Thu.Oct 18, 2018

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How to protect your code against malicious hackers without spending days on refactoring

Xebia

During our work as penetration testers, we found that there are lots of vulnerabilities being introduced in applications. Vulnerabilities that could have been prevented in an early stage of development. Sadly these are often the same vulnerabilities over and over again. Luckily the IT development landscape is changing. We can see the latest trend in […].

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Embracing open banking and API ecosystem

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

If implemented effectively, open banking will unlock innovation that will transform and improve the customer banking experience. David Beardmore. Banking And Finance, Open Standards And Open Apis. Overview of open banking . Third party providers. Potential Impact. Barclays Case Study. Innovation through engaging with developer community. How India’s largest bank leveraged developer ecosystem.

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Transforming the Customer Experience and Great Customer Service: A Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on customer service. We asked thought leaders from around the world to share their very best post on these topics. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our […]. The post Transforming the Customer Experience and Great Customer Service: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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You Need To Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is?

OTS Solutions

You Need To Know How Disruptive Artificial Intelligence Is? There are so many technologies powering digital transformation, but one of the most technologies is disruptive artificial intelligence. Since automation is becoming more and more complicated, AI is in the process of disrupting the daily work environment. This slow shift has brought about a debate on whether AI will put people out of employment or whether it will work on the repetitive or hazardous work and create more opportunities for

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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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Is Venture Capital investment in AI Realistic or Out of Control?

CTOvision

Anyone observing the news can see that artificial intelligence and machine learning are getting lots of attention. It goes without saying that startups are playing into this trend and raising more money than ever, as long as they have AI or cognitive technologies in their business plans or marketing material. Not only are startups raising […].

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Team Working Agreement Canvas

scruminc

Team Working Agreement Canvas. by Avi Schneier | October 18, 2018 | Blog. My first experience launching teams came while I was working alongside Joe Justice. He taught me all about forming a team, creating a working agreement, and getting started on the right foot. Since that time, I have launched dozens of teams, and have been constantly tweaking the process to make it better as I have gone along.

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A/B Testing UX for Component-based Frameworks

Toptal

UI components are about modularity and reusability. A/B testing can be employed very effectively during a lean product development process to test components that make up an application’s UI.

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Rogue Wave’s commitment to Zend Portfolio and the PHP community

Zend

As the PHP and Zend communities thrive, we want to assure the Zend community that our commitment to the Zend Portfolio and the Zend community is as strong as ever. The post Rogue Wave’s commitment to Zend Portfolio and the PHP community appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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How To Improve Productivity By Taking A Hike

InfoBest

From Engineering to Mountaineering – Teambuilding done right. We all know that fresh air and outdoor activity is great for both your body and brain, but we rarely manage to find the time for things like these because, unfortunately, we prioritize our task inefficiently. Studies say that outdoor exercise can improve memory, reduce stress & inflammation, improve blood pressure while protecting your vision and maintaining a state of well-being in general.

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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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Malwarebytes says business cyberattacks surged 55% in Q3, but malicious cryptocurrency mining fell 26%

CTOvision

Malwarebytes latest report for the quarter ended September 2018 found that cybercriminal activity targeting businesses grew 55% QoQ with trojan attacks growing by a whopping 86%. But luckily malicious cryptocurrency mining fell by as much as 26%. The company today released its Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report for Q3 2018, which found that detections of cybercriminal […].

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The Theater of the Mind

The Daily WTF

Hamza has some friends in the theater business. These friends had an in-house developed Java application to manage seating arrangements, and they had some problems with it. They had lots of problems with it. So Hamza cut them a deal and agreed to take a look. There were the usual litany of problems: performance was garbage, features bugged out if you didn’t precisely follow a certain path, it crashed all the time, etc.

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Expanded Global Operations Command Center

Digital Realty

Industry-Leading Resiliency and Customer Care Initiatives On October 3, 2018 we launched our new, state-of-the-art Global Operations Command Center (GOCC) in Clifton, NJ. To celebrate, we gathered with our local teams for a Grand Opening ceremony.

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DevOps Enterprise Summit in Las Vegas

Accenture

We are excited to announce that Accenture | SolutionsIQ is a gold sponsor of the DevOps Summit in Las Vegas. As the need for DevOps transformation becomes increasingly more palpable, this conference has been gaining traction over the past few years. We will be bringing our energy and the Agile Amped podcast – subscribe and follow us on Twitter to experience all the action.

