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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field.

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SHARED INTEL: VCs pumped $21.8 billion into cybersecurity in 2021 — why there’s more to come

The Last Watchdog

The top drivers of the continued growth of cybersecurity are: the growing need to protect the API supply chain, the inadequacy of existing identity management systems, and the unfulfilled promise of data-driven AI-powered cybersecurity systems. Securing APIs. Every week, we see a new pitch for an API supply chain security startup.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

Yet, in bringing us here, APIs have also spawned a vast new tier of security holes. Yet, API security risks haven’t gotten the attention they deserve. It has become clear that API security needs to be prioritized as companies strive to mitigate modern-day cyber exposures. Thus security-proofing APIs has become a huge challenge.

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Security Data Lakes Emerge to Address SIEM Limitations

eSecurity Planet

Every security team craves clear visibility into the endpoints, networks, containers, applications, and other resources of the organization. To address that limitation, a new tool is emerging: Security data lakes (SDLs), which might provide a solution that enables unfiltered visibility for security teams. What is SIEM?

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Microsoft helps close the UK digital skills gap

IT Governance

The event programme includes keynote presentations and technical workshops aimed at business leaders, IT professionals, HR/training managers and students. This pipeline should include hiring and training new staff who may not have a STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) background and developing existing employees’ skills.

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Synthetic data generation: Building trust by ensuring privacy and quality

IBM Big Data Hub

They are already identifying and exploring several real-life use cases for synthetic data, such as: Generating synthetic tabular data to increase sample size and edge cases. You can combine this data with real datasets to improve AI model training and predictive accuracy.

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Generative AI use cases for the enterprise

IBM Big Data Hub

While advanced models can handle diverse data types, some excel at specific tasks, like text generation, information summary or image creation. The quality of outputs depends heavily on training data, adjusting the model’s parameters and prompt engineering, so responsible data sourcing and bias mitigation are crucial.