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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020.

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4 of the Biggest Data Breaches in Banking

Smart Data Collective

In 2008 they suffered a cyber incident which impacted more than 130 million debit and credit cards. Since the 2008 breach, Heartland Payment Systems suffered another data breach in 2015, when their Santa Ana, California office experienced a break-in. Heartland Payment Systems. The data breach also impacted nearly 800,000 businesses.

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Blockchain: The Fall of Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance

Smart Data Collective

Following a financial crisis back in 2008, the world’s financial system was still recovering and undergoing massive changes. Also, it states, in 2019 and 2020 cryptocurrencies have been on the road to recovery potentially entering a bull market. Throughout life, there will be massive changes.

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5 Ways Data Analytics Helps Us Understand the Student Lending Crisis

Smart Data Collective

Sarah Riley, a research economist with the University of North Carolina wrote an paper in 2020 titled Predictive Analytics for Reducing Student Loan Default. Even accounting for inflation, student debt has increased by 317% since 1970 and by 157% since the 2008’s Great Recession. But what should today’s borrowers really expect?

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Top 10 IT & Technology Buzzwords You Won’t Be Able To Avoid In 2020

Data Pine

In this post, we’re going to give you the 10 IT & technology buzzwords you won’t be able to avoid in 2020 so that you can stay poised to take advantage of market opportunities and new conversations alike. Get the inside scoop and learn all the new buzzwords in tech for 2020! Computer Vision. Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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How Business Owners and Leaders Can Set up a Successful COVID Exit Strategy

Fingent

If the 2008-09 global recession was due to financial meltdown and economic vulnerabilities, the 2020 economic crisis stemmed from the global pandemic and subsequent health emergency. How to plan a successful COVID-exit strategy and get your business on track?

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COVID-19 sparked the greatest ecommerce growth in history?

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By March, it was clear that 2020 was going to be unlike any year we’d ever seen. More people shopped online in the second quarter of 2020 than ever before in history. Every single identified industry saw more ecommerce revenue in 2020 Q2 than they did before the COVID-19 lockdowns began, but some industries thrived more than others.

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