To help our clients learn more about their security environment we put together a tool that examined how many security tools our clients really used, and offered some recommendations from our experts based on the results.
Softchoice is helping companies reach their goals of having a modern, enabling IT organization. We help customers by enabling end users, enabling hybrid IT, enabling asset management and enabling procurement.
Successful companies face an unfortunate reality - as their web and app traffic dramatically increases, their on-prem infrastructure gets stretched to the max causing bad response times. This leads many organizations to look at moving to the public cloud. According to a recent Softchoice study on how IT leaders approach their web infrastructure, there are two main drivers behind a move to a cloud-based web solution.
There are four ways IT can respond to a SaaS Outbreak. The Softchoice Innovation Executive Forum collected 4 unique viewpoints from CIO’s related to SaaS usage, response paths and strategies to bring cloud-based applications into standard operations
The Softchoice Innovation Report 2018: Four New Roles For CIOS In The Modern ...Softchoice Corporation
In 2017, Softchoice’s Innovation Executive Forum (IEF) traveled across North America, taking the pulse of today’s front-line leaders of digital transformation. From St. John’s to Los Angeles, we visited 14 major cities, and met with over 120 top-level technology executives to discuss their priorities, challenges, and experiences pushing forward change. Online, we hosted quarterly conference calls with members and special guests, and published numerous whitepapers featuring insights from organizations big and small.
The new PSD2 regulatory requirement for banks operating within the EU requires banks to open APIs and allow all payment service providers (PSPs) to access customer information and initiate transactions. How can your firm meet the new requirements while keeping your system secure from cyber-attacks? This deck from Accenture Technology Advisory for Financial Services can help answer questions.
Softchoice is helping companies reach their goals of having a modern, enabling IT organization. We help customers by enabling end users, enabling hybrid IT, enabling asset management and enabling procurement.
Successful companies face an unfortunate reality - as their web and app traffic dramatically increases, their on-prem infrastructure gets stretched to the max causing bad response times. This leads many organizations to look at moving to the public cloud. According to a recent Softchoice study on how IT leaders approach their web infrastructure, there are two main drivers behind a move to a cloud-based web solution.
There are four ways IT can respond to a SaaS Outbreak. The Softchoice Innovation Executive Forum collected 4 unique viewpoints from CIO’s related to SaaS usage, response paths and strategies to bring cloud-based applications into standard operations
The Softchoice Innovation Report 2018: Four New Roles For CIOS In The Modern ...Softchoice Corporation
In 2017, Softchoice’s Innovation Executive Forum (IEF) traveled across North America, taking the pulse of today’s front-line leaders of digital transformation. From St. John’s to Los Angeles, we visited 14 major cities, and met with over 120 top-level technology executives to discuss their priorities, challenges, and experiences pushing forward change. Online, we hosted quarterly conference calls with members and special guests, and published numerous whitepapers featuring insights from organizations big and small.
The new PSD2 regulatory requirement for banks operating within the EU requires banks to open APIs and allow all payment service providers (PSPs) to access customer information and initiate transactions. How can your firm meet the new requirements while keeping your system secure from cyber-attacks? This deck from Accenture Technology Advisory for Financial Services can help answer questions.
Blair christie global editors conf 12.9.14 finalMarc Musgrove
Cisco CMO Blair Christie's presentation at the Cisco Global Editors' Conference - on the future of work and results of our recent IoT Analytics thought leadership study.
Everyone's a Screenager. Now what? Five trends from the 2015 Digital Consumer...accenture
Digital’s everywhere. Hyper-connected, embedded, increasingly intelligent: in short, consumers can’t imagine a life without it. The new digital lifestyle spans all age groups. It’s multi-screen, multi-function and multi-device, and it’s shaping a new world of experiences. Bottom line? Everyone’s a screenager.
