The Schedule

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

And it came to pass that Brad was preparing materials for records management training sessions, as one does; And the frustration with the records management practices put in place by his predecessor did boil over. Then did Brad throw together a quick-and-dirty records management graphic, and he shared it on Twitter for a lark. Lo! That graphic became Brad’s most RT’ed Records Management-related post ever, for Brad hath toucheth a nerve.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In his latest novel, David Ignatius tackles the intersection of quantum computing and spying.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If your organisation is at all concerned about data protection, it should have an information security management system (ISMS). An ISMS is a system of processes, documents, technology and people that helps organisations manage, monitor and improve their information security in one place. ISO 27001 describes best practice for an ISMS, and certifying to the Standard means you can be sure that your organisation’s security measures are as effective as possible.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Uber was hacked, losing data on 57 million driver and rider accounts. The company kept it quiet for over a year. The details are particularly damning : The two hackers stole data about the company's riders and drivers ­-- including phone numbers, email addresses and names -- from a third-party server and then approached Uber and demanded $100,000 to delete their copy of the data, the employees said.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Managing enterprise information has always been a good idea, however with the potential for looming penalties from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) non-compliance, companies are waking up and some organizations are even seeing GDPR as an opportunity to establish strengthened relationships with their customers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Speed to market and differentiation are two key factors for business success. To achieve both, organizations need to rapidly innovate and drive change.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

On November 3, 2017, Securityroundtable.org published an article highlighting the vulnerabilities businesses face in a world of e-commerce and interconnectivity, and spotlighted a crisis-planning panel hosted by Hunton & Williams held on November 1. Speakers at the event included Lisa Sotto , chair of the Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Hunton & Williams; Eric Friedberg , Co-President of Stroz Friedberg; Stephen Gannon, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Citizens Fin

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I just wrapped up attending and keynoting at this year’s ARMA Live conference. We're moving towards not just bringing together the practices, benefits and mandates of security, privacy and information governance, but also seeing the benefits and opportunities of business results of ever more personalized and trusted relationships with customers and partners, and developing whole new business opportunities.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Here's a list of sites that for little or no cost give you plenty of ideas for where to find first-rate threat intelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

That's a 35 percent increase over the previous quarter.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

We can now recover evidence from the RAM on a cellphone, even if the account is locked, and use it to prosecute a case.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Qihoo 360 Netlab researchers reported on Friday that they are tracking an uptick in activity associated with what it said is a variant of the Mirai botnet.

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MIKE 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Imagine an organisation with ten job levels (ranked from entry to CEO). In the first year, there are 512 people at the lowest level who are all assigned to projects, half of which succeed and the other half fail in the first 18 months. The successful 256 are promoted to the next level and again assigned to projects with a 50/50 chance of success. The 128 whose projects succeed are again promoted.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Mobile banking Trojan BankBot uses a unique payload downloading technique to skip past Google Play Protect.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Researcher Troy Hunt is credited for tipping image sharing site Imgur off to a 2014 breach of 1.7 million user accounts.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Organizations that saw real results had and built a unique digital DNA that enabled them to succeed where other similar companies failed or saw far fewer results.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The cloud email security and management company accepts buyout offer as a means to accelerate its growth.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Having recently experienced this with a client, I thought I would revisit this helpful tip. This is one of the tips Tom O’Connor and I will be covering this Friday – E-Discovery Day – on our webcast Murphy’s eDiscovery Law: How to Keep What Could Go Wrong From Going Wrong at noon CST (1:00pm EST, 10:00am PST). Click here to register for Friday’s webcast.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

McAfee agrees to buy CASB provider Skyhigh Networks, demonstrating a strong focus on cloud security.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Officials are probing allegations that information from more than a million students who are clients of the Beijing-based firm was leaked and possibly sold online.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Developers can play a vital role in accelerating the adoption of AppSec practices, security vendor says.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

To protect against this malware threat, organizations need to harden the target – including the users, the apps and the data.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Developers can play a vital role in accelerating the adoption of AppSec practices, security vendor says.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

One defines elements, their meanings and their allowable values, while the other is enterprise-wide and should be created to improve business understanding of the information they produce and use.

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IGI

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Washington, D.C., of counsel Jason R. Baron at Drinker Biddle & Reath authored an article for Ethical Boardroom titled “Looking Into the Crystal Ball,” outlining his predictions on what corporate information governance (IG) issues will loom large in the coming year. Jason predicts the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation will drive greater attention to IG, given the prospect of ongoing audits and fines for noncompliance with key privacy provisions.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Eight years since the birth of bitcoin, finance execs around the world are increasingly recognizing the potential upsides and downsides of digital currencies.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The firm rolled out a robo-adviser last year that uses algorithms to help customers build and manage portfolios with little or no human interaction.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It could get worse. The country faces a growing shortage of workers in 'frontier IT' -- big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.

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