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Security
What Is Adaptive Authentication?
Authentication security remains a significant vulnerability in most organizations' security posture. Even individuals without technical expertise can easily acquire and employ pre-made hacking tools. Microsoft, for instance, fends off an astonishing 1,000 authentication attacks a second.
What Is Cyber Asset And Attack Surface Management?
Gartner analysts have been busy publishing several Hype Cycles recently. If you're not familiar with the Gartner Hype Cycle, it is a graphic representation of the maturity lifecycle of new technologies, and there are several key reports to help security leaders with their strategy and investments.
5 Best Practices For Implementing Risk-First Cybersecurity
Embracing a risk-first mindset empowers organizations to make informed decisions, strengthen security, safeguard valuable assets, and reduce financial impact. Organizations face an uphill battle to safeguard hybrid cloud assets and sensitive data from evolving cyber threats in an increasingly interconnected and digitized world. While the security-first approach is essential, it has limitations in addressing the dynamic nature of these threats.
Why Network Penetration Testing Is An Essential Cybersecurity Practice
Will your cybersecurity setup prove resilient even in the face of a damaging cyberattack like ransomware? Network penetration testing can give you the answer. It's a stress test of sorts in which cybersecurity experts simulate cyberattacks in a controlled environment to see if your infrastructure will respond and perform as expected.
AI
10 Top Resources To Build An Ethical AI Framework
Several standards, tools and techniques are available to help navigate the nuances and complexities in establishing a generative AI ethics framework that supports responsible AI.
AI-Based Red Teaming: Why Enterprises Need To Practice Now
In the dynamically changing world of cybersecurity, no one can afford to become complacent. As tech professionals, we understand this constant flux, watching as adversarial actors continually adapt their strategies and tools. We are stepping into an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept, but an active player in the cybersecurity landscape. This article aims to shed light on a significant aspect of AI in cybersecurity- its role in red team exercises.
8 Areas For Creating And Refining Generative AI Metrics
When gauging the success of generative AI initiatives, metrics should be agreed upon upfront and focus on the performance of the model and the value it delivers.
Server
Top 5 Enterprise HCI Providers
To set context on why IT organizations should adopt hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) into their operating environment, it is helpful to survey the current challenges with managing IT infrastructure for medium to large enterprises. While these challenges also concern small organizations, large enterprises experience many of these issues at a larger scale because of their many users, applications, and locations.
HR
HR Tech Revolution: The Top 5 AI-Powered Platforms for 2023
The HR tech world is witnessing a magnificent shift, and artificial intelligence (AI) is the secret sauce behind the magic! It's the buzzword we can't get enough of, and for good reason. With remote work ruling the roost, global talent hunts, and sky-high employee expectations, HR is facing some major changes.
Gartner HR Survey Finds Within 12-Month Period, Half Of Candidates Have Accepted A Job Offer - And Then Backed Out Before Starting
Competition for talent remains steep as 59% of HR leaders expect more talent competition in the next three months. Top drivers cited by candidates for accepting a new job offer include: greater flexibility (59%), better work-life balance (45%) and higher compensation (40%).
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Backup
Enterprise Backup And Recovery Software Solutions
As enterprises expand their use of hybrid and multicloud environments and SaaS applications, while managing the adaptive threat of ransomware attacks, I&O leaders must continually assess their backup and recovery capabilities. This research provides analyses of backup and recovery vendors.
Achieving Data Immutability In A Backup And Recovery Strategy
Follow the journey of Mirazon, a managed service provider, as it transformed its data backup strategy in response to new technologies and security challenges.
DDN News
Building Your Generative AI Center Of Excellence
At a recent event, I was debating with customers and partners which was most the important aspect for at-scale systems design: headline performance numbers, certified reference architectures, detailed datasheets - or bringing our expertise to the table to help solve a real-world problem. We all agreed that while the first three are essential proof points, the human touch brings it all together, with real experience to apply technology to create real business value.
Tintri News
Tintri Announces Two New Cloud Solutions - Tintri Cloud Platform (TCP) And Tintri Cloud Engine (TCE) Virtual Vmstore Platform
Tintri, a DDN subsidiary and leading provider of VM-aware AI-powered data management solutions, today announced two new offerings that enable customers to leverage the advantages of a cloud infrastructure powered by Tintri
SuperMicro News
Supermicro Launches Industry Leading VSAN HCI Solution, Delivering Up To 4.7X Performance At 3X Lower Cost
The Supermicro Multi-Node BigTwin HCI System with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Provides 2X the I/O Bandwidth with PCIe 5.0 and up to 1.5X the memory bandwidth with DDR5 and Supports Built-in CPU Accelerators for Workload Specific Performance Gains
AWS News
3 Reasons Why Amazon Accelerate 2023 Is A Can't Miss Event For Sellers
Registration is open for our 4th annual Amazon Accelerate, the premier conference dedicated to Amazon sellers, and there's a lot to get excited about. This event is one of my favorite moments of the year-we get to hear from our independent sellers, unveil new offerings, and share the latest innovations and product developments we've implemented to make Amazon the best place to start and grow your brand.
