Articles like this should help ‘sell’ your Computer Security budget.
Anthem to pay nearly $40 million to settle data breach probe by U.S. states
Anthem Inc said on Wednesday it would pay $39.5 million as part of a settlement with U.S. states attorneys general following an investigation into a massive cyber-attack at the company in 2015.
The second largest U.S. health insurer said a state sponsored criminal group had perpetrated the attack, adding that it does not believe the company had violated the law in connection with its data security.
Speaking of budget planning…
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/30/cyber_war_fears/?&web_view=true
Business top brass are terrified their companies will simply be collateral damage in a future cyber-war
Organizations need not fear a direct hit – someone knackering the internet or the grid would be enough
… Bitdefender’s latest report, titled 10 in 10, surveyed around 6,000 C-suite bods responsible for cyber security and found [PDF ] “over a fifth” of these said that cyber warfare was one of the most challenging topics they had to convince their colleagues to take seriously.
Another tool.
GitHub rolls out new Code Scanning security feature to all users
Code-hosting website GitHub is rolling out today a new security feature named Code Scanning for all users, on both paid and free accounts.
GitHub says the new Code Scanning feature "helps prevent vulnerabilities from reaching production by analyzing every pull request, commit, and merge—recognizing vulnerable code as soon as it's created."
Each with their own idiosyncrasies.
Gartner Projects Major Jump in Data Privacy Regulations; From 10% of the World Covered in 2020 to 65% in 2023
Global research firm Gartner recently conducted its annual Security & Risk Management Summit, and perhaps the biggest headline to come out of it was the projection that the majority of the world will be covered by data privacy regulations by 2023.
This would be a very substantial jump in a relatively short period of time. At present, only about 10% of the world has strong privacy regulations akin to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Gartner believes that the GDPR will be the specific model upon which most of these new privacy regulations are based.
… Gartner is expecting these global changes to be driven in no small part by the GDPR’s “trusted partner” standards for anyone handling the personal data of EU residents.
TikTok could be just the first in a long series.
https://www.bespacific.com/tiktok-technology-overview-and-issues/
TikTok: Technology Overview and Issues
CRS report via LC – TikTok: Technology Overview and Issues, Updated September 29, 2020:” TikTok is a globally popular video-sharing smartphone application (app) owned by ByteDance Ltd., a privately held company headquartered in Beijing, China. It is under increasing scrutiny by the U.S. government as a potential privacy and security risk to U.S. citizens. This is because ByteDance, like all technology companies doing business in China, is subject to Chinese laws that require companies operating in the country to turn over user data when asked to by the government. Researchers differ over how TikTok’s collection of user data compares with other social media apps and whether TikTok poses a unique threat to the privacy and security of its U.S. users… Some believe TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps pose a serious security risk to the United States because Chinese companies are subject to China’s laws that require compliance with government requests for data. Others believe that TikTok has fallen into “the crosshairs of a global technology battle” based on technology trade protectionism (this concept, also called “techno-nationalism,” refers to a country’s refusal or reluctance to import other countries’ advanced technology, as well as to export, or to allow other nations to benefit from, its own advanced technology). Similar situations may arise in the future with other apps created by foreign companies. Options that Congress may consider include (1) developing an overarching legal and regulatory framework to protect the security and privacy of U.S. citizens’ data and communications, and (2) developing a uniform, transparent process to assess and mediate risks posed by foreign apps.
Are we there yet? (Also discussed in a podcast.)
The state of AI in 2020: democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence
… In the State of AI Report 2020 released today, Benaich and Hogarth outdid themselves. While the structure and themes of the report remain mostly intact, its size has grown by nearly 30 percent. This is a lot, especially considering their 2019 AI report was already a 136 slide long journey on all things AI.
No surprise.
AI Has Resulted In “Ethical Issues” For 90% Of Businesses
A new report from Capgemini has revealed that 90% of organizations are aware of at least one instance where an AI system had resulted in ethical issues for their business.
The report, titled “AI and the Ethical Conundrum: How organizations can build ethically robust AI systems and gain trust” has found that while digital and AI-enabled interactions with customers are on the rise as customers seek contactless or non-touch interfaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic, systems are still being designed without due concern for ethical issues.
Consider reducing your labor costs to “Trivial.”
These are the countries with the highest density of robot workers
The rise of the machines has well and truly started. Data from the International Federation of Robotics reveals that the pace of industrial automation is accelerating across much of the developed world with 74 installed industrial robots per 10,000 employees globally in 2016. By 2020, that increased to 113 across the manufacturing sector. Asia now has a robot density of 118 units per 10,000 workers and that figure is 114 and 103 in Europe and the Americas, respectively. China is one of the countries recording the highest growth levels in industrial automation but nowhere has a robot density like South Korea.
The first thing we do, let’s automate all the lawyers!
DocuSign Analyzer aims to save legal costs, labor with AI-aided contract negotiations
… Here's how DocuSign Analyzer works:
Analyzer breaks an incoming agreement down to individual clauses using AI.
A risk assessment is provided based on a company's own legal and business standards.
Risk scorecards are generated and available in Microsoft Work, Outlook and DocuSign's contract lifecycle management application.
Analyzer offers recommended replacement language from a library of preapproved clauses that can come DocuSign templates.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.bespacific.com/book-review-a-short-and-happy-guide-to-advanced-legal-research/
Book Review: A Short And Happy Guide To Advanced Legal Research
Via LLRX – Book Review: A Short And Happy Guide To Advanced Legal Research – Nicole L. Black’s review highlights this book’s breadth of coverage and its format, information about a variety of free online tools, including public records databases, newsletters, and encyclopedias, and case law and statutes, fee-based legal research tools, as well as traditional case law and statutory research tools, and cutting edge AI-based legal research and data analytics software.
Resources.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-5-open-source-online-machine-learning-environments/
Top 5 Open-Source Online Machine Learning Environments
Music for the unmusical? Could this find the next Mozart?
Google’s new machine learning tool turns your awful humming into a beautiful violin solo
… Google‘s new machine learning algorithm experiment, Tone Transfer, makes that fantasy come true — at least to an extent.
The idea is simple. Go to the Tone Transfer site from your Android phone or desktop (Windows or Mac), select “Add your own,” and record your 15-second hum or tune. You can use your voice, tap on your table, or play an actual instrument. Google’s machine learning algorithm will convert that tune into a digital signal, and then you can convert it into a tune with Flute, Saxophone, Violin, or Trumpet.
… You can check out the paper related to DDSP here and try out the tool here.
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