API Attacks, Breaches Piling Up
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Data warehouses and holistic business intelligence
Business intelligence is the process of analyzing company data to better understand that data, spot anomalies or trends and make predictions. It’s possible to do analytics on individual systems — such as the sales system or the inventory system — but the resulting business intelligence is then significantly limited in value. When the analytics are performed across many — or all — of a company’s systems, the resulting intelligence is more comprehensive. Executives can see a genuine, holistic, bird’s-eye view of company performance.…
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API Attacks, Breaches Piling Up
In August, dozens of organizations using Microsoft Power Apps inadvertently exposed 38 million records — COVID-19 contact tracing, job applicants’ Social Security numbers, and even 332,000 email addresses and employee IDs used by Microsoft’s own global payroll services. In addition to Microsoft, other organizations affected included American Airlines; Ford; J.B. Hunt; and agencies in Indiana, Maryland and New York City. According to researchers at UpGuard, the security firm that discovered the leaks, Microsoft Power Apps portals were easy to set up in such a way as to allow for public access. “Multiple governmental bodies reported performing security reviews of their apps…
Five Functions That Benefit From Cybersecurity Automation
SASE Model Proving Value Beyond Remote Work Scenarios
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SASE Model Proving Value Beyond Remote Work Scenarios
Gartner only coined the term SASE — secure access service edge — two years ago to describe a cloud-based service that combines SD-WAN networking with all the latest security features in a single, easy-to-manage and easy-to-deploy SaaS product. Back then, SASE, which is pronounced “sassy,” was more of a philosophy, or direction to move in, rather than an actual product category. Few vendors offered a full SASE stack and, when they did, usually required customers to buy it in pieces, often a lot of pieces, with confusing names and overlapping functionality. Getting to the SASE model was going to take years, experts said. Then…
What to expect from SASE certifications
Cisco adds specializations to its CCNP cert
Network certs 2021: Significant raises for the right ones
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Last month, I posted an article about a bunch of ways writers can use to beat procrastination. But maybe you want to go deeper on the topic. Here are seven books on Amazon with over a 100 positive reviews that…
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According to WrittenWordMedia’s 2019 author survey, more than 75 percent of successful book authors — those making $60,000 a year or more from their writing — use professional designers for their book covers. But they tend to spend between $100 and…