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Where should companies focus as they begin their machine learning journey?
As machine learning has become more widely adopted across industries, O’Reilly set out to learn more about how companies approach this work. By surveying more than 11,000 data …
Most IT decision makers believe AI is the silver bullet to cybersecurity challenges
New research from ESET reveals that three in four IT decision makers (75%) believe that AI and ML are the silver bullet to solving their cybersecurity challenges. In the past …
Cyber hygiene training is infrequent and inconsistent
Finn Partners Research released findings from its Cybersecurity at Work study that examined the level of cyber risk that employees pose to their organizations. The in-depth …
The FBI warns about compromised IoT devices
The FBI is instructing users on how to recognize when their IoT devices have been compromised and advising them on how to keep them secure. “Compromised devices may be …
Google to warn G Suite admins of government-backed attacks
Google started warning Gmail users of state-sponsored attacks in 2012 and now the option has been made available to G Suite admins. What is G Suite? G Suite (formerly Google …
How the SamSam attacker stole millions from US companies
There are many reasons that the SamSam ransomware has achieved widespread notoriety: it disrupted the operations of some of its victims to a point that the attack …
Enterprise IT modernization: Replace prerelational DBMS systems
Prerelational database management systems (DBMSs) are aging technology, and the number of applications using these systems is declining. The market share for prerelational …
Microsoft offers bug bounties for holes in its identity services
Microsoft is asking security researchers to look for and report technical vulnerabilities affecting its identity services and OpenID standards implementations, and is offering …
Microsoft offers new Azure AD tool to nix easily guessed passwords
Predictable, easy-to-guess passwords are often the weak link that ends up breaking the security chain and attackers know this. “They know to account for character …
Managing and maintaining security in the enterprise
In the digital age, more often than not, organizations are playing defense against cybercrime. In fact, a report from Online Trust Alliance shows businesses reported 159,700 …
VMware plugs RCE hole in remote management agent
VMware has fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in VMware AirWatch Agent for Android and Windows Mobile, and is urging users to upgrade to the newest versions …
How security leaders can be empowered to drive results
The overwhelming demands on security leaders today can have a paralyzing effect. Gartner analysts provided guidance to security and risk leaders and practitioners on how to be …