Wed.Oct 09, 2019

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A Simple Recipe To Calculate How Much Value For Customers Your Firm Delivers (And To Find Critical Gaps)

Forrester IT

Are you trying to understand how much value you deliver to customers? In my research on value for customers, I came across an interesting method called potential gain in value (PGV). I want to share it with you because PGV gives you a simple way to approximate the value delivered. And it helps you prioritize […].

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Low-tech social engineering attacks

CTOvision

Frank Abagnale is probably the most famous low-tech hacker since Son’ka the Golden Hand and the man who stole the Mona Lisa, Vincenzo Peruggia. Abagnale famously impersonated various professions, including a doctor and a pilot, to help facilitate his financial scams where he used false identities to forge checks and cash them in. Abagnale ended […].

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Where’s The Value In Open Source?

Forrester IT

In a brand-new stream of research, VP and principal analyst James Staten and I will be taking a close look at open source software (OSS) as a strategy for modern businesses. We are seeking your help on answering a few burning questions related to our initial upcoming report, “The Case For An Open Source Strategy,” […].

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Sharp Spike in Attacks Targeting Company Email Accounts

CTOvision

A new report by email and data security company Mimecast has revealed a staggering increase in the number of Business Email Compromise (BEC) cyber-attacks. The quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) report, released today, found a 269% increase in the number of BEC attacks in quarter three of 2019, compared to the second quarter of […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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WVD Custom Image Creation using Windows 10 non Multi-User SKU?

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Windows virtual Desktop image building process is essential to understand for a WVD IT Pro. I cover WVD custom image creation related steps & questions in this post. I had a bit of trouble getting Windows 10 Enterprise and multi-user custom version working with WVD host pool.

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Financial industry spending millions to deal with breaches in 2019

Tech Republic Security

A new study says financial services organizations experienced an average of 10 attacks a year and spent an average of $1.3 million to restore services after each DNS attack.

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70% of business report Pass the Hash attacks directly impact operational costs

Tech Republic Security

Ignorance surrounding Pass the Hash attacks puts the majority of businesses at risk of compromised credentials.

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Why Is SEO Important for A Company?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why Is SEO Important for A Company? - Information Technology Blog. SEO is an inbound marketing strategy. Unlike outbound strategy, it does not in any way disturb people totally unconcerned with your items, thus helping and ensuring your success in many ways. There are obvious reasons why SEO firms in New York, Los Angeles, etc. have earned so much importance and attention.

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OGB Appreciation Day: A New Version of Oracle Express

Database Star

For 2019, I am thankful for Oracle releasing the latest version of Oracle Express. I use Oracle Express a lot. I use it to write and run code for articles on this website, to test different features, and to do other work with the database.

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MSP Consolidation Crunch: What it Means to Your IT Team

Information Week

With a wave of acquisitions going on across the managed service provider market, enterprise IT leaders have to rethink where they get their own services.

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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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Consumer data might be the new oil, but who gets to decide how it’s used?

Dataconomy

From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to GDPR and data breach headlines, the idea that consumers should know how their data is used is gaining traction with governments and consumer groups. What does this trend mean for companies that rely on consumer data for their business model? Right now, consumer data. The post Consumer data might be the new oil, but who gets to decide how it’s used?

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. In the 1960s, you think of plastic, which was a pillar of a massively expanding consumer culture in the United States that put “convenience” above all else. That’s the joke behind the now-famous “advice” given to Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” by the old

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Defending Against CSS Attacks in this CyberSecurity Era  

CTOvision

Cyber security is a concern for just about everyone these days and knowing what threats are out there is a good first step towards defending yourself, your website and your data. Whether you are looking into cyber security as the owner of a website or as an internet user, there are some basic defensive questions […].

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Participate In A Forrester Research Survey On Healthcare Customer Engagement Technologies

Forrester IT

Patients have a variety of choices, now more than ever, when it comes to seeking care. The entrance of new disruptors, including retail health clinics and direct-to-consumer virtual care services, is increasing competition and making it more difficult to attract and retain customers. Healthcare organizations (HCOs) will drive patient acquisition and retention through investments in […].

