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Is a Game-Changing Upgrade in Your Future?
As a hydrologist or emergency manager, do you need faster, more reliable, and higher resolution data from your flood warning system? If your current system uses the ALERT protocol, now may be the time to upgrade to a system that uses the ALERT2 protocol. In this article, I’ll explain the differences and the impact that upgrading can have for you. As you know, flood warning systems are critical for public safety, especially as extreme weather events become more frequent and severe.
Zero Power Shock Sensors Using Bistable Compliant Mechanisms
Keywords shock sensors, bistable compliant mechanisms, impact force College Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology Department Electrical and Computer Engineering Abstract There are various applications for shock sensors, ranging from cell phones, to postal packaging, to automobile safety designs. These devices are designed to indicate when a predetermined threshold of impact force has been experienced. The designs of these sensors are varied.
It’s Not Too Late to Leverage AI, but You Must Get Started Today
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Council Post: Why Personalized Customer Service Matters—And How Your Company Can Offer It
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Personalized customer service goes beyond addressing customers by their names or asking how their day is going. In today’s data-heavy marketplace, personalization means leveraging customer and prospect data to gain a deeper understanding of your audience.
Council Post: Five Ways To Foster Effective Interdepartmental Collaboration
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. As businesses continue to navigate our complex and ever-changing landscape, one thing is clear: Collaboration is essential. It's commonly estimated that more than 50% of workers in the U.S. have jobs that rely on collaboration.
Council Post: How To Develop A Holistic Company Growth Strategy
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. getty You’ve likely heard the phrase, “teamwork makes the dream work” in one context or another—and while it may sound cliché, the point is crucial for companies to understand in 2023. While strong communication is critical for teams to succeed, businesses need cross-departmental collaboration to move the needle and achieve their overarching goals.
5 Ways Data Management Improves Colleges and Universities
Faculty and staff working at academic institutions need help optimizing their business operations and improving organizational health. While the federal government has provided $35 billion in grants and relief acts, steep fundraising declines and rising expenses have made it difficult to plan for long-term stability. But this issue goes beyond the financial realm and extends to a lack of data management and organization. The educational services sector will continue to face challenges in 2023.
Council Post: 4 Traits You Need As A Chief Growth Officer In 2023
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. A growth mindset is crucial for companies looking to scale in 2023. On the surface, the objective of a growth-focused approach is to react and adapt to the changing business landscape. However, leaders who successfully integrate a growth mindset do more than adapt; they take action to embrace and enact change across departments.
Get a 360-Degree View of Your Customers With Unified Data
In the race to build sales and generate leads, companies across industries are using their heaping piles of data to read their customers’ minds. The goal is to get a 360-degree view of who their customers are and what they’re looking for in a product — essentially, using existing data to create data-backed buyer personas. […] View Original Article Total Retail is the go-to source for executives looking for the latest news and analysis on the retail industry.
Get a 360-Degree View of Your Customers With Unified Data
In the race to build sales and generate leads, companies across industries are using their heaping piles of data to read their customers’ minds. The goal is to get a 360-degree view of who their customers are and what they're looking for in a product — essentially, using existing data to create data-backed buyer personas. However, many are finding that their data is too disorganized, inconsistent or low quality to build truly effective personas.
Council Post: Five Ways To Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone As An Executive
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Today’s business executives can travel down two paths. The first path is worn, comfortable and made of familiar decisions and strategies. The second path is uncertain, risky and more challenging to travel down than the first. While the second choice is less appealing at first glance, it is rich with opportunities to continue one’s self-growth journey.
Council Post: How Companies Can Keep Their Data Clean In 2023
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Companies in 2022 are implementing data-driven strategies to keep up with their competitors in today’s ever-changing market. In 2020 alone, 77% of companies in the United States reported relying on data to make business decisions, according to Statista (paywall).
Council Post: 5 Ways To Scale Your Business Through Digital Transformation
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Small businesses prioritizing digital transformation are finding more success in today's market. Focused on digitizing operations and streamlining internal processes, digital transformation has been helping big companies scale since its introduction to the sector.
Council Post: Why Differentiating Data Is Key For B2B Marketers
Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Marketers caught up in the minutiae of their company strategies and data are missing the big picture. I believe data differentiation is the key to widening their perspectives.
Council Post: How CMOs Can Create Frictionless Interactions With Clients And Customers
Brett Hansen is the CMO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Today’s CMOs are modern renaissance people. They’re responsible for the overall growth of their respective companies, and their everyday duties include spearheading marketing campaigns, leveraging data and making important decisions based on their customers’ needs.
