Forcepoint CEO Matt Moynahan will discusses the role people-centric security plays in protecting intellectual property and other valuable content in this next generation of cyber threats.
Rethinking the concept of trust (DoDIIS 2019 presentation)Forcepoint LLC
Eric Trexler, Vice President of Global Governments & Critical Infrastructure at Forcepoint spoke at DoDIIS 2019. He described how trust is changing, and offered advice for agencies to considering how to balance trust and security.
Sparking Curiosity to Change Security BehaviorsForcepoint LLC
In this presentation Dr. Margaret Cunningham, Principal Research Scientist, Forcepoint X-Labs, explores the topic of curiosity in cybersecurity.
Curiosity is a powerful catalyst for behavioral changes, but for the most part, curiosity has been used to exploit users rather than to motivate positive security behaviors. This session explores the science of curiosity, provides examples of how curiosity increases security risks, and discusses strategies for using curiosity to increase engagement and positive security behaviors. Through this session attendees can apply strategies learned for motivating positive security behaviors as a means to mitigate risk and decrease alert fatigue within an organization.
Presented at Black Hat USA 2019 on Wednesday August 7, 2019.
Related blog: https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/sparking-curiosity-change-security-behaviors-bhusa-2019-slides-and-summary
In this presentation Raffael Marty, VP of Research of Intelligence, Forcepoint X-Labs, explores the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cyber security. What is AI and how do we get to real intelligence in a cyber context? Raffael outlines some of the dangers of the way we are using algorithms (AI, Machine Learning) today and what that leads to. We then explore how we can add real intelligence through export knowledge to the problem of finding attackers and anomalies in our applications and networks.
Presented at AI 4 Cybersecurity in NYC on April 30, 2019
Weary Warriors: Reducing the Impact of Wishful Thinking & Fatigue on Informat...Forcepoint LLC
Wishful thinking won’t protect your data and systems. Without understanding two key psychological constructs, motivated reasoning and decision fatigue, people will continue to put their trust in software alone to keep their systems safe – and then shift responsibility for adverse events onto end users. For example, those impacted by motivated reasoning will reuse passwords without believing it might actually have an impact. People who experience decision fatigue avoid decisions or choose the least effortful action. However, there are steps organisations and individuals can take to recognise and cope with these parts of human nature – are you prepared?
Every single security company is talking about how they are using machine learning—as a security company you have to claim artificial intelligence to be even part of the conversation. However, this approach can be dangerous when we blindly rely on algorithms to do the right thing. Rather than building systems with actual security knowledge, companies are using algorithms that nobody understands and, in turn, discovering wrong insights.
In this session, we will discuss:
• Limitations of machine learning and issues of explainability
• Where deep learning should never be applied
• Examples of how the blind application of algorithms can lead to wrong results
Using Language Modeling to Verify User IdentitiesForcepoint LLC
How can we verify identity using unstructured data from a user device? While biometrics like fingerprinting and facial recognition are often used for authentication, research around natural language processing has found people's use of language as uniquely identifying.
In this session, we will discuss multiple facets of language modeling:
• Efficacy on different kinds of unstructured text within a corporate network
• As a technique to detect anomalous user activity, compromised accounts, and stolen credentials
• As an integral part of a cybersecurity program in addition to UEBA and risk-adaptive protection
Driving the successful adoption of Microsoft Office 365Forcepoint LLC
For enterprise and mid-sized companies who have deployed Office 365 but have not realized the full value of their investment, Forcepoint removes the barriers to full adoption by enhancing security and compliance, taking back unsanctioned IT, and implementing the right architecture.
Rethinking the concept of trust (DoDIIS 2019 presentation)Forcepoint LLC
Eric Trexler, Vice President of Global Governments & Critical Infrastructure at Forcepoint spoke at DoDIIS 2019. He described how trust is changing, and offered advice for agencies to considering how to balance trust and security.
Sparking Curiosity to Change Security BehaviorsForcepoint LLC
In this presentation Dr. Margaret Cunningham, Principal Research Scientist, Forcepoint X-Labs, explores the topic of curiosity in cybersecurity.