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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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Develop Organizational Learning Framework

Future of CIO

The digital era upon us is about the abundance of information, rapid change, and shortened knowledge cycle. Either being a digital professional or running a digital organization, if you fail to understand and climb the learning curve, you will get static and lag behind. Without learning, you cannot unleash collect human potential, and thus, the full digital potential of the business.

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Social Suites Technologies Are Coming Together

Forrester IT

“The Forrester Wave™: Social Suites, Q4 2019“ is live! We’re particularly excited about this report because it represents a culmination of years of Forrester research on social technologies. Since 2015, we’ve covered five distinct social tech categories: Social listening platforms aggregate and analyze social conversations. Social adtech buys, manages, and optimizes social ads.

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The Best “Core Competency” Quotes of “Digital Master” Oct. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation Is (And Isn't) The Future Of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. In the 1960s, you think of plastic, which was a pillar of a massively expanding consumer culture in the United States that put “convenience” above all else. That’s the joke behind the now-famous “advice” given to Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” by the old

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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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The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning: Pursuing IT Innovation Multidimensionally Oct. 2019

Future of CIO

With abundant information and emergent digital technologies, IT is a key component of holistic business mindset to re-imagine “what is possible” - unleashing business potentials and improving business efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and maturity. The art of possible to reinvent IT in the digital age is to deliver the value of information in helping businesses grow, delight customers and doing more with innovation.

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SECURITY LEDGER PODCAST: SECURITY AUTOMATION IS (AND ISN'T) THE FUTURE OF INFOSEC

ForAllSecure

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future. In the 1960s, you think of plastic, which was a pillar of a massively expanding consumer culture in the United States that put “convenience” above all else. That’s the joke behind the now-famous “advice” given to Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” by the old

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How concerned are you about the privacy challenges of your IoT devices?

CTOvision

Read Amer Owaida’s article about the Internet of Things connected devices privacy on We Live Security : The alarm is ringing. Half asleep, you scrabble for your smartphone on the nightstand, to snooze it for at least a few more minutes. Drowsily, you shuffle to the bathroom and ask your voice assistant to play your […].

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Security Ledger Podcast: Security Automation is (and Isn't) the future of InfoSec

ForAllSecure

Every so often, a technology comes along that seems to perfectly capture the zeitgeist : representing all that is both promising and troubling about the future.

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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 you shouldn’t handle your data breach

CTOvision

Read Zack Whittaker’s article about what you should not do in case of a data breach on Tech Crunch : So you’ve had a data breach. Don’t worry, it’s not just you. These days it happens to everyone, no matter how large or small your company is. It’s almost inevitable, some might say, and not […].

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Nutanix Integration with ServiceNOW

Nutanix

As Nutanix leads the industry with its innovative 100% software-defined hyper-converged infrastructure and multi-cloud services, customers are deploying at scale and need to integrate with their IT operations environments.

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Yahoo may owe you $358 or more as part of its data breach settlement

CTOvision

If you had a Yahoo account any time between 2012 and 2016, you can now take part in a class action settlement to compensate you for losses. Over several years, hackers were able to gain access to Yahoo user accounts, and steal private emails, calendars and contacts in at least three separate attacks. The breaches ranged […].

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Introducing: Security Compliance for Nutanix Private Cloud

Nutanix

Businesses are increasingly adopting multi-cloud architectures to benefit from the freedom to choose the appropriate cloud platforms for their various workloads. One of the key challenges in a multi-cloud world is ensuring the security of your critical applications and data.

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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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Nutanix and HPE Team Up Together to Deliver Cloud Simplicity On-Premises

Nutanix

HPE and Nutanix announce the availability of HPE GreenLake with Nutanix. HPE GreenLake is an infrastructure service that delivers on-demand capacity and planning.

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Understanding The Journey To True Hybrid Cloud

Nutanix

Nutanix Clusters on AWS provides a hybrid cloud extension allowing businesses to manage their applications easily in on-premises and public cloud environments

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Announcing Nutanix Insights - Predictive Health & Support Automation Service

Nutanix

Today we are announcing Nutanix Insights - a Predictive Health & Support Automation Service, for your Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.

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HPE GreenLake with Nutanix is ready!

Nutanix

HPE and Nutanix promised to bring as a Service consumption to the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform, and now it’s ready.

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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.