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Netflix Hack: Key Lessons In The Economics Of Ransomware And Managing 3rd Party Risk

Forrester IT

Netflix recently experienced a third-party breach. The data lost is Season 5 of Orange is the New Black, which is original Netflix content. Many are calling it the largest entertainment industry hack since Sony. I guess that is right, but how bad is it really? First, here is what happened. Netflix transferred season five to their post-production third party in Los Angeles, Larson Studios, for sound mixing and editing.

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Testing is key to IoT security, says researcher

Computer Weekly

Building an effective testing process across all elements associated with a product is key to securing the internet of things, according to a researcher in the field

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How Do You Define Cloud Computing?

Data Center Knowledge

Almost everyone has his or her own definition of cloud from “it’s on the internet” to a full-blown technical explanation of the myriad compute options available from a given cloud service provider. Read More.

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Setting Standards with CRM

IT Toolbox

Standards are important for every area of business – including CRM. Firm, reasonable standards of performance help keep the business under control and processes running smoothly. Every phase of your business requires standards and part of your job is to set them and make sure your employees follow them.

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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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Bimodal IT Is Past Its Due Date: Providing Speed And Innovation Need To Top The CIO's Agenda

Forrester IT

Many CIOs have embraced bimodal IT as a way to create relevance for the technology organization in the age of the customer. With marketing, CX, and other teams increasingly building their own development teams or turning to outside agencies for their technology needs, CIOs have recognized that they need to help drive fast change, not be a source of friction.

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Gov.uk Verify and identity assurance - it's time for a rethink

Computer Weekly

The government's Verify identity platform is not meeting user needs - it's time to step back and review how best to make online identity for public services work

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How blockchain can expand the role of BPM beyond the enterprise

IT Toolbox

Organizations are increasingly delegating all or part of their business processes to their business partners. From technology and channel partners to contract manufacturers, warehousing and logistics partners, all are now viewed as part of their extended enterprise.

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Zero Trust for MeatWare: It Applies to Us Humans Too

Forrester IT

Zero Trust principles have thus far been mainly aimed at the network and the technology that makes our interconnected systems "live." That's how the concept was originally meant to be applied, but the reality around the threat vectors and need for better security capabilities means that Zero Trust has to adapt just like everything else does. The concept for Zero Trust is super, and it's being adopted at quite a few major organizations, but there's still a problem.

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Fake tech support spiders on the world wide web

Computer Weekly

Fake tech support should be incorporated into security awareness training as it can be a highly effective way to trick employees into granting access to enterprise computer systems

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What is a NOC, and How It Improves Data Center Availability

Data Center Knowledge

Should you invest in a NOC? If so, do you build one in-house, or outsource? Here are some important points to consider. Read More.

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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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Planning for Attack: Security and Cloud-based ERP

IT Toolbox

Businesses are vulnerable. As cybercrimes become more frequent and severe, companies are spending more time and money to protect their digital assets.

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Are You On An Agile+DevOps Journey? Don’t Miss Out On Continuous Testing Services!

Forrester IT

It happens often in conversations with clients that I realize they have disjointed initiatives going on to support their digital transformation. The most dangerous parallel initiatives are those where, on one side, they are changing their development teams to become more Agile, but a separate initiative in the same enterprise exists where their Operations folks are running a development and operations (DevOps) transformation.

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DDoS a top security and business issue, study shows

Computer Weekly

DNS should be at the core of information security strategies as DDoS attacks increasingly form part of wider cyber attacks and continue to ramp up to unprecedented levels, warns Neustar

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Backup and Recovery Startup Rubrik Raises Funds at $1.3B Valuation

Data Center Knowledge

Newly minted unicorn hopes new-gen cloud-compatible backup/recovery software will replace legacy tech by Dell, Veritas Read More.

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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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VoLTE Subscriptions Are Expected to Hit 3 Billion by 2021: Here's How the Market Is Shaping Up

IT Toolbox

Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) technology, which is intended to provide businesses and consumers with high-quality video and voice calling among other data-rich services, is becoming more widespread throughout the market as we enter the second quarter of 2017.

