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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog

Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.

May 2009

OpenSSH renders 32-bit encrypted text as plain text
Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 May 2009

The Royal Holloway Information Security Group has identified a fatal flaw in OpenSSH v4.7 running on Debian Linux, which causes 32-bit encrypted text to appear as plain text.

Wolfram Alpha - first look
Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 18 May 2009

Wolfram Alpha looks like it's still in beta. The searches we tried today left a lot to be desired.Wolfram Alpha is certainly no Google killer.

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Adobe, Uber on the challenges of digital transformation

Digital transformation initiatives may be all the rage in the enterprise, but they also pose significant challenges to CIOs and ...

Cloud migration failures and how to prevent them

Companies are moving more applications than ever to the cloud, but many of these initiatives fail. Learn how to avoid making your...

Achieving business value from cognitive collaboration

CIOs can take advantage of AI to improve employee and customer collaboration with cognitive capabilities that are now available ...

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Exposed Docker hosts open the door for cryptojacking

Security researchers discovered a new Docker worm that has been targeting exposed hosts in order to spread cryptojacking malware ...

Essential instruments for a pen test toolkit

Does your penetration testing toolkit have the proper contents? Learn the must-have tool for any pen tester, as well as specific ...

Imperva breach update puts blame on exposed AWS API keys

Imperva CTO Kunal Anand posted updated information regarding the recent breach affecting Cloud WAF customers and admitted poor ...

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3 potential multi-cloud challenges that could go unnoticed

Disaster recovery, vendor lock-in and cost are major factors as organizations evaluate multi-cloud strategies. However, these ...

After ransomware virus, Merck's medicine was network automation

After a ransomware attack, Merck decided the best remedy was to deploy network automation tools designed to transform how it ...

Prep for SD-WAN challenges, and you'll reap its rewards

Reap SD-WAN's multiple benefits by knowing ahead of time what the likely issues will be and the options available at the ...

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Essential private cloud migration steps

Executive buy-in, application evaluation and tool configuration are all important parts of cloud selection. With these steps, ...

IBM quantum computers' usefulness in sight -- using binoculars

IBM's Bob Sutor discusses Big Blue's new quantum systems and computation center, the realities of quantum computing today and how...

Addendum sets ASHRAE 90.4 as energy-efficiency standard

The publication of ASHRAE 90.4 in 2016 brought a new set of energy guidelines, but the industry still used Standard 90.1. A new ...

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PostgreSQL 12 boosts open source database performance

Widely used open source PostgreSQL database platform gets a major update providing users with new SQL query capabilities for JSON...

Data integration vs. ETL in the age of big data

Data integration provides a consistent view of business performance across multiple data sources, though it needs to keep up with...

5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan

Consultant David Loshin offers tips on developing a data quality strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause ...