TechBeacon
MARCH 1, 2019
Each day, news headlines remind us that enterprises are rife with risk. In fact, per a recent survey, most CISOs in North America believe that data breaches are an inevitable hazard. More troublesome still, the risk landscape is changing so fast that risk leaders barely have time to ponder what their response strategy should be before their needs change once again.
DevOps.com
MARCH 1, 2019
When SoulCycle wanted to improve application development and deployment, including improving services for customers across its 80-plus indoor cycling centers in the United States and Canada, the company turned to Mark Sost, a veteran developer and engineer who worked at several media companies, including Hearst. Over the last two-plus years, Sost, who now holds the […].
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CTOvision
MARCH 1, 2019
The about 30,000 members of the cybersecurity community come together every year during the RSA conference in San Francisco to catch up with old friends and associates, learn the latest tech approaches and exchange best practices and lessons learned. I’ll be there most of the week, spending most of the time in meetings regarding our […].
Women on Business
MARCH 1, 2019
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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.
DevOps.com
MARCH 1, 2019
Enterprise customers will accelerate cloud migration, SAP S/4HANA adoption, and DevOps expansion with resilient Continuous Testing Mountain View, CA — February 26, 2019?—Tricentis today announced the latest release of Tricentis Tosca, the cloud’s number one Continuous Testing platform. As legacy testing tools from Micro Focus and Worksoft have failed to scale in DevOps environments, Tricentis Tosca delivers resilient Continuous Testing to over 1,600 enterprise customers.
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TechBeacon
MARCH 1, 2019
Automakers capture massive volumes of data that, with predictive analytics, can produce valuable insights that enable you to monetize and improve products and operations, and better serve customers with new features.
Linux Academy
MARCH 1, 2019
The beauty of Telnet is that it’s available for almost any operating system, and it’s installed by default on many. While the use of insecure Telnet for network communication eventually gave way to encrypted protocols, like SSH , its usefulness lives on. Telnet is the perfect tool for testing TCP port connectivity. Let’s walk through how to use Telnet for TCP connection testing, as taught in Linux Networking and Troubleshooting.
Accenture
MARCH 1, 2019
?. John and Charlie Rudd sat down with Accenture’s Talking Agility podcast hosted by Elitza Nacheva to share some of SolutionsIQ’s Agile journey, including lessons they’ve learned along the way. Full transcript here. The Agile approach is learn as you go and you choose that approach because you really have no other choice, so those mindshift changes, they happen one person at a time but affect an organization.
Dataiku
MARCH 1, 2019
Let’s face it - almost no business today can afford to hire the amount of data scientists it would take to go from producing one machine learning model to 1,000 (or for that matter, 1 million) every year. The good news is that organizations don’t need to hire scores of data scientists in order to be productive.
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Palo Alto Networks
MARCH 1, 2019
This week we unveiled new innovations aimed at transforming how our customers protect their organizations from sophisticated threats by harnessing the power of data. Cortex XDR and Traps will open up more areas for NextWave partners to deliver the services expertise that our customers need for effective threat hunting and incident response. Find partner portal updates for Cortex , Cortex Data Lake , Cortex XDR , and Traps 6.0.
Lacework
MARCH 1, 2019
New from Lacework Lacework at RSA Lacework is going to rock RSA, and we want you to join us! Here’s a guide to all the Lacework parties, sessions, panels, and secrets to getting our sweet swag. Booth #4603 – we’ll be there with the volume cranked up to 11! Avoiding Container Vulnerabilities To get a [.]. Read More. The post Cloud Security This Week – March 1, 2019 appeared first on Lacework.
Enterprise.nxt
MARCH 1, 2019
Lofted by new cloud-like economics, intelligent storage takes wing in its hybrid cloud habitat.
Distributed Agreement
MARCH 1, 2019
This is the second in a series of posts on blockchains. The first post explained what a blockchain actually is. This post focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of blockchain technology. So why use a blockchain? The primary advantage of a blockchain design over previous designs is that a blockchain design naturally allows every participant … Continue reading "What are blockchains good for?
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Tenable
MARCH 1, 2019
Adobe Security Bulletin APSB19-14 addresses a file upload restriction bypass vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. Background. On March 1, Adobe published APSB19-14 , an out-of-band security bulletin to address a critical vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion. Affected versions include ColdFusion 2018 Update 2 and earlier, ColdFusion 2016 Update 9 and earlier, and ColdFusion 11 Update 17 and earlier.
Sailpoint
MARCH 1, 2019
Austin is the place SailPoint calls home, but this week there were some interesting conversations to be had about the cybersecurity industry in our hometown. Our CMO Juliette Rizkallah has worked in high tech and IT over the past 20 years, and she shared her insights on how Austin is coming up in the cybersecurity scene. In reality, cybersecurity is truly injecting itself into every part of the world and every industry.