What Do Each Of Amazon's Leadership Principles Really Mean?
Liz Jones, an Amazon Bar Raiser, explains what our famous leadership principles mean and how important they are to landing a job at Amazon.
Veeam News
Air-Gap vs Immutable Backup
According to 2023 Data Protection Trend's Report, 85% of the 4,200 organizations surveyed suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2022. What was even more startling was that 39% of an organization's production data was either encrypted or destroyed during the attack and victims averaged only being able to get back half (55%) of what had been affected.
How to Tier Workloads for a Strategic DRaaS Plan
With Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) becoming more commonplace, companies of all sizes have been looking to DRaaS service offerings to support their business continuity plans when disaster strikes. But DRaaS isn't one size fits all! Having a data protection platform that supports business needs when evaluating RTO, RPO, SLAs and budget - as well as the manageability from a provider's perspective, is key in a DRaaS offering.
Storm-0558 Cyberthreat: How Veeam Backup Solutions Secure Data
Cybersecurity incidents are increasing at an alarming rate. In our 2023 Global Report on Ransomware Trends, conducted by an independent research firm, 85% of organizations surveyed experienced one or more cyberattacks in the prior 12 months. This represents a 12% increase over the previous year, and it highlights the danger your organization faces.
Microsoft News
Announcing Python In Excel: Combining The Power Of Python And The Flexibility Of Excel
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. Today we're announcing a significant evolution in the analytical capabilities available within Excel by releasing a Public Preview of Python in Excel.
From Tipping Point To Turning Point: Charting New Pathways For Rebuilding Local News
Nearly three years ago, Microsoft launched a journalism initiative to explore ways in which we could help address the growing crisis facing independent local news organizations and preserve and protect journalism.
Microsoft And Epic Expand AI Collaboration To Accelerate Generative AI's Impact In Healthcare, Addressing The Industry's Most Pressing Needs
Today, the promise of technology to help us solve some of the biggest challenges we face has never been more tangible, and nowhere is generative AI more needed, and possibly more impactful, than in healthcare. Epic and Microsoft have been paving the way to bring generative AI to the forefront of the healthcare industry.
Red Hat News
Red Hat Subscription Management: Simple Content Access (SCA) explained
In my time as a technical account manager (TAM), I have noticed a fair amount of confusion and frustration associated with handling Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions. You have infrastructure to manage, customers to support, and management to answer to. Worrying if your systems can consume Red Hat content pulls your attention away from critical tasks your organization needs to perform.
YAML explained for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) users
The language of Red Hat OpenShift, containers, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and many more modern tools is YAML. Related to the equally popular JSON format, YAML is a clean and minimalist configuration language designed with a mere two data structures.
CxO Events
InformationWeek: Optimizing Returns from Your Cyber Risk Program (Sep. 19th)
In the current global economic landscape, the imperative to achieve more with limited resources is impacting departments across organizations. Concurrently, the expansion of digital footprints presents challenges as cyber threats exploit vulnerable infrastructures. To uphold a leading-edge cyber risk program and align with business demands, organizations must explore resourceful approaches.
CIO's Future of Work Summit (Sept. 20th)
CIO's Future of Work Summit in September will give expert tips on creating meaningful roles, managing remote worker surveillance, automating workflows, and optimizing in-office time.
Informa: Evolving AI and Data Integration for the Modern Contact Center (Sept. 28th)
In this webinar, a leading industry analyst will share research on the AI capabilities that are being deployed - and which of these are adding the most value. He'll be joined by a technology thought leader who will share real-world case studies and discuss the role that data integration plays in driving AI results.
AI Leadership Summit: Where Data-Driven Leadership and AI Intersect (Oct. 11th)
Since Generative AI burst onto the scene, pundits have been calling it the next technology that will change the world. It also quickly raised cries for regulation and data, and IP protection. In this nascent period where it's both friend and foe, join us and learn how to build a sound GenAI strategy that will help your organization enhance business processes while staying protected in this new era.
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