Fri.May 31, 2019

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How to Create Bug-Free Blockchain Apps

DevOps.com

While all developers strive for bug-free code, it’s particularly crucial in a blockchain deployment where sensitive data or other confidential info is being exchanged, such as in health care or finance. However, some businesses have learned that lesson the hard way. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance recently revealed a devastating security breach that resulted in a loss […].

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Where Were You When Artificial Intelligence Transformed the Enterprise?

Dell EMC

Where were you when artificial intelligence (AI) came online? Remember that science fiction movie where AI takes over in a near dystopian future? The plot revolves around a crazy scientist who accidentally put AI online, only to realize the mistake too late. Soon the machines became the human’s overlords. While these science fiction scenarios are entertaining, they really just stoke fear and add to the confusion to AI.

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Joining Three or More Tables in SQL

The Crazy Programmer

Here you will learn about joining three tables in sql with example. Let us consider three tables Employee, Department and Project. We will see the complete example wherein these 3 tables are joined to produce a result: Table Employee. This table records the Id of the Employee which is the primary key, the name of the working Employee, the Department Id of the Department they are working in and the Project they are working for.

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The Best Leadership Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

You hear so much about the power of culture – so what is culture exactly? How do you get the power of culture working for you and your organization? This episode starts with a question from a listener and addresses his […]. The post The Best Leadership Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You hear so much about the power of culture – so what is culture exactly?

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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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Nearly All Businesses Suffer Phishing Attacks – Mimecast

CTOvision

Nearly all businesses have suffered some form of phishing attack during the past year, the survey finds. Research from security specialist Mimecast has revealed the latest depressing statistics about online cybersecurity. Mimecast’s study of “1,025 global IT decision makers” revealed that phishing attacks are the most prominent type of cyberattack, with 94 percent of respondents […].

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Extend your Active Directory security policy to Linux and beyond

TechBeacon

More than 95% of enterprises use Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) as their primary source of identity and access management. But with the advent of cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, a growing number of devices now live outside of traditional AD.

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Microsoft issues second warning about patching BlueKeep as PoC code goes public

CTOvision

Microsoft has once again warned companies to patch older versions of Windows against a severe vulnerability in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) service that can be abused remotely, and which the company has likened to the EternalBlue exploit that fueled the WannaCry, NotPetya, and Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreaks. To make matters worse, limited proof-of-concept code for […].

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GovEdge 2019: Five Things You Need to Know About Tenable’s Public Sector User Conference

Tenable

At Tenable’s GovEdge 2019 public sector user conference, June 4-5 in Washington, D.C., you’ll learn how to make the most of your Tenable deployment and gain valuable Cyber Exposure best practices — all while networking with your peers, our experts and an entire ecosystem of partners. Here’s what you can expect. At Tenable, we know cybersecurity is more than just your job — it’s your mission.

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Flipboard data breach – what users should do now

CTOvision

Popular news aggregation site Flipboard – one billion app downloads from Google Play and counting – has become the latest internet company to admit it has suffered a breach. We’ve covered a lot of data breaches in recent years but this one has one or two wrinkles that are worth highlighting. According to Flipboard, hackers gained access […].

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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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Maintainer spotlight: Mariatta Wijaya

Github

With the launch of GitHub Sponsors , open source maintainers and developers can apply to receive funding from the community that depends on their work. Through sponsorship, open source maintainers have the freedom, financial security, and autonomy to continue the work they’re passionate about to further build and strengthen the open source community.

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Lack of basic security hygiene putting industrial control systems at risk.

CTOvision

Read why James Sanders says that standard security practices among IT companies do not necessarily carry over to the IT departments of other firms, leading to products sold without basic security measures in place on Tech Republic : Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems are an outsized threat in the manufacturing sector, and can have ripples […].

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Using Vault to generate dynamic IAM users in AWS with Cloud Playground

Linux Academy

In today’s technology landscape, s ecurely storing and controlling things like passwords, certificates, tokens, and encryption keys, is a necessary, but complicated challenge. To help with this challenge, a number of different tools and technologies have been developed. Here you’re going to learn about an open source tool called Vault , which was developed by HashiCorp.

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Cybersecurity: The number of files exposed on misconfigured servers, storage and cloud services has risen to 2.3 billion

CTOvision

Over 2.3 billion files — including sensitive data like payroll information, credit card details, medical data and patents for intellectual property — are exposed publicly online, putting both people and organisations at risk of data theft, cybercrime, espionage and other malicious activities. Analysis by researchers at cybersecurity company Digital Shadows found the highly sensitive information […].

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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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6 Ways RPA Can Help Your Medical Practice Be Error-Free

Docuphase

Did you know that 86% of mistakes made in the healthcare industry are administrative? Imagine what kind of results a simple clerical error can have. Maybe a patient is billed incorrectly. Or, worse yet, maybe he or she receives the wrong medication or another incorrect treatment. What if a patient record is misfiled and lost? These errors can present serious issues!

