8 Ways Millennials Impact Your Security Awareness Program
Millennials are the first generation for whom computer devices are ubiquitous in their daily activities. Consider that laptops have become the computer of choice and can be taken anywhere. Cellphones are more powerful and functional than computers were a decade ago — and millenials have had these devices in their pockets for as long as most of them can remember. But use of a technology does not mean that it is safely used and millennials' comfort with technology does not mean that they are more security aware. The tendency is to use technology in a way that is most convenient, not most secure. And while there has been some effort to protect their privacy — primarily from their parents and others — this does not mean that they are aware of all the things there are to protect and how to protect them. The fact is, the more information that is available, the more vulnerable it is made.
Tools that increase IT efficiency pave the way for digital transformations
Content is core to the work of Densho, an organization whose mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were held in internment camps during World War II. In the past, Densho needed a complex storage environment to house its 30TB of production data, says Geoff Froh, deputy director and CIO at the nonprofit organization based in Seattle. “The two-tier infrastructure was composed of high-performance SAN hardware and high-capacity consumer-grade NAS appliances. The SAN was expensive, difficult to manage and not scalable. The NAS gear was unreliable and lacked the IOPS to handle our workload,” Froh recalls. Densho turned to storage start-up Qumulo, which aims to help enterprises store their data more efficiently and with greater visibility into how content is being used.
Good managers give constructive criticism—but truly masterful leaders offer constructive praise
Most leaders “vastly underestimate the power and necessity of positive reinforcement,” Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman, CEO and president of Zenger/Folkman, write in Harvard Business Review. An abundance of research shows that giving positive feedback increases employees’ sense that they’re learning and growing at their jobs, makes them feel valued, and leads to increased confidence and competence. A 2015 Gallup survey found that 67% of employees whose managers communicated their strengths were fully engaged in their work, as compared to 31% of employees whose managers only communicated their weaknesses. One study found that high-performing teams receive nearly six times more positive feedback than less effective teams—evidence that positive reinforcement really does help the bottom line.
A massive cyberattack is hitting organisations around the world
Many of the initial reports of organisations affected came from Ukraine, including banks, energy companies and even Kiev's main airport. But since then more incidents have been reported across Europe, indicating the incident is affecting more organisations more widely. The National Bank of Ukraine said it has been hit by an "unknown virus" and is having difficulty providing customer services and banking operations as a result, while Kiev's Boryspil International airport is also understood to be suffered from some kind of cyber attack. Ukraine's Interior Ministry has already called the cyberattack the biggest in Ukraine's history. Danish transport and energy firm Maersk has confirmed that its IT systems are down across multiple sites due to a cyberattack, while Russian petroleum company Rosneft has reported a "massive hacker attack" hitting its servers.
How Proper Offboarding Can Help Prevent Data Breaches
"We need to move beyond having a key card or simply taking away people's keys," Hoyas added. "That's not effective nowadays because we have a very mobile workforce." Employees use mobile phones, work remotely on laptops, and log in to company systems from their own computers through shared drives or the cloud. "You need to manage your employees wherever they exist and wherever they log in from," he said. "Users log in from home, from their office and they can log into apps and e-mails from their own devices. Most of the time companies aren't paying for people's cellphones," he pointed out. Employers should keep that in mind when an employee leaves and they must cut off access to his or her computer, Hoyas said.
Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets
The demands are being made by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which the U.S. government says took part in the cyber attacks on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the 2014 hack of 500 million Yahoo email accounts. The FSB, which has denied involvement in both the election and Yahoo hacks, doubles as a regulator charged with approving the sale of sophisticated technology products in Russia. The reviews are also conducted by the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC), a Russian defense agency tasked with countering cyber espionage and protecting state secrets. Records published by FSTEC and reviewed by Reuters show that from 1996 to 2013, it conducted source code reviews as part of approvals for 13 technology products from Western companies. In the past three years alone it carried out 28 reviews.
UX is Grounded in Rationale, not Design
Sketching out things is great as it allows you to visualize and conceptualize something, but don’t sketch solutions without understanding of problem. You will end up boxing in your thought process too early if you do that. Though some places may say that sketching in the beginning is good, you could be using your time to distill information and create a solid framework of the work you are trying to do. ... Without building a rationale behind the problem, my reasoning behind my design decisions would end up being part of a non-existing framework I didn’t have to support them. The things I built wouldn’t be as effective if I had just focused on making sense of my research in the beginning.
Building a Blockchain PoC in Ten Minutes Using Hyperledger Composer
Hyperledger Composer, one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation, aims to solve this problem by making it easy for blockchain developers to model business assets, participants and transactions and to turn these models into viable blockchain applications. Hyperledger was set up in December 2015 as a collaborative effort to advance cross-industry open-source blockchain technologies for business. It is the fastest growing project in Linux Foundation history and the Hyperledger umbrella currently includes several technologies, from blockchain frameworks such as Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Sawtooth to tools that provide services such as monitoring, identity, development and deployment. Hyperledger Composer is one of these tools.
26 Tools and Frameworks for HTML-based Desktop and Web App Interfaces
If Angular 2 development is your thing, check out Kendo UI for Angular 2, and all-new version of Kendo UI built with TypeScript, JavaScript, and NativeScript -- no jQuery dependencies! Kendo UI for Angular 2 is in Beta as we go to press. Licensing details will be announced along with the V1 release in 2017. Kendo UI professional is available with a free trial version and per-developer, royalty-free licenses at several tiers providing access to additional Telerik developer resources. jQuery UI is another option for building HTML and JavaScript-based application interfaces. It's completely open source and has the advantage of being directly compatible with jQuery, jQuery Mobile, the QUnit JavaScript unit testing framework, and the Sizzle pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine, all directed and licensed by the jQuery foundation.
Windows Seerver Gets The Fast Train
Nano as a container image made for a good strategic fit, Gaynor opined, with the every-six-month upgrade pace justified by the tempo of containerization. "Just look at what's happened with containers in the last five years," he said. Meanwhile, making Server Core available as either always-changing or static also "made sense" to Gaynor because it had taken the place of Nano as the default smaller-footprint installation. The faster tempo lets aggressive customers "have their cake and eat it, too," said Gaynor. Cumulatively, those twice-annual upgrades will compose the feature set of the next Windows Server X. In two or three years, Microsoft will put a stake in the virtual ground by christening Windows Server 2018 or Windows Server 2019, built by the iterative process of shipping Server Core updates.
Quote for the day:
"A positive attitude will not solve all your problems. But it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort " -- Herm Albright
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