Fri.May 31, 2019

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The Chief Growth Officer: Proxy or Prophet?

Forrester IT

In our 2018 CMO Predictions, in the wake of Coca-Cola replacing its CMO with a chief growth officer (CGO) and the emergence of this role in other companies like Hershey’s and Kellogg, Forrester predicted that even more CMO roles at major brands would be usurped by a CGO. Now in 2019, with Unilever CMO Keith […].

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Nearly All Businesses Suffer Phishing Attacks – Mimecast

CTOvision

Nearly all businesses have suffered some form of phishing attack during the past year, the survey finds. Research from security specialist Mimecast has revealed the latest depressing statistics about online cybersecurity. Mimecast’s study of “1,025 global IT decision makers” revealed that phishing attacks are the most prominent type of cyberattack, with 94 percent of respondents […].

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Shopify Buys Handshake To Boost B2B Commerce Chops

Forrester IT

On Thursday, May 23, TechCrunch broke news that Shopify quietly acquired Handshake. Shopify is widely known as a B2C/DTC platform, and its Shopify Plus offering is aimed at a B2B audience. Handshake brings Shopify a more advanced set of B2B capabilities. How advanced? Handshake was listed in “The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Suites For Midsize […].

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Microsoft issues second warning about patching BlueKeep as PoC code goes public

CTOvision

Microsoft has once again warned companies to patch older versions of Windows against a severe vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service that can be abused remotely, and which the company has likened to the EternalBlue exploit that fueled the WannaCry, NotPetya, and Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreaks. To make matters worse, limited proof-of-concept code for […].

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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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How IT Can Facilitate Great Customer Experiences

Information Week

In a modern enterprise environment, the IT group plays a key role in improving the customer experience and the organization's 360-degree view of each customer.

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Flipboard data breach – what users should do now

CTOvision

Popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach. We’ve covered a lot of data breaches in recent years but this one has one or two wrinkles that are worth highlighting. According to Flipboard, hackers gained access […].

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Lack of basic security hygiene putting industrial control systems at risk.

CTOvision

Read why James Sanders says that standard security practices among IT companies do not necessarily carry over to the IT departments of other firms, leading to products sold without basic security measures in place on Tech Republic : Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems are an outsized threat in the manufacturing sector, and can have ripples […].

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Winx Hd Video Converter Deluxe Reviews and Giveaway 2019

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Winx Hd Video Converter Deluxe Reviews and Giveaway 2019 - Information Technology Blog. We all love to download videos from the internet and some time we had to convert it to another format to play it on a Smartphone or a tablet. For this reason, today we want to talk about 4K video converter WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe.

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Cybersecurity: The number of files exposed on misconfigured servers, storage and cloud services has risen to 2.3 billion

CTOvision

Over 2.3 billion files — including sensitive data like payroll information, credit card details, medical data and patents for intellectual property — are exposed publicly online, putting both people and organisations at risk of data theft, cybercrime, espionage and other malicious activities. Analysis by researchers at cybersecurity company Digital Shadows found the highly sensitive information […].

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Using Vault to generate dynamic IAM users in AWS with Cloud Playground

Linux Academy

In today’s technology landscape, s ecurely storing and controlling things like passwords, certificates, tokens, and encryption keys, is a necessary, but complicated challenge. To help with this challenge, a number of different tools and technologies have been developed. Here you’re going to learn about an open source tool called Vault , which was developed by HashiCorp.

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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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Tech Leaders Must Ask Informed Questions About the 5G Future

Information Week

CIOs might find themselves thankful for the slow roll-out of 5G so that they have time to get the information they need to move forward with purpose.

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Three Causes of Business Vulnerability

Future of CIO

Digital organizations are organic, complex, informative and hyperconnected. Closer to reality is that change is continuously happening in such a dynamic environment of a company. The inevitable range, breadth, depth, and pace of uncontrollable factors acting on any organizations mean identifying business vulnerability and constant fine-tuning is essential to improve business adaptability, performance, and maturity.

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The Best “Advancement” Quotes of “Digital Master” May 2019

Future of CIO

The most ADVANCING thing in the world is an advanced mindset. " Digital Master ” is the 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 organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insigh

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The Monthly “12 CIO Personas” Book Turning: CIOs as “Chief Intrapreneur Officer” May 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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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.