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Smarsh Enterprise Archive Delivers Global Enterprises Unprecedented Flexibility and Scale

Smarsh Enterprise Archive brings cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space.

November 8, 2019 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Smarsh says its Enterprise Archive brings cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space. Smarsh says the cloud-native architecture of Enterprise Archive creates a secure and scalable platform across multiple cloud infrastructures (public and/or private). Organizations can choose to deploy archiving, supervision and e-discovery services on the infrastructures that align with their […]

The U.S. Needs to Get Serious About Election Cybersecurity

The U.S. government and lawmakers need to take cybersecurity a lot more seriously, especially when it comes to elections.

November 7, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If there’s one legislative body that truly understands the importance of cybersecurity in the digital age, it should be the U.S. Congress. Remember the election cybersecurity issues of 2016? That was fun. We went through so many news stories about Wikileaks, hacking, and election interference that you were convinced Congress would act and take the […]

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Artificial Intelligence Has an Emissions Problem

Advances in arificial intelligence is making our lives easier and more automated. It's also becoming a huge emitter of greenhouse gasses.

November 6, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Technology, artificial intelligence and automation are supposed to solve our biggest problems, not create new ones or exacerbate existing issues. Unbeknownst to many, big tech is actually putting a huge burden on the environment. In a study assessing the energy consumption required to train several common large AI models, Researchers at the University of Massachusetts […]

Air Force Finally Upgrades Nuclear Launch System… From Floppy Disks

The U.S. had been relying on a computer system that used floppy disks that was responsible for fielding requests to launch nuclear weapons.

October 31, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The U.S. military can send a missile halfway across the world with pinpoint accuracy, attack the computer systems of rival countries and pilot a drone from the U.S. to strike targets anywhere in the world. The military makes use of every technological advancement and has worked with some of the world’s largest companies to do […]

Court Ruling Finds FBI Abused Mass Surveillance Data

A 2018 court ruling shows the government used mass surveillance improperly, even four years after Snowden. Big tech should keep resisting.

October 29, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Federal officials could be combing through our emails and online messages without due process, according to a newly declassified FISA court ruling. As reported by the Intercept, the FBI could have violated the rights of millions of Americans by inappropriately searching through the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program data. The ruling was made in […]

Linn County Sherriff Department’s DxEnterprise Computing Platform Saves Major Maintenance Time

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office updates computing platform with DxEnterprise replicated storage and Nutanix Hyperconverged solutions for less maintenance.

October 28, 2019 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office provides patrol services, detectives, corrections services, civil services, 9-1-1 emergency services, and emergency management for the citizens of Linn County, Oregon. The Sheriff’s Office employs a staff of 184 full time employees who serve in six different operational divisions. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office abides by a professional code of […]

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‘Alarming’ Prevalence of IoT and Industrial Control System Vulnerabilities in Real-World Network Study

Control system vulnerabilities study explains why orgs are susceptible to downtime, safety incidents & theft of intellectual property.

October 25, 2019 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

IoT and industrial control system vulnerabilities are “alarming” in their rampant state, says a report by CyberX called “2020 Global IoT/ICS Risk Report.” The data illustrates that IoT/ICS networks and unmanaged devices are soft targets for adversaries, increasing the risk of costly downtime, catastrophic safety and environmental incidents, and theft of sensitive intellectual property, the […]

Delta Risk’s ActiveEye 2.0 Uses Automation to Keep Your Network Safe

Cyber security firm's nex generation SOC-as-a-service solution called ActiveEye 2.0 focuses on advanced security automation to take the load off IT teams.

October 24, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Cybersecurity firm Delta Risk has released its next-generation cloud-based ActiveEye platform that the company says is more efficient and can eliminate more than 95% of false positives by leaning heavily on automation. The platform has an advanced focus on security automation that can sift through daily security alerts generated by next-generation endpoint detection and response […]

The Top Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Vendors, According to IT End Users

Enterprise Resource Planning software users name Oracle, Acumatica, and Microsoft products as some of the best in the category.

October 23, 2019 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

SoftwareReviews, a division of IT research and consulting firm Info-Tech Research Group, has published its 2019 Enterprise Resource Planning Emotional Footprint Awards naming the following four champions: Oracle ERP Cloud Acumatica Cloud ERP Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Oracle PeopleSoft Software users said that in their experience, Oracle ERP Cloud is number one in providing […]

Avoiding AI Bias Requires Diverse Workers, Research

AI systems and algorithms aren't perfect, and companies should keep that in mind when it comes to staffing, developing applications and monitoring.

October 22, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are by no means perfect, and it takes human intervention to constantly tweak algorithms. Those applications are essentially based on math problems and may never bee 100% accurate, so companies and software developers should think carefully before going down that road. At a recent conference, TWIMLcon: AI Platforms, panelists spoke […]