Automation is everywhere. It creates more efficient processes for your business, which AI can build upon. This article by Brett Hansen highlights how your company can benefit from automation to better manage its data in the future. It’s no secret that the way we do business has transformed over the last few years. The rate of digital acceleration skyrocketed as employees across sectors (and across the globe) learned how to adjust to their new work-from-anywhere lifestyle.
Video technology hard at work saving lives in the resources sector
Article by Milestone Systems country manager South Pacific, Brett Hansen. Much has been said in recent times about the emerging power of video and its increasing ability to help the world see. This is not just prevalent in the security sector but across multiple industries and a wide variety of scenarios. These range from health and safety in manufacturing to situational awareness in logistics and resource industries.
Video technology hard at work saving lives in the resources sector
Article by Milestone Systems country manager South Pacific, Brett Hansen. Much has been said in recent times about the emerging power of video and its increasing ability to help the world see. This is not just prevalent in the security sector but across multiple industries and a wide variety of scenarios. These range from health and safety in manufacturing to situational awareness in logistics and resource industries.
Addressing the knowledge gap in the Australian security industry Original
Article by Milestone Systems South Pacific country manager, Brett Hansen. The Australian security industry is well-regarded for its innovation and drive to stay on top of the latest technologies. The integration of different technologies is providing smarter, more secure and ultimately more widely useful deployments. However, there also remains an enormous amount of unfulfilled potential and untapped opportunity within the industry.
Enhanced BIOS Verification Protects PC Firmware Against Sophisticated Threats
As commonplace threats are being thwarted more frequently, cyber criminals are looking for more advanced ways to gain the critical information. As a result, targeted attacks against PC firmware has become an area of concern. In these instances, protecting the PC BIOS, the lowest level of the PC stack, is critical to an organization’s security posture.
How To Protect Your Data From Insider Threats
If you’re not a government agency or high-profile brand, insider threats may not rank highly on your list of concerns right now. After all, employees have very little to gain and a lot to lose by sharing your sensitive data with unauthorized parties. So why would they risk it? The fact is they will, and there’s a simple reason: productivity.
Ready, Set, Work: Set IT Up for Success With Dell Provisioning for VMware Workspace ONE
You’re the resident IT decision maker for a fast-growing company that has recently opened a new office. A new hire named Leah started this morning. Your company mission statement of efficiency and innovation aligns with her personal values. It’s near the end of her first day and you still haven’t been able to set up her workstation. While you’re spending precious time chasing down the device and trouble-shooting issues, her opinion of her new IT team and new employer begins to sour.
Value Above All
Value Above All The ACR Annual Conference on Quality and Safety assesses radiology's value in an ever-changing health system. The importance of demonstrating and expanding value as radiologists was the central theme of the ACR Annual Conference on Quality and Safety, held in Boston this past October. Jonathan B.
Uh-oh. How just inserting a USB drive can pwn a Linux box - Security Boulevard
It was a highly-sophisticated piece of malware – developed by the United States and Israeli intelligence – which targeted Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility. One of the things which made Stuxnet so notable was that it exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, meaning that it could infect a Windows computer (even with Windows AutoRun and AutoPlay disabled) just by plugging in an infected USB stick.
Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users - Security Boulevard
Malvertising and online fraud through forced redirects and Trojanized apps—to cite the two most common examples—are increasingly plaguing Android users. In many cases, this is made worse by the fact that people often don’t use web filtering or security applications on their mobile devices. A particular group is seizing this opportunity to deliver one of the most lucrative payloads at the moment: drive-by cryptomining for the Monero (XMR) currency.
How to Prevent Attacks on These 7 Most Vulnerable Connected Toys - Security Boulevard
What’s the next toy you are going to give to your child? Maybe, you are thinking about a voice-activated plush bear that can speak some clever lines and “engage” your child? That is great, but make sure you carefully consider your choices first if you want to buy an internet-connected toy. These Internet-of-Things (IoT) toys may hide potential danger for your child’s security. What can parents and toymakers do to secure connected toys against cyber attacks?
Russian nuclear weapons engineers detained after using facility’s supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency - Security Boulevard
Reminiscent of the California Gold Rush, the cryptocurrency phenomenon has captured the minds of virtually everyone who understands digital currency. And those with the means to ‘mine’ it will go to great lengths to do so, as evidenced most recently by engineers at a nuclear weapons plant in Russia.
