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Worst DNS attacks and how to mitigate them

Network World

The Domain Name System remains under constant attack, and there seems to be no end in sight as threats grow increasingly sophisticated. DNS, known as the internet’s phonebook, is part of the global internet infrastructure that translates between familiar names and the numbers computers need to access a website or send an email. While DNS has long been the target of assailants looking to steal all manner of corporate and private information, the threats in the past year or so indicate a worsening

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Why Every Business Needs a CRM Software

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why Every Business Needs a CRM Software - Information Technology Blog. Let’s keep it real – your business is pretty replaceable. Chances are, there’s a competitor out there that offers the same services at a similar price. The only thing that actually sets you two apart is how much your customers like working with you.

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Customers Value Sustainability — Brands And Retailers Must, Too!

Forrester IT

Is it just us, or is the conversation about retail social and environmental impact getting louder? My colleague Luis and I are certainly hearing a lot more about it. These are not new topics, of course, but there is a renewed fervor and tone: from documentaries on plastic in the ocean and calls from celebrity […].

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Why IoT Needs Machine Learning to Thrive

CTOvision

Read why Marta Robertson says that the Internet of Things needs machine learning to thrive on IoT for All : There’s an unceasing buzz around big data and AI, the opportunities and threats of these technologies and concerns about their future. Meanwhile, companies are installing more and more sensors hoping to improve efficiency and cut […].

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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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SCCM Architecture Visio Template Download from GitHub Throwback

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I have a post “Overview Windows 10 Co-Management with Intune and SCCM,” which explains about SCCM co-management scenarios. Many of you have requested to have access to the SCCM Architecture Visio diagram I used in that post. In this post, you will get an opportunity to download SCCM Architecture Visio, PDF, and PNG diagrams.

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Where to Get Trusted IT Planning Advice

Information Week

IT planning authorities are everywhere, but finding truly knowledgeable experts with your organization's best interests at heart can be a challenge.

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How can attackers abuse artificial intelligence?

CTOvision

But a new report published by the SHERPA consortium – an EU project studying the impact of AI on ethics and human rights – finds that while human attackers have access to machine learning techniques, they currently focus most of their efforts on manipulating existing AI systems for malicious purposes instead of creating new attacks […].

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SCCM to Change Office365 ProPlus Architecture from 32 bit to 64 bit

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. As an SCCM admin, Office 365 changes and requirements are more critical for my day to day operations. I have a previous blog post about “How to Change Office 365 Update Channel with SCCM Run Script“ In this post, you will see the easiest way to use SCCM Office365 ProPlus 64 bit change (architecture from […].

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Continuous Learning the Key to IT Skills Gap

Information Week

CIOs and IT leaders struggle to fill IT positions with staff who hold the right skills. But the answer is right under their noses: Educate existing teams.

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The Rising Tide Of Ransomware Requires A Commitment To Best Practices

Forrester IT

Last week, the United States Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution against paying ransoms. What’s interesting about this is by creating what is essentially a vertical front of communities against ransomware. It may well disincentivize attackers from targeting US towns and cities. I’m hopeful and encouraged by this action, but I worry that this resolution […].

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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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Anatomy of an enterprise-scale AI strategy

CTOvision

Read Maria Korolov takes a look at how organizations can develop a holistic AI strategy honed for business results on CIO : When it comes to AI, companies typically test the waters proof of concepts or small-scale use cases, taking advantage of vendor offerings, such as new features in their existing SaaS platforms. If things go […].

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What’s Preventing You From Becoming A Better CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to learn to listen to what their employees are trying to tell them Image Credit: Benson Kua. Hopefully we’d all like to become better CIOs. This is a great goal, the challenge that most of us are facing is that it just is not clear exactly what we need to do in order to make this happen. The good news is that researchers have been talking to the people that work for us and what they have found out is that we are pretty good at sharing information, but we’re lousy listeners.

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Customer-Led Automation Changes the Service Game

Information Week

Customer self-service is ready to take the next step toward customer-led service, where enterprises are supporting requests from bots as often as from people.

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Tap Consumer Energy To Drive Sustainable Innovation In Singapore

Forrester IT

Singapore is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative hubs and as an innovation powerhouse in Asia: The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Singapore as the fifth most innovative market out of 126 global economies analyzed, and Singapore’s recently launched S$1 billion innovation fund establishes innovation as a key lever to economic growth and […].

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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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CISO-as-a-Service: When your enterprise needs cybersecurity expertise on demand

CTOvision

Your business operates in a world where there is an incredibly high demand for cybersecurity talent. Now with unemployment at a 50 year low there are no indications that anything can be done to dramatically increase the pool of cybersecurity talent. Enterprise grade cybersecurity requires enterprise grade experience. How do you get that in today’s […].

