December, 2022

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Find Your Perfect IT Job: One Step at a Time

Association of Information Technology Professional

IT pro Ryan Anastasia outlines what it takes to become a systems administrator.

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Playing the Long Game With IT Strategy

Association of Information Technology Professional

Building a plan for speed that also considers long-term objectives will be the best way to clear the hurdles organizations may face in 2023.

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Unlocking the potential of 5G

TM Forum

The past few years have seen the particular need for radical, rapid change within communications service providers (CSPs), particularly cloud transformation to support 5G innovation. Join us to understand how telecom’s cloud investment and transformation have evolved over the last decade, main investments, hyperscaler partnerships and hybrid strategies.

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How to Innovate by Introducing Product Management in SMB and Non-Tech Companies

Social, Agile and Transformation

I learned two truths this week. During the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers, a LinkedIn audio event that I host most Fridays at 11 am ET, Jay Cohen shared that January was a good time of the year to focus on learning programs and driving department and team-level realignments. It makes sense because people return to work from the holidays refreshed and ready to learn.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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5 Ways to Embrace Next-Generation AI

Information Week

Artificial intelligence represents an exciting new frontier in technology. How do companies decide how to begin leveraging next-generation solutions that will result in tangible value?

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Recognize the commonalities in ransomware attacks to avoid them

Tech Republic Security

Learn how your organization can use the MITRE ATT&CK framework to prevent data breaches, fines, and the loss of clients and customers induced by ransomware threats. The post Recognize the commonalities in ransomware attacks to avoid them appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Delivering More Value Through Empowered Teams

Forrester IT

Command, Control, And The Changing Workplace Organizational and people management has perennially been a favorite topic of writers and researchers. Even the Bible tells a story of how Moses’ father-in-law gave him advice about management and delegation of tasks! For much of the 20th century, a top-down, command-and-control style of management was favored, with a […].

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

CIO Business Intelligence

It has been almost 25 years since McKinsey & Co. introduced the term “talent war” to the world. For almost a quarter of a century CIOs have been locked in a Sisyphean battle to attract and retain the IT talent necessary to create competitive advantage. Every year, “talent” is one of the top challenges facing IT organizations. Every year, lack of critical IT skills is blamed for failure to deliver the full promise of IT investments.

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How can AI Stop Cyber Attacks

Doctor Chaos

Artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionize cybersecurity by enabling organizations to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats. In this essay, we will explore how AI can enhance cybersecurity and discuss some of the challenges and considerations that need to be considered when implementing AI-based solutions.AI can help with cybersecurity by enabling organizations to detect and prevent cyber attacks more effectively.

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The Top 5 Data Privacy Penalties Post-GDPR

Information Week

From California to China and the country that fined itself, here are the five most interesting data privacy penalties of 2021-22.

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AI Isnt the Future — Its the Fight Youre Already In: Are You Ready?

The AI era isn’t coming—it’s here. But over 70% of AI projects fail before they scale. Why? No strategy. No alignment. No ROI. We worked with a $50M company that wasted a year and half their budget chasing AI pilots with no payoff. Sound familiar? That’s where our four-step transformation system comes in: Assess, Strategize, Execute, Scale. We help you cut through the hype, find what actually moves the needle, and build a roadmap that delivers results.

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Study: Consumer security savvy is way behind IoT threat landscape

Tech Republic Security

A new Comcast study hints at a major risk to businesses, governments and public systems due to poor cybersecurity in the booming Internet of Things industry. The post Study: Consumer security savvy is way behind IoT threat landscape appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Ransomware: It’s coming for your backup servers

Network World

Backup and recovery systems are at risk for two types of ransomware attacks: encryption and exfiltration – and most on-premises backup servers are wide open to both. This makes backup systems themselves the primary target of some ransomware groups, and warrants special attention. Hackers understand that backup servers are often under-protected and administered by junior personnel that are less well versed in information security.

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Update Your Knowledge Management Practice With Three Agile Principles

Forrester IT

Long-standing “waterfall” knowledge management (KM) practices are failing to meet the needs of the modern enterprise, and technology leaders must reassess their approach. Agile principles transform knowledge management within the enterprise from lengthy, delay-laden processes to lean practices that seek to make sharing knowledge easy and adaptable. For the same reasons that agile principles have […].

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Modern cloud-based networks: the key to high-level commercial performance?

CIO Business Intelligence

Here’s a proposition to consider: among the ranks of large enterprises, commercial success increasingly relies on digital transformation. In turn, digital transformation relies on modernized enterprise networks that deliver flexibility, performance and availability from the edge to the cloud. Intuitively, this hypothesis makes a lot of sense. In many enterprises, it’s also increasingly becoming the subject of painstaking debate.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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The Debate on Responsible AI and IoT: Could They Make Our Future Safer and More Engaging?