Grow your business with the power of Graph Database. We take a look at how a social graph database could help legal professionals Grow their Legal Practice
Journey to Cloud - Enabling the Digital Enterprise - AccentureAmazon Web Services
Speed your customer's move to AWS by Leveraging Accenture's Unique combination of agility and Scale. The AAS journey culminates with the advanced use of Digital, Analytics, Mobility, and IOT capabilities enabled by an Integrated cloud platform across
applications, platform and infrastructure
Speaker:
Aman Neil Dokania, Managing Director and APAC Journey to Cloud Lead, Accenture
HEALTHCARE, THE CLOUD, AND ITS SECURITYSilverlineCRM
Originally presented at the Connecting Michigan for Health conference organized by the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN), this presentation talked through the benefits and use cases of leveraging cloud in Healthcare, as well as the realities of cloud security.
As the volume of new regulations compound the growing complexity of day-to-day operations, Compliance functions are encouraged to identify innovative technologies to deliver on the dual mandate of control function and strategic advisor. Read our RegTech infographic to learn more.
Boost your AIQ: Transforming to an AI Businessaccenture
Summary of Accenture report, Boost your AIQ, which analyzes what companies must do to improve their innovation strategy to achieve successful digital growth.
Data Driven Communities in the United Statesaccenture
Cities use analytics in many ways, and one size does not fit all. What have we learned from the first movers? Being data driven requires a cultural shift.
Security Posture Management Enters the CloudAegify Inc.
When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
Marlink IMO 2021 Guide to Cyber Risk ManagementCHRIS CLIFFORD
Applicable to commercial ships with over 500 gross tonnage, the IMO resolution (MSC 428, 98) confirmed all shipping companies need to have cyber security in their safety management system. Flag states are encouraged to ensure these requirements are met by vessel operators in the first annual audit after January 2021. Non-compliance may lead to vessel detainment. This means maritime companies need to be identifying and safeguarding against maritime cyber risks now to be ready for the first annual verification of the Company’s Document of Compliance.
Cybersecurity at a premium: The state of cyber resilience in insuranceaccenture
Accenture’s report finds insurance firms could do more to prevent security breaches and strengthen cyber resilience. Read our report to see how Accenture can help your insurance firm become a cybersecurity leader: https://accntu.re/31i8ic3
MongoDB World 2019: Data Digital DecouplingMongoDB
Why data decoupling? Learn how enterprises are pivoting to decouple big monolith and legacy data platform to smaller chunk and freedom to run anywhere and run multi-cloud agility for their business
TOP 10 Reasons to Make Peak 10 Your Cloud Provider of ChoicePeak 10
Your success and the success of your customers must be its prime directive. After that, choose a provider because it has the tools, skills and capabilities to create the one and only cloud solution that fits your needs better than any other. Here are 10 reasons why that choice should be Peak 10.
WHITE PAPER▶ Insecurity in the Internet of ThingsSymantec
The Internet of Things (IoT) market has begun to take off. Consumers can buy connected versions of nearly every household appliance available. However, despite its increasing acceptance by consumers, recent studies of IoT devices seem to agree that “security” is not a word that gets associated with this category of devices, leaving consumers potentially exposed.
To find out for ourselves how IoT devices fare when it comes to security, we analyzed 50 smart home devices that are available today. We found that none of the devices enforced strong passwords, used mutual authentication, or protected accounts against brute-force attacks. Almost two out of ten of the mobile apps used to control the tested IoT devices did not use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt communications to the cloud. The tested IoT technology also contained many common vulnerabilities.
All of the potential weaknesses that could afflict IoT systems, such as authentication and traffic encryption, are already well known to the security industry, but despite this, known mitigation techniques are often neglected on these devices. IoT vendors need to do a better job on security before their devices become ubiquitous in every home, leaving millions of people at risk of cyberattacks
Blair christie global editors conf 12.9.14 finalMarc Musgrove
Cisco CMO Blair Christie's presentation at the Cisco Global Editors' Conference - on the future of work and results of our recent IoT Analytics thought leadership study.
