Pandemic Forcing Pentagon to Learn Tough Cybersecurity Lessons
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The Navy took some risk in permitting hundreds of thousands of service members and civilian employees to use personal laptops and cell phones at home during the COVID-19 pandemic to transact normal business, the service’s top cybersecurity official said. But allowing the use of personal …
Rite Aid Has Been Using Face Recognition at Hundreds of Stores
Rite Aid used face recognition to scan the faces of every single customer who walked into hundreds of its stores in a program encompassing most of the past decade, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The program spanned eight years, two vendors, and was implemented in 200 stores—a disproportionate number of …
The Cyberattack on Garmin Poses a Complicated Question for the U.S. Government
People first started noticing something was wrong with Garmin midway through last week when they weren’t able to use the company’s GPS-enabled devices to upload workout data. Then reports started rolling in that several of Garmin’s other GPS devices and services, including its flight planning …
Top data analytics trends that will rule in the next decade
What do these data analytics trends mean for businesses? The landscape of data analytics is changing more rapidly than ever. This is relentlessly evolving with the rise of digital data. An IDC report predicts that there will be 175 zettabytes of data generated in the …
Top 10 Benefits of a Data Warehouse
The benefits of a data warehouse include improved data analytics, greater revenue and the ability to compete more strategically in the marketplace. By efficiently feeding standardized, contextual data to an organization’s business intelligence software, a data warehouse drives a more effective data strategy. To gain these benefits, data warehouse tools use …
Data Lakes And Data Warehouses: The Two Sides Of A Modern Cloud Data Platform
When it comes to data, today’s CIOs are being pulled in all directions. They’re asked to provide an effective data platform that supports machine learning and other data-driven innovation, but they must also continue to support traditional business intelligence (BI) tools and weekly data reports. …
How can universities carry out data management during COVID-19?
Mark Lee, Key Accounts – Public Sector, Commvault, discusses the importance of carrying out a first-class data management strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond The continuing pandemic is putting many businesses, including those in the public sector, in a very difficult position. Universities, in particular, are …
The construction industry is short on human workers and ripe for a robotic takeover
Construction is a $10 trillion global industry. It’s also mired by waste, severe worker shortages and weak productivity growth — all of which mean the business of building is ripe for a robotic takeover. Productivity — the total economic output per worker — in the construction …
Your Remote Team Could Be Communicating Better With These 4 Simple Prompts
According to Gallup, highly engaged teams show 21% greater profitability. A core tenant of highly engaged teams is effective communication. To help get you started with improving team communication, here are 4 prompts you can use with your teams to drastically improve remote communication starting today. …
Covid-19 could accelerate the robot takeover of human jobs
Machines were supposed to take over tasks too dangerous for humans. Now humans are the danger, and robots might be the solution. Inside a Schnucks grocery store in St. Louis, Missouri, the toilet paper and baking ingredients are mostly cleared out. A rolling robot turns …
