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Securing the Modern Workplace

Data Breach Today

David Wagner of Zix on Rising to the Challenges of Cloud Remote workers, connected devices, cloud services and infrastructure - these are the elements of the new workplace. Now, how do you secure it? That's the challenge discussed by David Wagner, CEO of Zix.

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Walgreens Mobile App Leaks Prescription Data

Threatpost

A security error in the Walgreens mobile app may have leaked customers' full names, prescriptions and shipping addresses.

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Managing the Risks Posed By APIs

Data Breach Today

Shreyans Mehta of Cequence Security on the API Security Landscape APIs are exposing a lot of business logic to exploitation, says Shreyans Mehta, co-founder & CTO and Cequence Security, who offers insights on enhancing API security.

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HIMSS20 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus

Data Breach Today

Organizers Pull Plug on Event for First Time in Nearly 60 Years Amid Global Spread of Covid-19 For the first time since the event was launched 58 years ago, organizers on Thursday cancelled the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference, due to the quickly evolving global coronavirus spread.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Deception Technology in 2020

Data Breach Today

Attivo's CTO and CMO Share Insight on Industry Trends Deception technology has moved from being an emerging technology to a more mainstream security control, say Tony Cole, and Carolyn Crandall of Attivo Networks.

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Steve Katz on the CISO Role in 2020

Data Breach Today

World's First CISO Shares Insight to Guide Next Generation of Leaders Steve Katz, the world's first CISO, who cut his teeth at Citi and Merrill Lynch, stays current with emerging tech and business trends, and he has advice to share with the next generation of cybersecurity leaders.

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SurfingAttack – hacking phones via ultrasonic waves

Security Affairs

SurfingAttack is an attacking technique that allows to wake up mobile device and control them using voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves. SurfingAttack is a hacking technique that sees voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves silently activate a mobile phone’s digital assistant. The technique could be used to do several actions such as making phone calls or reading text messages.

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Time and cost savings for Marketing, Finance, and Sales with Jamf

Jamf

The second in a three-part series, we show the many tasks which Jamf solutions can simplify, speed up, automate and even eliminate: for all of your departments. This week: Finance, Marketing and Sales.

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What does the Data Office do? Inside Collibra’s Data Office

Collibra

The data is in, and we all get it: It’s a strategic asset. It’s as vital as Finance managing the budget, or Human Resources recruiting talent. We’re almost at the point where data can be officially listed, even quantified, on the balance sheet as a competitive advantage. . The perception, if not the reality, is now so pervasive that it’s almost a cliché.

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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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The role of IT and HR in digital transformation

Jamf

Businesses should not overlook the importance of the employee's digital experience when engaging in a digital transformation.

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Women on the rise in Data Science

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM Data Science and AI Elite team members Mehrnoosh Vahdat and Rachael Dottle were just one month into their IBM careers when they received their first assignment last July. . The project jettisoned them into the heart of Africa, where their banking client was looking to surface new business opportunities across the subcontinent. Their mission was to generate a proof of concept designed to enhance the value of data science and inject the results into workflows for business users and clients.

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Open Regulatory Consultations in the UK and the EU – Have Your Say

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

As highlighted by our new Privacy 2040 initiative, there have never been more opportunities to shape the existing and future privacy and cybersecurity legal framework. Consultations on draft guidance and surveys of various stakeholders are an important step in the production of new rules and materials, and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) currently have a number of open consultations.

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ICO Fines Scottish Company Maximum Amount for Automated Calls

Hunton Privacy

On March 2, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) fined CRDNN Limited, a lead generation company, £500,000—the maximum amount available for a breach of the Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”). The fine was imposed after CRDNN carried out over 193 million unsolicited automated direct marketing calls relating to window scrappage, window and conservatory sales, boiler sales, and debt management between June and October 2018.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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Financial institutions can gain new AI model risk management capabilities with IBM Watson OpenScale

IBM Big Data Hub

Many financial institutions are rapidly developing and adopting AI models. They’re using the models to achieve new competitive advantages such as being able to make faster and more successful underwriting decisions. However, AI models introduce new risks.

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DoppelPaymer Ransomware Slams Supplier to Boeing and Tesla

Data Breach Today

Crypto-Locking Malware Gang Dumps Confidential Data Stolen From Visser Precision Visser Precision, a U.S. manufacturer that supplies Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Tesla and SpaceX, appears to have been hit by the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, which has begun leaking internal data, and threatening to leak more unless the victim pays a ransom.

