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Cyberwarfare: An Outage of a Major Cloud Service Provider Due to Cyberattacks Could be as Damaging as Hurricane Katrina

By Dick Weisinger

Hacking and cyberattacks are growing in their frequency and intensity.  They have also become increasingly more sophisticated in how they target their victims. South Carolina reports that on election day 2016 that the state’s voter registration system was hit by…

Open Source: Survey Finds that There is a Lot to Like about OS, but Some Big Gotchas, Especially with Security

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations are increasingly finding value in the use of open source, but they are slipping in their ability to effectively secure and manage the open source code that they use, according to a new study on Open Source by Black…

Cloud Security: Market for Specialized Cloud Security Tools Grows Rapidly

By Dick Weisinger

The popularity of cloud computing drove $114 billion in revenues in 2016, and the cloud’s popularity is only increasing, and at a very rapid pace.  But as applications and data migrate to the cloud, so too does the need to…

BlockChain and Insurance: Decentralizing Ledgers to make Claims Processing more Efficient

By Dick Weisinger

Banks and finance companies are already actively exploring the blockchain technology.  In early 2017, for example, more than 30 companies, like Accenture, BP, BNY, Mellon, Microsoft, Intel, JP Morgan, and UBS teamed up in an alliance calle the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance…

SuperComputing: Racing Against China to Build an Exaflop Speed Computer

By Dick Weisinger

The Department of Energy has awarded six US computer companies $258 million to research the development of a large super-fast computing system.  The grants support research in the areas of hardware, software and application development. The six companies are: AMD, Cray,…