Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Tips From a Cybersecurity Veteran on Winning the Battle In this in-depth blog, a long-time cybersecurity specialist who recently joined the staff of Information Security Media Group sizes up evolving ransomware risks and offers a list of 11 critical mitigation steps.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2019
How to move beyond one-off campaigns and build a true security awareness program.
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Threatpost
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Artificial intelligence can provide manpower, context and risk assessment.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Are you an army of one tasked with compliance and data privacy? Try these tips to get you and your organization in alignment with regulators.
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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Fiserv's Christine El Eris on How Fraudsters Sit on and Sell Stolen Card Data Even in the post-EMV era, payment card data is very much thriving on the dark web. Why is data still so accessible to fraudsters, and how can card issuers and merchants alike improve card data security? Christine El Eris of Fiserv discusses fraud trends.
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AIIM
DECEMBER 19, 2019
You’ve made a New Year’s resolution to clean up one of your digital landfills. Congratulations! But where do you start? In this blog post, we present an approach and checklist for migrating your information from one system to another. While the details will differ depending on a number of factors (the systems being migrated from and to, the nature of the information being migrated, etc.), many of the steps in the migration process will be similar.
National Archives Records Express
DECEMBER 17, 2019
On December 11, 2019, the Archivist of the United States approved a request for disposition authority from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for Detainee Records (schedule DAA-0567-2015-0013). This schedule was originally proposed to NARA on October 26, 2015. NARA published notice of the pending schedule in the Federal Register on July 14, 2017.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Report: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Minnesota Had Thousands of Old 'Critical' Vulnerabilities Blue Cross and Blue Shield Minnesota is reportedly racing to address tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities after a whistleblower on the health insurer's security team alerted the company's board of trustees about the problems. Why do some companies lag on addressing security issues?
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 18, 2019
The expectation to achieve faster results continues to rise. Businesses everywhere are looking for ways to improve their operational efficiency and effectiveness to enable the best decision-making. The need to optimize typically comes to a head with the reality that there are many silos within any company.
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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.
AIIM
DECEMBER 17, 2019
With the new year just a few weeks away, many have shifted their day-to-day focus to long-term planning and prioritizing their efforts for 2020. For most, it’s likely that the new year will bring with it new technology and innovation. But, with all the developments in technology and changes in process and workflow these days, it can be difficult to translate innovation into real improvements for your organization.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Last month, I presented at the FCW Continuous Diagnostics Mitigation (CDM) Summit. The vision of the CDM program, created in 2012, is that all federal networks should be continuously scanned to identify and respond to threats and breaches. Consistent with the federal government’s deployment of Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM), the CDM program is a dynamic approach to fortifying the cybersecurity of government networks and systems.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Convenience Store Chain Says Payment Card Data Exposed The Wawa convenience store chain is investigating why malware planted on point-of-sale devices at nearly all of its over 850 locations throughout the East Coast went undetected for nearly eight months.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 17, 2019
TP-Link has addressed a critical vulnerability impacting some TP-Link Archer routers that could allow attackers to login without passwords. TP-Link addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2017-7405 ) in its TP-Link Archer routers that could be exploited by attackers to remotely take their control over LAN via a Telnet connection without authentication. “This is a zero-day flaw that was not previously reported and can affect both home and business environments.” explained
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.
TAB OnRecord
DECEMBER 18, 2019
In last week’s blog post, we kicked off a three-part series on centralizing physical records. In part one, we learned that you need to have a clear understanding of existing practices before you can develop a standard filing system for the centralized records room. This week we focus on how storage and space planning can save money and make the most of the available space in your centralized file room.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 17, 2019
Anthony Cardoza of XTN Cognitive Security on Defensive Measures Fraud prevention is a perpetual cat-and-mouse game as fraudsters develop new tools and uncover new ways to monetize their activities, says Anthony Cardoza of XTN Cognitive Security, who offers defensive insights.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 15, 2019
The largest hospital in New Jersey announced on Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its network and that it paid a ransom. The largest hospital in New Jersey, the Hackensack Meridian Health, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week that disrupted its network, the IT staff decided to pay the ransom to decrypt the files. Hackensack Meridian operates 17 acute care and specialty hospitals, and the psychiatric facility Carrier Clinic, nursing homes, and outpatient centers.
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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.
Data Matters
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Congratulations to our 30 colleagues, including Kate Heinzelman and Tomoki Ishiara , for their election to the Sidley Austin partnership , effective January 1, 2020. Kate has strong experience involving complex privacy and data security matters and represents several large, multinational companies, as well as startups, in the healthcare, technology and financial services sectors, among others.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 19, 2019
Christmastime in the workplace is often a time of monumental boredom, as you put off starting any new projects before the end of the year and start counting down the days until your holiday begins. With all this time to kill, it’s easy to see how you might be more likely than usual to let curiosity get the better of you. No longer overrun with work and only responding to emails days later – at which point you’ve already discovered that the email from your colleague that you skimmed but didn’t ha
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Will Dispute Over Sharing European's Data With US Continue? Facebook's sharing of data of European users with the U.S. is legal and provides enough protections, the legal adviser to the EU's top court said on Thursday.
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 18, 2019
DataOps is the orchestration of people, process, and technology to accelerate the quick delivery of high-quality data to data citizens. When done right, DataOps creates business value because users know what data they have, can trust the quality and its meaning, and use it without violating compliance or privacy laws.
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“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.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 20, 2019
With competing priorities and limitless volumes of information to manage by the minute, knowledge workers, including lawyers, require the support of the most personally empowering and compliant working environments. Yet, despite a myriad of business applications, devices and technology designed to propel employee productivity, many legal professionals are not able to quickly and easily access … The post What’s new in OpenText eDOCS Release 16 EP7 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Facebook informed its employees that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. On Friday, Facebook announced that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to 29,000 Facebook employees.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Chris Calvert of Respond Software on the Proper Roles for Machines Just by using the term "artificial intelligence," we're already having the wrong conversation about machines and cybersecurity, says Chris Calvert of Respond Software. What conversations should we be having? Calvert discusses the proper balance of humans and machines.
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Imagine a day in the life of Sarah, a hypothetical Chief Data Officer at a major bank in South Africa. There are many expectations on her shoulders. She struggles to deliver business-ready data to fuel her organization and support the decision makers within the bank. It is her job to put in place a team that will make sense of the myriad of data sources and different representations of data, multiple formats and technologies used to store and move that data.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Paul Obernuefemann began his career in IT before IT existed. Back then, he was the ‘computer guy,’ employed to keep the servers up and printers humming. Now, as CIO for Lewis Rice, he leads the law firm’s high-performing IT strategies, inseparable from business success. We recently sat down with Paul to discuss the evolution of … The post Gradual automation is crucial for legal IT appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Nearly half (48%) of all corporate data is stored in the cloud according to the 2019 Thales Global Cloud Security Study conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Organizations admitted that on average, only about half (49%) of the data stored in the cloud is secured with encryption and only one-third (32%) believe protecting data in the cloud is their responsibility.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 16, 2019
Network Attacks an Alternative to Use of Skimmers on Pumps, Alert Notes Several sophisticated cybercriminals gangs are targeting "fuel dispenser merchants" throughout North America, in some cases by planting malware within corporate networks to steal payment card data, Visa warns in a new alert.
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