4 Reasons to Outsource Large IT Projects During Economic Headwinds
Great professional services teams accumulate best practices over time and will
bring complementary skill sets into the business they’re partnering with. Shared
knowledge helps grow the skillset of your internal team, and enables them to
contribute more meaningfully to the success of your business. Your employee
satisfaction can even increase from personal and professional progress felt when
learning new technology, frameworks, or languages throughout major IT projects
developed in partnership with external experts. This aspect cannot be
overlooked, given that 91% of employees report being frustrated with inadequate
workplace technology and 71% consider looking for a new employer as a
consequence. Expert teams have the depth of knowledge on a breadth of tools that
help save tremendous time and many headaches by creating efficient, automated
workflows. Ensure that your team gets the opportunity to work directly with your
outsourced development team to facilitate knowledge sharing.
Migrating to the Cloud: Is It as Intimidating as It Appears?
Being Cloud Native is often considered crucial for business success in the
current business landscape. However, the perception of becoming “Cloud Native”
as a drastic change for a business might not necessarily be accurate. In this
article, we will delve into the concept of Cloud Migration and its effects on
the IT support infrastructure of your business. ... “Cloud Native Services”
are those services and infrastructure specifically designed to run on cloud
platforms, hosted and maintained by Cloud Providers. These services can
include a variety of offerings, such as virtual machines (VMs), application
servers, VPNs, load balancers, routers, databases, and disk storage. They can
be divided into three main categories: compute services, network services, and
storage services. ... Throughout the entire project, it is essential to
continuously monitor and manage the cloud environment to ensure that it
remains secure, cost-effective, and aligned with the business
objectives.
DevOps as a Graph for Real-Time Troubleshooting
A lot of data for observability is interrelated, but our current tools don’t
allow us to view metrics, logs and distributed traces as connected sources of
information. These data types are often collected in siloes, and correlation of
the data is done manually. For example, to know if a spike in a metric on one
service might have something to do with a spike on another service, we often
search through the metric charts to find the correlation. You need a solution
that connects operational data from the start. ... Digital Enterprise Journal’s
recent State of IT Performance Report found that change is the largest source of
production issues. 75% of all performance problems can eventually be traced back
to changes in the environment. When simple configuration errors can cause a
domino effect, there’s a broader lesson to be learned. If you’re not capturing
code or configuration changes as part of your observability strategy, it’s time
to close that gap.
New variant of the IceFire ransomware targets Linux enterprise systems
Known up to now to target only Windows systems, the IceFire malware detected
by SentinelLabs uses an iFire extension, consistent with a February report
from MalwareHunterTeam — a group of independent cybersecurity researchers
analyzing and tracking threats — that IceFire is shifting focus to Linux
enterprise systems. Contrary to past behavior targeting technology companies,
the Linux variant of IceFire was observed attacking media and entertainment
companies. The attackers’ tactics are consistent with those of the "big-game
hunting" (BGH) ransomware families, which involve double extortion, attacks
against large enterprises, the use of numerous persistence mechanisms, and
evasion tactics such as deleting log files, according to the SentinelLabs
report. Double extortion occurs when attackers steal data as well encrypting
it, and usually ask for ransom that's double the usual payment.
We chat with ChatGPT itself about the future of AI
AI has already been quite transformative, particularly in the digital
marketing industry. How do you think this is going to evolve? One area where
AI is likely to have a significant impact is in personalized marketing. By
analysing vast amounts of data on individual consumers, AI algorithms can help
marketers tailor their messages and campaigns to specific demographics,
interests, and behaviours. This can lead to more effective marketing
strategies and higher engagement rates. Another area where AI is likely to
make a big impact in digital marketing is in automation. By automating routine
tasks such as social media posting and email marketing, AI can free up
marketers to focus on more strategic activities, such as campaign planning and
content creation. Additionally, AI can help improve the accuracy of targeting
and reduce wasted ad spend by predicting which users are most likely to
convert. Finally, AI-powered chatbots are likely to become increasingly
prevalent in the digital marketing space.
What Does the National Cybersecurity Strategy Mean for Public and Private Stakeholders?
