Wed.Mar 20, 2019

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Proposals for model vulnerability and security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Apply fair and private models, white-hat and forensic model debugging, and common sense to protect machine learning models from malicious actors. Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. A recent flourish of posts and papers has outlined the broader topic, listed attack vectors and vulnerabilities, started to propose defensive solutions, and provided the necessary framework for this post.

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What Are The 5 Skills It Takes To Be A Successful CIO?

The Accidental Successful CIO

It takes talent and these 5 skills to be a successful CIO Image Credit: Alan Levine. So CIO, are you a good manager? I suspect that most of us think that we are. However, over at the Gallop company they have just completed a survey of managers. What they discovered is that only one in 10 people actually possesses the talent to manage others. Ouch! This magical 10 percent who have what it takes to be a good manager frequently realize 48 percent greater profitability, 22 percent greater productivi

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How your organization can achieve the ambidextrous advantage

Cutter Consortium

Organizational resilience is emerging as a key source of competitive advantage in the age of hyper-competition and disruption. A new breed of leaders understands that winning requires being ambidextrous—the ability to embrace both speed/creativity and scale/productivity. In their Executive Update “ Ambidextrous Organizations: How to Embrace Disruption and Create Organizational Advantage ,” Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Wilhelm Lerner and Marten Zieris introduce the Ambidextrous Organizati

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Adding Search to Your Site with JavaScript

David Walsh

Static website generators like Gatsby and Jekyll are popular because they allow the creation of complex, templated pages that can be hosted anywhere. But the awesome simplicity of website generators is also limiting. Search is particularly hard. How do you allow users to search when you have no server functions and no database? With JavaScript! We’ve recently added Search to the TrackJS Documentation site, built using the Jekyll website generator and hosted on GitHub Pages.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Creating Meaningful Diversity of Thought in the Cybersecurity Workforce

CTOvision

Read Bill Bonney explain how businesses can create meaningful diversity of ideas in the way their cybersecurity works on Security Intelligence : The other day, I learned something that great French winemakers have known for centuries: It is often difficult to make a complex wine from just one variety of grape. It is easier to […].

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Does GDPR compliance reduce breach risk?

CTOvision

Compliance can be costly and often feels more like red tape and a barrier to business than anything that provides a benefit. A report by EY and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) estimates that organizations have spent an average of $3 million to achieve compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation […].

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Blameless Launches DevOps Platform Based on SRE Principles

DevOps.com

Blameless has emerged from stealth to launch a platform for managing DevOps based on the site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices defined by Google. Fresh off raising an additional $20 million in funding, the Blameless platform provides across-the-board visibility into the complex network of application programming interfaces (APIs) and applications distributed across an organization, said […].

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Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era

Kentik

A new research report, “ Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era ,” looks at the networking challenges enterprises face as they move to cloud environments. The report, written by EMA analyst Shamus McGillicuddy (and sponsored by Kentik), draws from a survey of 250 enterprise IT networking professionals, and highlights key technology requirements for hybrid and multi-cloud networking, as well as the emerging tool strategies.

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Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps

DevOps.com

DevOps tooling seems to be in a never-ending state of self-transformation. The continuing evolution of infrastructure and the tools that go with it are forever creating new ecosystems. On the infrastructure side, we saw VMWare, Citrix and other companies bring to market massive virtualization in the late ’90s and early ’00s. This, of course, prompted […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Why 91% of IT and security pros fear insider threats

CTOvision

Read Alison DeNisco Rayome take a look at why IT professionals still fear insider threats the most on Tech Republic : The biggest security threat to your business likely isn’t a cybercriminal or hacktivist, but someone already in your organization, according to a Wednesday report from BetterCloud. The vast majority (91%) of the 500 IT […].

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Why development teams aren’t upgrading to PHP 7 – and why they should

Zend

Drawing on a recent poll, this blog post examines why PHP users have not upgraded to PHP 7+ - and explains why they should. The post Why development teams aren’t upgrading to PHP 7 – and why they should appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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Will There Be a Fast Path to ITIL V4?

DevOps.com

The Feb. 28 release of the ITIL Foundation ITIL 4 Edition book illustrates that big changes are coming to ITIL, bringing fear, uncertainty and doubt to those who have invested in ITIL and achieved certifications. It all comes down to how far along someone is in the ITIL V3 certification process. For those that have […]. The post Will There Be a Fast Path to ITIL V4?

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March Madness: How to Up Your Game by Building a Better Bracket

DataRobot

The 2019 NCAA March Madness tournament has arrived! This is one of the most famous annual sports events in the United States, bringing together the best Division 1 men’s and women’s college basketball teams from 68 schools to compete against each other for the NCAA Champion title.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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5G: Is it Hype? …Or Crucial for IoT?

Beyond B2B

G iven the media messages around 5G, it looks like it is the most important upcoming technology ever. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, there were lots of interesting announcements about 5G use cases for many market domains shown by the telecom operators.

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Learn to Maintain Focus When Working at Home – It’s Harder Than You Think!

