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Global cybersecurity talent gap widens

Network World

Despite some recent positive news for tech hiring , a growing cybersecurity talent shortage threatens to hamstring businesses. Data from CyberSeek shows that in the U.S., some 265,000 more cybersecurity workers are needed to solve current staffing needs. CyberSeek is a data analysis and aggregation tool powered by a collaboration among Lightcast, a provider of global labor market data and analytics; NICE, a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology focused on advancing cyber

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Board of Clients Book+Media list, 2024

Forrester IT

Every year for the last 26 years, Forrester has convened its Board of Clients — a group of clients (pic to the left) who advise us on our strategy, new products, and research agenda.

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Gluware expands network automation platform with AI copilots, GitHub integration

Network World

Gluware today announced a series of upcoming features for its network automation platform, designed to streamline network management and reduce downtime across diverse network environments. The new features include an AI-powered copilot that will provide a conversational interface to help network administrators with operations, more scripting options, and integration with NetBox and Github to provide new types of controls and visibility.

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The Challenge of Sticking to CISA’s Vulnerability Framework

Information Week

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency created a framework for prioritizing vulnerabilities but following it manually can be a challenge. Here’s why, and what organizations can do to stay safe.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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HPE, Dell launch another round of AI servers

Network World

The AI spin continues, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies both introducing new servers oriented towards training large language models (LLM). HPE’s new HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 uses AMD’s newly launched 5th generation Epyc processors and Instinct MI325X accelerators to support natural language processing, LLMs, and multi-modal AI training.

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Number of Active Ransomware Groups Highest on Record, Cyberint’s Report Finds

Tech Republic Security

This indicates that the most prominent ransomware groups are succumbing to law enforcement takedowns, according to researchers from Cyberint.

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NIS 2 Compliance Deadline Arrives: What You Need to Know

Tech Republic Security

The NIS 2 compliance deadline is Oct. 17. Discover essential insights on requirements, impacts, and what organisations must do now.

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Step by Step Guide to Deploying Windows 11 24H2 Using SCCM Task Sequence

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post Step by Step Guide to Deploying Windows 11 24H2 Using SCCM Task Sequence appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Cyberattackers Unleash Flood of Potentially Disruptive Election-Related Activity

Information Week

Organizations should be on high alert until next month's US presidential election to ensure the integrity of the voting process, researchers warn.

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Choosing the best AI models for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

From digital assistants to code generation, many small to medium businesses (SMBs) harbor lofty ambitions for generative AI (GenAI). The next step, however, is just as significant: whether to build their AI initiatives from scratch or simply secure a quick win with an existing AI tool. For a resource-strapped business, this decision comes with a host of considerations, including AI readiness, existing infrastructure, and the amount of value derived, versus the effort required to realize their AI

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Big Breach Sends National Public Data to Bankruptcy

Information Week

Following a data breach and its fallout, data broker National Public Data files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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Microsoft: Ransomware Attacks Growing More Dangerous, Complex

Tech Republic

Attackers launched 600 million cybercriminal and nation-state threats on Microsoft customers daily, including ransomware attacks, in the last year, according to the tech giant.

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SharePoint Storage is Very Expensive How to Cut down cost and Downsides

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post SharePoint Storage is Very Expensive How to Cut down cost and Downsides appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Remote, hybrid, or fully in-office? Tech companies find their footing with different approaches

GeekWire

Amazon will enforce a new return-to-office policy in January, drawing more workers back to its Seattle headquarters. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) More than four years after the pandemic sent corporate employees home, the debate over remote work hasn’t lost steam as leaders enforce varying levels of return-to-office policies. Most companies have settled somewhere in the middle, adopting hybrid policies that require in-office work on specific days, according to recent data from Gallup.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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AZ-500 Exam Prep Guide Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate Professional Certificate

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post AZ-500 Exam Prep Guide Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate Professional Certificate appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO Business Intelligence

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The charges, filed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and made public on Wednesday, claim that Jain and his co-conspirators deceived the SEC by creating a fictitious certifier, “Uptime Council,” to falsely verify his firm’s data center

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FIX Black Screen Issue Affecting AVD Users During Login

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link] and LinkedIn page for latest updates [link] The post FIX Black Screen Issue Affecting AVD Users During Login appeared first on HTMD Community Modern Device Management News & Guides by Anoop C Nair.

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Researchers suggest new place to look for microbial life on Mars: ice with bits of dust

GeekWire

The white areas on the edges of these gullies in the Martian region of Terra Sirenium, shown in an image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are thought to be areas of dusty ice similar to those identified as potential havens for microbial life in a research study. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona) Could microbes endure just beneath the surface of Mars, in layers of dusty ice exposed to just the right amount of sunlight?