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Accelerate Your Digital Momentum At Forrester’s Digital Transformation Mumbai 2017

Forrester IT

Forrester's annual flagship India event Digital Transformation Mumbai 2017 is almost here. This invite-only exclusive event has been growing over the years to become one of the most anticipated events for India's senior business leaders. At last year's event, we presented the right operating model for organizations to support their digital transformations: the customer obsessed operating model.

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Dealing with data under GDPR

Computer Weekly

With the General Data Protection Regulation due to be enforced next year, Computer Weekly looks at how to address the requirements to suit your business

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The Fat New Pipes that Link Facebook Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Putting the social network’s inter-data center backbone in perspective Read More.

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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 perform well under pressure

IT Toolbox

Let?s suppose that things have been running quietly as we approach the end of the month. The payroll job has been set to run in batch shortly, and the online systems seem to be functioning well following the recent release of the new catalogue to the public. You?

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Reflections On Huawei’s Analyst Summit 2017 — Past, Present, And Future

Forrester IT

In April 2017, Huawei hosted its annual Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China. Huawei's financial year 2016 was remarkable as the group grew revenues by 32% to US$ 75 billion, making Huawei the largest global network solutions vendor by revenues, way ahead of its traditional competitors Cisco, Nokia, and Ericsson. This calls for some reflections about Huawei's journey, its past achievements, and its current focus areas.

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Ex-government privacy advisor calls for 'fundamental review' of Gov.uk Verify identity scheme

Computer Weekly

Former Cabinet Office privacy group co-chair says the Verify identity assurance programme needs 'honest and fundamental reset'

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Report: Facebook Plans Another Huge Expansion at Texas Data Center Campus

Data Center Knowledge

Files paperwork to spend another $267 million on 500,000-square foot addition to $1 billion campus Read More.

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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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The Value of Architecture, Reference Architecture and Architecture Framework

IT Toolbox

There are many common sense reasons, such as predictability, repeatability, consistency, standardization etc., for the use of models, templates, standards, paterns, frameworks, reference or/and generic architectures. A class in OO (Object Oriented) is a template, for instance.

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In the war for talent, traditional enterprises must pick fights they can win

Forrester IT

( St. Rollox Chemical Works in Scotland by D.O. Hill, 1831. Image source: Wikipedia ). The world of work is changing, with my colleague JP Gownder among those doing a great job tracking the shift. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- digitisation, robots, globalisation (and its opposite), and a less loyal workforce, competition for digital talent is high.

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Locked in by choice: How European governments are handling their Microsoft addiction

Computer Weekly

Europe-wide research finds that government departments are deeply dependent on Microsoft software and services, while attempts to migrate to open source are difficult, temporary and sometimes under the radar

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Multicloud: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Cloud

This comprehensive guide covers the use of services from multiple cloud vendors, including the benefits businesses gain and the challenges IT teams face when using multicloud.

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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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6 Great Tech Related Jobs That Don't Require a Degree

IT Toolbox

While colleges like to tell you that the future is STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and that you need a four-year or higher degree to compete, that simply isn’t true. Here are six great tech-related jobs that don’t require a degree. Furthermore, all of them have strong upside potential and let you earn a decent living.

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Not too late to catch Digital Transformation Forum, 2017

Forrester IT

The moment of truth for your digital re-invention has arrived. Digital technology has rendered your legacy systems obsolete, and has liberated your customers to adopt - and abandon - your offerings at a moment's notice. You already know it's time to change. You need to transform your firm to meet your customers' expectations and ensure flexibility for the future.

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Most think cloud services are as good as or better than IT department

Computer Weekly

Veeam survey shows levels of penetration for as-a-service cloud options and reveals that most IT managers think cloud providers meet service levels better than in-house IT

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Verizon to Sell Cloud and Managed Hosting Business to IBM

Data Center Knowledge

Plans to focus on managed services around partner offerings Read More.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.