Curiosity is a powerful catalyst for behavioral changes, but for the most part, curiosity has been used to exploit users rather than to motivate positive security behaviors. This session explores the science of curiosity, provides examples of how curiosity increases security risks, and discusses strategies for using curiosity to increase engagement and positive security behaviors. Through this session attendees can apply strategies learned for motivating positive security behaviors as a means to mitigate risk and decrease alert fatigue within an organization.
Presented at Black Hat USA 2019 on Wednesday August 7, 2019.
Related blog: https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/sparking-curiosity-change-security-behaviors-bhusa-2019-slides-and-summary
In this presentation Raffael Marty, VP of Research of Intelligence, Forcepoint X-Labs, explores the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cyber security. What is AI and how do we get to real intelligence in a cyber context? Raffael outlines some of the dangers of the way we are using algorithms (AI, Machine Learning) today and what that leads to. We then explore how we can add real intelligence through export knowledge to the problem of finding attackers and anomalies in our applications and networks.
Presented at AI 4 Cybersecurity in NYC on April 30, 2019
Weary Warriors: Reducing the Impact of Wishful Thinking & Fatigue on Informat...Forcepoint LLC
Wishful thinking won’t protect your data and systems. Without understanding two key psychological constructs, motivated reasoning and decision fatigue, people will continue to put their trust in software alone to keep their systems safe – and then shift responsibility for adverse events onto end users. For example, those impacted by motivated reasoning will reuse passwords without believing it might actually have an impact. People who experience decision fatigue avoid decisions or choose the least effortful action. However, there are steps organisations and individuals can take to recognise and cope with these parts of human nature – are you prepared?
Every single security company is talking about how they are using machine learning—as a security company you have to claim artificial intelligence to be even part of the conversation. However, this approach can be dangerous when we blindly rely on algorithms to do the right thing. Rather than building systems with actual security knowledge, companies are using algorithms that nobody understands and, in turn, discovering wrong insights.
In this session, we will discuss:
• Limitations of machine learning and issues of explainability
• Where deep learning should never be applied
• Examples of how the blind application of algorithms can lead to wrong results
Using Language Modeling to Verify User IdentitiesForcepoint LLC
How can we verify identity using unstructured data from a user device? While biometrics like fingerprinting and facial recognition are often used for authentication, research around natural language processing has found people's use of language as uniquely identifying.
In this session, we will discuss multiple facets of language modeling:
• Efficacy on different kinds of unstructured text within a corporate network
• As a technique to detect anomalous user activity, compromised accounts, and stolen credentials
• As an integral part of a cybersecurity program in addition to UEBA and risk-adaptive protection
Driving the successful adoption of Microsoft Office 365Forcepoint LLC
For enterprise and mid-sized companies who have deployed Office 365 but have not realized the full value of their investment, Forcepoint removes the barriers to full adoption by enhancing security and compliance, taking back unsanctioned IT, and implementing the right architecture.
Is your security solution having trouble keeping up? Explore what a modern security solution looks like—built to tackle the evolving threat landscape while adapting to today’s global, mobile workforce.
One Year After WannaCry - Has Anything Changed? A Root Cause Analysis of Data...Forcepoint LLC
This 20 minute talk was delivered by Forcepoint Principal Security Analyst Carl Leonard at Infosecurity Europe 2018. Delivered to the Strategy track this talk provides a review of the macro trends affecting businesses today, reviews root cause of standout data breaches, highlights the security risk presented by employees, and offers guidance on how to protect your business from specific root causes.
Addressing Future Risks and Legal Challenges of Insider ThreatsForcepoint LLC
Get an in-depth analysis of the framework of insider threats, its legal considerations and global privacy implications, and best practices to build an effective insider threat program.
A Predictive “Precrime” Approach Requires a Human FocusForcepoint LLC
In Philip K. Dick’s 1956 “The Minority Report,” murder ceased to occur due to the work of the “Precrime Division,” that anticipated and prevented killings before they happened. Today, we are only beginning to see the impact of predictive analytics upon cybersecurity – especially for insider threat detection and prevention. Based on user interaction with data, CISOs and their teams emerge as the IT equivalent of a Precrime Division, empowered to intervene before a violation is ever committed. Discover the technologies which make predictive analytics valuable, along with ethically minded guidance to strike the balance between vigilance and privacy.
