Wed.Mar 27, 2019

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Incumbent Brands Need A DTC Strategic Plan

Forrester IT

Direct-to-consumer brands (DTC) are making a splash — for example, Glossier and Rent the Runway just reached unicorn status (a valuation of $1 billion or more) last week. What does this mean for incumbent brands? We’ll be unpacking the DTC trend and its repercussions next week at Forrester’s Consumer Marketing Forum in New York City, […].

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How Do You Know When A Cybersecurity Data Breach Is Over?

CTOvision

Read Stephen Moore’s tips for businesses to find out when a cybersecurity data breach is over on Forbes : People often ask, “When does the pain of a security breach finally end?” The answer is often a surprise. It isn’t over when you’ve removed a hacker or insider threat from your network environment, just as […].

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Content, Experiences Key Focuses At Adobe Summit

Forrester IT

At Adobe’s marketing conference, the company focused on content and experiences as the key differentiators for brands. Watch my video summary of the event that explores these key themes. Questions or comments? Find me on Twitter. Forrester clients: setup an inquiry.

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3 security threats businesses need to prepare for by 2021

CTOvision

Read Alison DeNisco Rayome list three top cybersecurity threats that businesses should prepare for on the Tech Republic : To stay secure in the modern connected world, businesses must keep track of all emerging cybersecurity threats and assess the potential business impacts of when not if, they will experience a breach or incident, according to […].

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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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Adaptive CIOs Must Organize To Support Their Firm’s Value, Sourcing, And Structure

Forrester IT

CIOs must adopt an adaptive operating model — being agile will not be enough to succeed in the future. The IT organization’s capabilities, structures, governance, and leadership must support the firm’s capacity to reconfigure underlying business concepts, including dramatically rethinking its core mission, its primary value proposition, its core competencies, the markets or industries in […].

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61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously

CTOvision

There is a perception gap between IT leaders and employees over the likelihood of insider breaches. It is a major challenge for businesses: insider data breaches are viewed as frequent and damaging occurrences, of concern to 95% of IT leaders, yet the vectors for those breaches – employees – are either unaware of, or unwilling […].

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Millions of Android users beware: Alibaba’s UC Browser can be used to deliver malware

CTOvision

UC Browser, a hugely popular mobile browser from Alibaba-owned UCWeb, has a design flaw that allows attackers to swap out downloads from the company’s servers with files from any server on the internet, according to researchers at Russian security firm Dr. Web. The company has raised an alarm over the mobile browser because it can download […].

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Cisco forms VC firm looking to weaponize fledgling technology companies

Network World

Cisco this week stepped deeper into the venture capital world by announcing Decibel, an early-stage investment firm that will focus on bringing enterprise-oriented startups to market. Veteran VC groundbreaker and former general partner at New Enterprise Associates Jon Sakoda will lead Decibel.

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Ransomware Behind Norsk Hydro Attack Takes On Wiper-Like Capabilities

CTOvision

LockerGoga, the malware that took down Norsk Hydro last week, has taken the industrial world by storm, as researchers race to uncover more about the mysterious ransomware that crippled several of the aluminum maker’s plants. Questions still remain about how the malware first infects the system it targets, who is behind the attacks – and what […].

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Redefining application communications with AWS App Mesh

All Things Distributed

At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the AWS App Mesh public preview, a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across applications. Today, I'm happy to announce that App Mesh is generally available for use by customers. New architectural patterns. Many customers are modernizing their existing applications to become more agile and innovate faster.

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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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Initiating an SCCM Compliance Check via PowerShell

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, I have been working on Configuration Baselines for security purposes. While doing so, two of my baselines required remediation that takes longer than 1 minute. I do not recall where I read it, but I believe the timeout for a compliance check is 1 minute. If the compliance remediation takes longer than 1 minute, then the baseline is designated as non-compliant until the next compliance check is run.

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Is Hybrid Cloud the New Standard for Future Infrastructure?

Information Week

Plenty of young organizations may be cloud native with public services, but many incumbents cannot go that route.

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Launch Your First Hands-On Lab For Free

Linux Academy

All free Community Edition members of Linux Academy receive 35 Gems upon signing up. If you’re not familiar with Gems , they are Linux Academy’s official currency and can be used to either consume Hands-On Labs on our platform (labs are free and unlimited for paid members) or to purchase swag from our official store. Hands-On Labs is a key feature when it comes to learning practical skills.

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Platforms: Where the Digital and Physical Worlds Meet

Information Week

Platform companies need to consider and launch new services that have a very clear understanding of the needs and expectations of their target 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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Vendor Risk Management & Complying With GDPR 

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Vendor Risk Management & Complying With GDPR - Information Technology Blog. Risk exposure is haphazard, whether a company is large or small. Since the GDPR is now entirely imposed, organizations should observe best practices that are compliant. Among these is putting in place a robust vendor risk management program to help in identifying, tracking, and monitoring your firm’s risk exposure.

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The SED command | BASH basics

Linux Academy

Sed the Stream EDitor. Along the same line as my last blog , I would like to reiterate that in some cases, it is important to have what I would consider to be basic skills on the command line. In this blog, I will be talking about the sed command, sed or the Stream EDitor, this is another utility that is in almost all distributions and is something that is invaluable when it is used correctly.

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Save Money Buying Textbooks Online

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Save Money Buying Textbooks Online - Information Technology Blog. I wish this was available when I went to school. As current college students, college graduates, and even college professors can attest to, textbooks are expensive. Consistent demand, writing and arranging costs, printing fees, and much more render the useful providers of knowledge ( necessary providers of knowledge, for college students) relatively pricey to produce.

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Running IT as Innovation Threshold

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of innovation. Innovation management is about transforming new ideas to achieve their business value. Innovation is what leads to differentiation. When looking at businesses or organizations, any innovation practice today is always a combination of people, process, and technology. The most powerful innovation navigation system involves tapping the organization's ecosystem for collective perspectives and knitting all critical business elements such as people, process, and techn

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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 Best “Pattern Thinking” Quotes of “Digital Master” Mar. 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is t he series of guidebooks (27+ 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, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Improvement Officer" Mar. 2019

Future of CIO

The digital CIOs have to wear different colors of hats and master multiple leadership personas and management roles effortlessly. This book “ 12 CIO Personas: The Digital CIO’s Situational Leadership Practices ” is the extensive brainstorming and logical content expansion of my book “ CIO Master: Unleash the Digital Potential of IT , ” to reimagine and reinvent CIO leadership via practicing multitudes of digital influence.

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