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Bizkaia abre una ventana al futuro: la tecnología cuántica ilumina el mañana de la banca

CIO Business Intelligence

Un escenario con solera para una cita de carácter pionero internacional. San Mamés se viste de tiros largos durante la celebración de la primera edición de Bizkaia BBVA. Banks in Quantum Days , un evento vanguardista que abre una ventana al futuro al explorar cómo las tecnologías cuánticas pueden llegar a redefinir el mañana del sector financiero. Un hito posible gracias a la cooperación y coordinación de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia y BBVA, quienes han organizado el primer foro europeo sobre

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Intel and AMD may be testing 12V-2x6 power cables for future GPUs

TechSpot

Sources have informed Hungarian outlet Prohardver that AMD and Intel have begun testing 12V-2x6 power cables for their upcoming graphics cards. Market leader Nvidia already uses the standard across its latest and upcoming products, but its competitors may still harbor reliability concerns.

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Tech Moves: Expedia names new CTO; F5 adds board members; Humanly hires sales exec

GeekWire

Ramana Thumu, chief technology officer for Expedia Group. (Expedia Photo) Ramana Thumu has taken the role of chief technology officer for Expedia Group. Thumu will oversee engineering operations at Seattle-based company, whose brands include vrbo, Orbitz, Hotwire, Trivago, and Hotels.com in addition to the flagship Expedia.com. “Ramana’s extensive experience in successfully building and managing multi-tenant tech platforms will be invaluable for our company’s future.

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Acumatica tweaks its cloud ERP for professional services firms

CIO Business Intelligence

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. The number of potential customers for Acumatica’s new functionality — or similar products from competitors — is huge. Globally, the professional services market, including legal, engineering, and consulting services, is expected to reach $6.5 trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Euclid space telescope will produce the largest map of the universe ever

TechSpot

Euclid launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral on July 1, 2023, and sent back its first test photos just one month later. The telescope is equipped with a 600-megapixel camera tasked with mapping more than a third of the sky – out to 10 billion light-years – over the coming years.

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Australia’s leading IT executives honoured at CIO50 2024 Awards

CIO Business Intelligence

The winners of the CIO50 Awards 2024 have been unveiled at a gala awards ceremony in Sydney. Australia’s most impactful technology leaders and their teams, along with the country’s leading cybersecurity executives, were honoured at the joint CIO50 and CSO30 Awards at the Shangri-La Hotel on Thursday night. Chief technology and innovation officer for Transport for NSW Kurt Brissett took out the CIO50 top spot.

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Why housing affordability looms as a final frontier for Seattle area’s space industry

GeekWire

Participants in a panel at a Bellevue Chamber luncheon focusing on the Seattle area’s space industry included, from left, U.S. Rep. Adam Smith; moderator Mike Fong, director of the Washington State Department of Commerce; Kelly Maloney, co-founder of Space Northwest; and Brian Huseman, vice president for public policy and community engagement at Amazon.

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From Excel to AI: How Liberty Dental revolutionized care management

CIO Business Intelligence

Liberty Dental Plan insures about 7 million people in the United States as a dental insurance company. We are owned by a private equity company and Anthem, which is now called Elevance Health. Our job is to take care of all 7 million members of our members. So, my primary job as senior VP of health plan operations as well as being the CIO is to take care of technology and cybersecurity.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill

TechSpot

Howells eventually realized what he'd done, but it was too late. His bag of trash from that day is believed to be at the local landfill, and is likely buried under several feet of garbage. Attempts to gain access to the landfill to excavate the missing drive have come up.

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La IA hace que el ‘edge computing’ sea más relevante para los CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Según un informe reciente de Gartner, los analistas predicen que la nueva fase de la IA empresarial anunciará sistemas autónomos que requerirán una intervención humana mínima, y que el 75% de los directores de Sistemas de Información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) aumentarán sus presupuestos para IA sólo durante este año. A medida que la IA generativa se integre en más dispositivos, dotarla de autonomía en la toma de decisiones dependerá de los datos en tiempo real y de evitar costes excesivos

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Study finds standing desks may be bad for your health

TechSpot

A study led by the University of Sydney involving over 80,000 UK adults disputes the claimed benefits of standing instead of sitting, including reducing the of risk stroke, heart failure, and other diseases.

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Phone spam-fighting startup Hiya rolls out Chrome extension that detects deepfake audio content

GeekWire

(Hiya Image) Seattle-startup Hiya is joining the growing list of companies using AI against AI to detect misinformation. Hiya announced the launch Thursday of its Deepfake Voice Detector as a free Google Chrome extension that can identify deepfake audio and video content. The company said it needs just a second of audio to determine if a voice is authentic or generated by a voice cloning tool.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.