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Dominic Vogel

Effective IS Starts, Ends With Security Culture

If the CEO does not have to have a strong password, why should anyone else in the company? If the CEO does not take time to do security awareness training, why should anyone else?»
Jennifer Adams

Private Cloud Adoption Is Alive And Well

Private cloud can provide the speed-to-market and scalability of public cloud, yet with enhanced security. Improved IT infrastructure manageability and flexibility are the key drivers of private cloud adoption.»
Claire Lopston

Topic Modeling: Deriving Insight From Large Volumes of Unstructured Data

Topic modelling is a technique that can automatically identify topics (groups of commonly co-occurring words) within a set of documents (e.g. tweets, blog posts, emails).»
Kristy Westphal

Injecting Relevance: Getting Use Out of a Useful Risk Assessment

I have tried a variety of risk assessment methods, used various tools, and done pretty much everything but stand on my head to get the results noticed. Then I realized what was missing: relevance.»
Ian Cooke

IT Auditors: Mind the (Database) Gap

The design of some IT systems can leave gaps, particularly between the application and the database. Understanding and pointing out these gaps should be the concern of all IT auditors.»
Nick Hayes

Digital Risk Monitoring, Q3 2016

Cybercriminals use a many tactics to weaponize social media, impersonate or embed malware into mobile apps, deface websites, collude in dark channels, and cause financial, reputational, or physical harm.»
Richard J. Snow

Aspect Provides Customer Engagement Center in the Cloud

Customer experience and the need to provide omni-channel customer engagement are on many companies’ agendas, but fewer than half (48%) of companies said they provide such experiences.»
Cristina Ion

Yahacking: The Last Straw

The turn for the title of most stolen account credentials is now passed on to another multinational thanks to what is better known in the media as the “Yahacking” incident.»

U.S. Banks Face New Demands to Guard Themselves From Hackers

Banking agencies released a proposal Wednesday for rules that would require lenders -- and the outside firms that serve them -- to better safeguard themselves and their customers.

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Generali's Elena Rasa Takes a Data-Driven Approach to Excellence

As chief data officer of one of the world’s largest insurance companies, Italy’s Generali Group, Elena Rasa is working to create a standard for insurance data excellence not just in Europe, but worldwide as well.

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Collaboration Aims to Improve Cancer Care With Precision Analysis

The initiative will use the computing power of IBM Watson Health and will mark the first time that its capabilities will be used to provide services in the realm of genomic sequencing for practicing physicians.

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Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017

In its second set of major technology predictions for 2017, Gartner Group yesterday revealed its “Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2017,” which followed the “Top 10 Predictions for IT in 2017 and Beyond.” Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as “one with substantial disruptive potential that is just beginning to break out of an emerging state into broader impact and use, or which are rapidly growing trends with a high degree of volatility reaching tipping points over the next five years.”

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Think Managing Big Data Is Much Too Complex? Just Wait

The complexity of big data, and the learning curve for data professionals charged with managing it, continues to grow, much to the frustration of many organizations.

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Biden Report Identifies Data As Key to Breakthroughs In Cancer Moonshot

Thanks to advances in supercomputing power, Biden contends that researcher now have the ability to “analyze enormously complex and large amounts of data to find answers we couldn’t just five years ago.”

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Gartner’s Top 10 Predictions for IT in 2017 and Beyond

Gartner Group used the setting of its Symposium ITxpo in Orlando this week to release its predictions for 2017, and beyond. First up were the top 10 information technology trends we can expect to see overall.

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10 Things Your Next Firewall Must Do

Palo Alto Networks started selling next-generation firewalls in 2007 and has gathered critical and specific requirements from thousands of clients that informed this list of requirements for today’s next-generation firewalls.

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Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud

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SAP Raises Sales, Profit Forecast on Improved Cloud Outlook

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Veolia Steps Up Defense of Water Supplies Targeted by Hackers

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Athenahealth Enhances Physician Decision Support With Genomics

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LinkedIn Says Arrested Russian Hacker Tied to 2012 Cyber Breach

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Unsecure Files Lead to HIPAA Fine for St. Joseph Health

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DM Radio

Blinded by Science? Best Practices for Advanced Data Strategies

October 20, 2016
Can Data Be Governed? Best Practices for Governance

October 6, 2016
Step by Step: How to Migrate Systems to the Cloud

September 22, 2016
Hard to Find Good Help -- Strategies for Hiring Data Pros

September 8, 2016
Forget Integration; It's Time to Wrangle Data!

August 25, 2016
Deus ex Machina? The Imminent Rise of Machine Learning

August 11, 2016
Big Data: A Second Chance for Data Management?

August 4, 2016
Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things

July 14, 2016
Going Mobile -- Five Tips for the Application Designer

June 23, 2016
Method to the Madness: New Roles for the Information Architect

June 9, 2016

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“ Without data, you're just another person with an opinion. ”

—W. Edwards Deming, Data scientist »

Enterprise Data Preparation and Today’s Analytics

Better data means not only cleaner data that avoids the classic “garbage in, garbage out” problem, but relevant data scattered across silos that has been identified, unified and prepared for analysis.

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Data Management

Data Residency: Building Your Global Strategy

To operate internationally, you’ll need to hold yourself to the highest standards of compliance with privacy regulations across every region and country in which you do business.

Internet of Things

IoT and the Future of Data Center Network Architectures

The combination of volume and speed will continue to act as stressors on existing data centers and are forcing providers to examine how to keep data as close to end users as possible to enhance its value.

Data Security

Encryption – Still the Best Way to Protect Data From Hackers

Encryption can be tailored to meet a company’s specific IT policies, compliance requirements and user needs to ensure that critical communication is protected whether on mobile or desktop.

Data Security

Trickle Down Cybercrime

While financial institutions have always been a target of choice, the stakes were raised significantly with this year’s hack of the SWIFT messaging system.