CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. Use FIDO2-Based MFA : FIDO2 (Fast Identity Online) is a strong authentication standard that provides secure and passwordless authentication.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 15, 2015

At Gazzang he led engineering teams through successful fielding of secure hadoop deployments where security was provided without sacrificing performance. Now a security engineer with Cloudera, Eddie continues to work directly with clients from enterprises across multiple sectors of the economy. Encryption. Date: 27 Jan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : Use an additional layer of authentication, such as a fingerprint or one-time code, to verify user identities. PAM can help limit the exposure of privileged accounts by enforcing strict access controls, requiring multi-factor authentication, and monitoring privileged credential activities.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Security Keys for Apple ID is another new feature which allows users to add an extra layer of security to their Apple ID by using a hardware security key. This is similar to the security keys that are used by many online services to provide multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

’ Neumann added that the tools, technology, partners and hardware have come along to make the release “the most realistic and authentic flight simulator to date.” ” Click to enlarge: Airports and airplanes available in different editions of “Microsoft Flight Simulator.” ” (Microsoft Images).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

As the VP of InfoSec and Engineering for Gazzang prior to its acquisition by Cloudera, Eddie architected and implemented secure and compliant Big Data infrastructures for customers in the financial services, healthcare and public sector industries to meet PCI, HIPAA, FERPA, FISMA and EU data security requirements.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

As part of its AI-Native rollout, the vendor introduced Marvis Minis for wireless deployments, which work by setting up a digital twin of a customer’s network environment to simulate and test user connections, validate network configurations, and find/detect problems without requiring any additional hardware, according to Juniper.

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Dataconomy

MAY 7, 2024

And with the new iPad Pro, we wanted to give customers an even more remarkable visual experience,” stated John Ternus, SVP, Hardware Engineering during Apple’s iPad event. A chip with 5 nanometer photolithography, eight cores and a Neural Engine capable of processing 50% more operations than the M1.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The phishing emails contained fraudulent links to a fake CircleCI login page that asked for a GitHub username and password, as well as a hardware authentication key to pass a One Time Password (OTP) to the malicious site. But what else can organizations do to protect themselves?

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Nature has provided insights for engineers for years, inspiring technical solutions to challenges that replicate the elegant perfection of approaches that work in the natural world. This approach mitigates risk when properly engineered and overseen, but it is always expensive. Bob Gourley. Defense in depth has become expense in depth.

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Vox

JUNE 29, 2022

She blocked her friend’s account, changed her password, and enabled two-factor authentication. “I Even though I think education is important, there’s a reason social engineering is a thing. Also, you should really stop using two-factor authentication with texts, which are much less secure — use an authenticator app instead.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Microsoft Pluton is a security processor that is built directly into future CPUs and will replace the existing Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a chip that’s currently used to secure hardware and cryptographic keys. That means features like BitLocker encryption or Windows Hello authentication will transition over to using Pluton in the future.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2021

The biggest part of the battle was trying and failing to convince traditional investors in software-focused Seattle that the hardware could work. EpicSurf produces a wave of water that can be adjusted from between 3 and 5 feet, for a more authentic surfing experience than machines that push a thin sheet of water over a formed surface.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

We wanted to really make it authentic for the PC strategy gamer first and foremost, but we also knew eventually we would take our time and bring it to console in a way that feels really native on the console,” Bielman says, citing the game’s controls as the most important thing to get right. There’s just so much hardware on PC.”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Lastly, there have been many reports of security breaches and social engineering hacks to enable smart home cameras when they aren’t supposed to be on and then send that feed to remote servers, all without the knowledge of the homeowner. Heape said that an OEM can request a Snapdragon chip with the feature disabled at the hardware level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Analog computing The most common paradigm for computation has been digital hardware built of transistors that have two states: on and off. Similar attacks on the hardware found in desktops or laptops is starting to hit closer to home for IT departments. Only you know when that moment might be for your tech stack.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 1, 2019

