World’s first insured authentication provides $1M coverage per financial transaction

Cyber insurance doesn’t come cheap and it doesn’t always pay out after a company is hacked. But today the Scottsdale-based company Trusona announced that it has become the world’s first insured authentication platform. Trusona, using its own cyber insurance, will insure the identity and thereby the transactions of Trutoken users up to $1 million.Tim Greene previously wrote about Trusona’s “100% accurate authentication scheme” which uses the company’s Trutoken dongle. The product is primarily aimed at users such as bank customers moving thousands of dollars or corporate executives with access to critical data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Why you need to learn to code

We’ve all heard it by now: you’d better learn to code, or your network engineering career is going to die a quick (and potentially painful) death. Maybe you could still act as a briefcase carrier, and call yourself a consultant, but without coding skills, you’re open ended job is going to become a dead end, and you’ll be a has been. While just about everyone has weighed in on this topic recently, I don’t know if anyone has, IMHO, really dug down to the bottom of the question. Permit me to give it a try (and feel free to disagree in the comments).

To get to the point, allow me to summarize both sides of the argument (hopefully without building and straw men along the way). On one side are folks who say that the Command Line Interface (CLI) is dead, and that we must learn to automate everything. Part of the argument here seems to be that without automation, we won’t be able to keep the operational costs (OPEX) down; as networks are primarily a cost center (rather than a strategic asset), driving costs down is one of the most important tasks a network engineer can take on. That, Continue reading

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Need e-commerce for your SMB? SAP has a cloud tool for you

Enabling e-commerce capabilities isn't a trivial matter for companies small or large, but SAP has a new cloud tool it thinks will help SMBs in particular. Called SAP Anywhere, it's designed specifically for companies with 10 to 200 employees.SAP Anywhere aims to help small and midsize businesses build a website or online store, create marketing campaigns, sell products and take payments, manage inventory, and analyze business performance, all from a mobile phone or tablet."More than 28 million small firms in the United States need to market goods online and satisfy customers' desire for a digital buying experience," said EJ Jackson, senior vice president and general manager for SAP Anywhere. "At the end of the day, company size is irrelevant to the consumer."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Windows 10 post-upgrade cleanup tips

At the end of July 2016, the free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10 will come to an end. In the meantime, lots of users and admins may find themselves electing to exercise their upgrade options, rather than let them go unused.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

A huge fine for Google could come soon in EU antitrust investigation

Google could face a record fine of up to €3 billion (US $3.4 billion) as soon as early next month as part of a six-year European Commission antitrust investigation into the company's search engine dominance, according to a news report.A fine in the European Commission's long-running investigation, launched in November 2010, is expected by summer, according to a report in The Telegraph, which cited anonymous sources. The $3.4 billion fine cited in the report would be less than the maximum allowed, which is 10 percent of Google's worldwide revenue, or about $7.5 billion.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Eventbrite and HelloSign SaaS offering makes event registration easier

I'm a massive fan of HelloSign. I seem to have an ever-increasing number of documents to sign and forms to fill out. This, coupled with the fact that I don't work from one fixed location, means that I always had lots of frustration when it came to form filling. Having to find a printer to print a form out, a pen to fill it in and then some way of digitizing the form to send it back was a real pain.I haven't had to do any of that for a year or two now—I simply use HelloSign (and its super-handy Gmail integration) to fill in, sign and send forms in a flash. So, now that my business form signing problems are solved, what other areas can HelloSign help with?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Where does IBM fit in the cloud market?

Recently released reports from two investment research firms call into question just exactly where IBM fits in the cloud computing market.Deutsche Bank’s Markets Research team issued a note titled “Why IBM Won’t Catch AWS,” which argues that IBM’s focus on hybrid cloud computing puts the company in a different, and smaller, market than Amazon Web Services.Another report from UBS Global Research focused more broadly on the cloud computing market and said IBM should be considered among the “Big 4” providers in cloud: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.The conflicting reports show IBM is sitting on the fringe of the cloud market.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FBI/FTC: Watch those e-mails from your “CEO”

The scam business of tricking employees into opening company coffers by spoof e-mails apparently from their CEO is on the rise. The FBI says that the so-called business e-mail compromise scam has caused $2.3 billion in losses to 17,642 business and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and other countries since October 2013, with the number of victims nearly tripling since January 2015. +More on network World: IRS: Top 10 2015 identity theft busts+ This week the Federal Trade Commission blog wrote that the CEO schemers first study their intended victims closely.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FBI/FTC: Watch those e-mails from your “CEO”

The scam business of tricking employees into opening company coffers by spoof e-mails apparently from their CEO is on the rise. The FBI says that the so-called business e-mail compromise scam has caused $2.3 billion in losses to 17,642 business and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and other countries since October 2013, with the number of victims nearly tripling since January 2015. +More on network World: IRS: Top 10 2015 identity theft busts+ This week the Federal Trade Commission blog wrote that the CEO schemers first study their intended victims closely.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FBI/FTC: Watch those e-mails from your “CEO”