Everyone's a Screenager. Now what? Five trends from the 2015 Digital Consumer...accenture
Digital’s everywhere. Hyper-connected, embedded, increasingly intelligent: in short, consumers can’t imagine a life without it. The new digital lifestyle spans all age groups. It’s multi-screen, multi-function and multi-device, and it’s shaping a new world of experiences. Bottom line? Everyone’s a screenager.
Grow your business with the power of Graph Database. We take a look at how a social graph database could help legal professionals Grow their Legal Practice
Journey to Cloud - Enabling the Digital Enterprise - AccentureAmazon Web Services
Speed your customer's move to AWS by Leveraging Accenture's Unique combination of agility and Scale. The AAS journey culminates with the advanced use of Digital, Analytics, Mobility, and IOT capabilities enabled by an Integrated cloud platform across
applications, platform and infrastructure
Speaker:
Aman Neil Dokania, Managing Director and APAC Journey to Cloud Lead, Accenture
HEALTHCARE, THE CLOUD, AND ITS SECURITYSilverlineCRM
Originally presented at the Connecting Michigan for Health conference organized by the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN), this presentation talked through the benefits and use cases of leveraging cloud in Healthcare, as well as the realities of cloud security.
As the volume of new regulations compound the growing complexity of day-to-day operations, Compliance functions are encouraged to identify innovative technologies to deliver on the dual mandate of control function and strategic advisor. Read our RegTech infographic to learn more.
Boost your AIQ: Transforming to an AI Businessaccenture
Summary of Accenture report, Boost your AIQ, which analyzes what companies must do to improve their innovation strategy to achieve successful digital growth.
Data Driven Communities in the United Statesaccenture
Cities use analytics in many ways, and one size does not fit all. What have we learned from the first movers? Being data driven requires a cultural shift.
Security Posture Management Enters the CloudAegify Inc.
When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
Marlink IMO 2021 Guide to Cyber Risk ManagementCHRIS CLIFFORD
Applicable to commercial ships with over 500 gross tonnage, the IMO resolution (MSC 428, 98) confirmed all shipping companies need to have cyber security in their safety management system. Flag states are encouraged to ensure these requirements are met by vessel operators in the first annual audit after January 2021. Non-compliance may lead to vessel detainment. This means maritime companies need to be identifying and safeguarding against maritime cyber risks now to be ready for the first annual verification of the Company’s Document of Compliance.
Cybersecurity at a premium: The state of cyber resilience in insuranceaccenture
Accenture’s report finds insurance firms could do more to prevent security breaches and strengthen cyber resilience. Read our report to see how Accenture can help your insurance firm become a cybersecurity leader: https://accntu.re/31i8ic3
MongoDB World 2019: Data Digital DecouplingMongoDB
Why data decoupling? Learn how enterprises are pivoting to decouple big monolith and legacy data platform to smaller chunk and freedom to run anywhere and run multi-cloud agility for their business
TOP 10 Reasons to Make Peak 10 Your Cloud Provider of ChoicePeak 10
Your success and the success of your customers must be its prime directive. After that, choose a provider because it has the tools, skills and capabilities to create the one and only cloud solution that fits your needs better than any other. Here are 10 reasons why that choice should be Peak 10.
WHITE PAPER▶ Insecurity in the Internet of ThingsSymantec
The Internet of Things (IoT) market has begun to take off. Consumers can buy connected versions of nearly every household appliance available. However, despite its increasing acceptance by consumers, recent studies of IoT devices seem to agree that “security” is not a word that gets associated with this category of devices, leaving consumers potentially exposed.
To find out for ourselves how IoT devices fare when it comes to security, we analyzed 50 smart home devices that are available today. We found that none of the devices enforced strong passwords, used mutual authentication, or protected accounts against brute-force attacks. Almost two out of ten of the mobile apps used to control the tested IoT devices did not use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to encrypt communications to the cloud. The tested IoT technology also contained many common vulnerabilities.
