Wed.Jul 15, 2020

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Manage Identities, Not Passwords at Your Nonprofit

TechSoup

How many passwords have you used today? If the answer is more than one, then you're still managing passwords rather than identities. If identity and access management (IAM) is a new concept for you, you're not alone. While it's an increasingly familiar topic among IT experts, IAM has not yet entered the vernacular of most nonprofit leaders.

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? Knock Your Innovation Program Out of the Park

Planbox

It’s in our nature to support a cause that’s bigger than ourselves—we’re social creatures after all, so we’re at our best when we work together towards a common goal. However, out of left field came the global health pandemic, and collaboration has since taken a major hit at a time when creative ideas and solutions are needed most. That’s because the free-flow of information and exchange of ideas between internal and external stakeholders are the lifeblood of an innovative organization, and now

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Google Taps AMD for Confidential Computing Service

DevOps.com

Google Cloud, at a Google Cloud Next 2020 Online event, announced it is making available in beta Confidential VMs, a new service that represents the cloud service provider’s first foray into the realm of confidential computing. Based on second-generation EPYC processors from AMD that provide access to an embedded Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) capability, Confidential […].

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Apache Kafka Native MQTT at Scale with Confluent Cloud and Waterstream

Confluent

With billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, achieving real-time interoperability has become a major challenge. Together, Confluent, Waterstream, and MQTT are accelerating Industry 4.0 with new Industrial IoT (IIoT) […].

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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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Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community

DevOps.com

Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While […].

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Solving the DevOps Dilemma in the COVID Era 

DevOps.com

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses to double down on DevOps transformation initiatives across the enterprise, pushing companies to be more agile and implement software changes throughout their organization at a much faster rate. However, too many IT departments rely on older, complex processes to approve software changes coming from DevOps teams and simply cannot […].

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Threat Alert: Attacker Building Malicious Images Directly on Your Host

Aqua Security

We at Team Nautilus - Aqua’s cyber security research team - discovered a new type of attack against container infrastructure. The attacker exploits a misconfigured Docker API port in order to build and run a malicious container image on the host. As far as we know, this is the first time that an attack in which the attacker builds an image rather than pulling it from a public registry is observed in the wild.

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Collibra Employs Microservices for Data Management

DevOps.com

Collibra has launched a Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud based on a microservices architecture that promises to alter the way data is managed in enterprise IT environments. Jim Cushman, chief product officer for Collibra, said its approach sets the stage for leveraging microservices to create data workflows made up of reusable components. In fact, there may […].

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CVE-2020-8193, CVE-2020-8195, and CVE-2020-819: Active Exploitation of Citrix Vulnerabilities

Tenable

Following active exploitation against F5 BIG-IP devices, exploit attempts targeting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Citrix products have begun, which include potential extraction of VPN sessions on vulnerable targets. Background. On July 7, Citrix disclosed 11 new vulnerabilities in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance devices.

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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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Traceable Secures Apps Using Distributed Tracing

DevOps.com

Traceable this week announced it is making available under an early access program a namesake platform that combines distributed tracing and machine learning algorithms to better secure applications. Fresh of raising $20 million in funding, Traceable CEO Jyoti Bansal said the goal is to leverage distributed traces generated via open source Hypertrace agent software to […].

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe: Cloud native goes mainstream

TechBeacon

Cloud-native deployments are getting larger as adoption becomes mainstream, and businesses are reaping the benefits.

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Applying Storytelling to Sales

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Paul Smith, thoughtLEADERS Principal, sat down with Jim and Jan of The Leadership Podcast to discuss storytelling and how it can make your role as a salesperson easier and more effective. In continuation of our new collaboration with The Leadership Podcast, Paul breaks down just how storytelling can make you a better and stronger salesperson in this short form “chalk talk.” These chalk talk series are bitesize sessions on a common (but challenging) leadership issue.

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How to Maximize Your Penetration Tests with Nessus

Tenable

Penetration tests and vulnerability assessments make for an excellent tandem approach to cybersecurity. . While similar — and sometimes confused for each other — penetration tests and vulnerability assessments are decidedly not the same thing. There are important, fundamental differences that actually allow these two tactics to be used in tandem. Vulnerability assessments and penetration tests both look for weaknesses in your network.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Codefresh Cuts 85% of Traditional On-Prem CI/CD Costs with new Runner

DevOps.com

Codefresh Runner provides a foolproof way to run pipelines on your own Kubernetes clusters, reducing maintenance, providing scalability, and meeting compliance and security requirements. Mountain View, CA, July 15, 2020 – On the heels of securing $27M in funding to further automate and simplify everything from code to cloud, Codefresh launched its Codefresh Runner, a […].

