UMT Federal Webinar Series Part 4: Communicating Investment StatusUMT
Develop a clearer picture of your investments by using data on commodity IT investments, duplicated efforts that could be consolidated, and misaligned functionality to ultimately maximize the return on investment. Review how an efficient communication model, along with the use of the IT Dashboard and PortfolioStat, can help to maximize the value of your IT investments.
SlideShare of a presentation given at Agile Tour London in October 2017 highlighting how to approach Lean in IT and some of its complementarity with Agile for digital transformation, agile adoption and generally improving operational excellence / reducing costs.
Smart Contracts and Blockchain: Separating Hype from RealityApttus
Blockchain is on everyone's mind in 2018. Among all the opinions, sales pitches, and technical jargon, what is true and what do you need to know? This session will reveal the true progress of Blockchain in business today, how and when it will affect your work, and what you can do to prepare your contract and obligation management processes for this new "smart contract" technology.
2015 CMU trading summit session 2 emerging bank technologyClemens Wan
Banking has some core set of focuses, but they are still innovating and looking for the next disruptive technology to leapfrog their existing architecture issues. This presentation was a summary of my observations from existing banking platforms.
Dynamic Talks: "Digital Transformation in Banking & Financial Services… a per...Grid Dynamics
Retail industry has gone through a significant transformation in the last decade; caused by the change in consumer behaviour and expectations which have been driven by the convenience and low cost offered by Amazon. There are clear signs of a similar disruption in the financial services industry now, driven by new entrants who are changing consumer expectations. In this talk, Rahul looks at the evolution of retailers and draws conclusions about the path players in the financial services have to take to compete and provide customer experiences that will be necessary to compete.
UMT Federal Webinar Series Part 4: Communicating Investment StatusUMT
Develop a clearer picture of your investments by using data on commodity IT investments, duplicated efforts that could be consolidated, and misaligned functionality to ultimately maximize the return on investment. Review how an efficient communication model, along with the use of the IT Dashboard and PortfolioStat, can help to maximize the value of your IT investments.
SlideShare of a presentation given at Agile Tour London in October 2017 highlighting how to approach Lean in IT and some of its complementarity with Agile for digital transformation, agile adoption and generally improving operational excellence / reducing costs.
Smart Contracts and Blockchain: Separating Hype from RealityApttus
Blockchain is on everyone's mind in 2018. Among all the opinions, sales pitches, and technical jargon, what is true and what do you need to know? This session will reveal the true progress of Blockchain in business today, how and when it will affect your work, and what you can do to prepare your contract and obligation management processes for this new "smart contract" technology.
2015 CMU trading summit session 2 emerging bank technologyClemens Wan
Banking has some core set of focuses, but they are still innovating and looking for the next disruptive technology to leapfrog their existing architecture issues. This presentation was a summary of my observations from existing banking platforms.
Dynamic Talks: "Digital Transformation in Banking & Financial Services… a per...Grid Dynamics
Retail industry has gone through a significant transformation in the last decade; caused by the change in consumer behaviour and expectations which have been driven by the convenience and low cost offered by Amazon. There are clear signs of a similar disruption in the financial services industry now, driven by new entrants who are changing consumer expectations. In this talk, Rahul looks at the evolution of retailers and draws conclusions about the path players in the financial services have to take to compete and provide customer experiences that will be necessary to compete.
Transforming the Accounts Payable Process, Powered by BoxZia Consulting
For most organizations, the vast majority of invoices are still processed as “paper,” regardless of whether they arrive as printed documents or electronic versions such as PDFs, Word documents, or others. To process these invoices, many accounts payable departments still rely on mostly manual methods, despite studies showing that companies who have implemented automated invoice processing see costs that are up to four times less per invoice. Whether it’s the paper cost or people cost, missed supplier discounts or late payment penalties, the dollar amount can be significant for even the smallest of companies.
Join Zia Consulting and Box on November 7th to learn how we can digitally upgrade and streamline your invoice process. We’ll demonstrate how the Zia AP Cloud Powered by Box incorporates:
* Intelligent document capture for content ingestion, classification, extraction, and validation into Box
* Offer your vendors a view into your process to avoid costly interruptive phone calls or emails
* Enhanced business process management solutions for quick and efficient workflows in the cloud
* Provide visibility into your cashflow management with proven analytical tools to monitor the effectiveness of your processes and people
* Seamless integration with critical LOB applications required to manage your invoices and payments
With our Zia AP Cloud solution, you can reduce errors from manual data entry and avoid penalties and fees from late or incorrect payments.
