Access and Feeds

Yearly Archives: 2020

Security: Data Breaches Grow More Frequent and More Costly

By Dick Weisinger

Several new reports on the occurrence and impact of data breaches find that breaches are becoming more frequent and more costly. An excellent report by Audit Analytics summarizes data on breaches over the past decade. A report from Ponemon sponsored…

Cloud Computing: Alibaba versus AWS

By Dick Weisinger

When you think of the competitors to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform come immediately to mind. But there’s another growing competitor that is coming from China: Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba was founded in 2009, just a few years after…

Natural Language Processing: Enterprises Tap AI to Improve Internal and External Communication

By Dick Weisinger

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms to process, understand and generate human text and speech. NLP technology is being used with chatbots, smart machines, and language translation applications. Walt Kristick, senior vice president at apexanalytix,…

Quantum Computing: Researchers Evaluate Algorithms that Quantum-Proof Encryption

By Dick Weisinger

The development of ultra-fast quantum computers may bring the end of encryption techniques used commonly today. While it’s not impossible to decrypt data stored by today’s encryption algorithms, it isn’t practical. Encryption security is based on the fact that the…

Supply Chain Trends: Technology to Slowly Drive Change

By Dick Weisinger

Advanced technologies are impacting the operation of supply chains. Christian Titze, vice president analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice, said that “the vast majority of organizations have a cautious approach to adopting supply chain applications and technologies. Only 21%…