Decision-making is the very essence of business. Decisions matter, from setting out a company’s high-level strategic vision to executing on its most basic daily operations. Every decision is accompanied by uncertainty and risk, because decision-makers must simultaneously decide which paths […]
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There’s a security revolution underway in the United States. In an attempt to reduce credit card fraud, retailers everywhere are transitioning from legacy magnetic strip cards to the more secure chip-and-PIN system. Under this new threat cyber criminals are picking
Human Identifiers Power Data Protection in the War on Rising Card Fraud Read More »
Four more states voted to make recreational marijuana use legal this year. It is still completely illegal in half of the country, and legal only for medical use in most states that allow it at all, but the movement is
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I’m a huge fan of candy, especially Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups–only the regular ones, or the Big Cups, or the holiday shapes like pumpkins and Easter eggs, though. The chocolate to peanut butter ratio doesn’t work for the mini Reese’s
Hershey Relies on Microsoft for Collaboration and Business Intelligence Read More »
Effective monitoring and alerting is essential to a stable, secure, operational IT environment. The problem is that there is so much happening so fast, and so much information coming from so many sources that IT personnel are often completely overwhelmed
BigPanda Wants to Help Prioritize Alerts that Matter Most Read More »
I’m at IBM Edge this week and in an IBM z Systems presentation. This is a bit of a “Back To The Future” segment for me because z Systems is the latest implementation of the IBM Mainframe which I first learned to
IBM z Systems: The Mainframe Comes Back With a Vengeance Read More »
The threat landscape shifts rapidly under normal conditions. Cloud services, DevOps, and microservices just amplify potential threats–creating an environment that is very volatile and scales dramatically in the blink of an eye. Businesses need automated security solutions that are designed
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Ask any security manager how they currently analyze cyber security data. Chances are they’ll describe a mad dash of manual efforts that involve pulling volumes of disparate data together for either ad-hoc requests coming from upper management, or quarterly reports
The Great Reporting Burden: Why Security Managers Struggle with Analyzing Silos of Data Read More »
Technology in general is about adding convenience and improving quality of life. Automating routine tasks is just common sense. Automation is also a core component of DevOps. The next level of evolution for automation would be for machine learning and
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A recurring claim at security conferences is that “security is a big data / machine learning (ML) / artificial intelligence (AI) problem”. This is unfortunately wildly optimistic, and wrong in general. While certain security problems can be addressed by ML/AI
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