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Leveraging partnerships, technology, and design to enhance water quality through the inaugural Aquality app

IBM Big Data Hub

Agriculture is one of the main sources of contamination in the water we use to drink, fish, participate in recreational activities and more. According to reports , 78% of global ocean and freshwater pollution with excess nutrients is caused by agriculture.

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Mitigating the impact of climate change in insurance and other financial services  

IBM Big Data Hub

Firms can also reduce their investment risk by using weather and climate data to make investment decisions. Create an operational strategy to use weather data A new or expanded team might have to fully take advantage of weather data throughout the business.

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Metrics that matter: Data and tools Planet Collibra leaders use to understand climate change and create impact

Collibra

Collibrians believe that the best place to start when staring down a tough challenge is with data. Trusted data can help make a big problem feel more manageable by directing us toward actions and investments that will have the greatest positive impact. Thankfully, this is where data shines! What IS climate change?

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Turning climate risks into business opportunities 

IBM Big Data Hub

Therefore, the states worked with Mercados EMI , a consultancy firm specializing in the energy sector, to build an AI-based demand forecasting system that uses weather pattern data and electricity demand data. The state experienced one of its driest years on record in 2022. For more information, visit our Climate risks insights page.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. “In cases where decryption is not possible, some data recovery can occur.”

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INSIGHTS from SENTINEL

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Where Companies Fail and How to Avoid the Traps of Shifting to Subscriptions. Images credit: IDC presentation, Where Companies Fail and How to Avoid the Traps of Shifting to Subscriptions June 2021. . TRANSITIONING TO SUBSCRIPTIONS. Presented by Mark Thomason, IDC Research Director. ?Which Usership vs. Ownership .