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David Rand

California
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Covers:  Technology (all). Healthcare. Sustainability. Retail. Oil and Gas. Manufacturing. Financial Services. Workplace Issues.
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Why Bug Bounty Hunters Are Earning Huge Payouts | Focal Point

Why Bug Bounty Hunters Are Earning Huge Payouts | Focal Point

Focal Point (Tanium) — Jay Freeman was just poking around when he stumbled on the biggest payday of his life. Freeman is a security researcher known for delivering software for mobile phone operating systems that have been "jailbroken" (modified to allow users to customize their OS).
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Why the Bridges Between Blockchains Are Under Assault | Endpoint

Why the Bridges Between Blockchains Are Under Assault | Endpoint

Focal Point (Tanium) — A few years ago, criminal hackers targeted cryptocurrency exchanges with abandon, extracting millions of dollars' worth of digital currencies. Today, with exchanges doing a better job of fortifying their networks, thieves are going after cross-chain bridges-tools for swapping different cryptocurrencies across blockchains.
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The Rise of the Cybersavvy Corporate Treasurer | Endpoint

The Rise of the Cybersavvy Corporate Treasurer | Endpoint

Focal Point (Tanium) — It's bound to happen. A corporate treasurer at a midsize company receives a confidential email marked "urgent" from the CEO with instructions to wire $750,000 to an overseas bank account as down payment on a pending acquisition. Knowing such a deal is underway, and not wanting to question a senior leader's directive, the treasurer quickly complies and heads home for the day.
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Will the Feds Backstop Cyber Insurance? | Endpoint

Will the Feds Backstop Cyber Insurance? | Endpoint

Endpoint (Tanium) — Cyber insurance policies often flatly deny claims related to war and terrorism. That's because reimbursing companies for the widespread devastation resulting from a cyberwar would put many insurers out of business. But some common forms of catastrophic risk now being denied as war related could soon become the government's responsibility to mitigate.
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Surprise! It's Another Zero-Day Vulnerability. | Endpoint

Surprise! It's Another Zero-Day Vulnerability. | Endpoint

Endpoint (Tanium) — When the Log4j security flaw reared its ugly head in 2021-allowing cybercriminals to penetrate vulnerable computer networks with a single line of code-it seemed to be a once-in-a-blue-moon cybersecurity threat, a nuclear zero-day vulnerability that needed to be patched immediately.
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Ransomware Is Battering the Cyber Insurance Industry | Endpoint

Ransomware Is Battering the Cyber Insurance Industry | Endpoint

Endpoint (Tanium) — Many executives have the impression that insurance carriers are abandoning the cyber market, given skyrocketing payouts following the surge in ransomware attacks. Well, that's not exactly true. While anecdotal evidence suggests that some smaller carriers are limiting or eliminating cyber coverage, most carriers, brokers, and reinsurers that Endpoint surveyed are still very much in the space.
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Why Multicloud Security Never Sleeps | Endpoint

Why Multicloud Security Never Sleeps | Endpoint

Endpoint (Tanium) — When Christina Shannon started her new role as global chief information security officer (CISO) for Catalina USA last year, she was stunned to find an organization with more than 40 cloud environments. The marketing company, known for producing coupons based on shopper purchases at the checkout counter, had been moving from paper to digital for some time.
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Managing storage: It's all about the data

Managing storage: It's all about the data

Enterprise.Nxt — Simplifying storage management makes focusing on using the data more efficient. By now, most IT organizations have shifted a massive amount of information to public clouds in an effort to make everything more widely accessible, and to affordably hand off responsibility for those bits and bytes to qualified third parties like Microsoft Azure and Snowflake.
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Why compute management is moving to the cloud

Why compute management is moving to the cloud

Enterprise.Nxt — Servers are everywhere now, at the edge and not just in the data center, so management on location no longer makes sense. The software-as-a-service trend has infiltrated nearly every technology stack on the planet but has surprisingly eluded enterprise server management. Now, that appears set to change.
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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team proves the value of the edge

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team proves the value of the edge

Enterprise.Nxt — Succeeding in the high-tech world of F1 means making use of millions of data points. Lewis Hamilton wasn't expected to win when he stepped into a Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team car for the 2021 season opener of the F1 racing season in Bahrain in March.
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Moving from automated to autonomous manufacturing

Moving from automated to autonomous manufacturing

Enterprise.Nxt — The evolution of manufacturing to truly autonomous operations is underway, with companies like Nestle modernizing older automation technology. When most of us pick up a candy bar, we briefly anticipate enjoying flavors like chocolate, caramel, and nuts all swirled together into a tasty treat.
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The best CIOs find opportunity in adversity

