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How Do You Know Something Is A Bug? – Using Mental Models and Oracles in Testing

Xebia

Did you ever find a problem of which you weren’t sure it was a bug? You probably thought it over, looked up the requirements or discussed with a team member. Perhaps you figured it out by yourself, the requirements made things clear or your team member could help you out. Either way, you needed some […]. The post How Do You Know Something Is A Bug?

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Rethinking Data Management in a DevOps Environment

DevOps.com

You often hear data is the new oil. This valuable, ever-changing commodity has begun to play a starring role in many cloud-native applications. Yet, according to a number of DevOps teams, data issues continue to plague their efforts to continuously integrate, test and deploy frequent software releases. More specifically, issues with persistent data (and its […].

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Follow the 8 Rules of Fight Club: Protect Against Advanced Threats

SecureWorks

Follow the 8 Rules of Fight Club: Protect Against Advanced Threats Advanced threats can quickly lead to knockouts when organizations are not prepared. Advanced threats can quickly lead to knockouts when organizations are not prepared. Follow these rules to ensure you are ready for any cyber attack.

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CodeSOD: How Would You Rate Your Experience

The Daily WTF

The last time I was traveling, I noticed a little stand just past the security checkpoint, asking me to rate my experience. The five buttons ranged from a red frowny face to a green smiley, giving me the ability to respond with what must be the full range of human emotion. Every time I see one of those kiosks, I have to wonder: who uses those things, and who actually looks at the data?

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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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10 Tips for Managing Security in the Cloud

SecureWorks

10 Tips for Managing Security in the Cloud Businesses Concerned About Data Security in the Cloud Should Consider These Recommendations This paper offers 10 tips that businesses should implement in order to reduce the security risks in the cloud.

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Your Advanced Threats Cookbook: A Recipe For Success

SecureWorks

Your Advanced Threats Cookbook: A Recipe For Success Rapidly detect and remediate advanced and evasive threats Find the recipe to protecting your organization with the right mix of people, process, technology and intelligence.

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Best Practices, Part 1

DevOps.com

The post Best Practices, Part 1 appeared first on DevOps.com.

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A Breach is Just One Click Away – How to Use Training and Technology to Mitigate Risk

SecureWorks

A Breach is Just One Click Away – How to Use Training and Technology to Mitigate Risk Arming your employees with tools to help prevent attacks is a start, but it has to be done effectively and it isn’t enough to secure your information.

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Gaining altitude: How to deliver higher value to airline customers

DXC

By Tim West & Derek Janu-Chossek If booking an overseas trip fills you with trepidation, you are not alone. Ironically, at a time when there is greater choice of destinations, accommodation and carriers than ever before – combined with a significant reduction in the cost of airline tickets – the romance of travel is wearing […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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5 Reasons Employees Are Your Biggest Security Threat

SecureWorks

5 Reasons Employees Are Your Biggest Security Threat Tactics and Methods Used To Exploit Human Behavior and The Policies Needed To Increase Protection Employees still remain the greatest security threat despite organizations implementing stricter security policies and start-of-the-art technology.

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Cyber Security IQ

SecureWorks

Cyber Security IQ Know the Threat This white paper will help you learn what motivates cyber criminals, what they want from your business and some practices for resilience against them.

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Strengthening the Human Firewall

SecureWorks

Strengthening the Human Firewall Security Awareness Training: Change Employee Behavior and Reduce Risk The right people must be organized to make security programs work. Learn how a culture of vigilance can strengthen your security posture.

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5 Tactics Cyber Criminals Use to Capture Personal Data

SecureWorks

5 Tactics Cyber Criminals Use to Capture Personal Data Learn how cyber criminals leverage intrusion tactics to capture personal and financial data. Learn how cyber criminals leverage intrusion tactics to capture personal and financial data.

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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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5 Ways Advanced Malware Evades the Sandbox

SecureWorks

5 Ways Advanced Malware Evades the Sandbox Five Techniques You Can Do To Prepare for Evasive Advanced Malware Learn the five ways advanced malware evades detection and recommended techniques you can do to prepare for them.

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Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s Weak Link

SecureWorks

Certificate Authorities for SSL/TLS: Crypto’s Weak Link Read about the security risks of the current certificate infrastructure including the role of Certificate Authorities and the trust that's placed in them.

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Breach Disclosure: The Greater Good; or Enemy of the Enterprise?

SecureWorks

Breach Disclosure: The Greater Good; or Enemy of the Enterprise? The stats on security breaches within companies make for bleak reading, 93% of large organisations and 76% of small businesses reported breaches last year.

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Portrait of a Chinese Hacker 

SecureWorks

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Portrait of a Chinese Hacker Yes, The Chinese Army Is Spying On You Follow the story in Bloomberg Businessweek of how a notorious hacker’s identity is unmasked by the CTU's Director of Malware Research Joe Stewart.

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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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Is Your Incident Response Plan Ready for a Cyber Security Breach?

SecureWorks

Is Your Incident Response Plan Ready for a Cyber Security Breach? An Incident Response Plan is critical to any organization to contain and stop a potential information security breach from cyber-attacks. Are you prepared?

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Accelerating Your Incident Response Plan

SecureWorks

Accelerating Your Incident Response Plan Not Having a Plan When a Cyber-Attack Occurs Can Cost You Millions Not having an Incident Response Plan when a cyber-attack occurs can cost you millions and also ruin your reputation.

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Changes in Observed/Assumed Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)

SecureWorks

Changes in Observed/Assumed Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) SecureWorks recently detected several iSensor alerts indicating that systems were infected with the Poison Ivy RAT.

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APT Campaign Leverages the Cueisfry Trojan and Microsoft Word Vulnerability CVE-2014-1761

SecureWorks

APT Campaign Leverages the Cueisfry Trojan and Microsoft Word Vulnerability CVE-2014-1761 SecureWorks CTU discovered the Cueisfry downloader trojan while analyzing a spearphishing email sent to an intelligence-related group in Japan.

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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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Cryptowall Ransomware Overview

SecureWorks

Cryptowall Ransomware Overview The Largest & Most Destructive Ransomware on the Internet Learn about the Cryptowall ransomware, how it spread, its infection distribution, and remedies and recommendations to combat it.

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3 Incident Response Tips To Save You Time & Money

SecureWorks

3 Incident Response Tips To Save You Time & Money In the 2014 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis, the average cost to a company in 2014 was $3.5 million, 15 percent more than what it cost in 2013.

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Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft

SecureWorks

Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft Learn About Identity Theft and How You Can Help Protect Yourself The SecureWorks CISO team addresses some common identity theft scenarios in this Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft article.

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5 Valuable Contextual Data Sources for Small Businesses

SecureWorks

5 Valuable Contextual Data Sources for Small Businesses Data is critical for proper information security monitoring, and understanding the context helps differentiate between real threats and false positives.

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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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Stegoloader Malware: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

SecureWorks

Stegoloader Malware: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Its Path to Infiltrating Systems and Extracting Data Learn more about Stegoloader, a stealthy malware family that has been active since 2013 and yet is relatively unknown.

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The Cyberattack Threat: Is Your Company Prepared?

SecureWorks

The Cyberattack Threat: Is Your Company Prepared? A proactive strategy, leadership, and accountability can help prepare you Is your organization prepared against cyber security threats? Learn how a proactive strategy, leadership, and accountability can help prepare you.

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Making a Strategic Investment in Cybersecurity

SecureWorks

Making a Strategic Investment in Cybersecurity Knowing the Cybersecurity Risks Specific to Your Company and Industry Learn where to start making an investment in cybersecurity by knowing the risks specific to your company and industry.