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The latest Verizon DBIR report is out and we all should realize, normal is not the new workplace. Picture this: You’re logging into the work account after a long weekend of gratitude, remembrance and maybe even getting to hug someone safely. Okay, we’re exaggerating a little but variations of this scene are playing out all over the country this week. You’re frustrated and you haven’t even gotten started on the work that piled up over the weekend.

For a long time, the Internet has been an easily accessible place for most people around the world, full of information, fun, and in general, it is an almost indispensable tool for most companies, if not all, and very useful in many other areas, such as education, administration, etc. But, since evil is a latent quality in the human being, this useful tool has also become a double-edged sword.

How to choose a decoupling service that suits your use case? In this article we’ll take you though some comparisons between AWS services – Kinesis vs SNS vs SQS – that allow you to decouple sending and receiving data. We’ll show you examples using Python to help you choose a decoupling service that suits your use case. Decoupling offers a myriad of advantages, but choosing the right tool for the job may be challenging.

If you’re an active Splunk Phantom user, it’s safe to assume you know what a playbook is. If not, here’s a quick summary: Phantom playbooks allow analysts to automate everyday security tasks, without the need for human interaction. Manual security tasks that used to take 30 minutes can now be executed automatically in seconds using a playbook. The result? Increased productivity and efficiency, time saved, and headaches avoided.

Network optimization is a set of tools and techniques used to improve network performance and reliability. As such, it’s not a “one and done” operation but an ongoing process. Business requirements dictate a certain level of performance, but time and budget often limit what you can and can’t tweak. So, you optimize within those constraints.

As your security capabilities improve with centralized log management, you can create proactive threat hunting queries. Setting baselines, determining abnormal behavior, and choosing an attack framework helps you mitigate risk and respond to incidents. To reduce key metrics like the mean time to investigate (MTTI) and mean time to respond (MTTR), security operations teams need to understand and create proactive queries based on their environments.

Project managers are the link between programmers and designers and between sales and customers. As such, project managers have to understand the importance of efficient, automated business processes and be comfortable dealing with people. At Germany-based global IT services and consulting company T-Systems, we take project management seriously. That's why we have a dedicated project management committee and 1,700 full-time project managers.

In recent years, businesses innovate and migrate at a faster pace by using Microsoft Azure cloud-native technologies. Azure Integration Services, an industry leading Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) provides multiple offerings like Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, Event Grid, Azure Functions & Data Factory to meet application integration scenarios. Azure Logic Apps gaining good interest with more than 40,000 customers using it.

AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure accounted for an estimated 58% of total cloud spend in Q1 2021. Businesses are considering ways to improve their connectivity to these three leading hyperscale providers - and are increasingly turning to private connectivity. In this blog, we take a look at the private connectivity offerings of AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

What is NLP Natural Language Processing is a specialized subdomain of Machine Learning which is generally concerned with the interactions between the human and machine using a human verbal or written language. NLP helps in processing huge volumes of text which would take a significant amount of time for a human to comprehend and process otherwise. Hence a lot of organizations take advantage of NLP to gain useful insights out of their text and free formatted data.