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Harnessing Big Data: Can Our Laws and Policies Keep Up?

CTOvision

Read Tim Molino explain how we can achieve big data revolution if our policies and laws are in order on Information Week : We are just at the beginning of the big data revolution. What was merely a prediction a few years ago is happening today. Not only are we creating data at exponential rates, […].

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The Good And The Bad Of US Federal Website UX

Forrester IT

We recently evaluated seven of the most-visited US federal websites. Here’s a sampling of the good and the bad from what real users of these websites told us: “I found the website very easy to navigate. Everything was on the home page. The links were easy to understand.” “Each page has a lot of information, […].

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Moving communications to cloud – the next move for IT leaders

CTOvision

Read why Vishal Agrawal says that it is time for IT leaders to move their communications network to the clouds on ET CIO : Digital transformation (DX) has moved beyond buzzword level today. Digital advancements are creating new products, services and transforming business operations. These are enabling companies to enhance customer service, generate more revenue, […].

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“Alexa, stop leaking my data.” – How Consumer Smart Devices Threaten Company Assets

Forrester IT

We’ve all heard the stories about how smart devices can enable hackers to spy on, and communicate with, unsuspecting victims. But while governments struggle to standardize security protocols for the IoT market, employees, and companies by extension, remain vulnerable to a slew of unsecured devices entering their home networks and expanding their attack surface. […].

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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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JPEG on the Blockchain: Image Format Creator Believes Tech Can Fight Copyright Theft

CTOvision

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) said blockchain has “great potential” as the basis of a system that would use a combination of encryption, hash signatures and watermarking in an image’s metadata to protect copyright, Digital Trends reported Thursday. The system could have advantages over existing verification models, JPEG said at a recent meeting in Sydney, […].

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Why The Private Sector Will Play An Increasingly Bigger Role In Climate Change And Sustainability

Forrester IT

In 2017, the US, famously and controversially, made the decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. And some of the 187 countries that remain in the agreement are struggling to meet their commitments. Recently, Australia came under international criticism for proposing to use a dubious accounting method to meet its 2030 carbon reduction […].

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Legacy Brands Take Note: FTC Won’t Protect You From DTC Competition

Forrester IT

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently sued to block Edgewell’s acquisition of shaving direct-to-consumer (DTC) company Harry’s, fearing industry consolidation since Edgewell owns Schick and Wilkinson blade brands. A disappointment to Harry’s founders and VC investors to be sure. Perhaps even a deterrent to further VC investment in DTC disruptor companies.

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Huawei’s 10.8-inch iPad Pro rival can wirelessly charge your phone

CTOvision

Huawei’s big MWC reveal that never was is the MatePad Pro, a stylish tablet that will come with a keyboard folio and companion stylus in an attempt to go toe-to-toe with the iPad Pro. It’s the company’s biggest attempt yet to establish a premium tablet range, having made middling and entry-level tablets for a while. […].

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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Don’t Read This Before Dinner There are some things that can’t be unseen. Chief among them, a Whopper decomposing in high definition to demonstrate that Burger King plans to remove artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives from the burger. Industry pundits are all abuzz with opinion (ahem!) and Burger King is the toast of media town, posed for ad award glory.

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What is Agile Planning in 5 Minutes with @NYIke

Social, Agile and Transformation

Why are some organizations stuck with fr-agile development processes? Hint: It's not because you need to "scale" agile. Many organizations succeed in getting an A-team practicing agile and then look to "scale" their best practices to the rest of the organization. And several frameworks are focusing on this scaling. But IMHO, the issue at many organizations is not about scaling agile.

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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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ConfigMgr 2002 Technical Preview Console Startup Time|SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft released the latest version of technical preview version 2002 of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM|SCCM). SCCM 2002 version comes with many improvements and new features. Let’s see what are the improvement of ConfigMgr 2002 Technical Preview.

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Google reveals new cloud security features at RSA 2020

Tech Republic Security

Google's reCAPTCHA Enterprise and Web Risk API get a general release; Chronicle Security gets boosts from new threat detection and timelining features.

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Too Much Data Privacy Regulation Too Fast?

Information Week

While the California Consumer Protection Act is a step in the right direction in the war for data privacy, are the hurdles that businesses are forced to jump effective and cost-worthy?

