Of the many things one might take for granted, access to banking and financial services may not immediately come to mind. But as a thought experiment, imagine trying to buy a home or a car without the ability to take out a loan. Try depending on cash payments from your employer, or relying on alternative […]
AI is the next revolutionary technology that will accelerate the mission of the Department of Defense. Newly boundless in its applications, “AI” joins “cyber” and “cloud” as the most important information technologies that have arrived in the last 25 years. In July 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) marked the one-year anniversary of the Chief […]
Telecommunications companies are currently executing on ambitious digital transformation, network transformation, and AI-driven automation efforts. While navigating so many simultaneous data-dependent transformations, they must balance the need to level up their data management practices—accelerating the rate at which they ingest, manage, prepare, and analyze data—with that of governing this data. To do this, telcos must […]
Data has become an essential driver for new monetization initiatives in the financial services industry. With the vast amount of data collected from customers, transactions, and market movements, among other sources, this abundance offers tremendous potential for financial institutions to extract valuable insights that can inform business decisions, improve customer service, and create new revenue […]
Fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA) in government is a constant, multi-billion dollar issue that challenges agency leaders at all levels and across all sectors, from healthcare to education to taxation to Social Security. The scope and scale of public spending—federal outlays alone were approximately $6.6 trillion in fiscal year 2020 according to the Congressional Budget […]
State and local governments generate and store enormous amounts of data essential to their ability to deliver citizen services. But how can they capitalize on all of their data to become engines of growth and innovation, empowering and enhancing their ability to provide services and better serve their communities? Data doesn’t arrive on the doorsteps […]
On December 10th 2021, the Apache Software Foundation released a security advisory for Apache Log4j 2.0-2.14. This vulnerability is critical and is rated 10 out of 10 on the CVSS 3.1 scoring scale.