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Patch Chrome with SCCM 3rd Party Software Update Feature

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. You can patch Chrome with SCCM 3rd Party Software Update Feature. In this post, you will see the details about how to patch Chrome with SCCM 3rd party software update the custom catalog. Introduction Let’s learn how to patch Chrome, 7-Zip, etc. with SCCM third-party custom catalog.

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5 Risk Mitigation Strategies for Agile Teams

Social, Agile and Transformation

I find that agile teams, because they are agile, may leave behind fundamental-to-IT risk mitigation strategies that can make sprints, releases, and application development more reliable and robust. Risk mitigation should be a basic tenet of agile mindsets and culture, and perhaps even agile governance. It's particularly important for teams new to agile, teams working on complex legacy.

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How CIOs Can Internally Drive Their Shift To #DigitalTransformation Driver

Forrester IT

#CIOs who are looking to be the agents of #DigitalTransformation but aren’t perceived that way can overcome this — by taking a few key actions. And to learn more, read myself and David Johnson’s latest #Forrester report.

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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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For Your Awareness: The 10 Essentials of Infosec Forensics

CTOvision

Most infosec forensics investigators walk a fine line. They must adhere to specific institutional processes, which, in many cases, are state and federal requirements. But they must also use a certain amount of pragmatism since no two investigations are exactly alike. So while there may be a corporate best practice of collecting log files from all […].

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Azure Security Center How to Protect Your Modern Datacenter

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Learn about Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security. Cloud security is number one priority for all the organizations. What is Azure Security Center? Azure Security Center is a unified infrastructure security management system that strengthens the security posture of your data centers, and provides advanced threat protection across your […].

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How to Deliver Retail Sales Training to Remote Employees

Kitaboo

Remote working has become one of the biggest trends in the workplace. While a couple of decades back it would have been an inconvenience to have employees working remotely, now it has been normalized to an extent where companies offer work from home options to employees upfront for better productivity. In fact, 3.9 million Americans work from home at least half the time!

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Dont Waste Your Creativity Spend As You Fight Digital Sameness

Forrester IT

Is your CMO considering shifting investments in marketing technology toward the services of creative agencies as Forrester recommends? You should find out — because one of two possible scenarios will play out. The winning scenario: If you 1) boost your internal design team and better integrate brand, 2) contract with firms that apply human-centric design, and 3) apply […].

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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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Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users

CTOvision

Microsoft is finally revealing exactly how many people are using its Slack competitor Microsoft Teams. The software maker says that more than 13 million people are using Microsoft Teams daily, along with more than 19 million weekly active users. This is the first time Microsoft has revealed an active user count, and the company’s previous […].

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MDT Conditional Reboot

Mick's IT Blog

I wrote an article about three years ago on conditional task sequence reboots. It used the built-in reboot task sequence that was initiated only if any of the three conditions were met. The problem was a fourth condition that could not be tested for because a WMI query is the only way to test and MDT conditions do not incorporate WMI. Recently, I revisited this, and it occurred to me how to incorporate the WMI query after going through the ZTIWindowsUpdate.wsf and seeing how it initiated reboots

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How to Create School eBooks in 7 Easy Steps

Kitaboo

What’s the similarity between a seventy-year-old grandma and her four-year-old grandchild? They both are learning to operate a smartphone! It’s quite a cute visual actually, both, over half a century apart, learning to do the same activity. If you tell grandma that this is what is being used in schools today instead of chalk and whiteboard, she’d probably think you’re joking.

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Understand The Location Intelligence Tech Landscape And Get Over Your Maps

Forrester IT

Our most recent location intelligence (LI) research takes a deep dive into the LI landscape. The report titled, “Now Tech: Location Intelligence Technologies, Q3 2019,” analyzes 34 different players in the location intelligence market. We describe the key capabilities, the emerging market categories, and how the main LI players break down based on their tech […].

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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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Basics of blockchain for the IoT

CTOvision

With the rise of Bitcoin, corporate interest in the underlying blockchain technology has risen dramatically. Confusion arises, however, because much of the discussion centers on cryptocurrency, which is only one approach to using blockchain. To determine an approach that makes sense for the IoT, developers must first strip blockchain to its basics and build from […].

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Introducing New Azure Hands-On Labs

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we have the most extensive learn-by-doing library of cloud training and the largest on-staff training team in the e-learning market. Our training team is the key to our course success, especially when it comes to Azure. This year, Microsoft has made it hard to keep up. They have had multiple cancellations, and closed several Azure exams that were less than 3 months old!

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What's Holding Back Edge Computing for Enterprises?

Information Week

The combination of technology readiness and business appetite puts us a little closer to wide-scale availability of a new breed of IT infrastructure.

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Planes, Fuel, Seats, Bags, Meals, and Airline Profit – But What About CX?

Forrester IT

True or false? – Passenger experience drives airline profit! If you’d like to test yourself and your CX/marketing department on how well you can attest to the truth in the above statement, ask yourself: “How much is CX improvement worth in annual profit?” and, conversely, if you’re in a finance role, ask: “How much of […].

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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.