The quest for strong data security has all the elements of a cliffhanger Hollywood movie. Bad guys, good guys, treasure, chaos, and misadventure are all part of protecting data in a digital world. Businesses and organizations have data, bad guys want it, and nearly...
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Carbon, Costs and Computation: The Compelling Case for Liquid Cooling
Today’s data- and processing-intensive applications continually need more processing power, and more processing power means more computing, more servers, higher density in data centers, and, ultimately, more energy usage. Computers create heat and lots of it....
Innovation in the Face of Adversity: A Data Scientist’s Reflection on the Development of America’s first At-Home Covid-19 Test Kit
It's hard to believe that it was around this time only three years ago that the world as we knew it changed forever. In March of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic first emerged in America, and our lives were upended by an invisible enemy. As a nation, we experienced...
Data Analytics in Marketing: How Does It Help Your Business?
Data analytics has become one of the most important tools for marketing professionals in today's digital age. With data analytics, businesses can access and analyze customer and prospect data to better understand their target audience. This helps them to develop more...
TLS 1.3 Securely Raises the Speed Limit on the Internet Highway
What started as important is now vital. Protecting end-to-end web-based communications was important in 1983 when networks began to talk to one another via the Internet. It became vital when personally identifiable information (PII), payment card information, and...
2022 Pentesting: A Red Team Review
The ever-changing threat landscape is a popular topic for cybersecurity resources. An astonishing number of articles, whitepapers, and podcasts reference this in one way or another. And it’s true, shifting and emerging attack vectors and methods are a reality for...
PCI DSS v4.0 Is Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know Now
The Diners Club card was first issued in 1950 and heralded the beginning of the payment card industry (PCI). Cybersecurity became necessary for all transactions when the original carbon-copy impression payment slips evolved to magnetic stripes, EMV chips, and...
Charting New Waters Together
It’s been a few weeks since our annual Converge Global Summit (CGS), and I’m still riding the wave of innovation and collaboration I experienced between Converge and our partners. This year’s theme, ConvergeBLUE, introduced a refreshed view on the future of Converge –...