The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 21, 2018
DevOps has been around for a while now, accelerating the creation of leading edge business applications by blending the development side with the operations side. It should come as no surprise that security is being formally added to DevOps, resulting in an emphasis on a process being referred to as SecOps or DevSecOps. Related: How DevOps played into the Uber hack.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 21, 2018
Tech Giant Clarifies: Pausing 'Location History' Alone Won't Stop All Tracking A lawsuit accuses Google of "the surreptitious location tracking of millions of mobile phone users." The legal action was sparked by a report demonstrating that some Google apps tracked and time-stamped users' locations even if a user deactivated the "location history" setting.
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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 23, 2018
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a failure to patch one of its Internet servers against a pervasive software flaw — in a Web component known as Apache Struts — led to a breach that exposed personal data on 147 million Americans. Now security experts are warning that blueprints showing malicious hackers how to exploit a newly-discovered Apache Struts bug are available online, leaving countless organizations in a rush to apply new updates and plug the security hole before att
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 21, 2018
The enactment of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a significant milestone for virtually every international business. Under the standard, organizations need to comply withan extensive set of requirements—or potentially face significant fines for failing to do so. Thales eSecurity and DataStax have come together to draft “Aligning GDPR Requirements with Today’s Hybrid-Cloud Realities,” which outlines a number of the issues organizations need to address to be GDPR
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.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 23, 2018
Remember the old adage, you can never be too thin or too rich? The software development world has its own take on that dictum—you can never be too fast. Related: Gamification training targets iGens. Business demand dictates a frenetic pace for delivering new and better technology. To perfect the process, more organizations are taking a DevOps approach—melding software development and software operations simultaneously.
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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 22, 2018
Authorities in Santa Clara, Calif. have arrested and charged a 19-year-old area man on suspicion hijacking mobile phone numbers as part of a scheme to steal large sums of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The arrest is the third known law enforcement action this month targeting “SIM swappers,” individuals who specialize in stealing wireless phone numbers and hijacking online financial and social media accounts tied to those numbers.
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 22, 2018
These IT security vendors lead the market through their innovative offerings, range of products and services, customer satisfaction and annual revenue
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 20, 2018
More businesses than ever before are choosing to move their IT infrastructure and systems to cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. There are many reasons to choose a cloud solution including increased flexibility and scalability, as well as reduced cost. In fact, a recent study of nearly 200 businesses and entrepreneurs found that 76% are looking to cloud solutions in order to increase the efficiency of their business.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 23, 2018
Some Security Experts Recommend Replacing Struts Altogether Due to Breach Risk Apache has released an emergency fix for its Struts web application framework to patch a flaw that attackers can exploit to take full control of the application. Some incident response experts, based on the severity of breaches they've investigated, recommend dropping Struts altogether.
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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.
TAB OnRecord
AUGUST 22, 2018
When it comes to effectively managing files, a functional classification system is the most efficient way to go. Whether you need to build a functional classification system from scratch or overhaul an existing system, this resource shows you how. It presents some basic principles of file classification along with practical strategies in developing and implementing the right system.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 21, 2018
A growing number of employees have various IoT devices in their homes - where they're also connecting to an enterprise network to do their work. And that means significant threats loom.
Architect Security
AUGUST 24, 2018
Introduction I travel a lot, sometimes alone. I have left hotels almost immediately after checking in because I felt unsafe with the accommodations. Sometimes a hotel will assign a room to two people by mistake, and one person walks in on the other using a valid key (I’ve seen this happen). RFID “hotel master keys” exist. […].
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 23, 2018
Facebook's Ex-CSO Says That Ship Has Sailed; Look to 2020 With less than three months to go until the U.S. midterm elections, Alex Stamos, until recently Facebooks's CSO, says there isn't time to properly safeguard this year's elections. But here's how the company can get its act together in time for 2020.
