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Security
The most recent Forrester Wave: Security Awareness & Training (SA&T) report was released a few months ago.
The report lands at the following conclusion: security awareness training market is in need of disruption. We could not agree more. The most recent Forrester Wave: Security Awareness & Training (SA&T) report was released a few months ago. The report, which rates security awareness training vendors based on published and transparent criteria, is eye-opening in its view of the state of the market today and into the future ...?more
Today's world is more digitally connected than ever before.
As more people work and connect, bad actors have responded by developing sophisticated methods for gaining access to resources and stealing data, sabotaging businesses, or extorting money. Every year the number of attacks increases, and adversaries develop new methods of evading detection...?more
As part of Solutions Review's Premium Content Series-a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories- Max Henderson of Pondurance breaks down the key steps every SOC team should follow when building an incident response plan.
Sad but true: Thousands of organizations across just about every industry suffer data breaches every year. The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report analyzed 23,896 incidents equaling 5,212 confirmed data breaches, which means that the odds of not being breached are pretty slim. But hey- knowledge is power, so embracing the knowledge that you're likely to be breached and being prepared for it inevitably puts the odds in your favor of a smooth recovery. ...?more
The world will spend nearly $170 billion on cybersecurity in 2022, and nearly $20 billion of that will be spent by the federal government - but ransomware attacks are still on the rise with no indication of slowing down anytime soon.
That's why the 2023-2025 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Strategic Plan is such an important document. It is an acknowledgement that our collective approach to cybersecurity needs to change if we want to stay ahead of evolving threats....?more
DevSecOps is having a moment in the federal government.
With President Biden's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity and federal agencies' issuance of DevSecOps best practices based on the Enduring Security Framework, government organizations are shoring up and standardizing their DevSecOps processes to meet today's cybersecurity challenges head-on...?more
This article takes a look at the top 10 most disastrous cyber hacks carried out on organisations in the 2020s, so far
Whether financial or reputational, cyber attacks are capable of bringing the operations of even the largest, most secure organisations to a halt. Threat actors are constantly evolving their techniques to get past security measures, to the point where cyber crime - projected to cost businesses $10.5tn annually by 2025 - has grown into its own industry ...?more
Times are tough, but that doesn't mean chief information officers aspire to make them tougher. Yes, I'm talking about cloud repatriation, or the practice of moving workloads out of the cloud and back into private data centers.
But, no, you shouldn't do it. For every 37signals that moves a workload back on-premises, there are tens of thousands more enterprises going the other way, and for good reason. In an uncertain economy, the last thing you want is to lock yourself into very inelastic hardware purchases and software licenses...?more
Whenever a new critical vulnerability hits the world (like last week's high severity OpenSSL vulnerabilities), security teams have to scramble to answer:...
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CxO Security Events
CIO's and CSO's Innovation Agenda, a one-day summit where those who walk the talk come to share their secrets just in time for the new year. We'll feature leaders whose perseverance has paid off in tangible results, among them winners of the 2022 CIO 100 and CSO50 awards programs. You'll learn from their hard-won efforts how to build winning teams, an innovative culture, and models for continuous innovation that keep your stars engaged.
Innovation is the future.
New products, features, and experiences to attract - and retain - customers and employees alike is the only path to growth and business success. Yet while some companies clearly get it right, innovation is not easy. It takes focus, rigor, and a culture that supports the diversity of thought and risk-taking.
Hosted byCIOS and CSO ...?more
This virtual event will focus on some of the new threats posed by cybercriminals and nation-states.
On December 13, Cybersecurity Outlook 2023 will look at some of the new threats posed by cybercriminals and nation-states, as well as evolving products and technologies that may help mitigate those threats. You'll hear from some of the cybersecurity industry's leading experts, as well as researchers who have been studying the next wave of cyber vulnerabilities and exploits.
This free, all-day virtual event hosted by Black Hat, Dark Reading and Omdia will offer expert insight on the cyber-threats and technology trends enterprises will face in the coming year.
Hosted by blackhat, DARKReading, OMDIA ...?more
AI
The Bestiary Chronicles is both a modern fable on the rise of artificial intelligence and a demonstration of how shockingly fast AI is evolving.
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at.
Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, an award-winning New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling. ...?more
Businesses understand artificial intelligence and machine learning will transform the way they work with data. But boardrooms find the details confusing
'Don't believe the hype.' While it may take many by surprise, that's the fresh call to action among analysts paying close attention to how companies are - or aren't - factoring artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into their data management plans and playbooks.
After years of reading sensational stories about the limitless potential of intelligent machines, stakeholders and C-suite, executives in particular appear to be confused about the best course of action to take. Commercial missteps and the total failure of some products have resulted. Experts say it doesn't have to be this way. ...?more
The automotive industry continues to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) at an increasingly rapid pace to stay abreast of numerous production challenges and market opportunities.
