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3 security threats businesses need to prepare for by 2021

Read Alison DeNisco Rayome list three top cybersecurity threats that businesses should prepare for on the Tech Republic : To stay secure in the modern connected world, businesses must keep track of all emerging cybersecurity threats and assess the potential business impacts of when not if, they will experience a breach or incident, according to […]

61% of CIOs believe employees leak data maliciously

There is a perception gap between IT leaders and employees over the likelihood of insider breaches. It is a major challenge for businesses: insider data breaches are viewed as frequent and damaging occurrences, of concern to 95% of IT leaders, yet the vectors for those breaches – employees – are either unaware of, or unwilling […]

How Do You Know When A Cybersecurity Data Breach Is Over?

Read Stephen Moore’s tips for businesses to find out when a cybersecurity data breach is over on Forbes : People often ask, “When does the pain of a security breach finally end?” The answer is often a surprise. It isn’t over when you’ve removed a hacker or insider threat from your network environment, just as […]

Ransomware Behind Norsk Hydro Attack Takes On Wiper-Like Capabilities

LockerGoga, the malware that took down Norsk Hydro last week, has taken the industrial world by storm, as researchers race to uncover more about the mysterious ransomware that crippled several of the aluminum maker’s plants. Questions still remain about how the malware first infects the system it targets, who is behind the attacks – and what […]

The ethics of artificial intelligence: Teaching computers to be good people

When people think about artificial intelligence or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming. Real AI is light-years away from that. Today, AI is still pretty far from basic things humans can accomplish, like being able to […]

Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are coming to the AWS cloud

In the coming weeks, AWS is launching new G4 instances with support for Nvidia’s T4 Tensor Core GPUs, the company today announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference. The T4, which is based on Nvidia’s Turing architecture, was specifically optimized for running AI models. The T4 will be supported by the EC2 compute service and the Amazon […]

Artificial Intelligence Beyond Deep Neural Networks

Read Naga Rayapati list four reasons that AI community should think beyond deep learning on Forbes : Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominated by pattern recognition techniques. Recently, major advances have been made in the fields of image recognition, machine translation, audio processing and several others thanks to the development and refinement of deep learning. But […]

Machine learning is not real learning argues a new paper

Machine learning is not real learning — machine learning would appear to be a misleading phrase, maybe as a result we need to re-think our understanding of AI; at least these are the implications of a recently published paper. Artificial intelligence is a misleading phrase, or so many argue. It is misleading because there is […]

Want to Transcend The E-Myth And Scale Your Business? Try A.I.

Less than six months after launching my company I found myself at a diner with a friend. Over coffee, I began telling him about my recent successes — and struggles — as an entrepreneur. He stopped me. “Have you read The E-Myth?” I shook my head. “Then cancel everything you’re doing today and get yourself […]

Insights for your enterprise approach to AI and ML ethics: Context from Courtney Bowman and Anthony Bak of Palantir

Optimizing AI in your organization requires attention to the closely interrelated topics of security, compliance and ethics. The need for specialized security around AI has been underscored by the proven ability for many kinds of algorithms to be deceived as well as the need to protect both data and algorithms from modification. The need for […]