How Password Spraying Could be an Attack Vector Into Your Organization
May 9,
2018
There are two common ways the bad guys might try to break into a building: spend lots of effort on one door or window, or try each door and window to see if one is easier to enter than the others. The same is true for attackers trying to compromise systems and networks (and penetration […]
Deductive AI and SQL Server
May 8,
2018
Watson, IBM’s poster child for artificial intelligence, could not have been built using a single type of AI technology. This is hardly surprising. The intelligence needed to understand a question can differ quite dramatically from the intelligence needed to answer it. Indeed, upon understanding a question it takes intelligence to know what techniques are most […]
What is a Stingray And How Does It Impact Me?
May 2,
2018
According to news reports from outlets including IDG’s CSO, the US Department of Homeland Security said in early April of this year that there are unauthorized “stingrays” in the Washington, DC areas and in “other cities.” To be perfectly honest, I cannot find the term stingray in the documents I read, and “StingRay” is a […]
The Real Role of the Business Analyst: Connecting Strategy to Action
May 1,
2018
If business analysts were just people who”analyze businesses” they would have, at most, a passive role that wouldn’t contribute to their organizations’ achieving their goals. The real role of the business analyst is a far more active one and provides the essential link between the organization’s goals and its IT projects. Wikipedia defines four kinds […]
Azure vs. AWS: A Conversation with the Experts
Apr 26,
2018
Which cloud solution is right for your organization? What factors make one cloud solution better than another? Between the big two — Azure and AWS — what do the experts have to say about the advantages or disadvantages of each? We recently asked two of our Learning Tree Cloud Instructors to answer questions about two […]