Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2018
Updates Address Cybersecurity, Battery Problems Abbott Laboratories has issued software updates for certain implantable cardiac devices to address cybersecurity flaws and battery issues that pose potential safety risks to patients. The problems were also the subject of previous warnings by two federal agencies.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2018
Threat actors generate, launder, spend, and reinvest more than $1.5 trillion in illicit funds, according to a new study on cybercrime's 'web of profit.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2018
Rsam's Vivek Shivananda on How the New Approach Solves a Classic Problem As corporate information silos fall, traditional approaches to governance, risk and compliance are giving way to the new category of integrated risk management solutions. Vivek Shivananda, CEO of Rsam, discusses the evolution.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 20, 2018
Opinion: Citizens may object to their social media posts being mined by law enforcement, but the practice can keep the public safe.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2018
Tom Patterson of Unisys Opens Up on Network Security and Behavioral Biometrics In today's extended enterprise, with organizations leveraging supply chains and the cloud, microsegmentation has become a hot network security technology. Tom Patterson of Unisys discusses the trend, as well as behavioral biometrics.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
APRIL 20, 2018
After several years of uncertainty over the US government’s power to reach data stored overseas, Congress has enacted the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act). Signed into law by the President, the CLOUD Act amends the Stored Communications Act to confirm that the US government may obtain data stored abroad. The CLOUD Act also allows foreign governments under some circumstances to obtain data stored within the United States.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 20, 2018
In April 2018, Google lost a landmark case against a businessman who used his ‘right to be forgotten’ to have links to a previous conviction taken down from the search engine. Jordan Erica Webber discusses the importance of this case and looks ahead at the coming era of General Data Protection Regulation Subscribe and review: Acast , Apple , Spotify , Soundcloud , Audioboom , Mixcloud.
The Schedule
APRIL 20, 2018
I have not spent much time in recent months following the travails of media organizations such as Gawker and the Gothamist other than to casually peruse tweets on my timeline. A retweet caught my eye the other day, and here we are. Today’s post is mainly in response to “ Digital Media and the Case of the Missing Archives ,” written by Danielle Tcholakian who in turn seems to have been inspired by an article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2018
Security practitioners must build trusted relationships with developers and within cross-functional DevOps teams to get themselves embedded into continuous software delivery processes.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2018
Can bug bounty programs be designed to protect consumer privacy and how do programs balance white hat disclosure versus companies sitting on vulnerabilities until they are fixed?
Troy Hunt
APRIL 20, 2018
I'm home! Home is good. My travel stats for this year - not so good. As I say in the video, I need to fix this so at this stage, I'm saying "no" to pretty much everything in the second half of the year that involves international travel and I'll just do the exceptionally awesome stuff. But be that as it may, there's a bunch of other stuff to talk about this week including 3 new blog posts.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2018
Threatpost's Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about his discoveries this week at the RSA Conference.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
Processing high volumes and continuous streams of information in real-time with low to medium latency, it is scalable, has a high uptime and can quickly recover from failure situations.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2018
Andy Ellis, CSO Akamai, discusses how the company works with others within the cybersecurity landscape to help keep the internet safe.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2018
Instruments at the RSA Security Operations Center give analysts insight into attendee behavior on an open network.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation will not be a cure-all for the world’s data privacy problems simply because, like every law, it is subject to the bureaucracy out of which it was born.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2018
Could these advanced technologies be putting user data at risk?
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.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
To make it work, dozens of shipping lines and thousands of related businesses around the world will have to work out a protocol that can integrate all the new systems onto one vast platform.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2018
Names, addresses, phone numbers, account balances, may have been exposed.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
While tech giants have started to take the lead on ensuring environmentally conscious data centers, it is time to consider new standards that will serve as a guidepost for the industry.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
The best indication that the firm isn't actually 'sorry' is the social network's intention to change its terms of service to put all non-European users under the jurisdiction of its U.S. headquarters.
IGI
APRIL 20, 2018
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. We are now less than a month away from the Fourth Annual Chief Information Governance Officer (CIGO) Summit on May 9th & 10th in Chicago at the beautiful DBR Skyview Conference Center. The CIGO Summit is a by-invitation-only, executive event for senior leaders in cybersecurity, information management, law, privacy, data analytics, records management, compliance, and other IG-related disciplines.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
Many are using graph database technology to provide the necessary relationship mapping, combined with master data management, data federation and artificial intelligence.
IT Governance
APRIL 20, 2018
This week, we discuss an alert from the NCSC, US DHS and FBI, a £120,000 fine for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and a data breach at IKEA’s TaskRabbit marketplace. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 20 April 2018. Here are this week’s stories. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a joint Technical Alert with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI about malicious cyber activity carried out by the Russian governmen
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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.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
At a Congressional committee hearing, the corporate director gave a strong endorsement of the Pentagon’s proposal for a new artificial intelligence center and its collaboration with technology companies.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 20, 2018
The Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) recently released a Recommendation (in French and Dutch ) on Data Protection Impact Assessment (“DPIA”) and the prior consultation requirements under Articles 35 and 36 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (the “Recommendation”). The Recommendation aims to provide guidance on the core elements and requirements of a DPIA, the different actors involved and specific provisions.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 20, 2018
The firing happened in 2013 after the staffer gained access to emails from top executives and shared them outside the company, according to a news report.
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