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Level up your Kafka applications with schemas

IBM Big Data Hub

Apache Kafka is a well-known open-source event store and stream processing platform and has grown to become the de facto standard for data streaming. The applications all need to share the same assumptions about the structure of the data. Provision an instance of Event Streams on IBM Cloud here.

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Quest EMPOWER: Day two is all about data operations

erwin

If you want to efficiently modernize data infrastructure, optimize system performance and deliver applications that will empower your business, mastering data operations is the key. Register today because this year’s data summit is already on track to be one of the best virtual events of the year. Let’s change that.

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Synthetic data generation: Building trust by ensuring privacy and quality

IBM Big Data Hub

With the emergence of new advances and applications in machine learning models and artificial intelligence, including generative AI, generative adversarial networks, computer vision and transformers, many businesses are seeking to address their most pressing real-world data challenges using both types of synthetic data: structured and unstructured.

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What Is a Vulnerability Assessment? Types, Steps & Benefits

eSecurity Planet

Database vulnerability assessment: This makes sure that the sensitive data stored in a database is protected by examining the database configuration, data structures, access controls, and other elements that affect the database’s performance and security.

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NT Analyzer Blog Series: Why So Many Cookie Policies Are Broken, Part I – HTML5 LocalStorage

Data Protection Report

Lastly, although the format of storage is the “name-value” pair, the names and values in localStorage can be “nested,” creating a data structure that is more difficult for the layperson to untangle than cookies. For technical readers, the storage format is typically JSON.). The Potential Privacy Issues With LocalStorage.

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Don’t wreck your data lake with poor quality data 

Collibra

The data can be unstructured and processed as required. Data stored in data lakes can be images, videos, server logs, social media posts, and data from IoT devices. They do not need a fully defined data structure. Because of their flexibility, data lakes are much more cost-effective.

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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

Reputations tend to color the way we read events. Each of these services have, at a minimum, hundreds of millions of active users, all of them with different security protocols, data structures and network requirements. Put simply, companies can make themselves harder to hit by hackers, and less prone to compromise.

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