Sat.Jan 26, 2019 - Fri.Feb 01, 2019

article thumbnail

CIOs Need To Know Why Antivirus Software Can Create False Security

The Accidental Successful CIO

Antivirus software can help but it’s not invincible Image Credit: Gabriel Salvadó. Almost every person with the CIO job currently has some form of antivirus software deployed within their company. The thinking behind this software is that if the bad guys attach some malicious software to a document, image, or spreadsheet that comes into the company, then before anyone can open it up the antivirus software will catch it and the file will be quarantined.

Software 127
article thumbnail

Happy Data Privacy Day — Five Lessons Learned On Regulatory Enforcement

Forrester IT

In the United States, Europe, Canada, and India, January 28 is designated Data Privacy Day to mark the signing of the first legally binding, international treaty that dealt with data protection and privacy in 1981. Thirty-eight years later, technology has only further emphasized the need for privacy regulations and requirements.

Data 353
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Build security into your IoT plan or risk attack

Network World

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer some futuristic thing that’s years off from being something IT leaders need to be concerned with. The IoT era has arrived. In fact, Gartner forecasts there will be 20.4 billion connected devices globally by 2020. An alternative proof point is the fact that when I talk with people about their company's IoT plans, they don’t look at me like a deer in headlights as they did a few years ago.

Security 144
article thumbnail

Behavioral Science Shapes Data Science and Drives Change

Dataconomy

Here is why Data Scientists need to think like a behavioural economist or psychologist when they communicate or story tell their insights. This helps companies to take concrete and bias-free decisions to acquire customers, retain employees and deal with managers within the organization. Picture this scenario: There are two investment. The post Behavioral Science Shapes Data Science and Drives Change appeared first on Dataconomy.

Data 78
article thumbnail

Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

article thumbnail

Why You Should Adopt the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read why Charles Darling says that we should embrace the Internet of Thing connected devices with open arms on IOT Evolution World : You approach your front door, you tap the screen of your smartphone and hear the door unlock. When you walk into your house, your home is illuminated by your favorite shade of blue. […].

Internet 268
article thumbnail

Tech-Driven Innovation: The Inevitable And Revolutionary Future Of IT

Forrester IT

Technology has changed virtually everything: The way we work, the way we live, the way we play and at a basic level, how humans relate to each other. On the business front, it fueled the power shift from institutions to customers, powered the emergence of start-ups and super-scaled platforms that are undercutting and remaking traditional […].

More Trending

article thumbnail

Mozilla Firefox One-liner Installer

Mick's IT Blog

Here is a PowerShell one-line installer for Mozilla Firefox. This allows you to download the latest version of Mozilla Firefox during the build process without having to maintain the package each time. The URI used in this is for the 64-bit version of Firefox. If you need a different version, you will need to locate the download URI and copy and paste it in the one-liner thereby changing the value of $URI.

139
139
article thumbnail

Enterprise digital transformation leaves data security behind

CTOvision

Read why Charlie Osborne says that implementing modern systems could have a sinister cybersecurity side-effect for enterprises on ZDNet : The rush to embrace new technologies in the name of business modernization, supply chain efficiency, visibility, and cost savings is leading to an increased risk of data compromise, researchers claim. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report, […].

article thumbnail

Welcome to the B2B Marketing Renaissance

Forrester IT

A long time ago, Peter Drucker, a man who BusinessWeek once called the father of business management, wrote: Even though this was written a long time ago, it was still a few years before I embarked on my long career as a B2B marketer. I can attest that for most of that long career, I […].

B2B 387
article thumbnail

How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package instead you can use SCCM powershell script deployment method to remove 7Zip app. The post How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Kannan CS.

How To 167
article thumbnail

Reimagining Cybersecurity Training: Driving Real Impact on Security Culture

Speaker: Speakers:

They say a defense can be measured by its weakest link. In your cybersecurity posture, what––or who––is the weakest link? And how can you make them stronger? This webinar will equip you with the resources to search for quality training, implement it, and improve the cyber-behaviors of your workforce. By the end of the hour, you will feel empowered to improve the aspects of your security posture you control the least – the situational awareness and decision-making of your workforce.

article thumbnail

3 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your Data Visualizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

Are you getting the expected usage out of your BI dashboards? Are the users of your dashboards just accessing them to download the raw data only to review it as a messy, siloed, spreadsheet? If you taught people how to use one of your dashboards, would they have a basic understanding of how to use other ones developed off the same data sets? require(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(.

Data 129
article thumbnail

Artificial Intelligence Has A Problem With Bias, Here’s How To Tackle It

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr explain how we can tackle the inherent bias that artificial intelligence has on Forbes : One of the problems in society that AI decision-making was meant to solve, was bias. After all, aren’t computers less likely to have inherent views on, for example, race, gender, and sexuality? Well, that was true back in the […].

article thumbnail

Engage With Apple to Engage With Patients

Forrester IT

In yet another sign that Apple has its sights fixed solidly on the healthcare industry, the company has secured a strategic partnership with another national health insurer, Aetna. Apple, it turns out, is not just a company that knows how to build high-end consumer electronic devices.

Apple 364
article thumbnail

What is AIOps – Digital Transformation Powered by AIOps

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the buzz word since few years. It seems all the modern applications are developed using AI. In this post, you will more details about AI Operational platforms. I don’t know, may be SCCM operations team might be using AIOps platforms without really knowing about it ??

article thumbnail

Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

article thumbnail

Is Online Education Better than Traditional Education?