Bitdefender ranks the top 10 malware threats of 2017 - Security Boulevard
Recent months have seen a dramatic reshaping of the cyber security threat landscape, according to the “Global Threat Landscape Report—2017,” by Bitdefender. More traditional threats such as generic Trojans, ransomware attacks, and spam bots have been complemented in a big way by data destructors.
The History of JavaScript [INFOGRAPHIC] - Security Boulevard
JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich, a Netscape Communications Corporation programmer, in September 1995. It took Eich only 10 days to develop the scripting language which was then known as Mocha. When it was first delivered in 1995, it was made for Netscape Navigator and quickly became known as LiveScript. Later on, the name was changed to JavaScript to reflect Netscape’s support of Java within its browser.
Domain Theft Strands Thousands of Web Sites - Security Boulevard
Newtek Business Services Corp. [NASDAQ:NEWT], a Web services conglomerate that operates more than 100,000 business Web sites and some 40,000 managed technology accounts, had several of its core domain names stolen over the weekend. The theft shut off email and stranded Web sites for many of Newtek’s customers. An email blast Newtek sent to customers late Saturday evening made no mention of a breach or incident, saying only that the company was changing domains due to “increased” security.
Winter Olympics ceremony allegedly hacked by Russia; no comment from IOC - Security Boulevard
Hackers attacked the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, organizers confirmed. The attacks were allegedly carried out by Russia following a doping ban, but the organizers made no comments, writes the Guardian. Soon after the event started on Friday, the official website went offline for 12 hours, and the stadium’s Wi-Fi stopped working, along with television and network connections in the press center.
Top 5 Ways to Reduce the Cost of a Data Breach - Security Boulevard
Home » Security Bloggers Network » Top 5 Ways to Reduce the Cost of a Data Breach Top 5 Ways to Reduce the Cost of a Data Breach Introduction According to the 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study, data breach costs in 2017 averaged $3.62 million. This is a large sum, but depending on factors such as the number of records exposed or… Go on to the site to read the full article Related This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog post authored by Claudio Dodt.
Worried about net neutrality? Consider a VPN. - Security Boulevard
You’ve probably heard by now that, in December of 2017, the FCC voted to repeal the net neutrality laws put in place in 2015. What does that mean to you? Net neutrality classified the internet as a utility that could be regulated, and the primary regulation prevented Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the US from giving preference to certain websites and services while hindering or blocking others. Basically, it required ISPs to treat all internet data equally.
TCG TSS 2.0 Marshaling/Unmarshaling API Specification - Security Boulevard
The following TSS Work Group specification has been posted for public review. This document is a preliminary draft. It is for use in comment only and is subject to change without notice. Any comments regarding this specification may be submitted to TCG Administration at admin@trustedcomputinggroup.org. Revision Under Public Review: This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog post authored by TCG Admin. Read the original post at: Trusted Computing Group
4K+ Websites Infected with Crypto-Miner after Tech Provider Hacked - Security Boulevard
Bad actors secretly infected more than 4,000 websites with the script for a crypto-miner after hacking a single technology provider. The trouble started on 11 February when Ian Thornton-Trump encountered something concerning while visiting the website for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The LinkedIn-shortened URL leads to a post containing a screenshot of the researcher’s visit to the ICO website.
Internet Security Threats at the Olympics - Security Boulevard
The cybersecurity company McAfee recently uncovered a cyber operation, dubbed Operation GoldDragon, attacking South Korean organizations related to the Winter Olympics. McAfee believes the attack came from a nation state that speaks Korean, although it has no definitive proof that this is a North Korean operation. The victim organizations include ice hockey teams, ski suppliers, ski resorts, tourist organizations in Pyeongchang, and departments organizing the Pyeongchang Olympics.
TSS TCTI Specification - Security Boulevard
The following TSS Work Group specification has been posted for public review. This document is a preliminary draft. It is for use in comment only and is subject to change without notice. Any comments regarding this specification may be submitted to TCG Administration at admin@trustedcomputinggroup.org. Revision Under Public Review: This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog post authored by TCG Admin. Read the original post at: Trusted Computing Group
TCG TSS 2.0 System Level API (SAPI) Specification - Security Boulevard
The following TSS Work Group specification has been posted for public review. This document is a preliminary draft. It is for use in comment only and is subject to change without notice. Any comments regarding this specification may be submitted to TCG Administration at admin@trustedcomputinggroup.org. Revision Under Public Review: This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog post authored by TCG Admin. Read the original post at: Trusted Computing Group
PureSec Receives Best Serverless Security Award and Launches State of Serverless Security Survey - Security Boulevard
We are extremely excited to share that we are the winners of the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in the Serverless Security category. We see it as a testimony that the industry realizes serverless architectures mandate a new approach for application security, one that is 100% serverless and was designed specifically for serverless applications from the ground up. In order to continue to lead this emerging market, we are launching today the first State of Serverless Security Survey.
