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Agile infrastructure is a prerequisite for digital transformation

CGI

Agile infrastructure is a prerequisite for digital transformation. harini.kottees…. Tue, 05/02/2017 - 06:00. Enterprises and governments are striving to become “digital” to revolutionize the customer and citizen experience and improve service delivery, operational efficiency and business outcomes. A foundational requirement to supporting such transformation is having a modern, agile IT infrastructure—a digital infrastructure platform.

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Disambiguate “Zero-Day” Before Considering Countermeasures

Lenny Zeltser

“Zero-day” is the all-powerful boogieman of the information security industry. Too many of us invoke it when discussing scary threats against which we feel powerless. We need to define and disambiguate this term before attempting to determine whether we’ve accounted for the associated threats when designing security programs. Avoid Zero-Day Confusion.

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A Website Security Framework Intro

PerezBox

A framework should provide the underlying structure we require to build on. Consider a home. Regardless of the type of home, they all have a similar framework. The framework keeps. Read More. The post A Website Security Framework Intro appeared first on PerezBox.

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DB2 for z/OS: Something You Might Not Know About Large Page Frames in a Post-DB2 10 Environment

Robert's Db2

I well remember the first time I saw it. August, 2016. I was looking at output from the DB2 for z/OS command -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(ACTIVE) DETAIL, issued on a DB2 11 system, that a client had sent to me for review. I appreciated the fact that I could see in this command output information about DB2's use of large real storage page frames for page-fixed buffer pools (in a DB2 10 environment, one had to issue -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL -- for an individual pool, versus for all active pools -- with an odd s

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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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Ten simple steps for keeping your laptop secure

Elie

In-depth research publications, industry talks and blog posts about Google security, research at Google and cybersecurity in general in open-access.

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Ads. Grrr.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Ads. Grrr. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (Cross posted on Medium ). I honestly didn’t want to say this, but. I did have other things to do tonight than write about advertising. Again. But g’damn, folks. Can we get our s**t together? I know Google thinks it is doing something about it. But that Chrome feature you call ad blocking?

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Diving into the Issues: Observations from SOURCE and AtlSecCon

Andrew Hay

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting three times, at two conferences, in two different countries: SOURCE in Boston, MA and at the Atlantic Security Conference (AtlSecCon) in Halifax, NS, Canada. The first event of my week was SOURCE Boston. This year marked the tenth anniversary of SOURCE Conference and it continues to pride itself on being one of the only venues that brings business, technology and security professionals together under one roof to focus on real-world, practical security s

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RFID Global announces Visi-Trac Analytics

RFID Global Solution, Inc.

RFID Global Solution, Inc., is pleased to announce Visi-Trac Analytics, providing a new level of real-time operational intelligence that empowers companies to forecast future outcomes, prevent operational disruptions, and improve supply chain performance. The post RFID Global announces Visi-Trac Analytics appeared first on RFID Global Solution.

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China Publishes Final Measures for Security Reviews of Network Products and Services

Hunton Privacy

On May 2, 2017, the Cyberspace Administration of China published the final version of the Measures for the Security Review of Network Products and Services (for trial implementation) (the “Measures”), after having published a draft for public comment in February. Pursuant to the Cybersecurity Law of China (the “Cybersecurity Law”), if an operator of key information infrastructure purchases a network product or service that may affect national security, a security review of that product or servic

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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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FBI Warns Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Unsecured FTP Servers In The Healthcare Industry

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

On March 22, 2017, the FBI issued a Private Industry Notification, warning that criminal actors are actively targeting File Transfer Protocol […].

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Ode to the use-after-free: one vulnerable function, a thousand possibilities

Scary Beasts Security

Overview This post explores an old but wonderful vulnerability that enables us to really showcase the (oft underestimated) power of the use-after-free vulnerability class. We’re going to take a step back and consider the wider class of “use-after-invalidation”, of which use-after-free is one type of use of invalidated state. We will see one single area of vulnerable code that has it all: use-after-invalidation leading to out of bounds reads and writes; use-after-free leading to object aliasing;

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RFID Global announces Visi-Trac Analytics

RFID Global Solution, Inc.

Reston, VA, May 2, 2017. RFID Global Solution, Inc., the leading provider of asset management and supply chain solutions, is pleased to announce Visi-Trac Analytics, providing a new level of real-time operational intelligence that empowers companies to forecast future outcomes, prevent operational disruptions, and improve supply chain performance. The capabilities are endless with Visi-Trac Analytics which transforms massive amounts of data generated from the IoT into actionable information.

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Wireless Provider Reaches $2.5 Million Settlement with OCR

Hunton Privacy

On April 24, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that it had entered into a resolution agreement with CardioNet, Inc. (“CardioNet”) stemming from gaps in policies and procedures uncovered after CardioNet reported breaches of unsecured electronic protected health information (“ePHI”). CardioNet provides patients with an ambulatory cardiac monitoring service, and the settlement is OCR’s first with a wireless health services provider.

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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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New Mexico Becomes 48th State To Enact Data Breach Notification Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

On April 6, 2017, New Mexico became the 48th state to enact a data breach notification law, leaving Alabama and South […].