All of the potential weaknesses that could afflict IoT systems, such as authentication and traffic encryption, are already well known to the security industry, but despite this, known mitigation techniques are often neglected on these devices. IoT vendors need to do a better job on security before their devices become ubiquitous in every home, leaving millions of people at risk of cyberattacks
Quality Management, Information Security, Threat Hunting and Mitigation Plans for a Software Company or a Technology Start-up engaged in building, deploying or consulting in Software and Internet Applications.
How to assess your Cybersecurity Vulnerability_.pdfMetaorange
The new age of cyber threats is not limited to data breaches and ransomware attacks. They have become much more advanced with AI-based security analysis, crypto-jacking, facial recognition, and voice cloning via deep fake, IoT compromise, and cloud-based DDoS attacks.
How to assess your Cybersecurity Vulnerability_.pptxMetaorange
Surprisingly, Deepfake Technology, which was once used for fun, has now enabled phishing attacks. Rick McRoy detected a deep fake-based voice call that caused a CEO to transfer a sum amount of $35 Million.
Further, AI-powered cyberattacks also pose a serious security risk. Existing cybersecurity tools are not enough to counter this cyber weaponry.
In the wake of such incidents, the need for advanced cybersecurity tools is growing important.
Cyber- attacks are increasing massively and there is an imminent need to embrace #security #testing to overcome these security threats and vulnerabilities.
Read these #cyber security testing trends #2020.
Securing Manufacturing: How we can improve speed and efficiency while protect...Conor Bronsdon
in 2019 Microsoft Services started a series of eBooks examining key opportunities in Cybersecurity & Identity transformation within different industries.
This paper (which I contributed to) examines industrial manufacturing security within the context of today's digital transformation.
How to Secure your Fintech Solution - A Whitepaper by RapidValueRapidValue
This whitepaper delves into the security and privacy challenges that are core to Fintech companies and explains how one should go about formulating the security strategy for the Fintech initiative. It also brings into perspective, the various technical aspects of the secured environment from a Fintech point-of-
view.
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Project Quality-SIPOC
Select a process of your choice and create a SIPOC for this process. Explain the utility of a SIPOC in the context of project management.
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Large enterprises of a thousand persons or more often have distinctly distinct data security architectures than lesser businesses. Typically they treat their data security as if they were still little companies.
This paper endeavors to demonstrate that not only do large businesses have an entire ecology of focused programs, specific to large businesses and their needs, but that this software has distinct security implications than buyer or small enterprise software. identifying these dissimilarities, and analyzing the way this can be taken advantage of by an attacker, is the key to both striking and keeping safe a large enterprise.
The Web applications are the important part of your business every day, they help you handle your intellectual property, increase your sales, and keep the trust of your customers. But there's the problem that applications re fast becoming the preferred attack vector of hackers. For this you really need something that makes your application secure.
And, with the persistent condition of today's attacks, applications can easily be get infected when security is not considered and scoped into each phase of the software development life cycle, from design to development to testing and ongoing maintenance of the application. When you take a holistic approach to your application security, you actually enhance your ability to produce and manage stable, secure applications. Applications need training and testing from the leading team of ethical hackers, for this there should be an authentic plan to recover these issues that can help an organization to plan, test, build and run applications smartly and safely.
Large enterprises of a thousand people or even more have distinctly different information security architectures than many other smaller companies. Actually, they treat their information security as if they were still small companies.
We are going to discuss some attempts to demonstrate that not only do large companies have an entire ecology of specialized software, specific to large companies and their needs, but that this software has different security implications than consumer or small business software for the applications. Recognizing these differences, and examining the way this can be taken advantage of by an attacker, is the key to both attacking and defending a large enterprise. It’s really important to cover up the security procedures in the large enterprise.
Key Features:
· Web application security checking from development through output
· Security check web APIs and world wide web services that support your enterprise
· Effortlessly organize, view and share security-test outcomes and histories
· Endow broader lifecycle adoption th ...
Partner with HARMAN Digital Transformation Solutions (DTS) to build products and solutions that address real customer needs in real-time, and accelerate business growth.