What Your Favorite TV Shows Get Right (and Hilariously Wrong) About Air Gap Technology - Security Boulevard
Chances are, one of the first places you may have heard about an air gap computer was on TV. Olivia Pope on “Scandal” knows what air gap technology is. Elliot on “Mr. Robot” knows how to circumvent an air gap to gain access to highly secure information. Even Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” characters know that air gap technology is the final word in endpoint security. The premise behind air gap is using PCs that are not connected to the internet, other devices or the company’s primary network.
Ransomware in Real Life: One SMB’s Ransomware Recovery Story - Security Boulevard
Lighthouse Productions is an events production business based in Wisconsin. Despite being a small business with no major digital assets, the company recently suffered a serious ransomware attack that posed a crippling threat to its operations. The experience highlights how modern ransomware threats impact all businesses, not just those with troves of private customer data or large amounts of cash to lure attackers. Fortunately, this story ends happily.
toolsmith #131 - The HELK vs APTSimulator - Part 1 - Security Boulevard
Ladies and gentlemen, for our main attraction, I give you…The HELK vs APTSimulator, in a Death Battle! The late, great Randy “Macho Man” Savage said many things in his day, in his own special way, but “Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!” could be our toolsmith theme this month and next. Man, am I having a flashback to my college days, many moons ago. 𙂠The HELK just brought it on.
MY TAKE: Here’s how the U.S. economy would lose $15 billion from a 3-day cloud outage - Security Boulevard
Cyber attack scenarios have become fairly common. It doesn’t take too much imagination to conjure plausible assumptions and project Armageddon-scale damages attributable to crippling cyber attacks. One prime example is the Herjavec Group’s 2017 cybercrime report which suggests damage caused by cyber criminals is climbing towards a whopping $6 trillion in annual global encomic damage by 2021.
Coinhive Cryptojacker, The Prevaler - Security Boulevard
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has noted (via the comapny’s well traveled blog) a new milestone for malicious wares/scripts et cetera; this time Coinhive takes the blue ribbon award for the most pernicious installations on our beloved interwebs, according to the Check Point’s research. This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog post authored by Marc Handelman. Read the original post at: Infosecurity.US
The Art of Application Security - Security Boulevard
Home » DevSecOps » The Art of Application Security The Art of Application Security Getting Started with DevSecOps “DevSecOps” has become a seductive term throughout many industries, usually being thrown around with reckless abandon without sufficient explanation of what it demands. Download this white paper to help clear up the nonsense. Download Now Related
The Formula for Success is Simple: Fast, Functional & Desirable - Direct2DellEMC
There are several popular television shows dedicated to the resurrection of classic cars, including Wheeler Dealers, FantomWorks, and Car Fix to name a few. Each of these shows has a similar plot. The host mechanics find a classic car wasting away in a dirty barn, tow it to the garage and completely rebuild it so the vehicle looks better than the day it rolled out of the factory. The mechanics consistently do three things to each vehicle they rebuild.
Patching Missteps Are Not an Excuse to Blame Victims of Ransomware Attacks - Direct2DellEMC
“It’s their own fault. They wouldn’t have been hit if they’d kept up with their patches and updates.” How many times did we hear this line in the wake of WannaCry, Petya and virtually every other cyber attack that has exploited known vulnerabilities in recent years? To hear the Monday-morning quarterbacks talk, you’d think data security teams the world over were either lazy, unknowledgeable or both if they fell victim to one of these massively successful cybercriminal ventures.
Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats
This blog is the third in a three-part series written for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. [previous post] People were surprised a few months ago when we announced we were introducing an air gap version of the Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise solution. Aren’t air-gapped devices secure in and of themselves? And do organizations even need air gapped systems with the wide range of security solutions available today?
Cybersecurity Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet from the the NCSA and Nasdaq Cybersecurity Summit
This blog is the second in a three-part series written for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. [previous post] We live in a world centered around 24/7 connectivity, making cybersecurity a 24/7 concern. This is receiving special attention throughout the month of October, as the tech community recognizes National Cybersecurity Awareness Month by spotlighting cybersecurity issues and hosting public discussions about the latest tools, threats and trends affecting consumers and businesses alike.
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