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Behavioral Data: Observing What People Do, rather than What they Say

By Dick Weisinger

Behavioral data is information that is collected from users that interact with applications on devices like PC, tablet or smartphone. The data can include which pages and sites a user visits, which links are clicked on , email signups, length…

Edge Computing: The Impact Poised to Rival that of the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Computing cycles continue to migrate away from on-premise systems. Instead, computing is being moved to either centralized cloud systems or decentralized systems on the edge. Over the last decade the trend has been to move applications to the cloud. The…

Artificial Intelligence: The Hidden Carbon Emission Costs

By Dick Weisinger

The capabilities of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are impressive, but the achievements have often come with massive amounts of computer cycle processing. The intensive processing can use a lot of power and generate huge amounts of carbon emissions. Training…

Security: Adoption of TLS 1.3 for Secure Web Communication Grows

By Dick Weisinger

The TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.3 protocol was officially released in the summer of 2018. It provides secure communication between web browsers and backend servers and is a replacement for SSL. TLS 1.3 supercedes TLS 1.2 and includes newer, more…

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…