Daniel Dib has a great article on how network engineers need to evolve. I referenced part 1 of Ajay Chenampara’s series on the Ansible network-engine command parser back in Technology Short Take 102 (July of last year). Servers/Hardware. In any event, here you are—I hope you find something useful for you! Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2022

When combined with social engineering , scams become even more challenging to prevent. . This goes beyond what might be considered reasonable behavior for an authentic customer. Another facet is the surge in overall credit card transactions , accelerated by the pandemic. Preventing Fraud Real-time.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. Servers/Hardware. (And yes, normally I’d publish this on a Friday, but I messed up and forgot. Networking.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Prior to Avvo, he was VP of consumer engineering at Spotify and director of engineering at Adobe. Identity authentication startup Auth0 announced Carolyn Moore as senior vice president of people.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 27, 2023

Enable two-factor authentication Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to your accounts. Firmware refers to the software embedded in hardware devices such as routers, printers, and smart devices. By changing passwords frequently, you minimize the risk of unauthorized access to your accounts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Addressing observability in the cloud, adopting and scaling your SRE [site reliability engineering] capabilities, the use of chaos testing, and ensuring proper resiliency testing is completed [are] critical to meet the availability expectations of the end user,” he says. Building out cost models is key for how you can build a budget.”.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. Other finalists: Common Room; Ozette; Shelf Engine; and Strike Graph. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2019

Servers/Hardware. This article by Bob Killen provides a good foundation of information on understanding Kubernetes authentication (AuthN) and authorization (AuthZ; implemented via RBAC). Networking. Courtesy of Tigera, Alex Pollitt shares some guidelines on when Linux conntrack is no longer your friend. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 19, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Many organizations prefer to use two-factor authentication (2FA) to help protect their systems. Tonis Tiigi has a write-up on experimenting with rootless Docker over on the Docker Engineering blog. Via Ivan Pepelnjak’s site, Albert Siersema shares some information on using Ansible to automate 802.1x

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Pratt has a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a professor at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass. The plan is to make the tasks more difficult and more authentic than they were in the trials, he said. “My

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Since Erin has a limited budget, one of the first things she might do is go to the internet and browse through meta-search engines looking for a deal. A concept that is somewhat unique to the travel industry is the Internet Booking Engine (IBE), which allows travelers to make reservations and manage their bookings. PCI DSS v4.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Our engineering-first culture, partner programs, investments in R&D and business philosophy are all important pieces of the puzzle in our evolutionary approach to delivering customer value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A TCO analysis forces you to think about things such as data migration, employee training, and process re-engineering. And there could be ancillary costs, such as the need for additional server hardware or data storage capacity. Energy: If I need new hardware, what are the additional energy costs in terms of electricity, cooling, etc.?

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Marc Boorshtein has a write-up on authentication in Kubernetes identity management. I’ll put this here, since it’s most closely aligned to career: Gustavo Franco and Matt Brown, both Customer Reliability Engineers with Google, discuss potential SRE team organization. Career/Soft Skills.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This chip is engineered to minimize lag, promising image delivery to the displays at unparalleled speeds. Introducing Optic ID authentication With the Vision Pro, Apple unveils Optic ID, a pioneering approach to biometric security in augmented reality. When one asks “What does Apple Vision Pro do?”,

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. When I started writing my first book when gadgets betray us, IoT was still known as hardware hacking, or embedded security.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Binary Ninja (or other disassembler) and a strong knowledge of reverse engineering. This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Through reverse engineering, we can find that this function is located at 0x408f90.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Binary Ninja (or other disassembler) and a strong knowledge of reverse engineering. This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. Through reverse engineering, we can find that this function is located at 0x408f90.

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GeekWire

JUNE 19, 2023

Steve Fisk , musician and producer (Photo courtesy of Steve Fisk) Steve Fisk is a longtime Pacific Northwest audio engineer and record producer who worked with such bands as Soundgarden and Screaming Trees. based Immersion Networks , which uses software and hardware to “improve the human listening experience.”

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