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Amid ChatGPT's rise to fame, how can enterprises work to eliminate AI bias?

Artificial Intelligence Bias

Artificial intelligence continues to hog the headlines, as more people discover the power of tools like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and especially ChatGPT. These futuristic-seeming tools work by taking a human’s query or prompt and returning an intelligent textual or visual response.

From an enterprise perspective, AI adoption is growing rapidly. According to Forrester, spending on AI software is set to accelerate from $33 billion in 2021 to $64 billion in 2025 -- growing twice as fast as the overall software market. But while tools like ChatGPT may seem like magic, it’s important to understand these solutions aren’t perfect.

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The future of networking: Innovation, transparency and connectivity

Future-network

As technology continues to evolve, the networking industry is experiencing significant changes that will have a profound impact on businesses worldwide. The key areas where we expect to see developments include innovation driven by the major cloud providers, accelerated connectivity, and the need for transparency into the network. 

These trends represent key factors that can enable businesses to drive innovation and competitiveness, even in the face of an increasingly challenging economic environment.

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Evolving vulnerabilities in the education sector: How can organizations become more resilient?

Education and security

In 2022, the education sector experienced a 44 percent increase in cyberattacks. In the UK alone, six in ten higher education institutes reported experiencing ​​​at least ​weekly ​​​attacks or breaches​​​. This increasing number of threats to the sector is causing major disruptions to teaching and even forcing schools and universities to shut down. 

When it comes to prioritizing security and adopting latest technology, the education sector has always lagged behind other major industries. This lack of urgency is party the reason why education is such a vulnerable target. Many schools are still using outdated and unprotected technology that is easy to infiltrate. Despite not being a cash-rich target, these facilities hold a wealth of personal and financial data, which can be used in future attacks or sold on the dark web. 

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Amplifying the effectiveness of Multi-Factor Authentication

Multifactor authentication

In the early days of computing, authentication was simple, but the approach grew in sophistication over time. For example, modern password-based authentication systems like Kerberos don’t actually transmit passwords anymore; they generate an authentication token that is submitted instead.

But even with these enhancements, a username-and-password based approach to authentication still has a key weakness: if someone learns another user’s password, they are indistinguishable from the true user. And although Bill Gates predicted the death of the password nearly 20 years ago, they remain the default method of authentication for a range of services at work and home.

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Top 4 ways Artificial Intelligence can improve your security posture now

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Ignore the hype: Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve your security posture now.

We’ve been waiting for AI to deliver benefits to cybersecurity for a long time. ChatGPT aside, AI has been a hot-and-cold topic for decades, with periods of overhyped promises interspersed with periods of cynical rejection after failure to deliver on all of those promises. No wonder plenty of security leaders are wary. Yet, despite the wariness, AI is helping to improve cybersecurity today and will increasingly provide substantial security benefits -- and challenges.

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Bridging the digital skills gap with new tech investment

plugging a gap

According to the CBI, UK job vacancies are reaching record highs, currently at 147 percent of the February 2020 average. In those three years, an estimated half a million people of working age have left the UK labor market, and more than three-quarters of UK businesses say that access to labor is threatening UK competitiveness.

As well as the shrinking recruitment pool, there is also a shortage of people with the right skillset. In particular, the digital skills gap has been a long-standing problem for UK businesses. A survey conducted in Q4 2022 underscored that impact, with 81 percent of UK managing directors saying a lack of digital skills is negatively affecting their company.

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The legal implications of digital money: What you need to know

Legality of digital money

Digital money, digital currency, most popularly known as cryptocurrency, has seen its rise to fame over recent years. Despite its popularity, many remain skeptical of cryptocurrency and its impact on society.

According to the World Economic Forum, cryptocurrency helps continue, stabilize, and substitute existing money. However, cryptocurrencies operate totally differently than legal tender, and the authorities are concerned about a non-existent monetary policy for this digital money. This article will discuss digital money, its impact, and all the legal implications of cryptocurrency transactions.

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How to measure UI/UX design impact on business

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UI/UX design refers to the process of creating interfaces that users can interact with on digital platforms. The UI (User Interface) is the graphical layout of an application while the UX (User Experience) refers to the overall experience a user has when interacting with a digital product or service. UI/UX design encompasses several elements such as visual design, interaction design, information architecture, and user research.

Measuring the impact of UI/UX design on business is essential as it helps companies to understand the effectiveness of their designs in achieving their business goals. A well-designed user interface can lead to increased user satisfaction, retention, and revenue. Therefore, businesses need to have a clear understanding of how UI/UX design impacts their business to make informed decisions about design investments.