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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
AUGUST 19, 2018
Your phone number is increasingly tied to your online identity. You need to do everything possible to protect it.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 21, 2018
On September 13, Rob Thomas together with ESPN anchor Hannah Storm, will lead a discussion around the transformative potential of AI, the importance of a multi-cloud architecture — and how companies representing a range of industries – from manufacturing to health care — are winning with AI. Attend in person in NYC and enjoy intimate networking and learning sessions – or alternatively catch the Livestream from your home or office.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 23, 2018
While it’s no surprise to anybody reading this that data breaches are on the rise, the attacks facing healthcare organizations, most recently in Asia, are particularly worrisome. One need not look very far to find examples of the threats facing these entities: In Singapore, 1.5 million SingHealth patient records – including those of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, were compromised in what is being called the Republic’s worst cyber attack.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2018
But Most Victims of the Health Insurer's Data Breach Will See No Cash A federal judge in California has given final approval to a $115 million settlement involving health insurer Anthem over its 2015 data breach. The settlement is the largest ever reached in a data-breach related class action suit, but most victims will see no money.
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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.
IT Governance
AUGUST 22, 2018
If you’re considering implementing an ISMS (information security management system) that conforms to ISO 27001 – the international standard for information security management – you may be daunted by the scale of the task. Don’t give up, though. Complying with ISO 27001 needn’t be a burden. Most organisations already have some information security measures – albeit ones developed ad hoc – so you could well find that you have many of ISO 27001’s controls in place.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 22, 2018
Analysis of 316 million-plus security incidents uncovers most common types of real-world attacks taking place within in-production Web apps in the AWS and Azure cloud ecosystems.
Data Matters
AUGUST 24, 2018
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2018 National Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, from August 4 to 7, 2018. This post summarizes the highlights from this meeting. 1. NAIC Continues its Evaluation of Insurers’ Use of Big Data . The NAIC is continuing its review of property and casualty insurers’ use of predictive modeling in rate filings and is developing related guidance materials for states to use in reviewing predictive models.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 21, 2018
Analyzing the Latest 'Wall of Shame' Trends About 30 new health data breaches - including a phishing attack impacting 1.4 million individuals - have been added in recent weeks to the official federal tally, pushing the total victim count for 2018 so far to 4.3 million.
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IT Governance
AUGUST 20, 2018
Mid-sized organisations are at the ‘sweet spot’ of cyber security, according to Coalfire’s Penetration Risk Report. Unfortunately, that sweet spot applies to both organisations and cyber criminals in different contexts. . After studying the most common vulnerabilities in small, medium and large organisations, Coalfire concluded that mid-sized organisations are generally the most secure.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 21, 2018
The supplier relationship is evolving. In the past, supplier relationship management has been focused on getting the best price from suppliers and creating efficiencies in the supply chain. Now, as organizations move to more integrated partner ecosystems, there’s greater potential to work closely with suppliers, improving agility and innovation. As collaboration takes center stage, are … The post Collaboration – not cost – must drive supplier relationship management appeared fi
Data Matters
AUGUST 23, 2018
On 21 August 2018, the Dutch Supervisor Authority announced that it had conducted an investigation into the designation of a Data Protection Officer (DPO) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by 91 hospitals and 33 healthcare insurers in the Netherlands. Two hospitals had not yet communicated the contact details of their DPO to the Dutch Supervisor Authority, and were given four weeks to designate a DPO.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 22, 2018
Some terms of the recent $115 million settlement in the class action lawsuit against health insurer Anthem tied to a 2015 cyberattack appear underwhelming for the victims, says attorney James DeGraw, who explains why.
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.
IT Governance
AUGUST 24, 2018
Risk assessments are at the core of many frameworks and standards, including ISO 27001, the international standard that describes best practice for an ISMS (information security management system). However, they are notoriously time-consuming and complex, and must give consistent, valid and comparable results. What’s the solution? With more than ten years of development behind it, vsRisk streamlines the information risk assessment process.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 22, 2018
Microsoft, Facebook, and others are ramping up efforts to thwart attacks on elections—making the US government look woefully underprepared in the process.
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 21, 2018
The business intelligence industry is in a free fall. Spend on BI tools will decrease more than 80 percent in 2018, according to the First Half 2018 Market Survey from Nucleus Research.
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