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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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Data-Centric Security: The Changing Landscape

Symantec

The question is no longer if a network will be breached but rather when and by whom

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Customers Need a Hyper-Converged Infrastructure For a Resilient, Adaptive Cybersecurity Strategy – Partners Can Help

Dell EMC

In 2017, there were more than 5,000 publicly disclosed data breaches, according to Risk-Based Security. The implementation of sweeping regulations, as well as the damaging effects of financial penalties and brand reputation, have elevated the need to protect and secure data. Unfortunately, outdated legacy infrastructure can make it difficult to defend against risks and vulnerabilities.

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Who Says Campaign Websites Can’t Remain Secure?

Symantec

Here’s an easy-to-deploy 8-point checklist to help your campaign avoid making news for all the wrong reasons

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What is a Pen Test and How Often Should You Be Doing One?

Arcserve

Are you confident that your IT team is ready to handle a security breach? Though you may have up-to-date firewalls, cybersecurity training programs, data back-ups, file encryptions, and all the other bells and whistles, there is always a chance for holes in your infrastructure to go unnoticed. Don’t worry though, there’s a test for that. Read more » The post What is a Pen Test and How Often Should You Be Doing One?

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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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How to Have Your Cake AND Eat it in AWS

Symantec

Symantec now lets users buy upfront quantities in SaaS contracts to get discounts - and pay as they go to add extra resources

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Keep Stakeholders Informed During Major Incidents

xmatters

During major incidents, stakeholders including customers, executives, partners, and others who also demand frequent status updates. Part of your major incident response plan needs to focus on initiating and developing communication with these key players. Major IT incidents can cripple your company in the short term and cause long-term issues as well.

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Coalfire Teams with Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) for Fall Summit

Coalfire

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charged the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) with serving as a partnership between the private and public healthcare sectors. To that end, two unique councils were formed: The Healthcare and Public Health Government Coordinating Council (HGCC) was established by presidential directive to sustain the essential functions of the nation’s healthcare and public health system; the HSCC is a companion council established by

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Keep Stakeholders Informed During Major Incidents

xmatters

During major incidents, stakeholders including customers, executives, partners, and others who also demand frequent status updates. Part of your major incident response plan needs to focus on initiating and developing communication with these key players. Major IT incidents can cripple your company in the short term and cause long-term issues as well.

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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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Detecting Empire with USM Anywhere

AlienVault

Empire is an open source post-exploitation framework that acts as a capable backdoor on infected systems. It provides a management platform for infected machines. Empire can deploy PowerShell and Python agents to infect both Windows and Linux systems. Empire can: Deploy fileless agents to perform command and control. Exploit vulnerabilities to escalate privileges.

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Airplane Mode aka The Cloud Digital Divide

Actian

I recently took a last-minute trip from San Francisco to India. The best fare in economy I could find was on a sixteen-hour Air India flight, direct to New Delhi. I figured I’d get a lot of work done on the flight and, if not, at least I could catch-up on movie watching. Turns out I was zero for two on this as my in-seat entertainment center didn’t work and I couldn’t get much of my work done either – I guess that means I was two for two on being surprised.

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Help! I Accidentally Distributed My System!

Honeycomb

At QCon New York, Honeycomb’s own Emily and her good friend Rachel Myers, of Firebase, talked about how various systems they’ve worked on grew out of control. “Distributed systems were never our biggest problem,” says Emily. “ Our hardest problems were actually not engineering problems at all. “ The post Help! I Accidentally Distributed My System!

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Debugging the Ambassador API Gateway on Kubernetes: Lessons Learned

Daniel Bryant

Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy experimenting with the distributed tracing functionality included with the the open source Ambassador API gateway ?—?you can read about the OpenZipkin and Jaeger integration , and also about the LightStep [x]PM integration ?—?and due to a couple of small bugs with the Ambassador generated Envoy configuration, I found myself needing to learn more about debugging Ambassador.

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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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Level Up with Derived Columns: Better Math(s)

Honeycomb

When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use them. We use them all the time to improve our perspective when looking at data as we use Honeycomb internally, so we decided to share. So, in this series, Honeycombers share their favorite derived column use cases and explain how to achieve them.

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6 SEL Secrets for Success: Building Social & Emotional Learning Digital Connections in the Face-to-Face Classroom

PowerSchool

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Level Up with Derived Columns: Better Math(s)

Honeycomb

When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use them. We use them all the time to improve our perspective when looking at data as we use Honeycomb internally, so we decided to share. So, in this series, Honeycombers share their favorite derived column use cases and explain how to achieve them.

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