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The defining characteristics and roles of an enlightened CIO

A company’s chief information officer (CIO) is responsible for overseeing the people, processes and technologies that comprise its IT environment to support business objectives. In today’s information-focused business landscape, the performance of an organization’s CIO is often critical to its overall success.

The CIO’s role and the specific responsibilities of the position have undergone significant evolution and now demands a more enlightened and holistic approach to the issues that affect the way IT impacts the current and future goals of the business.

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IT in 2023: Security, cloud and more

Cloud data protection

Given the ever-changing trends in cloud computing, security, and more, it can be difficult to plan for the road ahead. However, anticipating new developments, both within your organization and the wider industry, is vital if you want to stay prepared and maximize ROI. 

Data is one of a business’ greatest assets, and its role, size and value is only going to increase in 2023 and beyond. Cybersecurity Ventures suggests total global data storage is expected to exceed 200 zettabytes by 2025, with a ransomware attack precited to impact a business, consumer or device every two seconds by 2031, properly securing your data is paramount.

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The risk and reward of ChatGPT in cybersecurity

ChatGPT

Unless you’ve been on a retreat in some far-flung location with no internet access for the past few months, chances are you’re well aware of how much hype and fear there’s been around ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI. Maybe you’ve seen articles about academics and teachers worrying that it’ll make cheating easier than ever. On the other side of the coin, you might have seen the articles evangelizing all of ChatGPT’s potential applications.

Alternatively, you may have been tickled by some of the more esoteric examples of people using the tool. One user, for example, got it to write an instruction guide for removing peanut butter sandwiches from a VCR in the style of the King James Bible. Another asked it to write a song in the style of Nick Cave; the singer was less than enthused about the results.

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How to avoid fraud while remaining compliant

Fraud stop

The financial technology (fintech) industry is a rapidly expanding web of innovation, but it is also becoming increasingly entangled by challenges posed by cybercriminals. These bad actors threaten both data security and regulatory compliance, which can result in heavy fines for noncompliance.

Such fines pose a significant risk for entrepreneurs seeking to quickly scale their operations, as they cannot afford to be bogged down by regulatory issues. Even established businesses find it challenging to navigate the complex layers of financial regulations, let alone startups.

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Cloning voices: The opportunities, threats and needed safeguards

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Microsoft recently made headlines by announcing it is working on a form of artificial intelligence (AI) called VALL-E that can clone voices from a three second audio clip. Imagine that now AI  can have anyone’s voice say words without that individual actually speaking! Even more recently, Samsung announced that its software assistant, Bixby, can now clone users’ voices to answer calls. Specifically, Bixby now lets English speakers answer calls by typing a message which Bixby converts to audio and relays to the caller on their behalf.

Technologies like VALL-E and Bixby are bringing voice cloning to reality and have the potential to be industry game changers. The term voice cloning refers to the ability to use AI to build a digital copy of a person’s unique voice, including speech patterns, accents and voice inflection, by training an algorithm with a sample of a person’s speech. Once a voice model is created, plain text is all that’s needed to synthesize a person’s speech, capturing and mimicking the sound of an individual. In fact, many different types of voice cloning companies are now launching, making this technology much more accessible.

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Impersonation attacks leverage Silicon Valley Bank collapse in new phishing campaign

Silicon Valley Bank

As news of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse continues to dominate the headlines, cybercriminals are running phishing campaigns impersonating SVB and other financial institutions, including M-F-A and Bloomberg.

Responding quickly to the 24-hour news cycle, cybercriminals aim to leverage their victims’ potential distress over their financial situation to make them more susceptible to this type of attack.

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Harnessing the power of data in a hybrid cloud environment

In an increasingly crowded business environment, businesses need to stay at the forefront of innovation to get ahead. And the best way for companies to do that is by looking inward -- specifically at their own, preexisting data. Data is every business’ most valuable asset, holding insights that can unlock undiscovered potential. Whether you’re building out fraud detection or working to gain a competitive advantage with new market opportunities, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) training engines that drive this kind of innovation are only as effective as the data they are given.   

Where challenges arise in this process is with the management of data flows. In the past, data has been kept primarily on highly secure, on-premise systems. But more businesses have since been migrating operations to cloud systems, with many opting for a hybrid approach. Research firm Forrester reported that more than 94 percent of U.S. enterprise decision-makers are using at least one type of cloud deployment, with the majority being hybrid or multi-cloud. By modernizing mainframe systems and implementing the right data intelligence tools enterprise leaders can take advantage of all their company data without exposing it to undue threats along the way.

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