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• BrandPost: How to Avoid a SaaS Security Disaster

  14-12-2017 23:18
  Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and shadow IT have an almost perfectly symbiotic relationship. Individual business units can easily sign up for cloud-based SaaS offerings without purchasing and deploying hardware and – often – without consulting their corporate IT departments.The ease and speed of SaaS adoption can deliver many business benefits, including greater business unit agility and innovation. But rampant and random SaaS deployments can also expose companies to significant secur
  
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• BrandPost: Balancing Enterprise Security and User Access: 6 Points to Keep in Mind

  14-12-2017 22:28
  The balancing act that CIOs and CSOs must perform to keep the enterprise secures a delicate one – guarding corporate assets from both internal and external malicious threats, while also giving all users secure access to data, anytime, anywhere, from any device.What’s more, this balancing act takes place in an IT infrastructure that’s more complex and challenging than ever. Digital transformation is turning IT into a business partner. Data sprawl is real, across cloud, on-prem,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What an audience knows

  14-12-2017 21:00
  Over the course of my business career, I have repeatedly made the same two mistakes: (1) I assume other executives and managers know more than they do and (2) I assume other managers and executives know what they are doing. Too often, I assume that if I know something to be true then surely everyone else knows it as well. And that if someone is responsible for something – a project or functional vertical – then they must know what they are doing, otherwise they wouldn’t have be
  
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• BrandPost: AI and Machine Learning – The Potential to Challenge and Transform

  14-12-2017 20:55
  Artificial intelligence and its subset, machine learning – two topics that make great dinner talk. Why? Many businesses are already using AI, and there’s little doubt that advances in AI and machine learning will continue to change how we work. But ask any IT leader how or where that’s most likely to happen and the conversation may go on all night.One thing is clear: Technology that’s equipped with AI or machine learning can be a powerful tool for the kinds of tasks human
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Why 2018 will be a year of acceleration for workplace transformation

  14-12-2017 16:36
  The rise of digital business has ushered in a broad array of advanced technologies to help people work more efficiently. But not all organizations are keeping pace with the rapid transformation of the workplace from a physical to a digital space.So, who is at the leading edge of the transition? So-called “smart” offices — these are the organizations where the majority of talented people want to work. In fact, more than half of today’s workers are concerned that their offi
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The connection between cognitive computing and organizational productivity

  14-12-2017 16:15
  One morning in August, I met Larry Smith on a commuter train heading towards Boston. He co-founded a company with his identical twin brother, Neil, called Think Outcomes, a cognitive computing company focused on strengthening human intelligence in business. I asked to interview one of them for this column. I’m glad I did.Neil and I spoke about technological advances in cognitive computing, specifically cognitive systems focused on cognitive work and how these systems enhance the productivi
  
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• BrandPost: Under GDPR, “Personal Data” Can Mean Lots of Things

  14-12-2017 15:23
  In the first blog of this series, we introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and explored the impact it’s set to make on companies around the world. Widely regarded as one of the most stringent governmental privacy regulations yet, the GDPR outlines acceptable use of personal data by organizations, how they should structure their approach to managing personal data, and the fines (or risk) for improperly protecting personal data. The fines can be extensive, as hig
  
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• Save 50% on the TP-LINK Wi-Fi Smart Plug, Works with Amazon Alexa - Deal Alert

  14-12-2017 15:22
  The TP-LINK HS100 smart plug is quite simply a power outlet that you can control from anywhere. Using your smartphone, you can turn devices on & off, set programs to turn them on & off at set times while you're away, or engage a "countdown timer" which powers the switch off after a set amount of time. Installation is simple -- just plug a device into your smart plug and connect to your wifi network. The HS100 is also compatible with Amazon Alexa, for voice control. Buy multiple plug
  
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• BrandPost: Turning the Internet of Things into the “Internet of Secure Things”

  14-12-2017 14:12
  Internet of Things (IoT) deployments are on the rise and driving more network traffic than ever before. Smart City, Industrial and Enterprise IoT applications are changing how cities and companies operate and the value they can create for their citizens, customers and for themselves.  There is a great deal of focus on data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence and the role they will play in the future of IoT — rightfully so. The combination of IoT and artificial inte
  
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• 4 ways technology has changed hiring — for job seekers and recruiters

  14-12-2017 12:00
  Technology has changed the entire recruitment and job search process — for better or worse. For recruiters and hiring managers, it’s easier than ever to find candidates to suit niche skills or even sway candidates who might not be actively job searching. Job seekers can even reach out directly to employers, create online profiles to attract recruiters and apply for jobs with the click of a button.“Hand-picked candidates make for better hires and now we’ve got a lot of too
  
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• 4 business applications for natural language processing

  14-12-2017 12:00
  You may not realize it but natural language processing (NLP) is more than an emerging technology for business — it’s a popular technology widely used every day. Online search, spell-check —  almost any feature that involves language incorporates natural language processing algorithms.NLP algorithms teach computers to use language like people. If you were manually searching for information from a set of documents, you’d skim for keywords too, just like search engines.
  
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