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An employee of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has been accused of sending national defense secrets from his personal email account.  A 26-count indictment unsealed Thursday in the District of Maryland alleges that 60-year-old Mark Robert Unkenholz willfully transmitted classified National Defense Information (NDI) on 13 occasions between February 14 2018 and June 1 2020. Unkenholz, of Hanover, Maryland, held a Top Secret/SCI clearance and had lawful access to classified information relating to national defense…

A sustainable value chain responsibly adds value to a product or a service as it makes its way from a supplier to a customer. As a growing number of enterprises are coming to learn, this is critical as they vie for business in increasingly competitive markets. Companies can add value by making a process more efficient, by sourcing more ethical or climate-friendly raw materials for a product or by utilizing renewable energy. A sustainable value…

The American Public University System (APUS) is joining forces with the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) to help boost the nation’s cybersecurity posture. APUS is a private online learning university system composed of American Military University and American Public University. Each offers a strong cyber defense-focused curriculum at undergraduate and graduate levels. The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have designated APUS as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (CAE-C)….

Google Cloud has released a new fully managed search tool, called Retail Search, which is aimed at retailers who are concerned about product discovery on their digital platforms. The service is intended to solve a common retail challenge of losing customers when they don’t immediately find their desired product on an ecommerce platform. This phenomenon, which Google calls search abandonment, could cost US retailers around $300 billion each year, according to research conducted jointly by…

AI for Better Decision-Making Better decision-making isn’t always about deciding whether A or B is the optimal choice. Sometimes it’s about rethinking what kind of decisions to make. Consider that it may be easier to make one big decision well, rather than hundreds of smaller decisions that each have different payouts and risks. In contrast, computers are very good at finding patterns in large datasets to automate hundreds of smaller decisions. For example, buying stock…

It isn’t a secret that the overwhelming majority of data hosted by enterprises in the cloud is with US-owned cloud providers. But a study by the Centre for European Policy Studies in 2021 found that a whopping 92% of the western worlds data is currently stored in the US. In principal that has been fine with organisations based in other countries, since the scale of these cloud providers was such that data locality was not…