October, 2017

article thumbnail

UK intelligence agencies ‘unlawfully’ sharing sensitive personal data, court hears

Computer Weekly

Intelligence agencies are “unlawfully” sharing huge datasets containing sensitive information about the population with industry, government departments and overseas intelligence services, a court will hear this week

article thumbnail

5 Steps to Prepare Your Organization for Artificial Intelligence

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last week I delivered a keynote talk at Synechron's InSync Charlotte event around developing the data driven organization. The talk showed the audience the alignment between digital transformation and data driven practices and how evolving data practices should address small data (through citizen data science programs) and big data governance that can enable organizations to be organizationally.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

VoIP for 2018 and Beyond

IT Toolbox

VoIP is an acronym that anyone who uses the internet probably knows or will see before long. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that turns a broadband internet connection into a regular phone line. That means you can make voice calls over your internet connection.

VOIP 197
article thumbnail

How to Setup SCCM CB and InTune Co-Management

Anoop

Many organisations are looking for a more simplified management options for Windows devices. There are two ways of management. First one is. The Traditional way of management and the second is the Modern way of management. They are also looking for a more easy way to transition from SCCM and Domain Join devices (Traditional) to a modern […]. The post How to Setup SCCM CB and InTune Co-Management appeared first on Anoops.

How To 159
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

IDG Contributor Network: How smart cities can protect against IoT security threats

Network World

Smart cities, which were once confined to the realms of science fiction books, are rapidly becoming a reality all around the globe. Unfortunately, like all revolutionizing innovations, smart cities are developing their own unique challenges alongside of their perks. So what are industry insiders and tomorrow’s city planners doing to face these challenges?

Security 137
article thumbnail

The future of mobility: Are we asking the right questions?

ComputerWorld IT Management

In the 2000 documentary No Maps for These Territories, science fiction author William Gibson remarks, “I think we live in an incomprehensible present.” An expert quoted in The New York Times insists that “we’ve reached a new level where nobody knows what’s going to happen.” I disagree. The present is understandable and it is possible to make foresight-rich preparations for the future if we ask the right questions.

Mobile 87

More Trending

article thumbnail

How Digital CIOs Manage Their Time

Social, Agile and Transformation

Earlier this year I published the post, What discipline should CIO master to drive transformation, where I highlighted the importance of time management skills CIOs must master when leading digital transformation programs In this post I expand the analysis to show two other operating scenarios and illustrate each priority based on its impact on growth versus running the business.

Analysis 209
article thumbnail

5 Reasons Why VoIP Disaster Recovery Is Critical for Your Business

IT Toolbox

Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural and man-made disasters create situations that demand a solid business continuity (BC)/disaster recovery (DR) plan in case of serious interruptions to your organization’s business. This article focuses on BC/DR for your voice over IP (VoIP)/unified communications (UC) business phone system.

article thumbnail

SCCM ConfigMgr Troubleshooting Steps for Newbies with Flowcharts

Anoop

SCCM is not dead, and many newbies are trying to learn SCCM. Instead, this is the most happening time for an SCCM engineer. SCCM + Intune Co-management opens up many new opportunities for SCCM engineers. Enterprises are getting ready for Windows 10 migrations. And most of the organizations depend on SCCM team to get the […]. The post SCCM ConfigMgr Troubleshooting Steps for Newbies with Flowcharts appeared first on Anoops.

article thumbnail

What is a firewall?

Network World

Network-based firewalls have become almost ubiquitous across US enterprises for their proven defense against an ever-increasing array of threats. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. Research firm IDC estimates the firewall and related unified threat management market was a $7.6 billion industry in 2015 and expected to reach $12.7 billion by 2020.

Firewall 135
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Algorithms will out-perform Doctors in just 10 years time

Dataconomy

The power of Algorithms to calculate, contemplate and anticipate the needs of patients is improving rapidly and still has no sign of slowing down. Everything from patient diagnosis to therapy selection will soon be moving at exponential rates. Does that mean the end of doctors? Not quite. To better understand. The post Algorithms will out-perform Doctors in just 10 years time appeared first on Dataconomy.

article thumbnail

A history of hacking and hackers

Computer Weekly

A security professional’s view on criminal hacking has shifted away from the traditional stereotype of the hacker, towards a much more diverse cross-section of wider society

Security 243
article thumbnail

3 Signs You Have Overloaded Your Digital Transformation Program

Social, Agile and Transformation

Pressure to take on too many initiatives may bottleneck the overall program and burnout participants I am an advocate for speed and doing more. I’ve seen products, businesses, and an entire business models fall off the cliff because executives were too slow to respond, experiment, invest, challenge sacred cows, and scale toward new digital business models.

article thumbnail

2 Ways VoIP Makes Communication More Flexible

IT Toolbox

Flexible has quickly become a buzzword that many businesses use to describe themselves. It makes sense because both the marketplace and new technologies create change at such a rapid pace that businesses need to adapt.

VOIP 188
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Third Party Patching Best Practices for an Organization

Anoop

I have involved in the patching of Windows machines since ‘SMS 2003 + ITMU’ days. Every month, we need to perform very complex steps to deploy patches. Nowadays SCCM 2007/ 2012 /CB uses WSUS along with Windows Update to Download, Deploy and Install patches. There are challenges in Microsoft patching process using SCCM. And I’ve […]. The post Third Party Patching Best Practices for an Organization appeared first on Anoops.