The Secure Path to Value in the Cloud by Denny HeaberlinCloud Expo
Even as cloud and managed services grow increasingly central to business strategy and performance, challenges remain. The biggest sticking point for companies seeking to capitalize on the cloud is data security. Keeping data safe is an issue in any computing environment, and it has been a focus since the earliest days of the cloud revolution. Understandably so: a lot can go wrong when you allow valuable information to live outside the firewall. Recent revelations about government snooping, along with a steady stream of well-publicized data breaches, only add to the uncertainty.
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Denny Heaberlin, Security Product Manager with Windstream's Cloud and Data Center Marketing team, discussed how to manage these concerns and how choose the right cloud vendor, an essential part of any cloud strategy.
Not so long ago, the only way to access a new application was to install it from a floppy disk.
Prehistory, huh? Now we have the Internet. Anytime. Anywhere. Everywhere: in the office,
at home, in cafés, on the street, even on the beach. We live in a world where we are connected
all the time. This influences our lifestyle, our interests and attitude, it changes the way we work.
This means a whole new era for the software industry. And this era should be called “Cloud”.
Similar to Softchoice Security Consolidation Survey Results (20)
IT leaders from across North America were invited to share their viewpoint and perspective on delivering Agile IT. The study reflects the responses and trends related to their ability to deliver on business demands and readiness of existing technology to support those needs. We aggregated the results into following major themes: Strategy vs Reality, Agility & Technology Readiness, and Culture, Structure & People.
Discover the benefits of the Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) program and how it enables flexibility and value-added solutions for your O365 licenses.
Know how modern licensing programs are helping companies enable end users, increase IT agility, meet compliance requirements, increase time-to-value, and make IT buying fast and easy.
In our latest webinar presentation, we discuss the Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) program and how it enables flexibility and value-added solutions for your Azure licensing needs.
New on-demand Webinar
We used to just worry about the unlikely natural disaster and the odd communications breakdown when planning for backup and recovery. But these days, an entirely new breed of threats have emerged that promise to knock out your business applications and data the first chance they get. From cyber crime, to cyberterrorism and mobile and cloud computing complexities, handling these new threats with the same old tools simply isn’t possible. This was the topic that drove a recent Softchoice webinar, centered on how your business can more effectively, simply and securely provide a robust DR and BC strategy leveraging a suite of Azure based technologies from Microsoft.
Watch the latest on-demand webinar.
Cette étude de Softchoice porte sur les tendances en matière de rendement et de collaboration au travail. Elle s’est notamment intéressée à l’automatisation des outils de bureautique, à l’accès au télétravail et aux efforts consentis pour bien outiller les travailleurs. Softchoice a interrogé 1000 employés de bureau nord-américains qui travaillent essentiellement avec un ordinateur ou un appareil mobile.
In this Softchoice research study, we explore trends in employee productivity and collaboration, including the use of office automation tools, remote work flexibility, and how well organizations equip their people with the technology they need to be productive. Softchoice surveyed 1,000 full-time North American office workers who use a computer or mobile device for the majority of their work day.
Legacy PBX technologies are fast becoming obsolete. And, downtime is expensive. PBX industry is changing and many are considering a collaboration solution that leverages your existing on-premise infrastructure and marries it with a cloud platform.
About the Event:
Find out in our webinar, led by our Microsoft experts, what your options are for developing a truly integrated collaboration environment.
This session is designed for IT leaders with aging on-premise PBX systems, or those who want to understand what the Microsoft Cloud PBX solution offers. Most importantly, our presenters will provide insights into how to drive up collaboration by improving end user productivity through a cohesive Office 365 experience.
There is often confusion about what cloud vendors like Microsoft make secure and what falls to you in ensuring your data is safe. An effective strategy requires a deeper understanding of vendor security, your own responsibilities and how to incorporate the two to protect your business.
