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Security: Lax or Misconfigured Permissions Source of Many Incidents

By Dick Weisinger

Cloud security issues are often blamed on human errors made during system configuration. A recent study by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 drilled down more on this claim and found misconfiguration of user security access was often the source of…

Open Source: The Open Core Conundrum

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software is publicly accessible and can be downloaded, modified, and reused. It is developed in a decentralized way with peer collaboration and review. Open Core is a business model where a company drives creates an open-source software project…

Artificial and Natural Intelligence: Will Future AI Act as Human Avatars?

By Dick Weisinger

Natural Intelligence (NI) is biological DNA-based brain power. It is the wisdom that humans have evolved, developed, and passed down through generations. Contrast Natural Intelligence with man-made Artificial Intelligence. An essay in Scientific American depicts AI as a human avatar…

Data Stewardship: The Need for Oversight of Open Data Sets

By Dick Weisinger

Data Governance lays out high-level policies and procedures for managing data in an organization. Data Stewardship is the day-to-day implementation of those policies. The data steward makes sure that data governance policies are abided by and that the data managed…

Energy: Making Fuel and Plastics from CO2 — The Circular Carbon Economy

By Dick Weisinger

Scientists believe that global warming has been triggered by massive amounts of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere as a result of the burning of fossil fuels. To mitigate the problem, both researchers and industry are investigating how to…