Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. Like many technologies, AI is now in a full-scale hype cycle, both in the industry and the societal/consumer mainstream. While it’s nice to have broad interest and appreciation in what we technologists and Data Scientists are doing with AI, having the spotlight on it […]
Role of Data Science in Cyber Security
Click to learn more about author Ashish Trikha. Modern Data Science, in its most fundamental form, is all about understanding. It involves studying, processing, and extracting valuable insights from a set of information. Though the word and process have been around for several decades, it was primarily a subset of computer science. Today, it has […]
Your Personal Data is Up for Grabs: New Patents & New Scams Compromise Data Privacy
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. How many ways can our privacy be compromised? Recent patents and news articles can make us crazy thinking about how our privacy is being invaded both at work and in our homes. First it was Amazon’s Echo and KitchenAid’s refrigerators recording what we said and transmitting it so […]
Preempt Introduces Fully Adaptive Cyber Security Integration with Demisto
A new press release states Preempt, a company revolutionizing the prevention of cyber security breaches and internal threats, in partnership with Demisto, an innovator in Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) technology, have announced a fully adaptive approach to cyber security and security operations that spans advanced threat prevention, incident response, and security orchestration. Through […]
Asigra Integrates Cyber Security to Defend Against Ransomware Attack-Loops
According to a recent press release, “Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider since 1986 today announced its latest release v14 “Cloud Backup Evolved” to address the growing challenges of modern data protection. The company’s newest generation of software converges data protection and cyber security to counter rapidly growing malware threats, […]
Encryption, Primary Keys and Infinity
Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. A certain area of cyber security involves encryption. This necessarily includes a good passphrase, modular math and a lot of scrambling. Good encryption produces a coded message that appears like a series of random numbers. You see, in a real series of random numbers. There is infinite entropy. […]
Why Cyber Security and Data Science Have Similar Problems
Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. To begin with, and I say this being of a certain age myself, most top managers are older people. Being older, many operated during a large part of their business career in a non-computer world. The concept of actually using computer data for business advantage only began recently, […]
Big Data Trends for 2018
The expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has added innumerable new sources of Big Data into the Data Management landscape and will be one of the major Big Data Trends in 2018 and beyond. Laptops, smart phones, sensors on machines, all generate huge amounts of data for the IoT. Organizations that are flexible enough […]
Radware Survey Finds Nearly Half of Companies Have Suffered a Data Breach in the Past Year
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Radware, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new study today titled Radware Research: Web Application Security in a Digitally Connected World. The report takes an in-depth look into how organizations protect their web applications, and identifies clear gaps in security among […]
Data Analytics Education Advances at Villanova University
Villanova University was founded in 1842 and named for the Spanish Augustinian, St. Thomas of Villanova. It was recently listed as the 50th best university in the nation by U.S. News. Considered by many to be a world class academic community, Villanova offers an education based on liberal arts, and a commitment to the ideals […]