Fri.Feb 24, 2017

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DevOps, No Longer Just For “Unicorns”

Forrester IT

The born-digital "unicorn" companies such as Etsy, Google and Netflix, are pioneers of modern DevOps, but BT leaders at companies of all ages, sizes, and types are now eagerly pursuing the same principles. [i] The pressure for speed and quality is DevOps becoming pivotal for all organizations. For example, KeyBank are leveraging DevOps to quickly deliver business new customer capability using streamlined coordination between application development and operations.

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Cyber Security Skills Businesses Will Look For in 2017

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. The coming year brings new opportunities for businesses to grow and develop with the latest data tools, but with this advancement comes a series of risks and downfalls. Cyber security is a more pressing issue than ever, with hackers and cyber terrorists advancing all the time. That’s why 2017 calls for experts with the most-needed set of skills, to ensure businesses can continue driving towards success without being taken down by a breach.

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Did Move 37 Signal The Impending Death Of The Financial Services Industry As We Know It?

Forrester IT

A couple of years ago I wrote a post predicting a new business paradigm for financial services. You may have read this post and been skeptical. Maybe you thought it wasn't realistic. If so, you may be wishing you were paying more attention very soon. Read on. This week I spoke on "The Experience Economy" at a client conference where attendees were primarily from the financial services industry.

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Protecting Your (and your workforces’s) Personal Information at Home

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. A trend we have noticed in engagements across multiple sectors of the economy is an absolute thirst for information on best practices for protecting information at home. Every employee of every company, from the most senior executive to most junior intern, is now leveraging advanced interconnected technologies in amazing new ways at home.

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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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Don’t Be Fooled -- DAM Is Still Relevant

Forrester IT

If you think digital asset management solutions are a relic of the past or a graveyard of static assets then you're dead wrong. While complementary technologies like web content management, content marketing platforms, and product information management offer DAM-like capabilities, most marketers still prefer to use a dedicated DAM. But how do you determine if you need a dedicated DAM or if you can use adjacent technologies to store your rich media assets?

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At IBM’s Watson lab, customers marry the power of AI with the IoT

Computer Weekly

IBM formally inaugurated its Watson Internet of Things headquarters in Munich, Germany in February, and Computer Weekly went to meet the customers and partners who are using Watson AI to deliver on the promise of the IoT

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Banking malware, DDoS, ransomware and CEO fraud top UK cyber threats

Computer Weekly

Businesses need to be aware of the value of their data, how that data is likely to be attacked, and how to defend against particular attacks, says leading UK cyber cop

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Google First to Upgrade Cloud Data Centers with Intel’s Latest Chips

Data Center Knowledge

Claims internal tests showed improved application performance by up to 30 percent. Read More.

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Number of people hit by professional financial cyber attack grows after lull

Computer Weekly

Kaspersky Labs reports that the number of people hit by financial cyber attack grew in 2016 after falling in the previous two years

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10 ways to reduce insider BYOD threats

Tech Republic Security

Employees benefit by using their own devices for work, but there can be security risks as well. Here are some ways to control or reduce these threats.

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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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Businesses urged to buy security according to their actual needs

Computer Weekly

Organisations must resist the temptation to buy a whole raft of security technologies without first assessing their real and specific security needs, says industry expert Michael Dieroff

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How to add two-factor authentication to your WordPress site

Tech Republic Security

If you employ WordPress for your personal or company sites, you owe it to yourself to set up two-factor authentication. Here's how.

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Coadec suggests increase in software development apprenticeships

Computer Weekly

Not-for-profit Coadec urges the technology industry and government to increase the number of available software development apprenticeships in the UK to tackle the growing skills crisis

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HPE’s Whitman Struggles in Shift to Smaller Size, Cloud Pressure

Data Center Knowledge

Admits she may have "overloaded the troops," while reporting lower revenue than expected Read More.

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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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Welsh university offers fintech degree

Computer Weekly

Wrexham Glyndwr University becomes the latest education provider to launch a course in financial technology

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Replace SHA-1. It’s not that hard.

Network World

Now that SHA-1 has been broken it’s time for enterprises that have ignored its potential weakness for years to finally act, and it’s not that hard. The most common use of the hash function is in securing SSL and TLS connections, and to get rid of SHA-1 in that use is to utilize browsers and servers that don’t support it. Depending on the size of an organization, this isn’t onerous, says Paul Ducklin, a senior security advisor at Sophos.