A pirate used to have to show up on your shores, now they can stay on the other side of the world and still be a pirate. They are the mercenaries of the modern day – hackers who carry out crippling cyberattacks for personal gain, for political motivations, or perhaps on behalf of foreign governments, wittingly or unwittingly. The complexity of the problem also means there’s no simple answer for the global community. Mr. Daly looked at how we arrived at this convergence of actors and discussed efforts to get countries cooperating more effectively to prevent international cybercrime and bound cyber warfare.
Securing the Global Mission: Enabling Effective Information Sharing (DoD MPE-IS)Forcepoint LLC
The DoD Mission Partner Environment (MPE) enables Command and Control (C2) for operational support planning and execution – residing on a shared network infrastructure at a single security level with a common language. Rory Kinney, OSD DoD CIO, shared his perspectives on how an MPE capability allows Mission Partners (MPs) to share information with all participants within a specific partnership or coalition and the role MPE-IS plays in securing the global mission.
Security Insights for Mission-Critical NetworksForcepoint LLC
Networks are at the heart of the most critical missions. In environments where network availability and increased comprehensive security seem to be at odds, what are the options? Learn why traditional firewall solutions have been replaced with next gen technologies that mitigate the management burden while offering even more robust security and protection.
Maintaining Visibility and Control as Workers and Apps ScatterForcepoint LLC
Balancing productivity and security has been an age old challenge for IT. Nowadays, tight budgets and a shortage of skilled security personnel are further complicating the security equation at a time when mobile workers and cloud applications require effective defenses beyond traditional perimeters. Fortunately, there are new perspectives and best practices to help Government IT security leaders secure systems and users everywhere, with the same level of mission-critical protection that Federal networks require.
By 2025, millennials are projected to make up 75% of the total workforce. Organizations have been adapting their processes, policies and environments to match the millennial culture, but are they truly prepared to handle millennial technology practices? Michael Crouse – Forcepoint VP, Insider Threat explains.
Many organizations are struggling to combat advanced threats, focusing on what they should be doing to prevent these threats vs. creating a strategy to shift the burden. Josh Douglas, Chief Strategy Officer at Raytheon Foreground Security, talked about why shifting the burden matters in order to reduce dwell time and how you can make that happen by investing in user awareness training, assessments, incident response and threat hunting.
Guy Filippelli, CEO of RedOwl, shared observations and principles honed from experiences leading software teams in Afghanistan and Baghdad, and how such insights ought to be applied to increasingly complex data challenges in security analytics, with a particular focus on insider risk. Guy shared his views on topics such as the importance of vision, the criticality of diverse data, the empowerment of the analyst, and the role of analytics.
Theresa Payton discusses how security is fundamentally broken, because we're not focused on the human point. As employees, people want to have mobile experiences the same way they do as consumers. Workforces need the right tools to do their job, but ensure they're protected from the threats that come from mobile technology. It's time we embrace these technologies and empower our teams to make good choices as they interact with data.
An Inside-Out Approach to Security in Financial ServicesForcepoint LLC
This presentation addresses the following:
- Key challenges in Financial Services
- Requirements for Building an Insider Threat Program
- The Forcepoint Approach
Cloudy with a Chance of...Visibility, Accountability & SecurityForcepoint LLC
Cloud adoption is driving value into businesses like never before. Trying to manage security and compliance in the use of cloud platforms and applications can be challenging, with visibility being "cloudy" at best. That situation can drive stress and frustration into already overworked security teams. In this session Doug Copley will explain how the latest cloud security platforms can be the foglight to improve visibility and information risk management while enabling organizations to safely adopt those transformative technologies that will advance the mission of the organization.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Is your security solution having trouble keeping up? Explore what a modern security solution looks like—built to tackle the evolving threat landscape while adapting to today’s global, mobile workforce.
One Year After WannaCry - Has Anything Changed? A Root Cause Analysis of Data...Forcepoint LLC
This 20 minute talk was delivered by Forcepoint Principal Security Analyst Carl Leonard at Infosecurity Europe 2018. Delivered to the Strategy track this talk provides a review of the macro trends affecting businesses today, reviews root cause of standout data breaches, highlights the security risk presented by employees, and offers guidance on how to protect your business from specific root causes.
Addressing Future Risks and Legal Challenges of Insider ThreatsForcepoint LLC
Get an in-depth analysis of the framework of insider threats, its legal considerations and global privacy implications, and best practices to build an effective insider threat program.
