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Encryption Importance in the Age of Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

In 2020, data breaches rose by almost 20% between January and September. It was found in 2014 that even the HTTPS protocol has certain limitations. People keep receiving dismal news on internet security these days. Hence, users are increasingly aware of how vital data encryption is to protect their data. The loopholes.

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

Smart Data Collective

By 2012, there was a marginal increase, then the numbers rose steeply in 2014. 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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IBM Emphasizes The Benefits Of Data Analytics For Renewable Energy

Smart Data Collective

A World Energy Outlook report concludes that global wind energy capacity will increase between 2014 (762 TWh) and 2020 by 85% to about 1,400 TWh. Between 2020 and 2025, it will increase again by 43%, reaching almost 2,000 TWh. Big data is going to be essential to help them meet those demands.

IBM cost 195
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SWEBOK v3 and v4?—?Software Requirements

Analysts Corner

So I went through SWEBOK Guide v3, published in 2014, to review existing KAs focusing on the “Software Requirements.” And written in 2014, it quickly became outdated. I read it for the first time in 2020, and RUP (Rational Unified Process) has already been dead for a while. A newer generation of IT folks has no idea what it is.

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Introducing PolicyLink’s Racial Equity Data Lab: A new resource to support data for justice

Tableau

Our partners at PolicyLink launched their National Equity Atlas in 2014. The Lab, which PolicyLink CEO Michael McAfee announced at Tableau Conference 2020 , is built with Tableau to allow Atlas users to produce their own visualizations using Atlas data. Neal Myrick. Global Head of the Tableau Foundation. Kristin Adderson. May 6, 2021.

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Data Professional Introspective: Your Organization Can’t Create an EDM Strategy

The Data Administration Newsletter

For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme poverty by 2020. In 1980, there were 540M people living in extreme poverty; by 2014, there were only 80 million. Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

14 years later, in 2020, the pandemic demands for remote work, and overnight revisions to business strategy. 2014: Satya Nadella, who is influential behind Microsoft’s cloud market ventures, becomes the CEO of Microsoft. 2020: The pandemic erupts, forcing accelerated cloud adoption across the globe. The rest is history.

IBM cost 130