2016

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My (somewhat unreliable) data protection predictions for 2017

Data Protector

I’ve recently had a quiet year on the blogging front – my professional duties have prevented me from playing a more active role on the Internet during this year than I would have liked, but that is set to change in 2017. My professional work this year included acting as a specialist adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Act, one of the most significant pieces of legislation to be laid before Parliament for many years, to advising large (and some not so la

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Roughtime

Imperial Violet

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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Google Capitulates to Facebook’s Identity Machine: Is This Good News For The Open Web?

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Google Capitulates to Facebook’s Identity Machine: Is This Good News For The Open Web? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Long time readers of this site know that once a year I make predictions, and revisit those I made the year before. But it’s not often I look back farther than one year to see if perhaps I was just a tad too early.

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IoT's moment of truth -- who can secure the data flows?

Collaboration 2.0

Innovative Internet of Things efforts need the maturity and experience of industrial internet service providers to secure data platforms and drive growth.

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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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How to Work Beyond the Corporate Firewall Safely

JKevinParker

Today's workforce is increasingly distributed, increasingly mobile, and increasingly expecting telework options. This equates to more people working beyond the corporate walls and beyond the corporate IT firewall. But how can organizations offer such flexibility without losing control of their information? This is the subject of a guest post I authored for AIIM's Digital Landfill blog.

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Observations on DB2 for z/OS Address Space CPU Utilization

Robert's Db2

Have you ever looked at a DB2 Statistics Long report generated by your DB2 monitor? If so, you might have seen a section containing information about the CPU consumption of the various DB2 address spaces. It would look something like the example below, which reflects activity over a one-hour period of time (similar information might be available as well via an online display provided by your DB2 monitor).

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5 useful tips to bulletproof your credit cards against identity theft

Elie

Here are the 5 ways I bulletproof my credit cards against identity theft, and you can use them yourself very easily. As a bonus, at the end of the post I have added an experimental step to defend against the recent chip downgrading attack.

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European Parliament Calls on European Commission to Renegotiate Privacy Shield

Hunton Privacy

On May 26, 2016, the European Parliament approved a resolution calling for the European Commission to reopen negotiations with U.S. authorities on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”), and to implement the recommendations of the Article 29 Working Party (“Working Party”) on the draft Privacy Shield adequacy decision. The Working Party had previously published its recommendations in an Opinion regarding the draft decision issued by the European Commission on adequacy of the protection pr

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The growing importance of dynamic pricing and rating in insurance

CGI

The growing importance of dynamic pricing and rating in insurance. shobana.lv@cgi.com. Fri, 11/11/2016 - 01:07. On June 20, 2016, CGI held a roundtable discussion on dynamic rating and pricing in the insurance industry that involved nearly all major Dutch insurers. The starting point of the evening was a presentation from a pricing executive at a large European retail company who shared his company’s journey to dynamic pricing.

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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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Why can’t we be briefed like the President?

Attensa

It started with a simple question posed by a senior marketing exec during a staff meeting. B lindsided a couple of times in the course of a month by information related to market events that that should have known, the exec went on to ask: “If the President of the United States can get a daily briefing on the state of the world, why can’t we get one on our own company?

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Apollo – they can’t still be up to their old tricks?

Data Protector

Two years ago I blogged about an unsettling experience I had with Apollo, a firm that had confused me as to what they were really all about. Since then, I’ve had a number of emails from people who have had similar experiences. Today, I’m reprinting (most of) the most recent one – which comments about an organisation called Apollo-Transitions. Surely, this is not the same company as the Apollo company I had encountered?

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RISC-V assembly

Imperial Violet

RISC-V is a new, open instruction set. Fabrice Bellard wrote a Javascript emulator for it that boots Linux here ( more info ). I happen to have just gotten a physical chip that implements it too (one of these ) and what's cool is that you can get the source code to the chip on GitHub. The full, user-level instruction set is documented but there's a lot of information in there.

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The NewCo-BigCo Shift or, These Nine Things Will Change Business Forever

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post The NewCo-BigCo Shift or, These Nine Things Will Change Business Forever appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Addressing the crowd at Dollar Shave before interviewing CEO Michael Dubin during NewCo LA last November. ( cross posted from NewCo ). Thanks to NewCo , I’ve gotten out of the Bay Area bubble and visited more than a dozen major cities across several continents in the past year.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Return of the Business Value Suite Spot

Collaboration 2.0

Digital platforms that are fit for today's specific business purpose are essentially far more agile, open and flexible versions of the old proprietary enterprise suites

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How to Plan a Successful Information Management Solution Implementation

JKevinParker

At the 2016 Information Governance Conference , I presented on "How to Plan a Successful Information Management Solution Implementation". Get my slide deck from SlideShare. Related: Check out my Reflections on the 2016 InfoGovCon. Summary Start with information strategy, architecture, and governance. Recruit an executive champion and cross-departmental partners.

