for the bus, 3 pieces of European focused research I have authored have published over the last few days. I have looked at three topics, that of European cyber regulations, European CISO budgetary trends in 2021, and finally the career paths of CISOs at major UK FTSE 100 organizations. What becomes apparent […].

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CompTIA Brings Together a Lifetime of Tech Experience

Association of Information Technology Professional

Influenced by her IT pro mother, Becky McCully has been tech-savvy since childhood. Recently she decided to pursue an IT career, with training and certifications. She hopes to inspire tech-minded girls like her mother did.

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The Future Of Sales Compensation Is Insight-Driven

Forrester IT

Sales compensation plans have not kept up with the realities of how B2B sales are won. This will change as insights are increasingly folded into the compensation planning process.

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How to Deploy Remote Desktop Client using ConfigMgr | SCCM | WVD

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post How to Deploy Remote Desktop Client using ConfigMgr | SCCM | WVD appeared first on HTMD Device Management by Anoop C Nair.

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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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DDoS Protection Vendors Introduce Welcome Pricing Innovations

Forrester IT

A few weeks back, in our DDoS Wave launch blog, we promised you a whole blog dedicated just to DDoS protection pricing innovations. Forrester recently published “The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021,” in which we evaluated the 11 most significant distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vendors on the planet. During our research, we found some […].

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Cisco streamlines, upgrades its SASE bundle

Network World

Cisco made enhancements to its security offerings that will expand and change the way customers buy its Secure Access Service Edge products as well as bolster network-access authentication. Cisco's SASE plan will focus on enhancing networking and security functions while building them into an integrated service that can help simplify access to enterprise cloud resources securely, said Gee Rittenhouse senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Security Business Group during this week's

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Microsoft Office 365 still the top target among phishing attacks

Tech Republic Security

Most of the recent credential phishing attacks seen by Menlo Security served phony Outlook and Office 365 login pages.

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Mutuals And Direct Banks Top The UK, France, Italy, And Spain Banking CX Indexes – Here’s Why

Forrester IT

In our 2020 European Banking Customer Experience Index (CX Index™), mutuals and direct banks outperformed traditional banks in terms of CX in the UK, France, Italy, and Spain. Why? Because mutuals and direct banks excel at the three E’s of customer experience: ease, effectiveness, and emotion. But they do it differently. When we delved into […].

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Malicious attack now targeting video gamers and modders

Tech Republic Security

Malware is being hidden in seemingly legitimate files that gamers download to install cheat codes or modifications, says Cisco Talos.

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Four Building Blocks To Help Campaign Leaders Balance Economies Of Scale And Localization Requirements

Forrester IT

How can campaign leaders balance their desire for economies of scale with the need to deliver campaigns that resonate in local markets?

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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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How to use Google's Password Checkup tool

Tech Republic Security

Google offers a password checking service that will check all of your Chrome-saved passwords for weaknesses and against known breaches. Jack Wallen shows you how to use this tool.

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Innovation in a COVID World: 4 Steps for CIOs To Get It Done

Information Week

You want to launch new products, meet your customer's needs, and grow the business. Here's how.

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Microsoft gives $5M to UW Medicine to use AI to accelerate response to next pandemic

GeekWire

Scientists are using software to design new biomolecules that treat cancer and block viral infection. (Photo by Ian Haydon, UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design.). The speed of the creation of vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was a modern marvel. You might already have already gotten yours, a little more than a year after the virus overtook the planet.

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New Ericsson Open Lab will drive network virtualization technologies

Tech Republic Cloud

Located in Ottawa, the new facility supports Ericsson's global focus on innovating virtualized 5G radio access networks technologies.

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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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Seattle region ranks No. 1 in U.S. for tech office space leases as 14 big deals help eclipse Bay Area

GeekWire

The Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). The Seattle region is the leading U.S. market for large tech office space leases, eclipsing the San Francisco Bay Area for the first time since 2013. According to a new report from CBRE , the region’s move to the top spot in 2020 was cemented by 14 megaleases accounting for a for a cumulative 3.4 million square feet.

