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8 Active Directory Best Practices to Minimize Cybersecurity Risk

Tenable

Follow these best practices to harden your Active Directory security against cyberattacks and stop attack paths. Active Directory (AD) equips businesses using Windows devices to organize IT management at the enterprise level. This centralized, standard Windows system equips IT administrators with increased control over access and security within their operations, elevating management of all network devices, domains and account users.

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How to Prepare and Start DevOps Transformation

Mobilunity

DevOps is no longer a little-known methodology used by some companies. It is gaining popularity globally because it helps organizations address market needs quickly and effectively, optimize resources, and deliver increased value. In this article, we will discuss why every company that hasn’t implemented DevOps needs DevOps transformation today and how to build a dream DevOps team.

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How Being a Dad Makes Me a Better CEO

CEO Insider

With Father’s Day on the horizon, I’m feeling incredibly lucky to be the father of two very talented, yet different boys. One has taken to the great game of baseball and the other is a budding artist, yet each is absolutely committed to his passion. Jordan, 14, takes over 100 swings every day to become […]. The post How Being a Dad Makes Me a Better CEO appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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Solar concentration startup Heliogen basks in $108M of new funding

TechCrunch

Sunlight is a great source of energy, but it rarely gets hot enough to fry an egg, let alone melt steel. Heliogen aims to change that with its high-tech concentrated solar technique, and has raised more than a hundred million dollars to test its 1,000-degree solar furnace at a few participating mines and refineries. We covered Heliogen when it made its debut in 2019 , and the details in that article still get at the core of the company’s tech.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Kids Need to Learn Coding Fundamentals from the Start

The Crazy Programmer

All parents know that the jobs of tomorrow will rely on STEM skills and programming knowledge and that it’s necessary to get ready for this today. But if you don’t have these skills yourself, how can someone recognize the best coding instructors from the rest? It’s crucial to find an online coding camp for kids today that imparts programming fundamentals.

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Gossip Dissemination

Martin Fowler

Unmesh Joshi is completing another batch of his series on Patterns of Distributed Systems. First of these is Gossip Dissemination , which uses a random selection of nodes to pass on information to ensure it reaches all the nodes in the cluster without flooding the network.

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Enterprise AI platform Dataiku launches managed service for smaller companies

TechCrunch

Dataiku is going downstream with a new product today called Dataiku Online. As the name suggests, Dataiku Online is a fully managed version of Dataiku. It lets you take advantage of the data science platform without going through a complicated setup process that involves a system administrator and your own infrastructure. If you’re not familiar with Dataiku, the platform lets you turn raw data into advanced analytics, run some data visualization tasks, create data-backed dashboards and train mac

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Expression vs Statement in Programming

The Crazy Programmer

In this article, we will study two popular terms in the programming language Expression vs Statement and take a look at the differences between the two. In the programming world, an Expression is a function or a combination of characters, variables, and operators combined together to produce a certain value. These expressions are interpreted by the programming language and converted to produce a value through the process of evaluation.

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How CareSource ditched its data silos

CIO

As companies re-evaluate current IT infrastructures and processes with the goal of creating more efficient, resilient, and intuitive enterprise systems, one thing has become very clear: traditional data warehousing architectures that separate data storage from usage are pretty much obsolete.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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A Post-Pandemic Productivity Gift You Can Bring Back to the Office

Let's Grow Leaders

Going back to the office? Don’t lose one of the most valuable aspects of remote work. Whether your team is heading back to the office, will continue working remotely, or somewhere between, silence and space are critical leadership gifts to give your team. Mixed Feelings about Going Back. Over the past month, as more U.S. citizens have access to vaccines, we’ve been talking with people whose teams have worked remotely about their thoughts on returning to in-person work.

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Motorway’s auction platform for second-hand cars raises $67.7M Series B led by Index Ventures

TechCrunch

Motorway is a U.K. startup that allows professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale. The startup has had rapid success by removing a lot of friction in the process. It’s now raised £48 million / $67.7 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures, along with new investors BMW i Ventures and Unbound. Existing investors Latitude and Marchmont Ventures also participated.

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How Agile Analysis Drives Business Transformation : Fireside Chat with Agile Alliance and IIBA

Agile Alliance

Through a member-led initiative that started in 2011, Agile Alliance and the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered on the production of the Agile Extension to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Guide in order to help improve understanding of Agile approaches to business analysis. (The Agile Extension v2.0 is available to Agile … Continued.

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Silicon Valley Defense Group: Securing Democracy Through Innovation

CTOvision

The Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG) seeks to align and connect the people, capital and ideas that will ensure allied democracies retain a durable techno-security advantage. From their website: The United States is lagging in the global techno-security competition and lacks effective policy, education, and coordination to compete with its rivals.

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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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Calm the Chaos and Help Your Team Regain their Focus

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s a challenge common to many leaders and managers: Last-minute customer requests, emergencies, interruptions, and distractions make it hard to stay focused on your M.I.T.s (the Most Important Thing ). If you’re not careful, reactivity can become a permanent way of life. In this episode, you’ll receive practical steps you can take to calm the chaos and help your team regain their focus.

