Imperial Violet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Security protocols often assume an accurate, local clock (e.g. TLS, Kerberos, DNSSEC and more). It's a widely accepted assumption when designing protocols but, for a lot of people, it just isn't true. We find good evidence that at least 25% of all certificate errors in Chrome are due to a bad local clock. Even when the local clock is being synchronised, it's very likely to be using unauthenticated NTP.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The post I feel terrible about this site. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I don’t write here anymore. I write almost entirely on Medium now. It’s not a choice I made to NOT write here, it’s a choice I made to edit NewCo Shift , our new publication. It lives on Medium, but if it were a WordPress site, well, my writing would all be on that site.

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PerezBox

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

It’s impossible to go a week without seeing some reference to a data breach, whether it’s a write up on what happened years ago, or updates on breaches that are. Read More. The post How To Protect Your Business Data appeared first on PerezBox.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

On September 20, 2016, the Department of Transportation, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (“NHTSA”), released federal cyber guidance for autonomous cars entitled Federal Automated Vehicles Policy (“guidance”). The guidance makes a number of recommendations, including that automated vehicles should be designed to comply with “established best practices for cyber physical vehicle systems.

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JKevinParker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Information Management is a meta discipline that combines strategy, architecture, technology, and governance to get the right information to the right people at the right times to do the right things in support of an organization’s mission, vision, and values. Information Management happens at the intersection of people, process, information, and technology.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

On September 13, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services introduced a new rule that would require banks, insurance […].

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

On September 16, 2016, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (the “Privacy Commission”) published a 13-step guidance document (in French and Dutch ) to help organizations prepare for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The 13 steps recommended by the Privacy Commission are summarized below. Awareness. Inform key persons and decision makers about the upcoming changes in order to assess the consequences of the GDPR on the company or organization.

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Not long ago, I was reviewing an organization's production DB2 for z/OS environment, and I saw something I very much like to see: a REALLY BIG buffer pool configuration. In fact, it was the biggest buffer pool configuration I'd ever seen for a single DB2 subsystem: 162 GB (that's the combined size of all the buffer pools allocated for the subsystem).

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

George Despres, CRM. Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University. (The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). Like most people, I prefer to have a reasonable sense of job security, as long as my interest is engaged. I hope and need to remain in the workforce for many more years.

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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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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Episode 1: Identify & Mobilize. In the first segment of our 3-part series with Lawline, Lisa J. Sotto , head of our Global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Hunton & Williams LLP, explains how to identify a cyber incident, mobilize your incident response team, coordinate with law enforcement and conduct an investigation. View the first segment and the presentation materials.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On September 15, 2016, the New Jersey Senate unanimously approved a bill that seeks to limit retailers’ ability to collect and use personal data contained on consumers’ driver and non-driver identification cards. The bill, known as the Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act , must now be approved by the New Jersey Assembly. Under the bill, retail establishments may scan an individual’s identification card ( i.e. , use an electronic device capable of deciphering, in an electronically rea

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