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Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army

The Verge

Image: US Army. Microsoft has won a contract to supply the US Army with HoloLens-based headsets. The contract could be worth up to $21.88 billion over 10 years, and CNBC reports that it will involve Microsoft supplying 120,000 headsets. The software maker has been working closely with the Army since 2018, and soldiers have been testing the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets over the past two years.

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Money laundering is a real issue in tech: Here's what is being done to stop it

Tech Republic Security

Technology shows us once that tech build for good people can be harnessed by bad actors. Experts talk about how criminals are operating, and what you can do about it.

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AI experts warn Facebook’s anti-bias tool is ‘completely insufficient’

Venture Beast

Facebook claims its tool to combat AI bias -- Fairness Flow -- is being used across the company. But experts say it's likely insufficient. 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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Shadow IT is your organization's next remote working nightmare

Tech Republic Security

Employees are increasingly using their own devices and accounts to work from home - largely because it's easier to do so. Yet this rise in 'shadow IT' puts corporate security at risk.

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World Backup Day is here - is your data secure?

TechSpot

You could always take your hardware to a data recovery expert and see what (if anything) they can extract, but in this case, it's better to be proactive instead of reactive. Performing frequent, system-wide backups of all your most important data is one way to accomplish that.

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A Dementia-Like Illness Has Sickened Over 40 People in Canada

Gizmodo

Doctors in Canada are puzzled over a cluster of people coming down with a dementia-like brain disorder with no known diagnosis. Over the past half-decade, dozens of residents in New Brunswick are thought to have developed the condition, which includes symptoms such as memory loss, behavioral changes, and… Read more.

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Amazon updates remote work guidance, plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’

GeekWire

Amazon’s HQ in Seattle will soon see more employees return based on a new return to work plan. The news: Amazon expects most U.S. corporate office workers back in the office by early fall, the company said in a memo to employees Wednesday. It’s the latest update since Amazon said employees could continue to do their jobs from home through June 30.

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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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Time to Shift Your Job Search Out of Neutral

Information Week

Just holding onto the job you had was what most people wanted to do a year ago. But the allure of higher salaries may be wooing some IT pros to greener pastures.

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Tax refund phishing scam targets university students and staffers

Tech Republic Security

The IRS is warning of a phishing scam that promises refund information but looks to capture Social Security numbers and other sensitive data.

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CERN physicists figured out how to study antimatter by cooling it with a laser

TechSpot

Researchers in CERN's ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus) at the University of British Columbia have discovered a way to lower antimatter's temperature to near absolute zero using a laser. This breakthrough will make it easier for physicists to study the volatile material. Cooling antihydrogen atoms to almost zero Kelvin slows.

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Google cancels April Fools

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. For the second year in a row , Google has canceled April Fools. For the second year in a row, Business Insider has obtained an internal email stating that Google will not create a series of elaborate and occasionally entertaining April Fools pranks this year. Google confirmed the memo to Business Insider , and to us, too.

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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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Facebook is introducing more News Feed options, including who can comment on your posts

TechSpot

Mark Zuckerberg’s social network announced today that users would be given the power over who can comment on their posts. The options consist of Public, Friends, or only those profiles and pages that have been tagged.

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Don't give hackers a home run by using these baseball team names in your passwords

Tech Republic Security

Cincinnati Reds fans: It's especially time for you to rethink your team as a common part of your credentials.

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Oracle offers free cloud migration to lure new customers

Venture Beast

Oracle will migrate companies' most complicated computer programs to its cloud for free as it targets potential cloud-computing clients. Read More.

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Same as the old boss: How Amazon honed its anti-union bent at a Seattle call center 20 years ago

GeekWire

Activists protest union busting and other issues outside Amazon’s 2019 shareholder meeting. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). Among the biggest stories in the country is an effort to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. The final employee votes have arrived and are in the process of being verified and counted. If the effort is successful, it would be the first unionized workforce in Amazon’s 26-year history.

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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.