Women on Business

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Hacked tornado warning systems leave Texans in the dark

CTOvision

Last week, around 2:30 a.m., blaring emergency sirens woke the people of two Texas towns… and then, until about 4:00 a.m., the alarms kept sounding, on and off, until crews finally managed to turn them off. The towns of DeSoto and Lancaster are both in Tornado Alley: one of two regions of the US that […].

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Thank You to Our Customers: Tenable Recognized as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice

Tenable

Thank you to all the customers who took the time to share your experience working with Tenable, and for trusting us to help you understand and reduce your cybersecurity risk. At Tenable, our customers are at the heart of what we do. So imagine our delight when we learned Tenable was named a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Vulnerability Assessment.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Aluminum Giant Norsk Hydro Hit by Ransomware

CTOvision

Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, has been hit by a crypto-locking ransomware attack that began at one of its U.S. plants and has disrupted some global operations. Officials at Oslo, Norway-based Hydro said the attack began Monday and escalated throughout the evening, affecting multiple business areas globally. The company’s operations span […].

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Ixia Performance Test Confirms PA-7080 Is Fastest NGFW

Palo Alto Networks

Mobility and cloud are transforming today’s networks, bringing an explosion of data and new mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with greater access to data and services anywhere, anytime. Application workloads are now more dynamic and move across multiple physical data centers and private, public and hybrid clouds. Our customers with large data centers, high volumes of encrypted traffic, and a growing ecosystem of IoT devices need performance without compromising security.

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Bringing Agility into HR

Accenture

While Agile originated as an approach to software development, due to its benefits, it has since been applied in almost every industry and environment, including HR. The journey to “being Agile” in HR begins with understanding and believing in Agile values and principles then applying them to the way (and the “why”) we do our work. The Agile values and principles help to guide the way I work every day.

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Velocity 2019 will focus on the rise of cloud native infrastructure

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Organizations that want all of the speed, agility, and savings the cloud provides are embracing a cloud native approach. Nearly all organizations today are doing some of their business in the cloud, but the push for increased feature performance and reliability has sparked a growing number to embrace a cloud native infrastructure. In Capgemini’s survey of more than 900 executives , adoption of cloud native apps is set to jump from 15% to 32% by 2020.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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A preview of pipelines

CircleCI

TL;DR: Today we are changing our project setting called “Build Processing” to “Pipelines.” If you want to know why, read on. If not, nothing about this will affect you for a while, so you can stop here. The change to “pipelines” begins our process of moving all projects over to having this setting on by default. This is the first of several changes we’ll be making to roll out the concept of pipelines throughout our platform.

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Live Chat Features that Increase Your Strategy’s Effectiveness

Datavail

If you know anything about live chat, you know that it enhances your customers’ experience. There are specific features that you need to look for that make live chat attractive to your customers. There are also features like those described below that will help make your live strategy as effective as possible. Tracking Chat Initiations. Tracking where a customer initiated a chat will give you very useful information.

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If-Modified-Since Http Header

InnovationM

What is If-Modified-Since? The smart and efficient way to get images, icons and more from your server. If-Modified-Since is an HTTP header Which is sent to the server as a condition. If the content has been changed on the server, then the server responds with 200 status code with the whole requested document. Else If the content is not changed on the server, the server responds with a status code.

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What Are Your Top Five Words?

Next Level Blog

The title of this post is the core of a few of my favorite questions. The one I want to focus on today is, in my experience, foundational to effective self-management: What are the top five words that describe me (you) when I’m (you’re) living and leading at my (your) best? That’s the first of three core questions in the Life GPS® personal planning framework that my wife Diane and I created for our own use 20 plus years ago and that we’ve since shared with thousands of clients and tens of thousa

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Offline Content Storage and Sync with Server when Modified

InnovationM

What is If-Modified-Since? The smart and efficient way to get images, icons and more from your server. If-Modified-Since is an HTTP header Which is sent to the server as a condition. If the content has been changed on the server, then the server responds with 200 status code with the whole requested document. Else If the content is not changed on the server, the server responds with a status code.

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SCIMing through the Bermuda Triangle

Sailpoint

Back in the days of IdentityIQ 7.0 there weren’t a lot of options when it came to implementing a SCIM client and fewer still implementing a SCIM Server. When considering a design the engineering team opted to create two artifacts during deployment, a common piece and a server-side piece. The idea was to potentially open source the common piece and keep it abstracted away from the core IdentityIQ objects.

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Meet the Women of the Dell EMC Partner Program: Diane Brode

Dell EMC

This is the seventh post in our Meet the Women of the Dell EMC Partner Program series, which provides insight into what drives the inspiring women of the Dell EMC channel. Missed the first posts? Get to know Joyce Mullen (President, Global Channel, OEM & IoT, Dell EMC), Cheryl Cook (Senior Vice President of Global Channel Marketing, Dell EMC), Julie Christiansen (Vice President, Global Channel Marketing, Dell EMC), Sheri Hedlund (Vice President, US Channel Sales, Dell EMC) and Kim Lasseter (

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