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From Response to Recovery: Achieving Clinical and Business Resiliency in Healthcare

Dell EMC

Healthcare organizations are rising to meet new patient care and financial realities, including work-from-home capabilities and significantly expanded virtual care options. As healthcare leaders are reopening facilities for non-urgent clinical services, they are also juggling workforce considerations ranging from employee health, to childcare, to mass transit concerns alongside changing patient expectations.

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CodeSOD: Because of the Implication

The Daily WTF

Even when you’re using TypeScript, you’re still bound by JavaScript’s type system. You’re also stuck with its object system, which means that each object is really just a dict, and there’s no guarantee that any object has any given key at runtime. Madison sends us some TypeScript code that is, perhaps not strictly bad, in and of itself, though it certainly contains some badness.

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Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Jon Herlocker and Miroslav Malecha

DevOps.com

The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT. Jon Herlocker, president and CEO at Tignis, is one of the speakers that […]. The post Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Jon Herlocker and Miroslav Malecha appeared first on DevOps.com.

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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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How Do You Design New Data Architectures?

Data Virtualization

Organizations are rethinking their current data architectures. Unfortunately, the majority considers it a challenge. Obviously, one of the reasons is that they don’t do this every day. Also, insights about how to design them has changed over time. This article.

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Why Flutter For Mobile App Development In 2020?

Xicom

It’s As Amazing As Everyone Says, But Even Exceptional! Why App Developers Loves Flutter? Because Flutter Is AWESOME! Flutter caters to both businesses (because of the reasonable cost) and developers (because of speed and great usability). These are the significantly big reason why flourished names like Alibaba, Google Ads and leading app development companies in Dubai like Xicom opt for a flutter.

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TrueDialog’s Best Practices for SMS Text Message Marketing

CEO Insider

SMS marketing, more commonly known as text message marketing, is a powerful strategy that has grown and evolved massively in recent years. It allows marketers to reach a wider audience and communicate using personalized messages. TrueDialog is an SMS texting platform that offers mass and two-way texting for businesses to increase reach, engagement, and response […].

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Join Secureworks at Black Hat USA To See Software-Driven Threat Detection and Response In Action

SecureWorks

Join Secureworks at Black Hat USA To See Software-Driven Threat Detection and Response In Action Visit our virtual booth for a practical demo using a real attack scenario. Our experts are on stand-by to show how machine and human intelligence can be unified to identify malicious threats and stop attacks. Visit our virtual booth for a practical demo using a real attack scenario.

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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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The Evolving Workplace

Dell EMC

Business leaders and industry experts have given their views on how recent events have reshaped the workplace and their future technology strategies. I recently participated in the “The Evolving Workplace,” a virtual CxO round-table, hosted by Dell Technologies and Intel on 16th June. Michael Imeson, a Contributing Editor at FT Specialist, set the tone for the discussion when he stated, “The workplace before COVID-19 was rapidly evolving anyway, driven by technology, communications, environmenta

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Oracle Critical Patch Update for July 2020 Tops Previous Record with 443 Security Updates

Tenable

Oracle’s third Critical Patch Update of 2020 contains a record-breaking 443 security patches addressing 284 CVEs, including critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware products. Background. On July 14, Oracle released the Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory for July 2020 as part of their quarterly release of security patches.

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AWS vs Azure vs Google Free Tier Comparison

ParkMyCloud

Whether you’re new to public cloud altogether or already use one provider and are interested in trying another, you may be interested in a comparison of the AWS vs Azure vs Google free tier. The big three cloud providers – AWS, Azure and Google Cloud – each have a free tier available that’s designed to give users the cloud experience without all the costs.

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The Way to Easy Profit Measurement

CEO Insider

See how you can solve the problem that is presented below. You need to have the scientifically correct P/L-account, with a view to managing a company. Who only knows unproven period profit and yield figures – at least for internal use – he / she is walking in the fog. People steer in the fog, […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article The Way to Easy Profit Measurement are those of the author Jan Jacobs alone and not the CEOWORLD magazine.

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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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No More Flaky Clock Tests

James Shore

15 Jul 2020. James Shore/Blog/Lunch-and-Learn. Every week in my Tuesday Lunch & Learn livestream , we choose a useful software development skill, define a challenge related to that skill, and solve the challenge live. This week, we’re preventing flaky clock tests. There’s nothing more frustrating than flaky tests: tests that fail randomly.

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What are Language Models in NLP?

Daffodil Software

Have you noticed the ‘Smart Compose’ feature in Gmail that gives auto-suggestions to complete sentences while writing an email? This is one of the various use-cases of language models used in Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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Efficiency: Higher, faster, further?

Beyond B2B

Is optimizing operational efficiency really the answer to the current challenges?

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