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Old code haunts Cloudflare with memory leak scare

Computer Weekly

Ancient software has been blamed for a major memory leak affecting hundreds of thousands of web pages delivered via Cloudflare’s CDN

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IDG Contributor Network: 3 security analytics approaches that don’t work (but could) — Part 2

Network World

A security analytics approach that exploits the unique strengths of Bayesian networks, machine learning and rules-based systems—while also compensating for or eliminating their individual weaknesses—leads to powerful solutions that are effective across a wide array of security missions. Despite the drawbacks of security analytics approaches I described in part 1 of this series, it's possible to build such solutions today, giving users a way to rapidly identify their highest-priority security thr

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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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UK IT professionals wanted in New Zealand capital city as part of recruitment campaign

Computer Weekly

The government of New Zealand's capital city is looking for IT staff from around the world to address a skills shortage

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Cloudflare bug exposed passwords, other sensitive data from websites

Network World

For months, a bug in Cloudflare's content optimization systems exposed sensitive information sent by users to websites that use the company's content delivery network. The data included passwords, session cookies, authentication tokens and even private messages. Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy for millions of websites, including those of major internet services and Fortune 500 companies, for which it provides security and content optimization services behind the scenes.

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RMM Firm Keeps List of Vendors and Gear Affected by Fatal Clock Signal Flaw

Data Center Knowledge

Identifies at least 20 vendors whose gear has faulty Intel chip that may lead to destroyed equipment Read More.

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Google discloses unpatched IE vulnerability after Patch Tuesday delay

Network World

Google's Project Zero team has disclosed a potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer because Microsoft has not acted within Google's 90-day disclosure deadline. This is the second flaw in Microsoft products made public by Google Project Zero since the Redmond giant decided to skip this month's Patch Tuesday and postpone its previously planned security fixes until March.

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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 Hershey used the cloud to deploy IoT and machine learning without a data scientist

Tech Republic Big Data

Find out how Hershey leveraged IoT and machine learning to regulate production at its factories and save $500,000 for every 1% of improved efficiency when making Twizzlers.

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Cisco unveils Hierarchy of Needs for the digital enterprise

Network World

The European edition of Cisco Live took place this week in Berlin, which is a fitting location given the amount of innovation happening in that city right now. If you ever find yourself in Berlin, be sure to check out Cisco’s Open Berlin innovation center where inventive start-ups are building and showcasing solutions that run on Cisco technology. Innovation and digital transformation are linked together like Kirk and Spock.

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Cisco Beefs Up Network Automation, Shifting Further Away from Hardware Focus

Data Center Knowledge

Slew of new software-defined products and services aimed at networks and security Read More.

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Starting a Website for your Business

Galido

Every business needs a website. To be competitive, you have to do what the competition is doing and do it better. The truth is, a Facebook account won’t cut it if you’re serious about growing and expanding your business. You need a website to stay competitive, to earn trust, and for marketing and search visibility. So where to start? Here helpful list to help you make smart decisions.

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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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Fraud rises as cybercriminals flock to online lenders

Network World

Cybercrime is becoming more automated, organized and networked than ever before, according to the ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report: Q4 2016. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting online lenders and emerging financial services, says Vanita Pandey, vice president of strategy and product marketing, ThreatMetrix.

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25 Big Data Terms Everyone Should Know

Dataconomy

If you are new to the field, Big Data can be intimidating! With the basic concepts under your belt, let’s focus on some key terms to impress your date, your boss, your family, or whoever. Let’s get started: Algorithm: A mathematical formula or statistical process used to perform an analysis of. The post 25 Big Data Terms Everyone Should Know appeared first on Dataconomy.

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I come to bury SHA1, not to praise it

Network World

Most cryptography is theoretical research. When it is no longer theoretical, in practice it can become a harmful exploit. Google and Dutch research institute CWI proved that the SHA1 hash method, first introduced 20 years ago, could produce a duplicate hash from different documents using a technique that consumed significant computational resources: 6,500 years of CPU computation to complete the attack first phase and 110 years of GPU computation to complete the second phase.

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Video interview: How to make your company resilient to cyber-threats

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity challenges can be overwhelming. Cisco's Trust Strategy Officer Anthony Grieco identifies four essential steps to prevent hacking, respond to threats, and build a holistic cybersecurity culture.

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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.