Six Unexpected Challenges to Modernizing Apps

Six Unexpected Challenges to Modernizing Apps

App modernization brings undeniable benefits such as reduced costs, improved productivity, increased business agility, and enhanced security. Staying competitive and delivering value to your customers requires a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, and it’s likely that your application future may consist of cloud-based, containerized, microservice-based applications created to run with DevOps processes.  While your organization may have a well-defined vision, the path to achieve it can be unclear. The most common approach is to attempt to shift into that future state in “one fell swoop” — swapping out the entire infrastructure stack all in one go instead of evolving current teams and processes. With this approach, there are huge technical,…

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US IT job recovery is in full swing, but employee retention can be tenuous

US IT job recovery is in full swing, but employee retention can be tenuous

Hiring of IT professionals is at record pace with 197,000 more IT jobs so far this year than at the same time last year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). There has been growth in the IT job market each of the past eight months, according to IT employment consultancy Janco Associates.  “Information-Technology leaders say they are boosting compensation packages and flexible work options to widen the pool of prospective job candidates,…

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Asset Visibility – Condition Monitoring – Cisco Blogs

Asset Visibility – Condition Monitoring – Cisco Blogs

Only a decade ago, I navigated my car rides with paper maps. Today, it’s hard to imagine pulling out a paper map to manually figure out directions to my destination. I have already made this transition from paper maps to electronic ones but many industrial workflows still rely on paper. From Paper to Electronic Systems Technicians in an industrial plant often collect the operating conditions of pumps, motors, conveyors and pipes manually, often on paper….

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XDR: Decipher the Hype to Understand the Benefits

XDR: Decipher the Hype to Understand the Benefits

Anomali’s Mark Alba Joins ‘Down the Security Rabbithole’ Host Rafal Los to Decipher the Hype and Discuss How Detection Innovations Like Threat Intel and MITRE ATT&CK Are Critical to Success    If you are in the cybersecurity industry, you’ve heard plenty about Extended Detection and Response (XDR). Some recognize XDR as an important advancement that will strengthen security postures, others are confused by it. One thing is now certain, it’s not just another buzzword. XDR…

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Game-changing Innovation: Co-Ideate. Code. Demo. – Cisco Blogs

Game-changing Innovation: Co-Ideate. Code. Demo. – Cisco Blogs

Zak Zielezinski This blog is co-authored by Carlos Pignataro and Zak Zielezinski.       What happens when you give your team an uninterrupted and electric 48 hours of freedom to co-create, code, prototype, and test out innovations? You get game-changing innovations added to the product roadmap, market-opening integrations expanding the portfolio, increased employee engagement and customer-focused success! Is there a method to our madness? Of course! The recipe… Diverse teams + Executive sponsorship Customer feedback…

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Want to be a cybersecurity pro? Here’s where to learn quickly and start a new career

Want to be a cybersecurity pro? Here’s where to learn quickly and start a new career

You don’t have to blow your budget or spend a lot of time going back to school to train for a new career, when you can learn all you need to know to fight cybercrime from a handful of courses. Image: BeeBright/Shutterstock It’s a really sad state of affairs when even the FBI is hacked. But it goes to show that cybersecurity skills have never been more in demand, and that doesn’t look like it…

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Verdict Reached in Josh Duggar Case

Verdict Reached in Josh Duggar Case

A political activist and former star of the reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting has been convicted of two charges relating to the sexual abuse of children. On Thursday, after a six-day trial that featured ten witnesses, a jury found Josh Duggar guilty of one count of receiving CSAM and one count of possessing CSAM. It took the jury just under seven hours of deliberation to reach its verdict. The 33-year-old married father of seven now faces a maximum prison…

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Why companies should use AI to fight cyberattacks

Why companies should use AI to fight cyberattacks

Cyberattackers use artificial intelligence, so why not apply it as a defense? One expert explains why AI can take your cybersecurity to the next level of protection. Image: iStockPhoto/maxkabakov In any debate, there are always at least two sides. That reasoning also applies to whether or not it is a good idea to use artificial intelligence technology to try stemming the advantages of cybercriminals who are already using AI to improve their success ratio.  SEE:…

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DARPA Announces SMOKE Program

DARPA Announces SMOKE Program

US military network-security researchers have launched a new program to discover more about the tactics of malicious hackers. The Signature Management Using Operational Knowledge and Environments (SMOKE) program was announced on Tuesday in a broad agency statement put out by officials at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia. Signatures are patterns that describe the way in which an organization performs cyber operations. SMOKE is asking the computer industry to develop methods…

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New tech for the holidays? Watch out for these tech support scams.

New tech for the holidays? Watch out for these tech support scams.

We all know the frustration. A new piece of tech isn’t working the way it should. Or maybe setting it up is simply turning into a royal pain. Grrr, right? Just make sure that when you go on the hunt for some help, you don’t let a tech support scam get the better of you.   Like so many scams out there, tech support scams play on people’s emotions. Specifically, the frustration you feel when things don’t work right. You want that problem fixed right now. So much so that you may not pay close enough…

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