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16 best practices for improving cybersecurity

Tech Republic Security

Cisco's 2020 CISO Benchmark Study links a robust patch policy and collaboration to smaller data breaches.

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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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Juniper bolsters wireless security; fights against encrypted malicious threats

Network World

Juniper is filling out its enterprise security portfolio this week by integrating support for its Mist wireless customers and adding the capability for customers to gain better visibility and control over encrypted traffic threats. With the new additions, Juniper is looking to buttress its ability to let users secure all traffic traversing the enterprise network via campus, WAN or data center.

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The good, the bad, and the scary from Experian's data breach report

Tech Republic Security

Many security teams don't update response plans on a regular basis but complying with GDPR is getting easier.

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AI Regulation: Has the Time Arrived?

Information Week

Most of the world's leading democracies want to investigate the impact of AI's exponential growth. The US isn't one of them.

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Summer Olympics is ripe for cyberattacks

Tech Republic Security

Criminals will exploit the confusion and hustle and bustle of the games to their advantage, according to security researcher.

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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 Improve Your Business Accounting’s Productivity

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Improve Your Business Accounting’s Productivity - Information Technology Blog. From the humble sole trader to a large-scale corporation, every business recognizes the importance of accounting. After all, this part of the business deals with all of the financial affairs. That means it has to track all incoming and outgoing cash, it prepares financial statements, and so on.

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Financial services companies are ahead in hybrid cloud deployments

Tech Republic Security

But 73% of financial companies are moving applications off the cloud and back on premises.

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Professional Essay Writers: How to Pay Less?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Professional Essay Writers: How to Pay Less? - Information Technology Blog. Writing services are very popular these days since many students feel like they need assistance with their writing assignments. It is important to choose a good writing service that will not cost a lot but will also be able to provide you with the best quality possible.

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How Startups Fit into Healthcare's Transformation

Information Week

Learn how large organizations in life sciences and healthcare leverage innovation born from disruptive, entrepreneurial companies.

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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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Smishing, data theft by directors, and a new mental health focus

Tech Republic Security

Security researchers and practitioners will be talking about a surge in SMS-based phishing attacks, the threat employees pose to data security, and how to improve health and wellness on security team members.

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Conceptualizing the 2020’s: The Decade of the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read why Jelani Harper says that 2020s is the decade of the Internet of Things on Inside Big Data : 2020 heralds the decade in which the Internet of Things surges from the fringe to the fore of the data ecosystem. Several lofty predictions about the number of connected devices in the IoT begin this […].

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Three things CISOs need to do differently in 2020

Tech Republic Security

Security leaders need to connect their work to broader business goals and create a culture of learning to attract talent.

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The Best “Calmness” Quotes of “Digital Master” Feb, 2020

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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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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Understanding Android Management with Intune | Android Enterprise

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this article, I would be talking about the Android Management in general with Intune – how the management has evolved over time and the different management modes that is offered with Android Enterprise. A dive into the evolution of Android Management – the demise of Device Admin API and way forward with Android Enterprise… […].

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Summary: An identity metasystem like the Sovrin Network provides the foundation for creating tens of millions of interoperable identity systems for every conceivable context and use. This post discusses how these identity systems are built, illustrative use cases, and the potential marketplace for credentials. A metasystem is a system of systems. Metasystems employ protocols, governance, and convention to provide interoperability between the systems they comprise.

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The Forrester Readiness Index: eCommerce: 2020 Will Provide Insights For Global Investment Needs

Forrester IT

While no single tool can provide all the answers when examining potential expansion opportunities, the Forrester Readiness Index (FRI) for eCommerce uses a wide breadth of data to aid retailers in identifying key markets for investment and potential growth opportunities. The 2020 version of the FRI report features an updated framework that evaluates 15 quantitative […].

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Cisco goes to the cloud with broad enterprise security service

Network World

Cisco has unveiled a cloud-based security platform it says will go a long way in helping customers protect their far-flung networked resources. Cisco describes the new SecureX service as offering an open, cloud-native system that will let customers detect and remediate threats across Cisco and third-party products from a single interface. IT security teams can then automate and orchestrate security management across enterprise cloud, network and applications and end points.

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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.