IT Convergence
MARCH 1, 2019
Vulnerability scanning has become a tenant of any holistic security plan. It’s an excellent practice, inspecting potential weak spots in a system and identifying which pose the biggest threats. But as nice as it would be, you can’t scan for all all vulnerabilities, all the time. The US National Vulnerability Database lists over 112,000 CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures).
Gorilla Logic
MARCH 1, 2019
Many companies embark on digital transformation initiatives in order to drive innovation, profitability and growth. Implementing an Agile framework often allows them to better align technology and resources in order to collaborate more efficiently – resulting in an elevated level of business performance. Gorilla Logic continues to expand its expertise in scaling agility by achieving Silver Partner status with Scaled Agile, Inc®.
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Cloud Conformity
MARCH 1, 2019
The Five Pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework?—?Understanding What Makes the Cloud Secure The 5 pillars to a well-architected house At Cloud Conformity, we often harp on about the AWS Well-Architected Framework and for very good reason. The framework underpins our entire platform and forms our Knowledge Base to ensure your cloud infrastructure is the most resilient, secure and efficient for your needs.
Net Objectives
MARCH 1, 2019
The Open-Closed Principle (Bertrand Myers, Ivar Jacobsen) states, “Software entities (such as classes, modules, and functions) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.” This means that a “good” design will allow for a new behavior to be added to a system without having to change the existing code, or at least to minimize … Continue reading "TDD and the OCP".
IT Convergence
MARCH 1, 2019
Avoiding Accidental Integration.
High Scalability
MARCH 1, 2019
Wake up! It's HighScalability time: 10 years of AWS architecture increasing simplicity or increasing complexity? ( Michael Wittig ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. It has 39 mostly 5 star reviews. They'll learn a lot and love you forever. 1.3 billion : npm package downloads per day; 20 : honeybee communication signals used to coordinate thousands of workers; 71 : ave
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Wolk Software Engineering
MARCH 1, 2019
The JSDayIE 2019 CFP is now open! We’re excited to welcome the JavaScript community to submit talks for JSDayIE 2019 that will take place on September 20th 2019. The Call for Proposals closes on April 15th, 2019. We are looking for a multitude of topics and perspectives but most of all we value: Original topics , presented for the first time. Practical ideas that attendees can apply at work the next day.
The Daily WTF
MARCH 1, 2019
"If the screen is to be believed.This beer is going to rock!" wrote Tim F. . Dru writes, "Wait. Mad Libs ? No wonder credit card terms are so confusing!" . "After selecting a file to open this gem popped up. I think the dialog is as confused as I am," writes Lincoln K. . Jan writes, "Yes, speaking of sensitive data, Firefox is asking if I'd like to store the following, possibly sensitive, data!
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
MARCH 1, 2019
Voice Data, Lunar Library, IP Rights, Computational Photography. Common Voice Data (Mozilla) -- largest dataset of human voices available for use, including 18 different languages, adding up to almost 1,400 hours of recorded voice data from more than 42,000 contributors. (via Mozilla blog ). The Lunar Library -- The Arch Mission Foundation is nano-etching 30,000,000 pages' worth of "archives of human history and civilization, covering all subjects, cultures, nations, languages, genres, and time
Protera
MARCH 1, 2019
SAP functional and technical consultants complement each other, and both are indispensable for operating an SAP landscape. Without functional consultants, you wouldn’t be able to harness the flexibility, customizability and power of SAP HANA or SAP ERP. Likewise, without a technical team, you wouldn’t be able to keep your system running, or execute upgrades and migrations.
Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group
As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX
Netskope
MARCH 1, 2019
“The post-digital era is upon us. People are adopting new technology both quickly and completely, and whether they’re customers, employees, or even threat actors, they are beginning to outpace enterprises in their digital transformations. They are more knowledgeable about technology itself and how companies use it, and are becoming selective and demanding of what they adopt, challenging companies to work with them or adapt to them in different ways.” – Accenture Tech Vision 201
Battery Ventures
MARCH 1, 2019
I once worked with a first-time CEO who needed to hire a VP of sales. He wanted to take charge of the hiring process—then I learned he was preparing by Googling “How to interview VP’s of sales.”. As a recruiter, I see too many companies jump into interviewing candidates before they know what they want. Instead they go into “shopping” mode, thinking: “I’ll know the right hire when I meet her.
StubHub
MARCH 1, 2019
By Rachel Williams, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion Balance. In today’s complex climate, it’s a topic that is as universal as it is elusive. When seen through the prisms of business, gender and cultural politics, “balance” doesn’t have one definition. It has many. In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth.
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