A Predictive “Precrime” Approach Requires a Human FocusForcepoint LLC
In Philip K. Dick’s 1956 “The Minority Report,” murder ceased to occur due to the work of the “Precrime Division,” that anticipated and prevented killings before they happened. Today, we are only beginning to see the impact of predictive analytics upon cybersecurity – especially for insider threat detection and prevention. Based on user interaction with data, CISOs and their teams emerge as the IT equivalent of a Precrime Division, empowered to intervene before a violation is ever committed. Discover the technologies which make predictive analytics valuable, along with ethically minded guidance to strike the balance between vigilance and privacy.
A pirate used to have to show up on your shores, now they can stay on the other side of the world and still be a pirate. They are the mercenaries of the modern day – hackers who carry out crippling cyberattacks for personal gain, for political motivations, or perhaps on behalf of foreign governments, wittingly or unwittingly. The complexity of the problem also means there’s no simple answer for the global community. Mr. Daly looked at how we arrived at this convergence of actors and discussed efforts to get countries cooperating more effectively to prevent international cybercrime and bound cyber warfare.
Securing the Global Mission: Enabling Effective Information Sharing (DoD MPE-IS)Forcepoint LLC
The DoD Mission Partner Environment (MPE) enables Command and Control (C2) for operational support planning and execution – residing on a shared network infrastructure at a single security level with a common language. Rory Kinney, OSD DoD CIO, shared his perspectives on how an MPE capability allows Mission Partners (MPs) to share information with all participants within a specific partnership or coalition and the role MPE-IS plays in securing the global mission.
Security Insights for Mission-Critical NetworksForcepoint LLC
Networks are at the heart of the most critical missions. In environments where network availability and increased comprehensive security seem to be at odds, what are the options? Learn why traditional firewall solutions have been replaced with next gen technologies that mitigate the management burden while offering even more robust security and protection.
Maintaining Visibility and Control as Workers and Apps ScatterForcepoint LLC
Balancing productivity and security has been an age old challenge for IT. Nowadays, tight budgets and a shortage of skilled security personnel are further complicating the security equation at a time when mobile workers and cloud applications require effective defenses beyond traditional perimeters. Fortunately, there are new perspectives and best practices to help Government IT security leaders secure systems and users everywhere, with the same level of mission-critical protection that Federal networks require.
By 2025, millennials are projected to make up 75% of the total workforce. Organizations have been adapting their processes, policies and environments to match the millennial culture, but are they truly prepared to handle millennial technology practices? Michael Crouse – Forcepoint VP, Insider Threat explains.
Many organizations are struggling to combat advanced threats, focusing on what they should be doing to prevent these threats vs. creating a strategy to shift the burden. Josh Douglas, Chief Strategy Officer at Raytheon Foreground Security, talked about why shifting the burden matters in order to reduce dwell time and how you can make that happen by investing in user awareness training, assessments, incident response and threat hunting.
Guy Filippelli, CEO of RedOwl, shared observations and principles honed from experiences leading software teams in Afghanistan and Baghdad, and how such insights ought to be applied to increasingly complex data challenges in security analytics, with a particular focus on insider risk. Guy shared his views on topics such as the importance of vision, the criticality of diverse data, the empowerment of the analyst, and the role of analytics.
Theresa Payton discusses how security is fundamentally broken, because we're not focused on the human point. As employees, people want to have mobile experiences the same way they do as consumers. Workforces need the right tools to do their job, but ensure they're protected from the threats that come from mobile technology. It's time we embrace these technologies and empower our teams to make good choices as they interact with data.
An Inside-Out Approach to Security in Financial ServicesForcepoint LLC
This presentation addresses the following:
- Key challenges in Financial Services
- Requirements for Building an Insider Threat Program
- The Forcepoint Approach
Cloudy with a Chance of...Visibility, Accountability & SecurityForcepoint LLC
Cloud adoption is driving value into businesses like never before. Trying to manage security and compliance in the use of cloud platforms and applications can be challenging, with visibility being "cloudy" at best. That situation can drive stress and frustration into already overworked security teams. In this session Doug Copley will explain how the latest cloud security platforms can be the foglight to improve visibility and information risk management while enabling organizations to safely adopt those transformative technologies that will advance the mission of the organization.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.