AI delivers many engineering and manufacturing benefits, from accelerating design iterations to refining quality control on production lines. AI also helps forward thinking automotive companies adapt effectively and swiftly to rapidly changing business and industry priorities. ...?more
ERP
It's no wonder ERP has such a bad reputation: The history surrounding the complex and expensive enterprise software market is packed with tales of vendor mudslinging, outrageous hype and epic failures.
With enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications at the heart of many a company's operations, the consequences of a failed software rollout can be serious, including shareholder lawsuits and financial meltdown.
But after a spate of high-profile failures, there are signs that vendors and customers are working hard to ensure the success of their ERP projects. Panorama Consulting Solutions, which regularly surveys businesses on the outcomes of their ERP projects, shows in its 2022 report that 81% of projects met ROI expectations a year or more after go-live. ...?more
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Strong enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can help businesses prepare to survive an impending and potentially inevitable recession.
With many economists predicting an imminent recession and sluggish consumer spending, CFOs need to be prepared to weather the storm.
'We are headed into another change,' Sharon Bhalaru, partner at national accounting and consulting firm Armanino LLP, said in an interview with CFO Dive, noting that many companies are right now wrestling with a difficult period marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - the concept known as VUCA. ...?more
HPC
Return to normalcy is too strong, but the latest portrait of the HPC market presented by Hyperion Research yesterday is a positive one.
Total 2022 HPC revenue (on-premise and cloud) will likely wind up around $38.5 billion, roughly 10% over 2021 ($34.8 billion), and next year, 2023, is forecast to hit in the $42.7 billion range. Post-pandemic HPC is bouncing back, if perhaps a bit unevenly.
Lingering supply chain issues, both pandemic- and geopolitical-related, continue to cloud the outlook. There are also worries of a potential broader economic slowdown. Stir all of that altogether and these remain difficult days to be in the forecasting business. On the plus side, demand for AI technology (chips and systems and software) remains strong. Use of cloud-based HPC is surging. Sales at the top end of the market remain strong. And storage, a perennially robust HPC market, is getting an added boost driven by the data demands of AI and IoT. ...?more
It is very rare for any of the major semiconductor suppliers of the world to ever admit that things are going wrong, even when we all know that they have been.
But as part of a briefing ahead of the SC22 supercomputing conference next week and just ahead of AMD's launch of the 'Genoa' Epyc 9004 series of processors, we got a little something that looked like contrition as Intel is late delivering its 'Sapphire Rapids' Xeon SP CPUs with HBM memory and its related 'Ponte Vecchio' Xe HPC GPUs.
This may be the last time we have to type or read Xe HPC when referring to Intel's compute engines focused on HPC and AI, so let's celebrate that for a second as we contemplate the 'Max Series' branding that Intel has adopted for its HBM-goosed Xeon SP processors, its Ponte Vecchio and follow-on 'Rialto Bridge' datacenter GPUs, and the future hybrid 'Falcon Shores' hybrid CPU-GPU packages due in 2024 alongside the 'Granite Rapids' Xeon SPs. So long superscript e, we never really liked you in a brand name. Go back to the natural logarithm where you belong. . . . ...?more
The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the availability of the IBTA Specification Volume 1 Release 1.6, which adds support for large radix switches, enabling ultra-dense data center infrastructures with a dramatic decrease in overall infrastructure and power costs.
The new 1.6 specification enables the build out of 256-port top-of-rack (ToR) switches, up from 64-ports. When compared to a traditional 256-port non-blocking fat-tree topology, data centers utilizing new 256-port ToR switches will be enabled with significant OPEX and CAPEX reductions: 2x less cables, 12x less switches, with 1/3 the number of switch hops, reducing overall latency.
Additional features in the 1.6 specification include extended OpCodes for generalized transport function classes, as well as for enhanced Memory Placement Extensions (MPE) that will further reduce latency in distributed memory applications. ...?more
Wireless
5G creates opportunity for users but also for cybercriminals, so how can organisations ensure 5G wireless network security?
One thing is clear about 5G and network security- it does not involve more of the same. Organisations can't just scale-up existing practices and technologies; they need a new approach.
As Adrian Belcher, Solutions Architect at Gigamon, told me, organisations need 'to treat 5G as a paradigm shift, and they will need an open mindset'. ...?more
Networks
Organizations might sometimes consider cloud computing and cloud networking as interchangeable due to their similarities. But the two strategies have different goals and processes.
Cloud computing and cloud networking are related but distinct ideas.
Cloud computing is concerned about how applications run. Cloud networking covers how connectivity to and among applications is managed and delivered.
Cloud computing
Cloud computing shifts enterprise workload hosting from traditional in-house or colocated data centers to a cloud service provider (CSP)'s data center. The enterprise customer has no access to or direct control of the computing infrastructure underlying the services the workload runs on. ...?more
IPv4 and IPv6 are two forms of IP addresses, but they differ in length and style. Compare the two, and find out why organizations might implement one over the other.
