Despite talk that RPA is over hyped, Sarah Burnett, a guru on automation technologies, says that it can cut process costs by 30%, but there is another benefit, not so obvious, and it lies with creating data we can trust. Source: Information Age Date: March 27th, 2019 Link: https://www.information-age.com/look-beyond-rpa-hype-123481025/ Discussion 1) What is Robotic Process Automation? 2) How… Read more »
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Phishing Attacks and Spear Phishing: What They are, Why They are Effective, and How to Prevent Them
Phishing attacks have been a way for malicious actors to compromise organizations at alarming rates over the years. In fact, a recent survey found that 83% of respondents experienced a phishing attack in 2018, and that a successful attack costs a mid-size enterprise organization $1.6 million. Unfortunately, most industry experts agree that phishing will also be one of the… Read more »
The Imminent Evolution of ‘Augmentation’ in Accounting and Finance
Late last month, I was the keynote speaker at the Tax Executive Institute in San Mateo, CA. This was a gathering of global tax leaders from accounting firms and public companies coming together to discuss the impact of technology in tax and accounting professions. I asked several folks a simple question — how much of your time… Read more »
Beefing up security
MANY OF US have little more than a weak, reused password standing between our financial assets and a remote attacker—one armed with powerful tools and a database of passwords from security breaches. This is a losing battle. It’s the most likely way for weak computer security to put our finances at risk. Think this can’t happen… Read more »
Hated and Hunted: The perilous life of a computer virus cracker
For the senior manager of a large corporation in Hong Kong, it was instant cold sweat. He had heard about this type of computer virus and how dangerous it could be. But he never thought that he would be tricked into clicking on a wrong link. Now, as he read the ransom note, he panicked…. Read more »
Feeding Algorithms is a Full Time Job
Most mornings after Grace Lee wakes up, she spends two hours thinking up ideas for her YouTube channel, What’s So Great About That?, a series focused around popular films and TV programmes. Lee, a 24-year-old from Peterborough, England, researches ideas, then writes scripts that help explain the concepts to her 29,000 viewers. After that, she moves… Read more »
The Youngest Tech Pioneer in Ethopia
Source: BBC Capital Date: March 15th, 2019 Link to video: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190308-how-ethiopias-youngest-tech-pioneer-inspires-a-generation Discussion What do you think it takes for a 19 year old to travel her country and teach 20,000 young people how to code Is teaching young people how to code all that is needed?
Microsoft Unveils Azure Sentinel Cloud Security Program
Microsoft Corp. unveiled two new cloud security services to help customers find and stop threats and manage their cyberdefenses by tapping experts from the software giant. Azure Sentinel, available for customer preview Thursday, is what’s called a Security Information and Event management tool. Microsoft said it’s the first of its type based in the cloud. The… Read more »
This company wants to help remote areas stay connected even during natural disasters
When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, many residents lost power for months — and some neighborhoods are still struggling to get electricity back up and running. Puerto Rico had solar panel fields generating power before the hurricane, but much of it was inaccessible when the grid (or the network that delivers electricity to people) went down…. Read more »
Huawei: The story of a controversial company
“it’s hard to see how – given Huawei’s role in providing equipment and key ICT services to the AU building and specifically to the AU’s data centre – the company could have remained completely unaware of the apparent theft of large amounts of data, every day, for five years.” Source: BBC Technology News Date: March 6th,… Read more »
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