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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

Shift-left security” is the concept that security measures, focus areas, and implications should occur further to the left—or earlier—in the lifecycle than the typical phases that used to be entry points for security testing and protections. The term was first coined by Larry Smith in 2001. This creates risks.

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Proven VPN Protocols to Safeguard Your Data

Smart Data Collective

But as technology developed, PPTP’s fundamental data encryption was soon broken, putting its underlying security at risk. For customers who may not require strong data encryption, it can offer the fastest connection speeds because it lacks many security measures offered in other current protocols.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL’s systematic approach to IT service management (ITSM) can help businesses manage risk, strengthen customer relations, establish cost-effective practices, and build a stable IT environment that allows for growth, scale, and change. How does ITIL help business?

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Reclaiming the stories that algorithms tell

O'Reilly on Data

Using the new scores, Apgar and her colleagues proved that many infants who initially seemed lifeless could be revived, with success or failure in each case measured by the difference between an Apgar score at one minute after birth, and a second score taken at five minutes.

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Four Factors to Consider when Migrating to Microsoft Business Central Online

Jet Global

In other cases, costs are more obvious and clearly measurable. On the way there, however, there is a great deal that business leaders can do to rein in costs, reduce risks, and increase the value that ultimately comes out of ERP system upgrades.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Also, while surveying the literature two key drivers stood out: Risk management is the thin-edge-of-the-wedge ?for Network security mushrooms with VPNs, IDS , gateways, various bump-in-the-wire solutions, SIMS tying all the anti-intrusion measures within the perimeter together, and so on. for DG adoption in the enterprise.

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To Balance or Not to Balance?

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

A naïve comparison of the exposed and unexposed groups would produce an overly optimistic measurement of the effect of the ad, since the exposed group has a higher baseline likelihood of purchasing a pickup truck. Random forest with default R tuning parameters (Breiman, 2001). 2001): 5-32. CBPS (exact and over-parameterized).