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The 6 Best Penetration Testing Companies for 2024

Tech Republic Security

Discover the top six penetration testing companies for businesses of all sizes. Learn the pros and cons of pentesting providers like Astra, BreachLock, and Acunetix.

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Seven Ways To Use GenAI For B2B Personalization

Forrester IT

B2B buyers and customers aren’t seeking more content from providers or new ways to see their first name and company used in otherwise generic messaging. Rather, they crave relevance and responsiveness — the right content delivered in the moment of need, specific to their role, in a suitable format.

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September 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses 4 Actively Exploited Zero-Days

IT Toolbox

Microsoft rolled out fixes for 79 vulnerabilities, 4 of which have been categorized as zero-day. Seven bugs are rated critical, 71 are rated important, and one is rated moderate. Here's what you need to know. The post September 2024 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Addresses 4 Actively Exploited Zero-Days appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. Soon that same power will reach out to embrace Microsoft Windows, too. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. 11, users and developers detailed how they are working with eBPF today and where the technology is headed in the future.

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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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Forrester CEO: Lessons for Executives to Implement AI Successfully

Information Week

The research firm kicked off its annual technology summit in Austin with advice for companies now in a race to adopt GenAI and other artificial intelligence tools.

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What’s Next For GenAI In Marketing

Forrester IT

Forrester’s B2B Summit APAC 2024 for CMOs and marketing leaders is just a few weeks away. I’m excited to meet you in Singapore on October 1, 2024, and together, we will discuss the latest data, trends, and insights shaping the marketer’s remit in a tech-disrupted world.

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Juniper adds AI cloud services to its Apstra data center software

Network World

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0 version of the Apstra software. At its core, the multi-vendor-capable Apstra software works by keeping a real-time repository of configuration, telemetry and validation information to ensure a data center

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How AI and IoT Are Reshaping Agriculture

Information Week

Agriculture is quite literally the foundation of civilization. Now, artificial intelligence, aided by innovations in the Internet of Things, is revolutionizing this ancient practice.

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Get From Data To Decisions Faster With Our New Data, AI & Analytics Service

Forrester IT

Data and AI leaders today must create business value from trusted data, build the foundation to scale AI, and cultivate a data-driven culture. To help them meet these challenges, Forrester is launching Forrester Decisions for Data, AI & Analytics. Learn more about this new service and how it can benefit your organization.

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Google Cloud Strengthens Backup Service With Untouchable Vaults

Tech Republic Data Center

The backup and data recovery service adds an extra layer of protection in case a business encounters an attack or another major problem with Google Cloud storage.

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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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Kyndryl: AI interest is driving mainframe modernization projects

Network World

Enterprise views on mainframe modernization are shifting as AI becomes more influential. Meanwhile, perennial issues such as security, compliance and skills availability remain top of mind for enterprise mainframe shops, according to Kyndryl, which just released the results of its second annual State of Mainframe Modernization Survey. Mainframe modernization can take a few forms – enterprise customers can keep data on the big iron, migrate workloads off, or create a hybrid environment.

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Complying With GDPR in the Age of AI

Information Week

With the rise of artificial intelligence, there is opportunity and risk. Yet, many of AI’s challenges are mitigated if businesses just leverage the GDPR as a framework.

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The Biggest Cloud Trends For CISOs

Forrester IT

Public cloud may be the major underpinning of enterprise infrastructure strategies, but it comes with risks. Learn the top three cloud trends that CISOs and security leaders need to be aware of in this preview of our upcoming Security & Risk Summit on December 9–11.

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Cybersecurity Hiring: How to Overcome Talent Shortages and Skills Gaps

Tech Republic Security

According to the ISC2, 90% of organizations face cybersecurity skills shortages. Plus, the gap between roles to fill and available talent widened.

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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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New brain-on-a-chip platform to deliver 460x efficiency boost for AI tasks

Network World

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. Capable of storing and processing data across 16,500 conductance states in a molecular film, this new platform represents a dramatic leap over traditional digital systems, which are limited to just two states (on and off).

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The CISO’s Roadmap to Purposeful Vulnerability Management

Information Week

Massive backlogs of unpatched vulnerabilities leave organizations open to damaging breaches. A take-charge approach is essential to getting enterprises on secure footing.

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AI Computing Will Change The World By Empowering People, Not Automating Tasks

Forrester IT

Most of the hype and boardroom enthusiasm for genAI stems from the belief that AI machines will automate the repeatable tasks that people used to do, thereby saving firms money with fewer employees doing more work. While we believe that’s true for rote knowledge tasks and some knowledge worker roles, it’s not really the point.

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle has updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference — are designed to offer marketers and sellers actionable account views that leverage customer intent data from marketing, sales, and service combined with finance, product usage, contract, and supply chain sources to help enterprises engage buy

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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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Don’t miss Insider Threat Awareness Month

Network World

The month of September is a good time to highlight the risks posed by insider threats, according to a program first launched in 2019. A group of federal agencies and tech industry organizations designated this month as a time to remind all organizations that threats can come from inside as well as from outside, and that cybersecurity involves a lot more than the barriers we erect to protect from outside threats.

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Determining Your Staff’s Cloud Role

Information Week

The IT focus has been on right-sizing cloud resources, but right-sizing IT staff for cloud is another matter, with the answer to the right-sizing question being: It depends.

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Surfshark vs NordVPN (2024): Which VPN Should You Choose?

Tech Republic Security

Compare Surfshark and NordVPN to determine which one is better. Explore their features, performance and pricing to make an informed decision.

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Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements, according to Natalia Rachelson, group vice president of Fusion Cloud Application, would help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results.

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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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Auvik adds visualization tool to its network management platform

Network World

A network troubleshooting tool based on path visualization is among the upgrades to the latest version of Auvik’s network management platform. The IT solutions vendor was founded around 13 years ago with a mission to address gaps in the managed service provider (MSP) space, particularly around network management. Auvik’s target market is small to midsize businesses and the MSPs that support them, and it has customer deployments across North America and Europe.

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Skills-Based Hiring in IT: How to Do it Right

Information Week

By focusing directly on skills instead of more subjective criteria, IT leaders can build highly capable teams. Here's what you need to know to get started.

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TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials

TechSpot

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has reached a significant milestone in its expansion into the US. Recent trial production at the company's new Arizona facility has yielded results comparable to those of its established plants in Taiwan, according to Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the company who requested anonymity.

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Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management ( HCM ) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills, said Natalia Rachelson, Oracle’s group vice president of Fusion Cloud Applications.

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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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Oracle to offer 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs via its cloud

Network World

Oracle has started taking pre-orders for 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in the cloud via its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster to aid large language model (LLM) training and other use cases, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. The launch of an offering that provides these many Blackwell GPUs, otherwise known as Grace Blackwell (GB) 200, is significant as enterprises globally are faced with the unavailability of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — a key component used

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Take a Fresh Look at How Leaders Approach Narratives

Information Week

Adopt a new take on DEI and the need for inclusive narratives that resonate with all key stakeholders. The focus is on the need to acknowledge each unique lived experience.

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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills

TechSpot

A recent Wall Street Journal report delves into Gen Z's surprising lack of keyboard typing skills, featuring interviews with several individuals and revealing some startling statistics.

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Salesforce unveils Agentforce to help create autonomous AI bots

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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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.