Data cleaning is often one of the more frustrating aspects of a data-intensive project. If you have ever had to import a dataset of size, you will know what I mean. The first project where I needed to clean data from CSV dump containing tens of millions of rows was a particularly good learning experience. After innumerable parsing errors trying to import the file, I realized that the data contained all the common delimiters (commas...
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In an effort to bring the messaging industry even closer together, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), which held its 24th General Meeting in San Francisco last week, announced a name change to better articulate the group’s focus.
Long known for its holistic approach to messaging abuse, the organization was originally founded in 2004 to specifically address the issue of...
In preparation for RSA Conference 2012, happening in San Francisco’s Moscone Center all this week, Messaging News asked a few industry insiders for a response to this question: “If an organization could only focus on one security-oriented thing or issue in 2012, what should that be?” The answers were varied and insightful, and as...
Our research finds that many organizations don’t have the budget to address many of the problems they face, such as managing certificates in a careful and coordinated way, monitoring and archiving social media content, implementing data loss prevention systems that can check for intellectual property or sensitive information sent outside the company without encryption, or retaining content for the length of time required by statute...
We are about to publish an industry analysis report on corporate use of social media and have completed three large surveys as part of that effort: one on the business aspects of social, one focused on its IT implications, and another with end users. Here is some of what we’ve found:
Social media use on corporate networks is up significantly. Our research found that 36% of corporate...
For those with Android 4.0, this week’s Chrome beta release is exciting and for some long awaited. Anticipated since 2008, Google is offering the latest browser direct from the Android Market, alleviating users from the wait for an operating system upgrade from handset makers.
The Chrome for Android beta is based on Chrome 16.0.915.75. Unfortunately for some this version is only for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich (...
For heavily regulated industries, such as financial services, social media is an attractive communications tool, but it needs to be managed carefully. According to a social business survey conducted last year by IDC, 51 percent of companies use consumer social media tools for communicating with customers, 43 percent are creating awareness about a company product or service, and 42 percent are acquiring knowledge/asking ...
While on-premises security solutions can provide robust defenses against spam, malware and other security threats, cloud-based security—used either as a standalone solution or in conjunction with on-premise defenses—offers a number of inherent advantages:
Most threats never hit the on-premises network—The use of a cloud service for spam processing, for example, eliminates the...
I’ll be the first to admit I can’t remember all my passwords. Most of us can’t, so we pick a few passwords that are easy to remember and then use them with multiple sites. This results in two immediate problems. A password manager can help with both of these problems. First, passwords that are easy to remember are typically also easy to guess. Second, a compromised...
More and more today, for the corporate user, social networking is giving way to social business, and along with it, experts predict, will be specific social media law and regulations.
There is lots of talk about email going away: some are swearing completely off of email, others complain about how many messages they receive in their inbox, others use only email. Our own research shows that for many corporate workers, the importance of email continues to grow. Add to all of this the continuing discussions about migrating from GroupWise to “Outlook” (the subject of an upcoming blog post), how Notes/Domino...
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