At EA Connect Days 2018 in Bonn, Kati Gholam, Enterprise Architect at TUI, explored how TUI transformed their Enterprise Architecture across different geographies with differing approaches to EA. She explained why GDPR was helpful with this project and the value of communication.
Multi-year Application Portfolio Management (APM) projects has led LeanIX to develop an APM best practice roadmap for enterprises of various sizes. Watch the presentation and learn how to make smarter decisions on your Application Portfolio with APM & LeanIX!
The Benefits of Integrated CPQ and Contract ManagementApttus
Sure, Configure Price Quote (CPQ) can produce perfect quotes quickly, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) ensures your Legal department and commercial teams are on top of sales contracts. But what happens if you connect the two systems and allow them to work from a single data model? Learn how to speed up deal throughput, tighten revenue assurance and improve forecasting all at once.
Effective CPQ Data Management: A Panel DiscussionApttus
Managing CPQ data is a challenge for many businesses, but it doesn’t have to be. Attend this session to hear a panel of CPQ experts discuss their key strategies and tactics for managing CPQ data with integration, governance, and quality.
Best Practices for Seamlessly Integrating a Middle Office Platform™ within Yo...Apttus
The middle office is the functional area between your front-office CRM system and your back-office ERP system. At the core of the middle office is the Quote-to-Cash process. In this session, we'll share best practices for integrating your middle office with your existing IT environments. Hear our recommendations for ensuring integration security, quality, and performance to maximize your success.
How the hell do I run my microservices in production, and will it scale?Katarzyna Hoffman
Let’s assume you’ve already had every *Docker 101 tutorial* for breakfast. You’re now ready to take that brilliantly crafted application into production. But wait… first you need to test your container-based microservices architecture. What does the whole DevOps workflow look like? What about performance and security? And last but not least; how the hell do I run my microservices in production, and will it scale?
Let Daniël guide you through the wonderful world of container-based development and running microservice architectures at scale. By attending the talk, you’ll gain insight into how to bootstrap and dive straight into learning what DevOps workflow should look like when using containers.
Hoje, ser só competente não basta, as empresas estão buscando profissionais megacompetentes. Que transformam problemas em soluções e adversidade em oportunidade. As equipes não podem ser mais ou menos competentes, têm que ser extraordinárias.
Transforming the Accounts Payable Process, Powered by BoxZia Consulting
For most organizations, the vast majority of invoices are still processed as “paper,” regardless of whether they arrive as printed documents or electronic versions such as PDFs, Word documents, or others. To process these invoices, many accounts payable departments still rely on mostly manual methods, despite studies showing that companies who have implemented automated invoice processing see costs that are up to four times less per invoice. Whether it’s the paper cost or people cost, missed supplier discounts or late payment penalties, the dollar amount can be significant for even the smallest of companies.
Join Zia Consulting and Box on November 7th to learn how we can digitally upgrade and streamline your invoice process. We’ll demonstrate how the Zia AP Cloud Powered by Box incorporates:
* Intelligent document capture for content ingestion, classification, extraction, and validation into Box
* Offer your vendors a view into your process to avoid costly interruptive phone calls or emails
* Enhanced business process management solutions for quick and efficient workflows in the cloud
* Provide visibility into your cashflow management with proven analytical tools to monitor the effectiveness of your processes and people
* Seamless integration with critical LOB applications required to manage your invoices and payments
With our Zia AP Cloud solution, you can reduce errors from manual data entry and avoid penalties and fees from late or incorrect payments.
At EA Connect Days 2018 in Bonn, Kati Gholam, Enterprise Architect at TUI, explored how TUI transformed their Enterprise Architecture across different geographies with differing approaches to EA. She explained why GDPR was helpful with this project and the value of communication.
Multi-year Application Portfolio Management (APM) projects has led LeanIX to develop an APM best practice roadmap for enterprises of various sizes. Watch the presentation and learn how to make smarter decisions on your Application Portfolio with APM & LeanIX!
The Benefits of Integrated CPQ and Contract ManagementApttus
Sure, Configure Price Quote (CPQ) can produce perfect quotes quickly, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) ensures your Legal department and commercial teams are on top of sales contracts. But what happens if you connect the two systems and allow them to work from a single data model? Learn how to speed up deal throughput, tighten revenue assurance and improve forecasting all at once.
Effective CPQ Data Management: A Panel DiscussionApttus
Managing CPQ data is a challenge for many businesses, but it doesn’t have to be. Attend this session to hear a panel of CPQ experts discuss their key strategies and tactics for managing CPQ data with integration, governance, and quality.