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EV battery swapping startup Ample charges up operations in Japan, NYC

TechCrunch

EV battery swapping startup Ample has locked in two partnerships this month that will help fuel an expansion into Japan and New York City after years of working on the technology. The startup, which was founded in 2014 and came out of stealth in March, said Tuesday it has partnered with Japanese petroleum and energy company Eneos to jointly deploy and operate battery swapping infrastructure in Japan.

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Transition Coaching After Executive Search Placement Increases Success in India

N2Growth Blog

By Kunal Jha & Kelli Vukelic. Executive coaching was nearly unheard of in India 15 or so years ago. Today is much different. Now there are thousands of certified executive coaches and multiple ICF chapters engaged in helping executives and their organizations succeed. Indian companies are engaging this skilled cadre of coaches to help nurture and develop leaders ripe for transitioning to senior roles, they are improving performance with leaders advancing from lower internal positions and se

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Supply Chains Are Strained. These Companies Are Best Prepared.

CTOvision

Read Rick Wartzman and Kelly Tang take a look at the companies that are best positioned to take advantage of the strained supply chains across the world on Wall Street Journal : Cargo ships stacked up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Inventories of lumber, aluminum cans, tires, cardboard and plastic all […].

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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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FlexDeploy Brings DevOps to Mule Integrations

Flexagon

You can build and test Mule Applications or APIs using Anypoint Studio very easily. But when it comes to automating deployments to your environments, with complete visibility, rich property management, and fully automated options, you need a good enterprise DevOps tool. FlexDeploy’s solution for MuleSoft bridges all these gaps and provides a complete DevOps solution.

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Tractable raises $60M at a $1B valuation to make damage appraisals using AI

TechCrunch

As the insurance industry adjusts to life in the 21st century (heh), an AI startup that has built computer vision tools to enable remote damage appraisals is announcing a significant round of growth funding. Tractable , which works with automotive insurance companies to let users take and submit photos of damaged cars that are then “read” to make appraisals, has raised $60 million, a Series D that values Tractable at $1 billion, the company said.

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The A.R.T. of Advanced Accountability (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

The Let’s Grow Leaders A.R.T. Method of Advanced Accountability. Hi Karin, I’ve read Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul. And, I love the I.N.S.P.I.R.E. method for difficult conversations. The coaching method works great much of the time. But, what do I do if one accountability conversation is not enough?

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The Alliance for Digital Innovation: Accelerating change by driving government adoption of innovative commercial technology

CTOvision

The Alliance for Digital Innovation is a Group of some of the nation’s most innovative, admired and virtuous technology organizations. They exist to accelerate change by driving government’s adoption of innovative commercial technology. Their website has a line that captures what they believe: It’s time to replace outdated, insecure and costly-to-maintain legacy systems.

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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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Article: How to Spread Technical Practices Like TDD in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

One of the success factors for Agile and DevOps is developers changing the way they work and adopting practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD). It’s not something that just happens by itself, and many of the “usual” ways of introducing change fail for TDD. This article outlines some of the things that actually do work and explains “Samman,” which is a coaching method used with developers.

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Fraud protection startup nSure AI raises $6.8M in seed funding

TechCrunch

Fraud protection startup nSure AI has raised $6.8 million in seed funding, led by DisruptiveAI, Phoenix Insurance, AXA-backed venture builder Kamet , Moneta Seeds and private investors. The round will help the company bolster the predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that power nSure AI’s “first of its kind” fraud protection platform.

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There’s No Innovation Without Automation

DevOps.com

Companies of all sizes and across virtually every industry today have ready access to hyperscale compute, storage and myriad other technologies — without needing the significant budget or technical expertise of a hyperscale cloud provider like AWS. This is a boon for innovation. Cloud opened the door to cost optimizations, previously out-of-reach cloud-native tools, security […].

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Make your product compliant with privacy laws: A new framework

TechBeacon

As public concern over privacy grows, protecting data and complying with a changing regulatory environment can be challenging. Not only are privacy laws proliferating, but measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States frame their requirements in language that might be well understood by lawmakers and lawyers, but less so by members of information security and development teams.

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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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Article: Enhance Your Testing Strategy with Mind Map-Driven Testing

InfoQ Culture Methods

Mind map-driven testing can enable testers to focus on test idea generation, it exposes you to your thinking and enables you to brainstorm and organize your ideas effectively. This article shares ideas and knowledge about mind maps and shows how they can be used as lean documents to plan, organize, record, present, and report on testing. By Prashant Hegde.

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To win post-pandemic, startups need remote-first growth teams

TechCrunch

Growth leaders used to build key relationships across a company while working together in a real-life office. Those relationships could carry over through the pandemic, but let’s say you’re a new company and you’re remote-first. How do you build this complex collaboration from scratch? Growth marketer and investor Susan Su tells us that the solution is not just more software tools.

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How to practise good cyber-hygiene across your supply chain

CTOvision

Read Yuval Segev and Yosi Aviram explain how small and medium businesses can practice good cyber-hygiene across their supply chains on World Economic Forum Blog : As most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are run on a low operational budget, most do not invest adequately in cybersecurity. Hence, they are becoming preferred targets for cybercriminals, […].

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