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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Success in PCI DSS compliance and enterprise-wide efforts to protect data is not determined by luck,” adds Philipsen. “It

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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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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

This title breaks teaches you to measure, predict, and build trust. “We We need to really understand the drivers that influence customer and employee trust, as this is increasingly a litmus test,” says Johnson. It is imperative for technology leaders to be authentic, honest, candid, and transparent — in the pursuit of being trusted.”

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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. Their tests are performed using C4.5-generated 2002) provide an example that illustrates the modifications. Chawla et al.,

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Public cloud vs. private cloud vs. hybrid cloud: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Internet companies like Amazon led the charge with the introduction of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, which offered businesses cloud-based storage and computing services, and the launch of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006, which allowed users to rent virtual computers to run their own applications.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Yet when we use these tools to explore data and look for anomalies or interesting features, we are implicitly formulating and testing hypotheses after we have observed the outcomes. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. In addition to the issues above, does the conclusion pass the smell test?

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SOX Compliance Guide

Jet Global

We’ve created a comprehensive guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the SOX Act, to help you understand what’s in the act and why it’s important for your organization to have strong access controls and SOX compliant practices. What is SOX Compliance? Bush in July of the same year. Establish safeguards to set timelines.