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4 of the Biggest Data Breaches in Banking

Smart Data Collective

Since the 2008 breach, Heartland Payment Systems suffered another data breach in 2015, when their Santa Ana, California office experienced a break-in. It happened in 2020 when 24 million customers’ data was stolen after a South African employee fell victim to a threat actor by relinquishing a series of crucial, sensitive information.

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Big Data Will Become Central to Healthcare Following The Pandemic

Smart Data Collective

Notably, Tencent entered a partnership with Medopan in 2019 to trial the use of AI in interpreting data to diagnose Parkinson’s disease in patients, while Merck teamed up with Janssen in 2020 to create an AI diagnostics tool to improve the detection of neglected tropical diseases. .

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Encryption Importance in the Age of Data Breaches

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In 2020, data breaches rose by almost 20% between January and September. In late 2015, Google took the initiative and declared that it would favor sites with HTTPS protocol over those that still didn’t. People keep receiving dismal news on internet security these days.

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

Smart Data Collective

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. 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.

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Project Managers Fail to Help Software Projects (Standish Group Chaos 2020)

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In my related post about the most recent Standish Group 2020 Chaos Report, Beyond Infinity , I described the continued finding that Agile succeeds 3X more than Waterfall. But there was something new in the 2020 Standish Group Report that I found quite surprising. The Standish Group 2020 Chaos Report – Beyond Infinity.

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IBM Emphasizes The Benefits Of Data Analytics For Renewable Energy

Smart Data Collective

According to data from the Association of Renewable Energy Companies (APPA), this sector contributed some 8,256 million euros to the Spanish gross domestic product and invested in technological innovation some 230 million in 2015, but producers show that renewable energy as a whole “continue to stagnate in Spain.

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An Overview of Revenue Analytics for Event Industry

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billion in 2015 to $21.92 billion by 2020 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate or (CAGR) of 18.8% The revenue analytics for event industry has emerged as a technology tool enabling them in recognizing profitable ways to increase the demand for their services. The revenue analytics market size estimated to grow from $9.27