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There's a storm brewing in cybersecurity that may reshape the priorities of the entire industry over the next couple of years.
Four macro-trends coming together at the same time:...?more
We still have a lot to learn about the fast-paced field of digital identity and our current approaches. The '2022 Identity Management Survey' takes a look at daily identity practices from respondents in IT job functions. Six different identity management trends emerged from the data.
With a fast-growing, frequently moving, highly distributed workforce, identity management and security have come to the forefront for IT leaders. Add advances in technology, cloud proliferation, and equally evolving cyber threats, and we've reached an inflection point for digital identity. And despite the field having been around for nearly 30 years, we still have a lot to learn... more
Corporate IT security teams are often accused of being too reactive in their approach to threat defense.
Yet it's unfortunately all too easy to fall into a vicious cycle of firefighting incident after incident, given the scale and sophistication of modern threats. In the US, 2021 was a record year for reported data breaches, while in the UK, a recent government report revealed that two-fifths of businesses had suffered a cyber-attack over the previous 12 months.,,?more
The nature of a trend is that it is developing consistently enough to catch the attention of the general public or a specific audience
Well, for better or for worse, cybersecurity professionals, experts and analysts are noticing troubling trends in malicious cyberattack activity-trends that don't look like they're going away any time soon:..?more
A cyber attack is a sequence of actions performed by a threat actor to obtain unauthorized access to a computer, computer network, or other computing systems to intentionally steal data, harm innocent people, or launch attacks from a compromised computer.
To launch a cyberattack, cybercriminals utilize many methods, including phishing, ransomware, malware, man-in-the-middle attack, and denial of service, among others...?more
WHO, ME? A reminder of the devastation a simple DROP can do and that backups truly are a DBA's best friend in this morning's "there but for the grace of..." Who, Me?
"Stephen" is the author of today's confession and was faced with what should have been a simple case of applying an update to an Estimating and Invoicing system...?more
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AI, machine-learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing (NLP), computer vision and microarchitecture are hot technologies that banks are investing in today, according to a Forrester report.
Artificial intelligence, machine learning (a subset of AI), and predictive analytics top the list of hot, planned technology investments for banks in 2022, due to their ability to aid strategic business decision-making, help build applications that can serve customers in a personalized manner, and drive revenue growth, according to market research firm Forrester...'?more
The following is a Q&A originally published on Taking Measure, the official blog of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
As the rise of quantum computers becomes the subject of more and more news articles - especially those that prophesy these devices' ability to crack the encryption that protects secure messages, such as our bank transfers - it's illuminating to speak with one of the quantum experts who is actually developing the ideas behind these as-yet-unrealized machines...?more
Exascale beast's test system also claims top spot in the Green500
The land of the rising sun has fallen to the United States' supercomputing might. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) newly minted Frontier supercomputer has ousted Japan's Arm-based Fugaku for the top spot on the Top500 rankings of the world's most-powerful publicly known systems...?more
Get a peek into the standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics.
Among those ranked in the 59th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Plus, Canada's most powerful supercomputer and Dell's HPC at the edge...?more
The 59th installment of the Top500 list, issued today from ISC 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, officially marks a new era in supercomputing with the debut of the first-ever exascale system on the list
Frontier, deployed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, achieved 1.102 exaflops in its highest-scoring High Performance Linpack run, which was completed over the course of two hours and thirty minutes Friday morning in Oak Ridge, Tenn...?more
Employers Must Go Beyond Salary Increases to Win in Today's New Talent Landscape
Sixty-three percent of executives plan to make compensation adjustments in response to high inflation, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. In March of 2022, Gartner surveyed 157 executives to understand how they are addressing inflation concerns... more
Indeed job advertisements for roles that require in-person work have experienced a surge in candidate interest after more than two years since the pandemic began, researchers with Indeed Hiring Lab said in an analysis published May 26.
Indeed's findings may come as a surprise to those following developments around hybrid work over the past year. A recent Gartner analysis posited that workers seeking hybrid work arrangements - not in-person ones - were fueling voluntary turnover among U.S. employees...?more
The phenomenon known as the Great Resignation is showing no signs of slowing. Nearly 48 million people in the U.S. quit their jobs last year with another 4.3 million this past January alone.
This creates obvious labor shortage challenges, but what's less obvious are the critical risks it brings to workforce cybersecurity, specifically when it comes to offboarding employees...?more
The challenges of network virtualization include an overhaul of network architecture, thorough staff training and breaking down knowledge silos among IT departments.
When enterprises implement network virtualization inside their corporate infrastructure, they undoubtedly could benefit from improved performance, flexibility, scalability and security enhancements. That said, however, organizations still need to overcome some network virtualization challenges in order to get it right...?more
Putting the buyer at the heart of businesses' go-to-market strategies entails understanding the buyer's needs, behaviours, and aspirations
Collecting and acting on buyer insights cannot stop at the go-to-market strategy; it has to be baked across the whole revenue engine, from marketing to sales and customer success. Forrester's 2021 B2B Buying Study revealed enormous shifts in buyer behaviour. Marketers need to understand how their buyers are changing and enable their buyer-facing roles with key insights to gain competitive advantage and drive growth..?more