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Google Introduces new Repeat Offender Blacklist

PerezBox

On November 8th, 2016, Google introduced a new feature to Chrome that would blacklist repeat offenders. Once Safe Browsing has designated a site as a Repeat Offender, the webmaster will. Read More. The post Google Introduces new Repeat Offender Blacklist appeared first on PerezBox.

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Why CGC Matters to Me

ForAllSecure

By David Brumley. In 2008 I started as a new assistant professor at CMU. I sat down, thought hard about what I had learned from graduate school, and tried to figure out what to do next. My advisor in graduate school was Dawn Song , one of the top scholars in computer security. She would go on to win a MacArthur "Genius" Award in 2010. She's a hard act to follow.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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How an improved responsive design and faster site increased visitor engagement by 104%

Elie

This blog post recounts how moving this site to a fast joyful responsive design with a lot of images improved session duration by 104% and decreased bounce rate by 53%

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President Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Federal Privacy Council

Hunton Privacy

On February 9, 2016, President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a permanent Federal Privacy Council (“Privacy Council”) that will serve as the principal interagency support structure to improve the privacy practices of government agencies and entities working on their behalf. The Privacy Council is charged with building on existing interagency efforts to protect privacy and provide expertise and assistance to government agencies, expand the skill and career development opportunities

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Culture change is the #1 challenge for transformation. What are utilities doing to address it?

CGI

Culture change is the #1 challenge for transformation. What are utilities doing to address it? shobana.lv@cgi.com. Tue, 12/20/2016 - 02:36. One of the biggest hurdles utilities face in embracing digital transformation is a resistance to change. For established organizations, adopting digital as an enterprise-wide business model is far more challenging compared to new market entrants that have a digital-first, customer-first mindset embedded in their organizational culture.

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Fact Denial and the Record Under Threat

Brandeis Records Manager

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.). As if we don’t have enough challenges, controlling information today. Part of our culture, at least here in the U.S., has embraced the acceptance of non-truths and the repudiation of facts in the record.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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Siri Lock Screen Bypass in news your non security friends read

Roger's Information Security

This morning I read an article on Good HouseKeeping (don’t make fun, it was a link on one of the news links that get pushed in your face on my start page. I think it was Bing. I hate the news links but like the pictures). It’s interesting to see what security items make it into websites for ‘normal’ people. The scare headline read “A New iPhone Hack Lets Anyone Use Your Phone” It reports that Siri by default allows some actions even when the phone is locked

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CECPQ1 results

Imperial Violet

In July my colleague, Matt Braithwaite, announced that Chrome and Google would be experimenting with a post-quantum key-agreement primitive in TLS. One should read the original announcement for details, but we had two goals for this experiment: Firstly we wanted to direct cryptoanalytic attention at the family of Ring Learning-with-Errors (RLWE) problems.

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The Waze Effect: Flocking, AI, and Private Regulatory Capture

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post The Waze Effect: Flocking, AI, and Private Regulatory Capture appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. (image). A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were heading across the San Rafael bridge to downtown Oakland for a show at the Fox Theatre. As all Bay area drivers know, there’s a historically awful stretch of Interstate 80 along that route – a permanent traffic sh*t show.

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HCL transcending US protectionism with clear alignment to client's global digital business needs & goals

Collaboration 2.0

HCL's 'Great Digital Leap Forward' will keep astute client partners ahead of US offshoring BPO political protectionism

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Excited for the 2017 AIIM Conference

JKevinParker

I'm very excited for another AIIM Conference! AIIM17 will be held this March in Orlando. If you are an information professional, you will really benefit from attending the AIIM Conference. It is on my very short list of must-attend events in our profession. I have attended the past two AIIM Conferences and have loved every minute. This year I am teaching a pre-con course on Electronic Records Management (ERM).

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Thinking Through The Password Expiration Discussion

PerezBox

The most intriguing debate to come out of last weeks security conferences in Vegas stems from a presentation by FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Cranor at PasswordsCon 2016, part of the BSides security conference in Las. Read More. The post Thinking Through The Password Expiration Discussion appeared first on PerezBox.

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Mayhem Wins DARPA CGC

ForAllSecure

Mayhem is a fully autonomous system for finding and fixing computer security vulnerabilities.On Thursday, August 4, 2016, Mayhem competed in the historical DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge against other computers in a fully automatic hacking contest.and won. The team walked away with $2 million dollars, which ForAllSecure will use to continue its mission to automatically check the world's software for exploitable bugs.