Was soll bei der Entwicklung eigener Malware beachtet werden? Die CIA gibt ihren Mitarbeitern dazu einige Tipps. Mitarbeiter finden die Hinweise aber nicht sonderlich gelungen – und haben eigene Vorschläge. (CIA, Virus)
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Rüstung statt schnelle Internetanbindung, WLAN-Hotspots und Computer für unsere Schulen: Schäuble lässt Bildungsministerin Wanka hängen. (Tablet, Computer)
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Wer bereit ist zu zahlen, kann Ubuntu 12.04 LTS auch nach dem Support-Ende weiter betreiben. Dafür hat Canonical nun das Programm Extended Security Maintenance ins Leben gerufen.
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Ein neues Klebeband verspricht eine ebenso einfache wie geniale Idee: Wände, Stühle und Spielzeug lego-kompatibel machen. Die Crowdfunding-Kampagne ist nach einer Woche bereits deutlich überfinanziert.
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Der Netzbetreiber Deutsche Glasfaser bietet für Privatkunden Internetanschlüsse per Glasfaser (FTTH, Fiber to the Home) mit 500 MBit/s in Sende- und Empfangsrichtung an.
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Many parents wouldn’t dream of letting their young children use an internet-connected device without some type of filter. It’s important to protect young web searchers from arriving at undesirable websites. An innocent enough search term could be a double entendre, leading impressionable minds to things better left unseen.
One approach for parents is to install software that restricts content on devices or a home router. Typically, if they’re not using a general rating scheme by age, parents need to know the sites they want to block ahead of time and set up their own block lists. This is time consuming, and chances are they’re going to miss something.
A firewall as a service for home use
ChildRouter from Cloud-Nanny offers an automated and intelligent way to filter web content with a firewall-as-a-service (FaaS) solution. Parents choose which categories of sites they will allow their kids to see, and Cloud-Nanny handles almost everything else. The solution decides whether to allow or block web requests without noticeable effect on the user’s browsing experience. Using IBM dashDB, the processing check makes a request in Cloud-Nanny’s database and returns a decision is less than 40 microseconds.
ChildRouter uses machine learning algorithms running in IBM Analytics for Apache Spark together with AlchemyAPI to classify and categorize content in nearly real time. If the system is unsure about a site, it checks with the parents. Using that input, the model learns and gets better at classifying that type of site in the future.
How it works
The ChildRouter is a hardware appliance and a software appliance in one. This is one differentiator from other solutions, which reside in the browser. ChildRouter works independently of the operating system or browser.
Through a computer interface, parents can assign a device to a specific child. This means they can switch devices very easily within the family. For example, if your younger child wants to watch a movie on an adult’s iPad, parents can go to the ChildRouter interface on the iPad, set it under the younger child’s account and all the secure settings are applied on that device. Parents can do this with a PlayStation, Xbox, Wii or any other internet-connected device. It is much like the kind of managed firewall that a company would have, but more affordable.
ChildRouter users’ security policies follow them wherever they take their devices because the managed firewall is in the cloud.
The road ahead
ChildRouter is just the tip of the iceberg. Cloud-Nanny’s FaaS solution has applications outside the home because it can also block dangerous software such as malware, adware and viruses. Phishing attempts don’t work; the system recognizes the domain name is not correlated with the IP address of the website and doesn’t let it pass.
Cloud-Nanny envisions schools and public WiFi using ChildRouter. For example, coffee shops that offer free WiFi can guarantee that there will be no risk to the user. Even Internet of Things (IoT) devices can be monitored for unwanted behavior.
Cloud-Nanny developed ChildRouter and got the solution up and running in less than one year with IBM Bluemix. Find out more about how it came together.
Read about other IBM clients who are poised for success using the IBM Cloud as their foundation here.