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The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions

Krebs on Security

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity reported to health insurance provider Blue Shield of California that its Web site was flagged by multiple security products as serving malicious content. Blue Shield quickly removed the unauthorized code. An investigation determined it was injected by a browser extension installed on the computer of a Blue Shield employee who’d edited the Web site in the past month.

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How Long Should I Keep This Business Record For?

AIIM

This is perhaps one of the most-asked questions in all of records management. Too often I hear one of two, equally bad answers: Keep Records for Seven years: This seems to be the de facto answer, especially for financial services records. As near as I can tell, this comes from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service rules around when they can audit individual and corporate tax returns.

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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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SHARED INTEL: Here’s why CEOs who’ve quit Tweeting are very smart to do so

The Last Watchdog

Cyber threats now command the corporate sector’s full attention. It’s reached the point where some CEOs have even begun adjusting their personal online habits to help protect themselves, and by extension, the organizations they lead. Corporate consultancy PwC’s recent poll of 1,600 CEOs worldwide found that cyber attacks are now considered the top hinderance to corporate performance, followed by the shortage of skilled workers and the inability to keep up with rapid tech advances.

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Walgreens Mobile App Exposed Health-Related Messages

Data Breach Today

For Six Days, App May Have Shown Private Messages to Other Users Walgreens' mobile app inadvertently disclosed personal messages to other customers due to an internal application error, revealing some health-related information. The company did not say how many people were affected.

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French Firms Rocked by Kasbah Hacker?

Krebs on Security

A large number of French critical infrastructure firms were hacked as part of an extended malware campaign that appears to have been orchestrated by at least one attacker based in Morocco, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. An individual thought to be involved has earned accolades from the likes of Apple , Dell , and Microsoft for helping to find and fix security vulnerabilities in their products.

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[Podcast] A “Carnegie” Approach to Change Management

AIIM

In 1936, Dale Carnegie's " How to Win Friends and Influence People " first published. Since then, it's become one of the best-selling books of all time with over 15 million copies sold! What makes this self-help book one of the most influential of our time? Farnam Street offers a fantastic summary of some of the book's most important points , including: Advice on Dealing with People: When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic.

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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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NEW TECH: Juicing up SOAR — SIRP inserts risk-based analysis into network defense playbooks

The Last Watchdog

Security information and event management (SIEM) is evolving and integrating with security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) to add real value in the cybersecurity space. Related : How SOAR Is Helping to Address the Cybersecurity Skills Gap SIEM is useful for detecting potential security incidents and triggering alerts, but the addition of a SOAR solution brings these alerts to another level by triaging the data and adopting remediation measures where required.

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The 'Human Element' in Privacy

Data Breach Today

Gabriel Gumbs of Spirion on Privacy Regulations and Data Classification The RSA 2020 theme was "The Human Element." Gabriel Gumbs of Spirion describes what this means in the era of privacy regulations.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

At first glance, February appears to be a big improvement cyber security-wise compared to the start of the year. The 632,595,960 breached records accounts for about a third of January’s total, and is considerably lower than the figures for this time last year. Unfortunately, the number of breached records doesn’t tell the full story, as there were a whopping 105 incidents – making February 2020 the second leakiest month we’ve ever recorded.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. The Sunday Times reported that Russian intelligence agents have been sent to Ireland to gather detailed information on the undersea cables that connect Europe to North America. The news is alarming, intelligence agencies fear that Russia plans to carry out new cyber-espionage operations by tapping the undersea cables or even sabotage them. “Russia has sent in

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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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MY TAKE: Why IoT systems won’t be secure until each and every microservice is reliably authenticated

The Last Watchdog

Wider use of Internet of Things systems that can make daily living safer, healthier and more convenient is on the immediate horizon. However, to fully capture the benefits of an IoT-centric economy, a cauldron of privacy and security concerns must first be quelled. Related : The promise and pitfalls of IoT At the technology level, two fundamental things must get accomplished.

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Redefining Security Analytics

Data Breach Today

Chronicle's Anton Chuvakin on How to Fill the Gaps for Analysts There are glaring holes in how enterprises currently tackle security analytics, and by redefining the approach, the analyst's role can be transformed. Dr. Anton Chuvakin of Chronicle explains how.

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Tracking the COVID-19 coronavirus using Micro Focus IDOL

Micro Focus

“How do I know what I do not know?” Micro Focus IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) is an AI platform which derives contextual and conceptual insights from miltiple data sources. It can identify relationships that exist within virtually any type of information and Micro Focus runs a demo environment that indexes a limited subset of. View Article.

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