Kitaboo

Educational institutes have been practicing the traditional teaching method since ages. Most of us are familiar with the traditional model where one teacher is teaching fifty students at a time. No-one knows if those fifty students are able to understand what is being explained or if they are even paying attention to the lecture. This style of teaching is not considered very effective today.

Education 139
article thumbnail

The state of AI in 2019

CTOvision

Read the state of artificial intelligence in 2019 according to James Vincent of Verge : It’s a common psychological phenomenon: repeat any word enough times, and it eventually loses all meaning, disintegrating like soggy tissue into phonetic nothingness. For many of us, the phrase “artificial intelligence” fell apart in this way a long time ago. […].

article thumbnail

Wealth Management Firms: You Need Videos On Your Websites And Apps

Forrester IT

When digital channels such as websites arrived, they were designed in large part as “pieces of paper” delivered on a computer screen (thus, the still-widely-used term “web page”). But the human brain wasn’t wired to slog through big blocks of text, so millions of websites (and now mobile apps and other digital interfaces) are currently […].

Video 354
article thumbnail

How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package instead you can use SCCM powershell script deployment method to remove 7Zip app. The post How to Uninstall 7Zip without Package – SCCM PowerShell Script Deployment appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Kannan CS.

How To 150
article thumbnail

7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

article thumbnail

National pen test execution standard would improve network security

Network World

As the number of cyber attacks increases, the demand for penetration tests – to determine the strength of a company’s defense – is also going up. People are worried about their companies’ networks and computer systems being hacked and data being stolen. Plus, many regulatory standards such PCI and HITRUST require these tests to be performed on at least an annual basis.

Network 152
article thumbnail

Big Data 2019: Cloud redefines the database and Machine Learning runs it

CTOvision

Read why Tony Baer says that machine learning will redefine how companies use big data on ZDNet : In the predictions game, it’s time for us to bat clean-up once more. Following Big on Data bro Andrew Brust’s roundup of AI-related predictions from a cross section of industry executives, now it’s our turn. We’ll focus […].

Big Data 222
article thumbnail

Scoring Big With Data: The New Age Of Analytics In Sports

Forrester IT

Sports: the games we know and love. We love to play and watch these games so much, in fact, that in the US, there are only two days during the year when the four major pro sports leagues aren’t playing a game (i.e., MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL).[i] One of the most anticipated games in […].

Sports 353
article thumbnail

Windows Security Verticals – Digital Security Strategy

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. The focus on Windows security verticals is changing very fast. Traditional security tools might have many challenges with modern technologies based on the cloud. You might need to revamp the digital security strategy. From this post, you will learn high-level details about Microsoft’s digital security strategy.

Strategy 146
article thumbnail

Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

article thumbnail

DARPA explores new computer architectures to fix security between systems

Network World

Solutions are needed to replace the archaic air-gapping of computers used to isolate and protect sensitive defense information, the U.S. Government has decided. Air-gapping, used often now, is the practice of physically isolating data-storing computers from other systems, computers, and networks. It theoretically can’t be compromised because there is nothing between the machines — there are no links into the machines; they’re removed.

System 147
article thumbnail

These Were the Worst Data Breaches and Vulnerabilities of 2018

CTOvision

More than a billion of people were affected by corporate data breaches in 2018. From the Marriott International hotel breach, which impacted half a billion customers, to the highly-profile scandal in which a political consulting gained access to Facebook users’ information, major corporations are increasingly victims of large hacks or bungling the data they store.

Hotels 221
article thumbnail

The Search For US Tech Talent Will Get Harder And More Costly In 2019

Forrester IT

Forrester has just published our forecast for US tech employment and compensation (see “US Tech Talent Market Outlook: Low Unemployment And Rising Wages Present New Challenges for CIOs“). It has some foreboding news for CIOs and for tech vendors: tech talent will be harder to find and more expensive over the next two years.

352
352
article thumbnail

10 Tech Startups to Watch for 2019

Information Week

These hot startups are finding innovative ways to use technologies such as AI and IoT to help businesses work better, and in addressing the problems of the world.

133
133
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Top 5 Employee Training Software For 2019

Kitaboo

Enterprises are expected to conduct regular training sessions for employees, in order to upskill them and to make them aware of new technologies. But they might find that pulling people off the production floor could affect their productivity. You can’t simply keep taking them off work to sit in training rooms. In a corporate environment, every hour counts.

Training 107
article thumbnail

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

CTOvision

Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […].

Apple 221
article thumbnail

Invest In These Video Technologies That Drive Growth

Forrester IT

In our new Forrester Tech Tide™ on video technologies for customer and employee experience, we took a look at 18 technologies that support video initiatives. Read the report to find out more about those technologies, and listen to the podcast below for a quick summary.

Video 345
article thumbnail

Build security into your IoT plan or risk attack

Network World

The Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer some futuristic thing that’s years off from being something IT leaders need to be concerned with. The IoT era has arrived. In fact, Gartner forecasts there will be 20.4 billion connected devices globally by 2020. An alternative proof point is the fact that when I talk with people about their company's IoT plans, they don’t look at me like a deer in headlights as they did a few years ago.

Security 113
article thumbnail

How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.