IP is a mechanism used to logically identify devices at the network layer of the TCP/IP model. Each device on an IP network must have a unique IP address, subnet and default gateway to perform intersubnet or intervirtual LAN communication by way of routing.
Devices on the internet currently use one of two versions of IP addresses: IPv4 or IPv6. Let's compare how these two addressing types differ. ...?more
The editors at Solutions Review strategize modern network monitoring requirements in this curated piece based on a guide from our partners at Broadcom.
In the age of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) and work from home, the enterprise network has expanded far beyond the corporate office walls to any device, on any network, anywhere in the world. Connectivity is more important than ever before. Any potential degradation in network performance, reduction in availability, or even an outage must be proactively prevented to ensure continued revenue growth and an engaging customer experience. This is why IT teams must focus on modernizing their network monitoring requirements and strategy.
There are many ways to dissect your approach to NetMon. However, these are the three keys for building modern network architectures. ...?more
Developer
Coding is an important skill across almost every technology discipline today, and cybersecurity is no exception. Learn about the top programming languages for security professionals.
Coding is an essential skill across almost every technological discipline today, and cybersecurity is no exception. Cybersecurity professionals must understand coding concepts in order to correctly interpret the activity of malicious actors on their networks, and they must be able to write code to perform their own work more efficiently and effectively. While not every cybersecurity job explicitly includes coding skills as a job requirement, it's hard to imagine any cybersecurity career that wouldn't benefit from the ability to knock out at least a few lines of code every once in a while. ...?more
Whether a coder or not, you must have heard about Python Programming language in some capacity.
Python is used extensively in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, some of the most popular buzzwords in computing.
Being a popular programming language, you may already know or be interested in learning it.
When someone learns a programming language, an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) comes in handy. It makes programming easy while giving you access to multiple utilities in a few clicks. ...?more
A survey found 83% of developers are working remotely more than half of the time, with more than three-quarters (76%) reporting they have maintained or increased the frequency of remote work in the last year.
In fact, three in five respondents (62%) work remotely at least 90% of the time.
The survey, published by Netlify, a provider of a platform for building the front end of Web applications using the Jamstack framework, polled 6,544 developers in the Jamstack community and found more than half (55%) would quit their jobs if forced to return to an office. ...?more
Dell News
Learn about Dell's partnership with ebb3 in delivering technology solutions for architecture, engineering and construction companies.
The Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market size exceeded 15 billion U.S. dollars in 2021 and is projected to expand at over 20 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2022 to 2028. The market is expected to undergo a dynamic transition as advancements in virtualization technologies and the rising penetration of cloud computing are spurring the market demand for AI and VDI solutions.
Companies are discovering a critical shortage in skilled IT labor, causing them to look for solutions beyond just hiring more staff to manage an increasingly complex, multi-technology infrastructure. ...?more
Looking for world-record performance that requires less space in a data center and that can be air-cooled, look no further.
Enterprise computing is essential to the success of many of our customers' businesses. Pushing the limits of innovation with agility and performance, all with an eye on sustainability is key when competing in today's environment. For more sustainable performance that takes up less space in the data center, look no further than the latest generation of Dell PowerEdge servers powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors. ...?more
A data science project's success or failure can rest on a few key factors. Discover how to increase your chances of success.
Despite the improvements the field of data science (DS) has made in the last decade, Gartner has estimated that almost 85 percent of all data science projects fail. Further, only 4% of data science projects are considered 'very successful'. Among the major drivers of data science project failure are poor data quality, lack of technical skill or business acumen, lack of deployment infrastructure and lack of adoption. ...?more
Red Hat News
Organizations worldwide rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the core of their enterprise IT infrastructure. In a rapidly changing IT landscape, they require a flexible, stable foundation to support hybrid cloud innovation, manage applications and deploy workloads efficiently across various environments.
RHEL is that foundation, helping organizations operate confidently and power innovation.
The newest update for RHEL 8 is now here. With the full official release of RHEL 8.7, customers can automate manual tasks more efficiently, standardize deployments at scale and simplify the day-to-day administration of their systems. ...?more
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat blog post with 5 of the week's top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
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Red Hat Insights is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering developed to help identify and address operational and vulnerability risks before an issue results in operating environment downtime.
Findings from your systems metadata analysis are surfaced on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
Although the Hybrid Cloud Console offers a unified and centralized view of Red Hat environments, organizations may want to get access to the data and findings from the solution and leverage them in complement to existing operational tools and workflows. Their main goal is to offer a faster way for users to get greater value from combined platforms.
In this article, we consider different approaches to integrate Insights with third-party tooling, and use Grafana as an example to provide a concrete integration. We will show how you can query Insights via its APIs and retrieve key findings and data to populate visual dashboards or external data stores. ...?more