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Synopsys Software Integrity Group receives Red Hat Partner Award

Synopsys

Synopsys and Red Hat have established a world-class partnership to enable open source management and application security testing in container environments. The post Synopsys Software Integrity Group receives Red Hat Partner Award appeared first on Software Integrity Blog.

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DevOps Postmortems: Why and How to Use Them (+Checklist)

Dzone - DevOps

In DevOps, any problem that occurs in the CI/CD process is taken care of and fixed as soon as possible. The required information is gathered from the feedback loop of the CI/CD pipeline. These are fed into the rectification process. The postmortem analysis of a problem plays a crucial role in planning the fixation. A postmortem culture gathers the development team together to figure out the cause and focus on a probable solution of the situation.

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Four short links: 31 May 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Google Blocking Ad Blocking, Security Checklist, Maturity Model, and Software Engineering. Google to Restrict Modern Ad Blocking Chrome Extensions to Enterprise Users (9 to 5 Google) -- modern ad blockers, like uBlock Origin and Ghostery, use Chrome’s webRequest API to block ads before they’re even downloaded. With the Manifest V3 proposal, Google deprecates the webRequest API’s ability to block a particular request before it’s loaded.

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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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How TechSoup Uses the KnowBe4 Platform to Help Keep Our Systems (and Your Data) Safe

TechSoup

If you or your staff have ever been duped by a hacker through email, text, or social media, then you know how easy it can be. In fact, a 2015 study found that an estimated 156 million phishing emails were sent globally each day, and these emails can give hackers access to your most sensitive program and donor data.

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Automation Enables Security for DevOps and Run-Time

Lacework

DevOps teams are driven by a constant need to develop, integrate, push, and innovate. IT consumerization is now essential for organizations who want to respond quickly to market demands, and it’s increasingly a critical element of competitive differentiation and market viability. It’s because of this that DevOps teams are adopting modern aspects of development, including [.].

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10 Rules Young Businessmen Should Live By In Startups

CEO Insider

CEOWORLD magazine. 10 Rules Young Businessmen Should Live By In Startups. With emerging startup culture being so rampant all over the world, many young entrepreneurs are not hesitating to build their ideas into a business vision. It wouldn’t be surprising to say that they face a lot of setbacks during the process, but the end is more than worth it. Many young businesspeople start off quite […]. 10 Rules Young Businessmen Should Live By In Startups.

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Channel Scoop – May 31, 2019

Palo Alto Networks

We are transitioning from the Channel Scoop to the new Channels Weekly for your weekly channel program updates. Bookmark the page and view updates every Friday. And for a new source of updates, news, and content, follow NextWave on LinkedIn. See what others have to say and let’s start an exchange of information! The post Channel Scoop – May 31, 2019 appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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The Safe Haven of Regulation

The Agile Manager

Big tech has historically been lightly regulated. True, both IBM and Microsoft were subject to regulation in 1956 and 2001, respectively, to limit their monopolistic powers. But neither suffered dents in their financial returns as a result (attorney fees notwithstanding), and the tech industry innovated in ways that made their respective monopolistic states very short lived.

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Specifying the Negative in TDD

Net Objectives

Most requirements are statements of desired behavior. But there can be implications behind these requirements concerning behavior that is not desired. For example, we might test-drive a value object that represents some domain information, and the requirement for it might include that the object must be “immutable.” The implication would be that the object has … Continue reading "Specifying the Negative in TDD".

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Reflection on a daily retrospectives

Marcusoft

I have created a course, a boot camp to teach people to become programmers in 12 weeks. It’s quite amazing and you should apply if you want to change career. Check out Salt - School of applied technology. Obviously, that cannot be done. But we do it anyway. And we succeed - we get rave feedback from the places where our awesome students are working.

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Announcing the TDD Companion

Net Objectives

For the last few month, I have been posting several times a week on what I hope are interesting topics relating to aspects of Test-Driven Development. Many people have commented positively on this work. I have just posted the sixtieth entry in this series and this seemed like enough content to gather into a sort … Continue reading "Announcing the TDD Companion".

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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The Fortune Teller

Sailpoint

Can you predict what access your users need, when they need it and why? With SailPoint Predictive Identity, businesses gain the power to anticipate user access needs, spot risky user behaviors, achieve continuous compliance, and adapt and automate security policies. Watch the video below and then get registered to learn more during our live broadcast from Navigate ’19 !

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TDD and the Magic Buttons

Net Objectives

Here is a bit of a thought experiment, first suggested to me by Eran Pe’er. Imagine there are two magic buttons in front of you. You know, without any doubt that if you press Button A then your code will suddenly have 90% code coverage. If you push Button B, you will have 80% code … Continue reading "TDD and the Magic Buttons".

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Identity is Security: Cybersecurity Hamster Wheel

Sailpoint

Throwing money at a problem, most any problem, usually won’t fix it. Especially when it comes to cybersecurity, that’s why this headline caught my attention this week: Too many tools and services can cause confusion and prove a waste of cybersecurity budget. And this is for a good reason. You are not going to fix all of your cybersecurity woes with a surge in hires, employee training, or an excess of hundreds of tools or more.