In our session you will learn about:
- Key trends driving change in IT and cloud security
- Examples of how your peers are addressing their organization's cloud security responsibilities
- Best practices for designing your cloud security plan
Our Microsoft Cloud Adoption Champion, Ruth Morton, will provide you with the strategies you need to ensure your Office 365 deployment is not only a technical success, but improves business processes, stakeholder satisfaction, and your bottom line.
You'll leave armed with a completed self-assessment designed to give you insights into your potential gaps and risks, and how to overcome them.
What You'll Learn:
• Business drivers, pitfalls and success criteria gathered from hundreds of successful projects
• Creating alignment with your lines of business to ensure a requirements-driven project
• Methods for developing a successful adoption plan and why this is so important
• How to set yourself up to execute with confidence.
For many organizations, a move to Azure creates issues with managing costs and resource ownership. Why? Cloud-based technologies rely on a different cost model - one based on usage consumption, rather than purchasing hardware and software.
Watch our team of Azure experts and learn how to effectively plan and manage the costs associated with your Azure investment. In this webinar, you'll learn how to:
- Build an Azure cost model based on best practices
- Use chargebacks to assign and track IT usage to specific business units
- Avoid unexpected consumption expenses by seeing what - and who - is consuming data
Our team will also demo the Softchoice Azure Dashboard, a proprietary tool providing our clients with the visibility they need to align resource spend, and control their azure costs.
Étude Softchoice. Favoriser l’innovation : les actes en disent plus long que ...Softchoice Corporation
Softchoice, chef de file nord-américain en solutions et services impartis informatiques, a sondé 250 responsables des TI et 1 000 employés d’autres services travaillant à temps plein aux États-Unis et au Canada pour déterminer combien d’entreprises adoptent effectivement les processus, la culture et la technologie et le leadership adéquats pour favoriser l’innovation.
Watch our recent webinar on the real life gotchas and missteps related to Hybrid IT transformation that we've seen as we've helped hundreds of customers like you implement the Hybrid IT journey.
You will come out with some salient advice on what you need to consider for 2017 to avoid derailing your business goals across the Public Cloud, Data Center and Network as you seek out more agility in IT.
Watch Aaron Brooks, Practice Director, Hybrid IT and the other members of the Softchoice practice leadership in this interactive webinar. Here’s a sample of the discussion:
• Why Hybrid IT isn’t just about where you’ll put your workloads
• Common barriers to integrating public cloud into IT operations
• How the modern data center will need to mirror the public cloud
• Why overlooking the impact of network traffic might be your Achilles heel
Softchoice, a leading North American provider of IT solutions and managed services, surveyed 1,000 full- time line-of-business (LOB) employees and 250 IT decision-makers across the U.S. and Canada to uncover how many workplaces actually walk the walk when it comes to having the right processes, leadership, culture and technology to drive innovation.
Today, security is so much more than just a firewall. As we saw in our recent webinar, co-hosted with Microsoft to discuss their new Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite (EMS), breaches are resulting from weak end-user passwords or error, as well as a lax attitude toward SaaS and third party "Shadow IT." Add to that infrastructure complexity brought on by cloud and hybrid environments and everything you knew about security is changing.
Effective Management of Azure through Operations Management Suite (OMS) WebinarSoftchoice Corporation
If you are looking to simplify IT management in your organization, then enterprise Operations Management Suite (OMS) is for you.
With OMS you will gain control over your Azure hybrid cloud with this cost-effective, all-in-one cloud IT management solution.
It delivers you:
Operational insights into your on premise and cloud applications and infrastructure
Solid Backup and Disaster recovery solution that is automated and easy to test
Compliant infrastructure with the latest industry security standards, update levels, and configuration best practices
In the webinar you will learn about:
Log Analytics and what it can accomplish
Backup and Automated Site Recovery
Identifying, assessing and mitigating security risks
What' coming next with the Solutions Gallery
Softchoice - Microsoft Office 365 - Discussing legal concerns and informatio...Softchoice Corporation
While security and legal fears have gone down, they still account for 5% of enterprises not planning a migration to Office 365, according to Gartner.