Windows 151
article thumbnail

The troubling lack of focus on securing the IoT

Network World

The massive growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices over the next one to three years should give us pause. As companies rush to get to market first, are we seeing a “dumbing down” of basic device principals that we have been working with for years, particularly enhanced security and privacy. With so many distinct applications, device scope and diversity represent a unique security challenge that so far has not been met.

Security 133
article thumbnail

Three Things Data Scientists Can do to help themselves and their organizations

Dataconomy

The importance of data science is only going to grow in the coming years. As we see the results of our data-empowered work take form in how we shape our businesses, our products and our own goals, we are beholden to take a reflective gaze at the relationship between our. The post Three Things Data Scientists Can do to help themselves and their organizations appeared first on Dataconomy.

Data 78
article thumbnail

Business needs help to act on cyber security advice

Computer Weekly

Organisations need help to act on all the information they receive about cyber security, the London Digital Security Centre has learned since its inception in 2015

Security 246
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

The Digital Transformation Checklist (Part 2)

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Digital transformation is a hot topic for many businesses these days. However, it’s a complex task. Many don’t know where to start, or what steps they must take in the process. In this article, we explore 5 more steps in your digital transformation checklist. photo credit: BenjaminNelan via pixabay cc There’s no question that the world is going digital.

System 63
article thumbnail

PBX vs. Cloud: Which Is Better for Businesses?

IT Toolbox

Unified communications (UC) has become a mainstream solution, with compelling, ready-made business cases for collaboration and productivity that any business can appreciate. That said, there are still multiple flavors from which to pick.

article thumbnail

Newbies Intune Bible to Learn Mobile Device Management

Anoop

Loads of people requested for an Intune starter kit as I have one for SCCM. I think SCCM starter kit page was useful for the community. Mobile device management is new for most of the IT Pros in device management world.Hopefully, this post would also be useful for Intune newbies. In this post, we will see more details […]. The post Newbies Intune Bible to Learn Mobile Device Management appeared first on Anoops.

article thumbnail

How to speed up IoT deployment: Give each device an identity

Network World

Most enterprises are in the process of evaluating how the Internet of Things (IoT) will affect their organization, especially how devices targeted at the Enterprise of Things (EoT) will be deployed. Indeed, companies that deploy “things” need to worry about security, manageability, longevity/availability and robustness — unlike consumers who generally don’t concern themselves with such things.

How To 120
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Why you should combine Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs

Dataconomy

Cognitive applications have become constant companions at our places of work. We expect smart systems to reduce repetitive workloads and support us in uncovering new Knowledge. As a result, data scientists and software engineers are applying various machine learning algorithms to finetune results and increase processing capabilities. At the same time, The post Why you should combine Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Dataconomy.

article thumbnail

Shell makes $200m saving with virtual learning environment

Computer Weekly

Royal Dutch Shell has saved hundreds of millions by replacing field trips with interactive training that allows employees to interact with geological formations from their computer screen

article thumbnail

CIOs as Digital Masters: How to Charter DIgital Paradigm shift Seamlessly?

Future of CIO

The radical change from one era to another is often called, "PARADIGM SHIFT." We are experiencing the major shift from the industrial machine age to the post-industrial information/knowledge /insight age. A digital paradigm is an emerging digital ecosystem of principles, policies, and practices that set limits or boundaries; and also offer the guidance for problem-solving or creating something new under the digital rules, keep information flow and achieve a state of dynamic balance.

How To 60
article thumbnail

Six Best Practices for Better Efficiency with APIs

IT Toolbox

They may not have the sexiness of artificial intelligence or the Internet of Things, but APIs are having just as much if not more impact on business today.

article thumbnail

The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

article thumbnail

How to Delete Windows.OLD Folder from Windows 10 Device

Anoop

Don’t not try to delete Windows.OLD folder from Windows 10 device via Windows Explorer. You won’t be able to remove Windows.old folder via Windows explorer. I have tried many times to delete this folder via windows Explorer but, never succeeded. In this post, we will see the method to Delete Windows.OLD Folder from Windows 10 Device. […].

Windows 111
article thumbnail

Increase your network security: Deploy a honeypot

Network World

Have you ever wondered how a hacker breaks into a live system? Would you like to keep any potential attacker occupied so you can gather information about him without the use of a production system? Would you like to immediately detect when an attacker attempts to log into your system or retrieve data? One way to see and do those things is to deploy a honeypot.

Network 112
article thumbnail

The Rise of the Fintechpreneur, and Why It Matters

Dataconomy

The financial technology field is rapidly expanding, but remains in flux and continues to be unpredictable. Fintech’s use of AI, algorithms, and modern technologies can transform traditional banking, but still faces some resistance. Some fintech companies are finding billion-dollar markets in the gaps left by outmoded banking services. Nevertheless, there are still.

Banking 74
article thumbnail

Bad Rabbit malware raises fears of third global ransomware attack

Computer Weekly

A ransomware attack that has commonalities with WannaCry NotPeya is reportedly hitting organisations in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Bulgaria and Germany

Malware 244
article thumbnail

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.