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IDG Contributor Network: Many people abandon security, risky behavior surges

Network World

Department of Commerce-operated lab recently published a report (subscription) on the subject in IEEE’s IT Professional Journal. So much so that they’re simply ignoring the blitz of annoying demands and are carrying on as imprudently as they’ve always done, according to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers.

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D-Wave uses quantum to solve real-world problem

Network World

D-Wave published its results today , peer-reviewed in the journal Science. We have shown quantum supremacy on complex material simulation problems. And this is a first for the industry. The classical supercomputer that D-Wave benchmarked against was the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Nutanix CEO sees multi-year opportunity after Broadcom’s VMware acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

In January 2024, The Wall Street Journal highlighted the attention Broadcom’s VMware overhaul drew from CIOs, followed by reports of pricing and reseller agreement changes. We have a TAM (total addressable market) of about $76 billion and that includes software-defined compute, storage, and networking,” Ramaswami said.

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The craziest stories of the tech sector

Network World

Network World started its Wider Net stories in 2003 in an effort to lighten up our news pages, acknowledging that there is a lot more to the world of enterprise networking and IT other than speeds and feeds of switches and routers and WAN links.

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Phishing still fools people, but at least more are cautious

Network World

This was one finding from Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab in a study titled "Quantifying Phishing Susceptibility for Detection and Behavior Decisions" that published recently in the journal Human Factors. MORE: New tech can help catch spearphishing attacks To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. But ransomware isn’t the only risk. Simplify operations.

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The state of cybersecurity professional careers

Network World

For example: According to Peninsula Press (a project of the Stanford University Journalism Program), more than 209,000 U.S.-based For example, ESG research indicates that 46 percent of organizations claim to have a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills this year—an 18 percent increase from 2015. Analysis of the U.S.

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