Thursday, March 19, 2020


Work from home.
SANS Security Awareness Work-from-Home Deployment Kit
Everything you need to know to create a secure work-from-home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.




Inside every cloud…
We Live in Zoom Now
The New York Times: “…Teenagers have jokingly referred to themselves as “Zoomers online for years; now the name is literal. Overnight, Zoom has become a primary social platform for millions of people, a lot of them high school and college students, as those institutions move to online learning. Zoom Video Communications is a videoconferencing company in San Jose, Calif., that has been thrust into the spotlight over the past week. On Monday morning, its iOS app became the top free download in Apple’s App Store. On Sunday, nearly 600,000 people downloaded the app, its biggest day ever, according to Apptopia, which tracks mobile apps. While the stock market crashes, Zoom shares have soared this year, valuing the company at $29 billion — more than airlines like Delta, American Airlines or United Airlines. Zoom has been preparing for this moment since the new coronavirus began spreading in China in January. Even then it was easy to see that Zoom’s primary customer base — videoconferencing desk workers — would become more reliant on its services while quarantined at home. So the company began closely monitoring its capacity and started hosting free training sessions. In China, Zoom dropped its 40-minute limit for free calls. But no amount of planning could have anticipated the company’s emergence as a cultural phenomenon used to host parties, concerts, church services and art shows. Zoom could not have prepared to become a meme…”




Perspective.
AI adoption in the enterprise 2020
The update sheds light on what AI adoption looks like in the enterprise— hint: deployments are shifting from prototype to production—the popularity of specific techniques and tools, the challenges experienced by adopters, and so on.
  • The majority (85%) of respondent organizations are evaluating AI or using it in production[1]. Just 15% are not doing anything at all with AI.
  • More than half of respondent organizations identify as “mature” adopters of AI technologies: that is, they’re using AI for analysis or in production.
  • Few organizations are using formal governance controls to support their AI efforts.




Could be useful…
How to Create Annotated Screen Capture Images
This morning I got an email from a reader who was looking for a screen capture tool that included tools for drawing straight lines, arrows, boxes, and generally making screen captures look a little more professional. One of the tools that I recommended was Nimbus Screenshot.
Nimbus Screenshot is available to use as an extension in Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. There is also a Nimbus Screenshot Chrome app for Chromebook users who want to be able to capture more than just a browser window. In the following video I demonstrate how to use Nimbus Screenshot to create annotated screen capture images.




Readings for shut ins.
Q&A on the Book AI Crash Course
  • Many jobs will disappear as they are replaced by AI, and three times more jobs will be created around AI.
  • There is a growing need for AI education; it's important that AI be used the right way and for good causes, for the benefit of this world.
The book AI Crash Course by Hadelin de Ponteves contains a toolkit of four different AI models: Thompson Sampling, Q-Learning, Deep Q-Learning and Deep Convolutional Q-learning. It teaches the theory of these AI models and provides coding examples for solving industry cases based on these models.
InfoQ readers can find an excerpt of AI Crash Course on the publisher's website.



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