IT Toolbox

What are the AI and IoT trends to watch out for in advertising, healthcare and cybersecurity? The post The Debate on Responsible AI and IoT: Could They Make Our Future Safer and More Engaging? appeared first on.

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Accelerating Digital Transformation: Turning Data into CX

Information Week

Many say the pace of digital transformation has slowed, but IT teams are just ushering in the acceleration phase as businesses ensure transformed internal systems are translated externally.

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Apple unveils new iMessage, Apple ID and iCloud security for high-value targets

Tech Republic Security

Tech firm aims to strengthen security for users and meet modern cyber threat challenges with new cybersecurity technology and end-to-end cloud encryption. The post Apple unveils new iMessage, Apple ID and iCloud security for high-value targets appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Looking ahead to the network technologies of 2023

Network World

What’s the single most important thing that enterprises should know about networking in 2023? Forget all that speeds-and-feeds crap you hear from vendors. The answer is that networking is now, and forever, linked to business applications, and those applications are linked now to the way that we use the Internet and the cloud. We’re changing how we distribute and deliver business value via networking, and so network technology will inevitably change too, and this is a good time to look at what to

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Forecasting The Future: Five Seismic Shifts That We Saw Coming

Forrester IT

As Forrester approaches its 40th anniversary, we reflect on a few of the monumental changes that we correctly predicted.

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PepsiCo transforms for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Kanioura, who was hired away from Accenture two years ago to serve as the food and beverage multinational’s first chief strategy and transformation officer, says earning employee trust was one of her greatest challenges in those early months.

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Introduction to Fileless Malware

Doctor Chaos

Fileless malware is a type of cyber attack that does not rely on the traditional method of installing malicious software on a victim's computer. Instead, it uses legitimate system tools and functions to carry out malicious actions, making it difficult to detect and prevent.Fileless malware attacks often start with a phishing email or other social engineering technique that tricks the victim into clicking on a malicious link or opening a malicious attachment.

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MLOps: Applying DevOps to Competitive Advantage

Information Week

Developers and data scientists can work together using MLOps through a shared methodology to make sure that machine learning initiatives are in line with wider software delivery and, even more broadly, IT-business alignment.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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FIN7 threat actor updated its ransomware activity

Tech Republic Security

Researchers from PRODAFT reveal that the infamous FIN7 threat actor updated its ransomware activities and provide a unique view into the structure of the group. Learn how to protect against it. The post FIN7 threat actor updated its ransomware activity appeared first on TechRepublic.

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12 killer (and free) tools for network engineers

Network World

The job of a network engineer just keeps getting more complicated. Mission critical applications are competing for bandwidth. The sheer number of devices is exploding, driven by IoT. And the network itself if being extended to the cloud, the edge and to the home office. And then there’s cybersecurity to worry about. Attacks are on the rise across the board, and attackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities or backdoors, upping the need for solid and secure networking to act as an early

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Leaders Must Understand “The Meaning Of Stories” To Create “Meaning From Stories”

Forrester IT

“You haven’t defined what story is,” said the voice of experience that afternoon, September 16, 2022. “That’s odd,” I thought. “What am I missing?” We were discussing my first leadership storytelling report, Master Storytelling For Impactful Leadership, intended to explain the “what?” and “why?” of leadership storytelling. In the report, I describe the three-arc structure […].

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The Top Cloud Security Threat Comes from Within

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. In fact, it originates from inside your IT organization. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. According to a recent study , 79% of companies had experienced a cloud data breach in the past 18 months—and 67% of respondents had identified security misconfiguration as the top security threat.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Beware Technical Debt: How Bad Code Smells Like Rotten Cheese

Social, Agile and Transformation

A few weeks ago, I reviewed my son’s C code that he and a classmate developed for their college first-year computer science class. The assignment required them to use a linked list to simulate shuffling a deck of cards, finding pairs, and exchanging cards between players. They struggled to debug their code, and running it produced inconsistent results and null.

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Special Report: Privacy in the Data-Driven Enterprise

Information Week

An entire week of coverage devoted to the question: How do we give privacy back to the people when customer data is now the coin of the realm and the fuel that powers business?

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On-premises vs cloud security: What are the pros and cons?

Tech Republic Security

Is on-premises or cloud computing operations more secure for your business? Consider the security pros and cons with our guide. The post On-premises vs cloud security: What are the pros and cons? appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Top 10 Best Residential Proxy Service Providers

Network World

The need to surf the internet freely without restrictions or being noticed created the necessity for proxies. So, what is a proxy? To put it in simple terms, a proxy is a device that provides a gateway between users and the web. Therefore, it helps prevent cyber attackers from gaining access to a private network. A proxy is a computer, referred to as an intermediary because it channels traffic between end-users and the web content they visit online.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.