This is a real shame, because as you know, O365 can drive considerable business productivity, employee engagement and can enable digital workforce greatness.
Moreover, O365 has 70 million commercial active users per month and according to Gartner, controls over 80% of the email share.
Well, have no fear (literally). Our experts have put together an insightful hour to explore, discuss and appease any fears you may have around compliance, security and data control in the Microsoft cloud.
Hosted jointly by Microsoft and Softchoice Office 365 pros, you will learn about:
- Keeping privacy and control of your data on Office 365
- Overcoming legal and compliance concerns
- The advantages of cloud security versus on-premise, and much more
Application development and deployment in the traditional datacenter has been a challenge for many organizations primarily due to resource constraints. This has historically led to unfortunate compromises between functionality and security for business applications.
With public cloud providers, we have seen the limitations to technical capabilities fall away; the attainable to the Fortune 500 has become available to organizations of any size.
This yields some exciting new options for the development, deployment and operation of secure applications. Here you will find the presentation deck and recording of webinar.
En 2014, les entreprises en étaient encore au stade du passage à l’infonuagique. À l’époque, Softchoice a commandé une étude qui a révélé que les utilisateurs nord-américains étaient imprudents. On découvrait notamment que les travailleurs nord-américains utilisant des applications infonuagiques se comportaient de façon nettement plus imprudente et faisaient courir davantage de risques aux réseaux et aux données de leurs employeurs que ceux qui n'en utilisaient pas.
Deux ans plus tard, la plupart des entreprises ne se contentent plus de « flirter » avec l’infonuagique, mais l’ont adoptée sans réserve. Toutefois, malgré cette transition, peu de choses ont changé! Tant par leur négligence à l’égard de la protection de leurs mots de passe que par leurs comportements indésirables à l’égard des TI, les travailleurs nord-américains sont (encore) imprudents lorsqu’ils utilisent l’infonuagique.
Avoiding the unexpected costs of cloud computing. Without proper planning and governance, spending on cloud services can easily get out of control, putting your organization at risk of not realizing the benefits of moving to the cloud in the first place. This presentation helps you understand the frameworks and tools available to effectively manage and optimize cloud costs.
You’ll Learn how to: (1) develop and manage optimal cloud budgets (2) assign accountabilities and track usage (3) continuously improve cost performance.
In 2014, cloud computing was still shifting into the enterprise mainstream. Back then, Softchoice commissioned a study that discovered North American workers who use cloud apps displayed markedly more reckless technology habits and were more likely to put their employers’ networks and corporate data at risk.
Two years later, most organizations have gone from flirting with the cloud to wholesale adoption, yet despite their new level of cloud sophistication – not much has else changed! From lax password security to rogue IT behavior, North American workers are (Still) Careless Users in the Cloud.
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.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
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
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...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.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
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
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.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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.
2. If you are facing an increasing volume of logs
from multiple sources, you are managing a flood
of information. Not only that, you still need to
analyze that data in order to find evidence of
security incidents, and make sure you stay
compliant with industry regulations.
To help our clients learn more about their
security environment we put together a tool that
examined how many security tools our clients
really used, and offered some recommendations
from our experts based on the results.
WHY WE DID IT
3. » Endpoint buyers
» ProSuite buyers
» Security buyers in retail verticals
» Security buyers in legal verticals
» IT managers
» Security decision makers
» PC and client software buyers
» Security buyers in education
» Security buyers in finance
» Security buyers in healthcare
» Networking buyers
TARGET AUDIENCE
4. Gross responses were reviewed and scrubbed if:
A. Answers for questions 1 through 9 were the same
B. All questions had the same answer
C. The same result was received for each completed
survey in rapid succession
D. A response for a required question was missing
DATA HANDLING
6. What are you using for endpoint virus?
We often encounter clients using Microsoft Forefront to
maximize their Enterprise Agreement. However, its
possible to realize a more robust endpoint security and
overall security posture by utilizing a comprehensive
solution from Trend Micro, Symantec, McAfee or
Sophos.