The scam business of tricking employees into opening company coffers by spoof e-mails apparently from their CEO is on the rise. The FBI says that the so-called business e-mail compromise scam has caused $2.3 billion in losses to 17,642 business and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and other countries since October 2013, with the number of victims nearly tripling since January 2015. +More on network World: IRS: Top 10 2015 identity theft busts+ This week the Federal Trade Commission blog wrote that the CEO schemers first study their intended victims closely.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

EP03: Ask Us Anything – Open Questions and Answers with TK

Questions Asked:

• I have my CCNA R/S. Should I continue my CCNP R/S or go after my CCNA Security then CCNP Security?
• I have had my CCNA for a year and a half now, but cannot get into an engineer role. Do you have any suggestions?
• I’m currently working as a computer systems administrator… any suggestions on how to transition?
• How does someone specialize in a particular technology?
• I am 17 years old and have an interest in IT. What is the best way to start?

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Worth Reading: Social Media and Monetization

Social media developed by entrepreneurs, backed by venture capital, will eventually have to find some revenue. And there are only three choices: they sell information about their users and content creators, even if that’s just access to the attention of the users via advertisements; they sell services to their users and content creators; they sell the content their creators gave to them, or at least take a huge cut of any such sales. That’s it. -via Easily Distracted

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Can Open Source Hardware Crack Semiconductor Industry Economics?

The running joke is that when a headline begs a question, the answer is, quite simply, “No.” However, when the question is multi-layered, wrought with dependencies that stretch across an entire supply chain, user bases, and device range, and across companies in the throes of their own economic and production uncertainties, a much more nuanced answer is required.

Although Moore’s Law is not technically dead yet, organizations from the IEEE to individual device makers are already thinking their way out of a box that has held the semiconductor industry neatly for decades. However, it turns out, that thought process is …

Can Open Source Hardware Crack Semiconductor Industry Economics? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Network Break 87: Facebook Rethinks Routing; Storage Advice For Cisco

Today's Network Break examines Open/R, a new routing application from Facebook, discusses unsolicited advice to Cisco about its storage strategy, checks in on cable consolidation and more.

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Network Break 87: Facebook Rethinks Routing; Storage Advice For Cisco

Today's Network Break examines Open/R, a new routing application from Facebook, discusses unsolicited advice to Cisco about its storage strategy, checks in on cable consolidation and more.

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33% off Fire HD 6 Kids Edition Tablet – Deal Alert

Amazon's Fire tablet comes in a well thought out kid's edition. If you're in the market for a kid-proof tablet that won't break the bank, this is one to consider at its currently discounted price of $99.99.  That's a $50 savings on its regular list price of $149.99. The Fire Kids Edition sports a 7" 1024 x 600 IPS display (wider viewing angle and higher quality colors). There is a 2MP rear-facing HD camera as well as a VGA front-facing camera for things like Skype. 8GB internal storage is expandable to 128GB via a microSD slot, and Amazon gives you free unlimited cloud storage for Amazon content and photos/videos taken from the device. There's an accelerometer and gyroscopic sensor onboard, and Bluetooth for wireless headphones or microphone connections. Battery life is roughly 7 hours, and it recharges to 100% in about 6.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

33% off Fire HD 6 Kids Edition Tablet – Deal Alert

Amazon's Fire tablet comes in a well thought out kid's edition. If you're in the market for a kid-proof tablet that won't break the bank, this is one to consider at its currently discounted price of $99.99.  That's a $50 savings on its regular list price of $149.99.The Fire Kids Edition sports a 7" 1024 x 600 IPS display (wider viewing angle and higher quality colors). There is a 2MP rear-facing HD camera as well as a VGA front-facing camera for things like Skype. 8GB internal storage is expandable to 128GB via a microSD slot, and Amazon gives you free unlimited cloud storage for Amazon content and photos/videos taken from the device. There's an accelerometer and gyroscopic sensor onboard, and Bluetooth for wireless headphones or microphone connections. Battery life is roughly 7 hours, and it recharges to 100% in about 6.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

5 things you need to know about data exhaust

Big data is now a familiar term in most of the business world, and companies large and small are scrambling to take advantage of it. Data exhaust, on the other hand, is less widely known, and in some ways it's an evil twin brother. Here are five things you should understand about data exhaust's pros and cons.1. It's essentially all the big data that isn't core to your business. The "data exhaust" term has actually been around for more than a decade, and it arose with the new streams of data coming from smartphones, said Tye Rattenbury, director of data science and solutions engineering at Trifacta, which makes software for data preparation. Today, more accessible data tools are bringing exhaust to the fore.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here