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His insight is worth repeating for anyone looking to add automation tools to their security toolset. This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices. Click here to subscribe. During my recent trip to Tel Aviv to attend CyberTech 2017, I had a one-on-one conversation with Barak Klinghofer , co-founder and CTO of Hexadite. He gave me a preview of an educational presentation he was to give two weeks later at the RSA Conference. MORE
At least one person is leveraging seven leaked NSA hacking tools for a new EternalRocks network worm. While you won’t be forgetting the WannaCry ransomware attack, it is likely you will be hearing a lot more about the alleged NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit and DoublePulsar backdoor as it seems a wide range of bad guys have them in their toyboxes. MORE
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benchmark) tool that runs on various Windows systems as an alternative to Iometer, vdbench, iozone, iorate, fio, sqlio among other tools. Diskspd is a command line tool which means it can easily be scripted to do reads and writes of various I/O size including random as well as sequential activity. Microsoft Diskspd is a synthetic workload generation (e.g. MORE
We know you, dear readers, have been tracking the megatrend of artificial intelligence. There are many issues in this trend that should inform your day-to-day decision-making (we examine AI issues as part of our CAMBRIC construct to help put the trend in the context of other major thrusts in the tech world). Most AI solutions today are fielded by the big players in IT. MORE
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On 30 June 2015 the FFIEC released a new Cybersecurity Assessment Tool. This tool is intended to help financial organizations large and small better assess and understand risk and also the organization's maturity in cyber defense. Here are more thoughts: The tool has two parts. MORE
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New collaboration tools come with apps that simplify integration with other enterprise systems. Collaboration tools are proliferating and this complicates adoption of a universal enterprise collaboration platform. Add to the above the need for internal groups to collaborate with external groups and it's understandable why a fallback tool for collaboration continues to be good old email -- which everyone agrees is pretty much an awful tool for collaboration. Dennis D. MORE
Poor employee performance might be a result of poor choice of tools. Most frequently, a poor choice of project management tools is to blame. There are too many tools out there that serve only to obfuscate workflows - I am going to tell you how to recognize and avoid them. Seek out the tools that most closely match your requirements. AJ Morris. Here are a few signs it might be time to look for some new ones. What does your agency’s workflow look like? MORE
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In the school district of La Crosse, Vicki Lyons depends on mobile device management software from Jamf to manage the Wisconsin district’s fleet of iPads and MacBook Air devices. The Apple device management platform plays a key role in the district’s efforts to provide equitable access to technology to all of its students. “We We use Jamf Pro as our device management solution for our 1:1 iPad program district-wide. MORE
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New York’s Montgomery County, located at the foot of the Adirondacks, consists of 10 towns, one city and 50,000 residents. To protect the data that pertains to its citizens and operations, Montgomery County added DatAdvantage from Varonis to its arsenal of security wares. The data security platform is designed to show organizations where sensitive data exists, who is accessing it, and how to keep it safe. MORE
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Most security tools are focused on keeping external attackers at bay. DLP tools are designed to block protected data from being shared in various ways, everything from e-mail attachments to printing to even screen captures. But what about the sensitive data that lives inside your network? How do you make sure it doesn’t get out, either intentionally or by accident? That’s where Data Loss Prevention (DLP) comes into play. MORE
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I decided to write a reporting tool for this event so that IT professionals will be aware of this error before a complete failure occurs and there is data loss along with losses in production time. Last year, we had a high level executive that started having slowness and extended drive usage. MORE
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