21%
39%
21%
5%
13%
1%
Endpoint Virus
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
2
4
6
8
If other, please specify
7. What are you using for mail gateway?
As Microsoft discontinued the TMG (Threat
Management Gateway) we are seeing significant
changes in this area. We anticipate continued changes
in the future, as more organizations adopt Office 365.
Our clients that have been using TMG are often looking
to existing security providers as well as networking
technologies to protect their messaging technologies.
Building upon the investment with the current endpoint
security solution provider is a strategic opportunity to
minimize costs and overhead.
0
2
4
6
8
10
If other, please specify
19%27%
17%
3% 26%
8%
Mail gateway
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
8. What are you using for WEB gateway?
Our clients that have been using TMG are often looking
to existing security providers as well as networking
technologies to protect their messaging technologies.
Building upon the investment with the current endpoint
security solution provider is a strategic opportunity to
minimize costs and overhead.
22%
21%
13%
5%
27%
12%
Web Gateway
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
2
4
6
8
If other, please specify
9. What technology are you using for intrusion prevention?
Intrusion Prevention services are being integrated
into UTM (Universal Threat Management) devices
as well as NGFW (Next Generation Firewall)
technologies.
16%
29%
13%
5%
21%
16%
Intrusion prevention
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
2
4
6
If other, please specify
10. What technology are you using for firewall?
We are seeing a significant movement from
legacy “layer 3’ firewalls to NGFW (Next
Generation Firewalls).
17%
21%13%
7%
37% 5%
FIREWALL
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
AVG
CheckPoint
Cisco
Custom
FortiGate
Fortinet
Juniper
Kaspersky
Microsoft
PaloAlto
PhysicalDevice
Sentinel
Sonicwall
Squid
TMG
Untangle
WatchGuard
If other, please specify
11. What are you using to encrypt data?
We are seeing concerns around some encryption
technologies. Organizations implementing an
encryption solution should be aware of potential
limitations when using Truecrypt and Bitlocker.
15%
28%
7%5%
19%
26%
Encrypt Data
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
If other, please specify
12. What are you using for data loss prevention?
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a significant
concern for our clients working to adhere to
compliance mandates like Payment Card Industry
(PCI) and Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) etc.21%
30%
6%
3%
13%
27%
Data Loss Prevention
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
If other, please specify
13. What are you doing to protect your servers?
Standard endpoint protection is not an complete
security solution for servers. Servers should
utilize technology designed specifically for server
protection.19%
44%
10%
7%
12%
8%
Server Protection
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
If other, please specify
14. How are you managing mobile data?
Mobile consumerization is driving our clients to
protect both mobile devices as well as the data
residing on those devices. You must consider the
planning and policies in place, as there will be
policy differences between Bring Your Own
Device (BYOD), and corporate-issue device
environments.
21%
20%
4%
5%
16%
34%
Mobile Data
Trend Micro Symantec McAfee
Sophos Other Nothing
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
If other, please specify
15. How do you manage the logs from all these tools?
Real time log management is a core component
for corporate security as well as compliance
requirements, specifically around incident
management and incident response processes.
Logs Management
SIEM Solution Managed Solution
Open Source Nothing
16. Are you happy with your main security vendor?
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Right? We encourage
our clients to test their security architectures to
ensure they are well-designed and effective.
More simply, keep in mind our goal is to prevent
security incidents before they happen!
Are you happy?
Yes No
17. SUMMARY
1. Understand business and compliance drivers, and integrate these
requirements in to the technical specs when considering a security
solution.
2. Deploying technology without understanding the risks and sensitive
data repositories is not an effective solution.
3. A robust security architecture requires continued testing and
improvement to assess risks to critical systems, identify threats,
remediate risks, and protect business assets.
4. We see value in consolidating security technologies to fewer vendors.
Both from a cost savings perspective, and a daily operations
management perspective.
Based on the results of this tool, here are the 4 most important
things our clients should remember:
18. THANK YOU
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