There are several holidays tied to buying stuff. For Halloween, we buy all kinds of crap we shouldn’t be eating and feed it to our kids. When Valentine’s Day approaches, husbands and boyfriends live in fear of forgetting it, or getting their significant other’s card, gift or flowers wrong again. Fourth of July is when […]
Determining the benefits for artificial intelligence (AI) projects is difficult and confusing, but increasingly important. By 2024, 50% of AI investments will be quantified and linked to specific key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure return on investment. Organizations often ask about the benefits they can expect from deploying AI to begin with, so Gartner collected […]
New applications of artificial intelligence (AI) are emerging at a very fast pace, particularly in the healthcare industry. The industry is full of technology vendors, data science companies, researchers and innovators focused on creating predictive and prescriptive algorithms for improved diagnosis and treatment recommendations. By 2021, Gartner predicts that 75% of healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) […]
Dave, a longtime CIO at a large corporation, finds himself drowning in a sea of new technology developments. He is used to the old way of doing things, where a new technology advancement would come out every few years. As a result, Dave has grown comfortable waiting for the early adopters to figure things out […]
By John P. Mello Jr. Jul 10, 2019 9:42 AM PT A security researcher has found a flaw in the popular video conferencing app Zoom that could be used to turn on the camera on a Macintosh computer without a user’s permission. The vulnerability allows any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom […]
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Noémi lives in France. She needs to file her income tax return and — since she’s already doing “admin stuff” — she also checks the status of her healthcare reimbursements and signs up on the local electoral list. FranceConnect allows Noémi to access the public services needed to complete these tasks using a single logon. […]
The theft of private data on 143 million Americans made the Equifax cyberattack one of the biggest in history. The company’s handling of the breach came under intense scrutiny, resulting in the resignation of CEO Richard Smith in September 2017 amid the turmoil. He wasn’t the first or the last casualty. A Gartner analysis of […]
Imagine your project team as traffic on a freeway. When the traffic density (or resource utilization) is high, a minor crash has an immediate effect on traffic flow — slowing it dramatically or stopping it completely. And you don’t need 100% traffic density to see this effect. Traffic jams start appearing when roads reach utilization […]
We all know that communication is important. Anyone who’s ever been married, had a friend, or held a job knows that’s true. While good communication is pretty much universally beneficial, there are times when it’s more so than others. One such time? During a cybersecurity incident. Incident responders know that communication is paramount. Even a […]