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Ransomware attackers are now using triple extortion tactics

Tech Republic Security

Attackers are not only demanding ransom from organizations, but also threatening their customers, users and other third parties.

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11 Ways to Ask Smarter Data Analytics Questions

Information Week

Not everyone has been trained to think like a data scientist or a data analyst, but they can learn to think more like one.

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Employee Wellbeing Is A Shared Responsibility

Forrester IT

I spent the early days of my career in the early 90’s studying manufacturing engineering at University then working in a ship repair yard. I was taught to weld by a gruff Geordie who handed me a visor, a live arc-welder and told me “don’t look into the light. You’ll go blind”. I didn’t. That […].

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The Best Cloud Computing Certifications of 2021

Association of Information Technology Professional

Ready to grow your cloud computing career or get it off to a great start? If so, check out the best cloud computing certifications today.

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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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How to Improve SCCM Task Sequence Progress Bar End User Experience | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post How to Improve SCCM Task Sequence Progress Bar End User Experience | ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog by Jitesh Kumar.

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The Cloud Comes of Age Amid Unprecedented Change

Information Week

The cloud is set to help businesses lead by outmaneuvering uncertainty. It's now imperative that they lean into the cloud and catch up with leaders before the gap becomes too large.

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Data overload: DC power may be the new normal for efficient data centers

Tech Republic Data Center

A recent report on DC power revealed some interesting trends related to data center operations and power. Learn what data center conditions look like today and going forward.

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Easy Steps to Run SCCM Task Sequence with High Performance Power Plan | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Easy Steps to Run SCCM Task Sequence with High Performance Power Plan | ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog by Jitesh Kumar.

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Colonial Pipeline attack reminds us of our critical infrastructure's vulnerabilities

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity expert discusses the many ways attackers could have gotten access to the Colonial Pipeline company and reminds us why the threat always looms.

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Build A Culture Of Emotionally-Intelligent Employees To Boost Mental Health

Forrester IT

Many companies get emotion wrong… Rather than designing experiences built on a broad spectrum of emotions, they equate emotion with delight. But real joy and real happiness can only exist in relation to all the emotions, they are a “boxed set.” We cannot just pick and choose our emotions. Anger isn’t joy, just as joy […].

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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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3 advantages to having cloud tools available for on-prem data centers

Tech Republic Cloud

The growth of hybrid cloud deployments are driving the need to bring the security and flexibility of cloud tools to data centers.

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Deploy Windows 10 Feature Update Using SCCM Task Sequence | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Deploy Windows 10 Feature Update Using SCCM Task Sequence | ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog by Jitesh Kumar.

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How to prevent another Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack

Tech Republic Security

Government and business both need to step up to combat ransomware attacks against critical systems before they spiral further out of control.

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Trust Must Be The Foundation Of Your Employee Wellbeing Programme

Forrester IT

New data from the UK Office Of National Statistics (ONS) shows that one in five adults in Britain experienced depressive symptoms in early 2021, more than double the proportion before the pandemic. Young adults are coping with a significant increase of mental health issues. Financial concerns, managing children in the household, and disabilities are some […].

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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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CIOs and CTOs say they adapted well to disruptions caused by COVID-19

Tech Republic Cloud

Many enterprises will likely decelerate digital transformations post-pandemic, a new study by SAP and IDG finds.

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What’s New In SCCM Windows 10 Servicing Dashboard | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post What’s New In SCCM Windows 10 Servicing Dashboard | ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog by Jitesh Kumar.

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Biden's executive order faces challenges trying to beef up US cybersecurity

Tech Republic Security

The EO is designed to protect federal networks, foster information sharing between the government and private sector, and better respond to cyber incidents. But will it do the trick?

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The Death And Life Of The Stand-Alone Solution

Forrester IT

While automated malware analysis and network intrusion detection systems remained in our Divest category, three more technologies joined them this year: data loss prevention, managed security service providers, and security user behavior analytics. Why is this? Because these stand-alone technologies simply don’t cut it anymore. This isn’t to say these solutions are dead, mind you.

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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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What Will Be the Next New Normal in Cloud Software Security?

Information Week

Accelerated moves to the cloud made sense at the height of the pandemic -- organizations may face different concerns in the future.

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What’s New Improvement with SCCM Task Sequence Check Readiness Step | ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post What’s New Improvement with SCCM Task Sequence Check Readiness Step | ConfigMgr appeared first on HTMD Blog by Jitesh Kumar.

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The many sides of DarkSide, the group behind the Colonial pipeline ransomware attack

Tech Republic Security

Though it likes to promote itself as being "philanthropic," the DarkSide gang represents a dangerous threat to organizations around the world.

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Biden Executive Order Bets Big On Zero Trust For Future of US Cybersecurity

Forrester IT

This may be a bit of a long blog due to the extensive nature of the Executive Order On Improving The Nation’s Cybersecurity and its impact on cybersecurity and the Zero Trust approach. The Biden administration also published a “FACT SHEET: President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect […].

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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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Intel is using machine learning to make GTA V look incredibly, unsettlingly realistic

The Verge

One of the more impressive aspects of Grand Theft Auto V is how closely the game’s San Andreas approximates real-life Los Angeles and Southern California, but a new machine learning project from Intel Labs called “Enhancing Photorealism Enhancement” might take that realism in a unsettlingly photorealistic direction ( via Gizmodo ). Putting the game through the processes researchers Stephan R.

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Seattle teen entrepreneurs sell their health-tech startup and take a break from college

GeekWire

Sage Khanuja, left, and Nikolas Ioannou, the founders of Seattle-based Spira. (Spira Photo). The news: Seattle entrepreneurs Sage Khanuja , 17, and Nikolas Ioannou , 18, have sold their telemedicine startup Spira to Galileo , a New York-based healthcare company. “To be honest, I didn’t really think much or ask about their age,” Galileo CEO Tom Lee said of the teens. “I generally evaluate technology and teams based on their capabilities and potential.

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Blurred WFH lines create cybersecurity challenges for companies

Tech Republic Security

A new HP Wolf Security study focuses on shifting cybersecurity threats in the age of remote working as employees use work devices for personal entertainment.

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Five Productivity Obstacles Sales Organizations Need To Overcome

Forrester IT

Improving reps' productivity is one of the top objectives of our sales leader clients. The first step to achieving this is to truly understand the key productivity obstacles today’s sales teams face.

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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.

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Sky Mavis raises $7.5 million for NFT-based Axie Infinity game with backers like Mark Cuban

Venture Beast

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Sky Mavis, a game studio based in Vietnam, has raised $7.5 million for its Axie Infinity game, which uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to reward players financially the more they play. Backers include billionaire investor and one of the “sharks” in the Shark Tank t… Read More.

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'Matter' is a new connectivity standard backed by IoT alliance, Google, Amazon and Apple

TechSpot

Back in 2019, we learned about a joint effort by Amazon, Apple, Google, and the hundreds of companies in the Zigbee Alliance whose aim is to deliver a set of open global standards for digital products in the Internet of Things category. It's an ambitious project, and it's predicated on.

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Cybersecurity technology is not getting better: How can it be fixed?

Tech Republic Security

A recent survey found an unusual reason cybersecurity is failing. Experts share what it is and how to correct it.

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Trust Is Your Business Imperative

Forrester IT

Our society is coping with unprecedented challenges. Your customers, employees, and partners are all facing growing uncertainties and concerns, such as: income inequality and job insecurity, social unrest, and misinformation and disinformation. Meanwhile, systemic risks like climate change, pandemics, and global recessions have wrought significant health, safety, and financial impacts.

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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.