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
Reaktionszeit, Blickwinkel, Farbechtheit: Eizo bietet eine Webapplikation zum Prüfen von Monitoren aller Art an. Sie erfordert jedoch vom Tester ein wenig Einstellungsgeschick und ein gutes Auge. (Eizo, Display)
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Let’s say you have a car you love. It runs great and you don’t have to spend much on repairs. There are really cool new touch-screen car stereos that connect to the internet, play movies, provide GPS and so on. Do you go buy a new car to get one of the new stereos? No. You get a new stereo that enhances the great car you have.
Hybrid cloud helps you in the same way. You can create amazing new capabilities that leverage the investments you have already made in your backend applications and the data you store. Leveraging cloud services with on-premises backends can add value even when there is no new cloud-native app. A common example is leveraging cloud analytics for new insight to on-premises data.
How do you figure out how cloud can drive the most value for your company? For one, you need advisors who have driven success for other businesses. If you look at this purely from a speeds-and-feeds, cost-saving view, you may have missed the immediate value that hybrid cloud can provide.
Hybrid cloud = new capabilities
As I’ve said before, all companies are becoming software companies. Many companies are not sure where they should invest their resources and budget as they take on software opportunities. The value areas for businesses are the new interaction applications and services. Interaction capabilities are those that drive new kinds of exchanges with customers, partners and between applications.
A key aspect of driving this innovation is leveraging capabilities instead of building them. Cloud services are one of the fastest methods of driving value more quickly. So where are businesses creating impact?
Hybrid cloud strategic lessons to learn
Here are some hypothetical examples of both success and failure in embracing digital innovation.
Executives as a global financial services company knew they had to innovate to avoid losing more market share. They initially focused on mobile apps, but were finding them costly to build and it was taking them too long to get them into market. They also found that frequently they would miss the mark with the initial app capabilities. They needed to figure out how to create innovative concepts and rapidly drive that innovation to their customers and partners.
One of the world’s largest retail companies was running an enormous innovation program. It included external hackathons, an internal center of excellence and developer community involvement. While this was driving a significant amount of concept, most of the ideas were not impacting their business.
A U.S. auto insurer found it was continually chasing its competitors with their digital capabilities. Their competition began creating partnerships and driving new models. They began working to build their own partnerships but could not see how the partnerships would allow them to leapfrog what their competitors had already done.
There are multiple missteps in each of these approaches: Not focusing on innovation that can drive clear business wins, investing without strong concepts of outcomes and lack of investment in core capabilities that create innovation and get everything built.
Path to hybrid cloud success
To create stronger digital innovation strategies, the companies each followed these steps:
They engaged with service providers who understood how to deliver software products, not just projects.
They focused on an overall strategy that would enable them to evaluate, experiment, iterate and polish into products.
They focused on core technologies that would help them accelerate and allow them to leverage cloud services at scale as they grew their new capabilities.
Finally, they created partner and ecosystem objectives to drive innovation beyond their walls realizing that they could not do it all on their own.
Bridging from on-premises IT—where companies have valuable app capabilities and data—to the cloud is a turning point for most companies. Gartner refers to this technology core as the digital platform. If you don’t bridge to the cloud with production-quality integration, you can face significant failures that can harm business.
As a software products company, IBM focuses on enabling professional software production for our clients. Our hybrid cloud service Product Insights adds visibility and predictive management into existing on-premises software and cloud software. This is key enabler for what is needed to create the digital platform.
For more information on what Product insights can deliver to your hybrid cloud, click here.
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Branchenverbände und Bürgerrechtler kritisieren den Plan des Justizministeriums, das Recht in sozialen Netzwerken besser durchzusetzen, als kaum getarnten Zensurvorstoß. Grünen geht er dagegen nicht weit genug.
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Autonom fahren ist günstiger als selbst fahren: Eine neue US-Versicherung bietet eine Police speziell für Autos von Tesla an, die mit dem Autopiloten ausgestattet sind. Nach einer Untersuchung einer US-Verkehrsbehörde sind diese Elektroautos in deutlich weniger Unfälle verwickelt. (Autonomes Fahren, Elektroauto)
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