Making that shift a reality is going to mean creating incentives. “We must
shift incentives so that when entities across the public and private sectors
are faced with the trade-offs between easy but temporary fixes and durable,
long-term solutions, they have the resources, capabilities, and incentives to
consistently choose the latter,” an Office of the National Cyber Director
(ONCD) spokesperson said in a statement to InformationWeek. Regulation will be
a necessary element in incentivizing this fundamental shift in responsibility.
“Our strategy reflects the reality that voluntary measures will not be enough
to deliver the cybersecurity posture we need to enable our digital society,”
according to the ONCD spokesperson. While new regulation certainly has a role
to play, so do other forms of incentive. “Simply adding mandates and
regulation could have detrimental economic impacts, promote a ‘bare minimum’
approach to compliance and pass costs downstream.
Legal Industry Faces Double Jeopardy as a Favorite Cybercrime Target
It isn't just the sensitivity of the data that legal firms handle but also the
scope and detail of data that can be dug up by attackers who successfully
breach a single firm — especially if it's a large one. One attack can be a
one-stop shop for monetizing the data and access stolen from not just one
organization, but a whole portfolio of them. "Law firms connect with and
support many clients at any given time. Compromising one law firm gives bad
actors access to numerous client networks without having to directly reach
each one of them," says Michael Tal, technical director for Votiro, a cloud
file security firm that works extensively with the legal industry. "Files are
the primary form of communication and weaponizing them gives bad actors a sure
way to get the clients to open and infect the clients." ... The other
attractive element for hackers is that law firms and legal services companies
tend to be very soft targets.
IT leadership: How to lead with strategic clarity
Business leaders who have a complete understanding of where their people and
activities are situated in their overall strategy have “strategic clarity.”
These leaders are invaluable – they can fill their team’s day with meaningful
work, burst through information silos, synergize teams across departments, and
articulate every activity’s role in achieving their goals. By connecting every
department, goal, person, and task to a shared vision, businesses can unlock
their full potential. While establishing strategic clarity might sound
complicated, with the right framework, it’s quite intuitive. Here’s how you
can accomplish this using the strategic clarity map. The strategic clarity map
is a simple but powerful diagram that helps IT leaders define their current
and desired situations and determine how to move from current to future
states. ... The present-to-future bar is split in the middle. What makes the
difference between your present state and actualizing your goals is how you
put this next part into action.
Responsible AI at Amazon Web Services: Q&A with Diya Wynn
AWS has a broad strategy. We have a commitment to transforming theory into
actions. This means how we’re changing and influencing the way that we build
our services and the work that I do with customers — engaging and helping them
bring that practice to life, operationalize it inside their organizations. We
invest in education and training to create a more diverse future workforce.
There’s an AI/ML scholarship program that’s bringing in those that typically
might have been underrepresented to help them study artificial intelligence
and machine learning. We also focus on training and educating those who are
part of the product and machine learning lifecycle because they need to
understand and be aware of potential areas of risk and how we mitigate them.
The last area from a company perspective is about how we invest in advancing
the science around responsible AI. We’ve made huge investments and continue to
work with institutions, we have scholarships or research grants that are being
provided in the way of NSF that are helping to encourage research in the area
of responsible AI.
What Are Cloud-Bound Applications?
Broadly, we can group the way an application binds with its surroundings into
two categories. Compute bindings are all the necessary bindings,
configurations, APIs, and conventions used to run an application on a compute
platform such as Kubernetes, a container service, or even serverless functions
(such as AWS Lambda). Mostly, these bindings are transparent to the internal
architecture, and configured and used by operations teams rather than
developers. The container abstraction is the most widespread “API” for
application compute binding today. ... Integration bindings is a catch-all
term for all other bindings to external dependencies that an application is
relying upon. The cloud services also use these bindings to interact with the
application, usually over well-defined HTTP “APIs,” or specialized messaging
and storage access protocols, such as AWS S3, Apache Kafka, Redis APIs, etc.
The integration bindings are not as transparent as the runtime bindings.
Quote for the day:
"Taking charge of your own learning is
a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming
an integrated person." -- Warren G. Bennis
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