Best Practices for Seamlessly Integrating a Middle Office Platform™ within Yo...Apttus
The middle office is the functional area between your front-office CRM system and your back-office ERP system. At the core of the middle office is the Quote-to-Cash process. In this session, we'll share best practices for integrating your middle office with your existing IT environments. Hear our recommendations for ensuring integration security, quality, and performance to maximize your success.
How the hell do I run my microservices in production, and will it scale?Katarzyna Hoffman
Let’s assume you’ve already had every *Docker 101 tutorial* for breakfast. You’re now ready to take that brilliantly crafted application into production. But wait… first you need to test your container-based microservices architecture. What does the whole DevOps workflow look like? What about performance and security? And last but not least; how the hell do I run my microservices in production, and will it scale?
Let Daniël guide you through the wonderful world of container-based development and running microservice architectures at scale. By attending the talk, you’ll gain insight into how to bootstrap and dive straight into learning what DevOps workflow should look like when using containers.
Hoje, ser só competente não basta, as empresas estão buscando profissionais megacompetentes. Que transformam problemas em soluções e adversidade em oportunidade. As equipes não podem ser mais ou menos competentes, têm que ser extraordinárias.
Sifat emas yang selalu naik di setiap tahunnya, membuat emas selalu di gemari, hal ini membuat peluang mencari keuntungan di emas sangat terbuka, dengan metode investasi dan jaminan modal yang lebih effisien.
Discussed how to pull localization upstream in the content development process by integrating the two processes into the overall product development lifecycle.
ADV Slides: Modern Analytic Data Architecture Maturity ModelingDATAVERSITY
Maturity frameworks have varying levels of Data Management maturity. Each level corresponds to not only increased data maturity, but also increased organizational maturity and bottom-line ROI. There are recommended targets to achieve an effective information management program. The speaker’s maturity framework sequences the information management activities for your consideration. It is based on real client roadmaps. This webinar promises to offer a wealth of ideas for key quick wins to benefit the organization’s information management program.
Attendees can self-assess their current information management capabilities as we go through data strategy, organization, architecture, and technology, yielding an overall view of the current level of information management maturity.
This webinar provides a foundation for enhancing current data and analytic capabilities and updating the strategy and plans for achievement of improved information management maturity, aligned with major initiatives.
Manage Crew Change Through Coupling of First Principles Simulation, Digital P...Yokogawa1
Simulation programs have historically been run on PCs as fully self-contained programs. The UI, calculation codes and calculations themselves have all been part of the same program on the PC itself, perhaps reading and writing against databases, file stores on the network or reading process data from plant information management systems. But the computing world is changing and many programs are now hosted in the Cloud. Building and running simulation cases is done through a web browser and calculations run without UIs in wrappers called Containers, accessed through web interfaces. Data lives in cloud data stores. The immense computer power of the Cloud and ability to multi-thread simulation technology for parallel processing has opened up the potential to run tens of thousands of simulations, with hundreds at a time, over short time periods in an automated manner – in doing so creating unprecedented levels of codified asset knowledge able to be applied at scale. This presentation will showcase the huge potential for AI/ML algorithms to be utilized and scaled more widely when coupled/trained by first principles simulation, with major benefits in how simulation is used in: Automated model building, maintenance and continuous deviation analysis; Integrated reliability and predictive equipment availability with planning and optimization; and Equipment fouling propensity predictions.
Masterdata - why it matters and how SmartMDM™ can help?Bilot
Could the whole organization be involved in the maintenance of the master data? Could de-centralizing be the key to agile & long lasting master data management? Customer cases & key info presented at the Breakfast Club seminar on the 18th May 2017.
Want to learn more? Download the 10 things to consider when choosing your master data governance tool -guide: http://go.bilot.fi/2017-05-SmartMDMDownload_LP-Download.html
IT Governance – The missing compass in a technology changing worldPECB
The webinar covers:
• Overview of IT Governance
• Benefits of IT Governance
• IT Governance implementation : Approach and Methodology
• Key critical success factors
Presenter:
This webinar was presented by Mr. Oladapo Ogundeji, from Digital Jewels and PECB partner.
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ux_Yk4JLy0M
GIDE is the most powerful and business friendly financial modelling tool on the market today.
GIDE was developed by corporate finance people, not rigid software houses. It combines the versatility and do it yourself quality of spreadsheets, with a powerful and error free calculation engine of expensive tailor made systems, supporting real time workgroup collaboration, and a very important issue these days, it addresses SOX(Sarbanes-Oxley)/BASEL/FSA compliance worries related to errors in spreadsheet calculations resulting in massive losses in corporations.