The best CIOs find opportunity in adversity

Enterprise.Nxt — Maximizing the value of IT during a crisis requires a solid understanding of both the business and how it is impacted by the various IT roles and responsibilities. High tech is weathering the economic storm caused by COVID-19 remarkably well, with U.S. unemployment rates at 3 percent in December compared with 6.7 percent for the overall economy.
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How companies can take control of their multi-cloud investments

How companies can take control of their multi-cloud investments

Enterprise.Nxt — Maintaining a solid view of your hybrid estate requires standardized procedures and processes throughout the enterprise. If you're like the vast majority of companies, according to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud report, you are accelerating your hybrid cloud strategy.
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Thermal imaging adoption

Thermal imaging adoption

Enterprise.Nxt — Privacy and public health concerns around thermal imaging are headed toward a collision. What can we do to adjust to the realities of life in the 2020s? Travelers entering sections of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) are being fever checked by non-contact thermal imaging cameras as part of a pilot project to detect and deter COVID-19 infections.
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Could augmented humans and wearables be coming to a cubicle near you?

Could augmented humans and wearables be coming to a cubicle near you?

Enterprise.Nxt — From augmented reality devices to exoskeletons and implanted technologies, wearables are just the start of the BYOE revolution in the workplace. If you've streamed " Terminator: Dark Fate" or seen it in a theater, you know the world's latest savior from the future isn't your run-of-the-mill cyborg but a human soldier who has been physically enhanced.
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Disney's StudioLAB accelerates filmmaking innovation​

Disney's StudioLAB accelerates filmmaking innovation​

Enterprise.Nxt — Cutting-edge technologies play a major role in the business of filmmaking. We sat down with StudioLAB's manager of technology innovation research to learn more. For nearly a century, The Walt Disney Studios has held a long and storied reputation for integrating some of the most cutting-edge technologies into the world of entertainment.
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Microsoft is retiring Skype for Business Online. Now what?

Microsoft is retiring Skype for Business Online. Now what?

Enterprise.Nxt — Skype for Business Online will be discontinued soon. Microsoft will direct you to Teams, but other solutions are out there. Here are some options. As conferencing and collaboration tools go, Skype for Business has been good enough for many enterprise organizations, offering instant messaging, voice and video conferencing, as well as recording capabilities through a user-friendly interface.
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Deepfake video: It takes AI to beat AI

Deepfake video: It takes AI to beat AI

Enterprise.Nxt — Anyone with a modicum of skill can create deepfake videos using artificial intelligence, but experts suggest that AI may also be the solution that allows rapid and accurate identification and detection.
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Object detection technology: The next big thing

Object detection technology: The next big thing

Enterprise.Nxt — Object detection helps automate tedious tasks, increase production environment safety, and find everything from manufacturing defects to a parking spot. It has a ways to go for more nuanced tasks, but its prospects are bright. Seagate Technology inspects tens of millions of computer storage drive parts daily. The media that goes into them.
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Biometric authentication: From speeding travel to providing ID for the marginalized

Biometric authentication: From speeding travel to providing ID for the marginalized

Enterprise.Nxt — Multimodal technologies are about to change how we handle identity. Here's what to expect in the short term. In 1951, " Fingerprints Don't Lie" became the first movie to show biometrics on the silver screen, making those tiny ridges the primary piece of evidence in a fictitious murder case.
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State CISOs to Feds: Show Us the Money | Endpoint

State CISOs to Feds: Show Us the Money | Endpoint

Endpoint (Tanium) — Ryan Murray loves it when a plan comes together. As deputy chief information security officer (CISO) for the state of Arizona, Murray has had his hands full attempting to safeguard the mostly rural communities across the state against cybersecurity challenges.
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Cybersecurity is a data challenge, and better search technology is key to improving visibility an...

Cybersecurity is a data challenge, and better search technology is key to improving visibility an...

elastic.co — Data security is increasingly under threat inside the enterprise amid three converging forces: the proliferation of cloud tools and platforms; the many different types of data that they generate, and the need to correlate all of it for analytics.
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How to satisfy the need for human touch in a suddenly touchless world

How to satisfy the need for human touch in a suddenly touchless world

CMO by Adobe — The trend toward touchless technology has been slowly gaining ground for about as long as anyone can remember. But there is little doubt COVID-19 is accelerating interest. Indeed, an April Capgemini Research Institute study found 77 percent of consumers expected to increase their use of touchless technologies during the pandemic, and 62 percent indicated they would continue doing so even after it ends.
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A digital business dashboard for CIOs

A digital business dashboard for CIOs

Workflow — CIOs need to better communicate the business value of IT Until recently, CIOs lacked a unified view of IT operations and strategy IT business management tools offer real-time project tracking against business objectives In a previous role as CIO of a Fortune 1000 company, author and consultant Mark Settle regularly updated senior leaders on how well his team was contributing to the business's top priorities.
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