The Truth About Privileged Access Security On AWS And Other Public Clouds
Bottom Line: Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) centralizes identity roles, policies and Config Rules yet doesn’t go far enough to provide a Zero Trust-based approach to Privileged Access Management (PAM) that enterprises need today. AWS provides a baseline level of support for Identity and Access Management at no charge as part of their AWS instances, as do […]
What Needs To Be On Your CPQ Channel Roadmap In 2019
Bottom Line: Adding new features to your CPQ channel selling platform directly benefits your resellers and channel partners, driving greater revenue, channel loyalty, and expansion into new markets. Personalization Is Key To CPQ Succeeding In Channels Sustaining and strengthening relationships across all indirect selling channels succeeds when dealers, multi-tier distributors, resellers, intermediaries, and service providers […]
Low code – how much of the promise can it really deliver ?
This blog you are reading is written on a “low code” system – it is a wordpress blog where I have not used any custom coding at all. I could have – and I am an experienced developer. And yet I chose to not even touch html or CSS because it works for my limited […]
Cake
Lately, I’ve been thinking about cake. Not (just) because I’m headed to Vienna, home of the incomparable Sacher Torte, nor because I’ll be celebrating my birthday while attending the BPM2019 academic research conference while there. No, I’ve been thinking about technical architectural layer cake models. In 2014, an impossibly long time ago in computer-years, I […]
A strictly personal take on multi cloud
This is one of those topics where my employer IBM has a vested interest and consequently I need to state upfront that what I say below is strictly my own views from my limited view of the large enterprise world. My personal experience over the last couple of decades has been in the very large […]
Kubernetes Matures: On Operator Experience, industry updates from Docker, Pivotal and Mesosphere.
Kubernetes has firmly established itself as the industry standard for container orchestration. There is basically no other game in town at this point. But when it comes to user experience there is plenty to play for – we’re still early in a secular shift. So far a lot of the Kubernetes build-out has been very […]
Your Mobile Phone Is Your Identity. How Do You Protect It?
The average cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years and is now $3.92M. U.S.-based breaches average $8.19M in losses, leading all nations. Not integrating mobile phone platforms and protecting them with a Zero Trust Security framework can add up to $240K to the cost of a breach. Companies that […]
How To Deal With Ransomware In A Zero Trust World
Lake City, Florida’s city government paid ransomware attackers about $530,000 or 42 Bitcoins, to restore access to systems and data last month. The City of Riviera Beach, Florida, paid ransomware attackers about $600,000 to regain access to their systems last month. Earlier this month, LaPorte County, Indiana paid over $130,000 worth of Bitcoins to ransomware […]
AI Is Predicting The Future Of Online Fraud Detection
Bottom Line: Combining supervised and unsupervised machine learning as part of a broader Artificial Intelligence (AI) fraud detection strategy enables digital businesses to quickly and accurately detect automated and increasingly complex fraud attempts. Recent research from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), KPMG, PwC, and others reflects how organized crime and state-sponsored fraudsters are increasing the sophistication, scale, […]
Where have all the process visionaries gone?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 21, 2019
A recent visit to an Amazon Fulfillment Center was eye-opening. They have completely redefined the old warehouse pick, pack, ship mindset. It’s now stow, pick, pack, verify, and in their lingo, SLAM and “chaotic storage”. Kiva robots and miles of conveyor belts bring work to employees not the other way round. Scanners, scales, sensors monitor […]
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