Agile Kolkata 2022
Managing Innovation with Agility
Somanth Chatterjee
Program Director
Mindtree
Soumen Deb
Sr Project Manager - Digital Engineering
Mindtree
SwiftAnt has rich experience in delivering cloud native EDI and EAI implementations with customer success stories. If you are looking at transitioning to Cloud from On Prem BizTalk server or IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, please talk to us to kick start your cloud journey.
Analytics plays a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the apparent value of providing the data infrastructure for these initiatives, many executives question the economic feasibility of business intelligence and analytics. This requires information professionals to calculate and present the business value in terms business executives can understand.
Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help IT professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI, the formulas in use, and how to collect necessary information.
A presentation from Benchmark Consulting describing the role Business Architecture can play in achieving Digital Government transformation through legacy modernization.
Likely lots of well-organized data. Periodically, it is useful to interact with your Data Governance group to reevaluate the relative value of the various collections in the warehouse. More and more organizations are using warehousing as a strategy and focusing less on the actual technology. This program will provide a refocus on data warehousing as a capability that supports BI activities, enables more effective business analyses and decision-making, and provides some contribution to innovation initiatives. What are the capabilities required and how does their operation compare to cloud-based options?
Learning objectives:
- Warehousing capabilities
- What to use these capabilities in support of
- Where they can be deployed
Logical Data Fabric: Maturing Implementation from Small to Big (APAC)Denodo
Watch full webinar here: https://bit.ly/3w1E1Nx
This presentation featuring guest speaker Deb Mukherji, Practice Head – Data Analytics & AI from our partner firm Tech Mahindra provides practical tips on how to start and later expand a logical data fabric implementation. Implementing a logical data fabric is not a one-shot deal. It is a journey. How do you start small, demonstrate ROI, and then expand to additional use cases? This presentation provides practical tips on how to start and later expand a logical data fabric implementation.
Don't miss out, register for this complimentary webinar now to learn:
- The enterprise data management challenges.
- Advantages of a logical data fabric over a physical data warehouse.
- How to architect a logical data fabric using data virtualization.
Analyst field reports on top 20 MDM and Data Governance implementation partne...Aaron Zornes
(1) Determining the evaluation criteria for selecting implementation partners for MDM, RDM and Data Governance projects
(2) Identifying which partners are market leaders in your industry & your chosen software technologies
(3) Managing the partner relationship – esp. avoiding “brain drain” & inflationary “blended rates”
Similar to Automation to Reduce Operating Costs (20)
Slides from our webinar held November 27, 2012 with Nucleus Research on the topic of Data Half Life, methods on how to quantify data value, and tactics for preparing the business case for investment in initiatives to extract data value at its peak.
We cover best practices in amplifying the business ownership of the data, emerging trends for the future of business-owned master data, and the role of MDM technology and processes in driving the point of action to the business rather than IT. From our May 2012 webinar.
Building Agile Data Warehouses with Ralph HughesKalido
Ralph Hughes, TDWI faculty member, author and 25-year veteran of DW and BI projects for Fortune 500 companies, shares his thoughts on accelerated enterprise data warehousing. More info & webinar replay can be found here http://blog.kalido.com/building-agile-data-warehouses-ralph-hughes-webinar/
See how mid-market companies can take advantage of tools like Microsoft Business Intelligence and Oracle OBIEE as a base to their program and use Kalido to provide the agility that those tools can’t.
Watch the webinar replay at www.kalido.com/road-to-agility.htm
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Recall that I said there are many steps in the process of turning data into information. This is just a partial list of the tasks involved in a best practices data warehouse operation. These tasks don’t go away in a model-driven approach.
But, being well-governed requires repeatable processes that deliver consistent results. There is no way to achieve that if these remain manual tasks or are driven from different perspectives. Manual processes are often prone to human error, are inconsistent, and take too much time – especially when requirements change frequently.
In a model-driven approach, information policies that support business requirements emerge directly from the business information model. These information policies form a reference against which all of these tasks can be executed. Because of this, you can automate a very large number of these tasks and achieve consistent results.
Anybody who’s built data warehouses using Kalido would never go back to what one of our customers call “stick build”. Because you’d never want to have to design and write code that does all this from scratch again. We handle ragged and variable depth hierarchies. We handle data exceptions. We have a built-in match engine for identity resolution. We build slowly changing dimensions without you having to do a single thing. We generate data marts. And all of this is driven by the business information model.