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How to integrate systems more efficiently

Information Management Resources

One way is to arm an integration team with an agile approach to the work.

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Why digital business needs a trusted data foundation

IBM Big Data Hub

This is an era in which everything has become digital. We live in the data-driven society. The difficulty is that all this digital technology still doesn’t totally cooperate.

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How to prepare for a penetration test

IT Governance

Conducting a successful penetration test is a challenge for even the most experienced tester. It involves much more than simply running tools and probing systems. Rather, it requires a lot of skill and experience, as testers need to know what vulnerabilities to look for, where to find them and how to exploit them. However, penetration testing isn’t a dark art.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Beyond the Hype

Data Breach Today

Companies offering cybersecurity products are using the terms "artificial intelligence" and "machine learning" in many different ways. But the real meanings of the terms are far more nuanced than marketing hyperbole would lead us to believe, says Grant Wernick of Insight Engines.

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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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Britannica Insights Is a Chrome Extension to Fix False Google Results

WIRED Threat Level

Encyclopedia Britannica released a Chrome extension designed to fix Google's sometimes inaccurate "featured snippets.".

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How to optimize your business decision-making

IBM Big Data Hub

Decision-makers across many different industries are making complex decisions every day that involve optimizing trade-offs to make the right business choices.

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Sidley Updates Bloomberg Portfolio on FTC Enforcement of Privacy & Data Security

Data Matters

Sidley Austin has recently updated its “FTC Enforcement of Privacy & Data Security,” which has been published as part of Bloomberg Law’s Privacy & Data Security Practice Portfolio, Portfolio No. 500, available here. This updated and enhanced portfolio explains the enforcement authorities, powers, and limitations of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and its ever-evolving role as the de facto United States privacy and information security regulator in many sectors.

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Facebook Bug Made Up to 14 Million Users' Posts Public For Days

WIRED Threat Level

In late May, millions of Facebook users had new posts set to public by default.

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Reinstall a clean macOS with one button

Jamf

Sound too good to be true? Here are five easy steps to make simple reinstalls a reality in your environment.

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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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OpenText Magellan helps G7 hear the voice of the people

OpenText Information Management

Enlightened leaders take the feelings and interests of their people into account. But how can you tell what they’re thinking, about myriads of subjects? Elections are yes/no questions without nuance. Opinion polls are time-delayed and limited in how much they can ask. And letters are labor-intensive to process. Nowadays, the usual way to take the pulse of … The post OpenText Magellan helps G7 hear the voice of the people appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Side-Channel Attacks & the Importance of Hardware-Based Security

Dark Reading

Reliably evaluating the security of modern infrastructure requires a solid understanding of the hardware supporting it.

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Oregon Amends Data Breach Notification Law

Hunton Privacy

On June 2, 2018, Oregon’s amended data breach notification law (“the amended law”) went into effect. Among other changes, the amended law broadens the applicability of breach notification requirements, prohibits fees for security freezes and related services provided to consumers in the wake of a breach and adds a specific notification timing requirement.

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7 Variants (So Far) of Mirai

Dark Reading

Mirai is an example of the newest trend in rapidly evolving, constantly improving malware. These seven variants show how threat actors are making bad malware worse.

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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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CloudPets May Be Out of Business, But Security Concerns Remain

Threatpost

Amazon, Target and Walmart have pulled the bears from their online markets; but it's the installed base of the connected cuddlies that should be of greater concern.

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Adobe Issues Emergency Patch for Flash Zero-Day

Dark Reading

Adobe has patched four security vulnerabilities today, including a zero-day being actively exploited in the wild.

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GDPR: A Compliance Quagmire, for Now

Threatpost

Experts say the devil is in the details when it comes to complying with the swath of new privacy and cybersecurity laws enforced by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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FBI Slaps New Charges Against Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry

Dark Reading

Federal authorities charged Marcus Hutchins with lying to the government and authoring a second piece of malware in addition to the Kronos banking Trojan.

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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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Shipping Industry Cybersecurity: A Shipwreck Waiting to Happen

Threatpost

Pen Test Partners demonstrates how to send vessels off-course or even onto a path to collision -- fairly easily.

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In Pursuit of Cryptography's Holy Grail

Dark Reading

Homomorphic encryption eliminates the need for data exposure at any point - something that certainly would be welcome these days.

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Digital Archivist achieves more at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Preservica

Real-world digital preservation blog series: The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Marge Huang, Digital Archivist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art explains how Preservica’s digital preservation system, hosted in the cloud, enables her to get more accomplished and be more successful in her role. We recently caught up with Marge Huang, Digital Archivist at the Museum, who gave us a sneak peek of what happens behind the scenes in terms of digital preservation.

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New Colorado Breach Notification Rules Signed Into Law

Dark Reading

Colorado has enacted a new data breach notification law that contains some of the most stringent requirements in the US.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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SER’s growth double that of ECM market competition

Info Source

(29 May 2018 – Bonn) Around 10% revenue growth: The SER Group has further strengthened its top positioning as the largest European software vendor for enterprise content management * (ECM). In the fiscal year 2017, the SER Group grew more than twice as much as the entire ECM market [1] [1]. The positive flux of new orders continues in 2018 for SER. ECM is one the top ten high-tech topics right now, as the Bitkom industry barometer 2018 reports.

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Bug Bounty Payouts Up 73% Per Vulnerability: Bugcrowd

Dark Reading

Bug bounty programs grew along with payouts, which averaged $781 per vulnerability this year, researchers report.

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Baby Cam Creeper Actively Watched New Mom

Threatpost

It's the latest example of the hackability of off-the-shelf IoT devices - even when default passwords are changed.

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DevSecOps Gains Enterprise Traction

Dark Reading

Enterprise adoption of DevSecOps has surged in the past year, according to a study conducted at this year's RSA Conference.

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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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Operation Prowli Profits On Weak IoT Devices, Servers

Threatpost

A new malicious campaign has compromised more than 40,000 machines globally to monetize via traffic hijacking and cryptomining.

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Plaintiff is Able to Get Some Subpoenas for Personal Data Quashed, But Not All: eDiscovery Case Law

eDiscovery Daily

In Delgado v. Tarabochia, et al., No. C17-1822RSL (W.D. Wash. May 4, 2018) , Washington District Judge Robert S. Lasnik granted in part and denied in part the plaintiff’s motion to quash subpoenas for personal phone records and bank records, finding that phone records before the plaintiff’s hand injury on the defendant’s fishing boat were “of vital importance to defendants’ theory of the case” , but that the need for pre-incident bank records was not proportional to the needs of the case a

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Targeted Spy Campaign Hits Russian Service Centers

Threatpost

The payload is a commercial version of the Imminent Monitor tool, which is marketed as legitimate software.