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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense

CIO Business Intelligence

PCI DSS compliance is a robust defense that significantly mitigates the risks involved with all three. Cybersecurity experts at Verizon Consulting Services draw on hands-on experience in solving payment card security challenges dating back to the formation of the PCI security regulation in 2002.

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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

It refers to a set of metrics used to measure an organization’s environmental and social impact and has become increasingly important in investment decision-making over the years. In response, asset managers began to develop ESG strategies and metrics to measure the environmental and social impact of their investments.

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Data Privacy and Internet Safety Tips for College Students

Smart Data Collective

College students are often believed to be least at risk, because they are more tech-savvy and presumably know how to stop data breaches. Since they use the Internet a lot more than their older peers, they might actually be at an even higher risk. It highlights the need for data encryption and other data security measures.

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12 Cloud Computing Risks & Challenges Businesses Are Facing In These Days

datapine

This increases the risks that can arise during the implementation or management process. The risks of cloud computing have become a reality for every organization, be it small or large. That’s why it is important to implement a secure BI cloud tool that can leverage proper security measures. Cost management and containment.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. In their 2002 paper Chawla et al. 2002) have performed a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of SMOTE- based up-sampling. 2002) provide an example that illustrates the modifications. Generation of artificial examples. Chawla et al., Chawla et al.,

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

Trying to dissect a model to divine an interpretation of its results is a good way to throw away much of the crucial information – especially about non-automated inputs and decisions going into our workflows – that will be required to mitigate existential risk. Measure how these decisions vary across your population.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Of course, exploratory analysis of big unintentional data puts us squarely at risk for these types of mistakes. But this does not mean that the slice will continue to exhibit an extreme value on this measurement in the future. Controlling the Type I error necessarily comes at the expense of increasing the risk of a Type II error.