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Outside of the financial services industry, very few companies actually monitor what their employees say on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the 1,000+ other social media sites around the world. Few companies scan short URLs for potential links…Read more…
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While an archiving system actually does backup content, often on a near real-time basis, it cannot normally be considered a backup system. Similarly, while a backup system can be considered a rudimentary archive, it does not serve the same purpose.…Read more…
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I have two Visa cards, one for personal use and one for my business, both of which are issued by Bank of America. My personal card has been compromised at least five times and my business card at least twice. On one occasion, my Visa number was…Read more…
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Today there is an app for just about anything and everything. In recognition of this trend, this fall, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) produced guidelines to assist developers of mobile apps to be in compliance. According to a the most recent…Read more…
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Why do people buy insurance? It’s because they have conducted some sort of analysis—however simple and qualitative it might be—and determined that the downside of buying insurance is not as great as the downside of the loss that can occur from a…Read more…
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There are many who believe that the security of content stored in the cloud is inferior to that of on-premises systems. Given the recent and well-publicized problems with Dropbox, for example, critics of the cloud—at least in the context of…Read more…
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In all our IT activities, we have, almost daily, to deal with numbers, tests and metrics. How do you decide on a specific metric, to measure some activity, such as spam score, server performance, compression factor when archiving data etc.…Read more…
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Fraud poses a significant threat to the Internet. 1.5% of all online advertisements attempt to spread malware. This lowers the willingness to view or handle advertisements, which will severely affect the structure of the web and its viability. It…Read more…
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This is related to data encryption and security. The article was originally posted on DataScienceCentral. Imagine that you need to transmit the details of a patent or a confidential financial transaction over the Internet. There are three critical…Read more…
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There is an interesting June 24, 2013 piece from David Amerlandon the problems associated with teleworking entitled The Real Problem In Working From Home (It’s Not What You Think). Among the good points made by the author are:Read more…
