Why we need a sensible approach to cyber

Why does any conversation about cybersecurity trigger fear, uncertainty and doubt? If we cannot simplify the jargon, the complexity and the management of our cyber risk, who benefits? Who loses?

One spring morning last year, workers at JBS USA, one of the world's largest meat processors found a sign posted at its plant entrance. "Team member: This weekend our company was the target of a cyberattack that has impacted our IT systems. As a result, we will not operate tomorrow..." JBS worldwide operations were forced to shut down, impacting almost 75,000 employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company ended up paying $11 million in ransomware….read more on LinkedIn

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This is how your ML models are hacked

When Christopher Sestito was heading threat research at Cylance, he woke up to a troubling alert. “Our core intellectual property - our machine learning (ML) model could be compromised. That was the last thing we could have imagined,” he says.

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When founders struggle to send investor updates...

Malte Kramer is one of those rare founder CEOs who never misses his monthly investor report. His reporting discipline is probably in the 0.1% of most founders. Very few founders share monthly reports that are precise and consistent. Byron Deeter of Bessemer Venture Partners led Luxury Presence's $25 million Series B recent round for a reason.

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Hyper Automation - How Orkes.io is tapping into a $500 bn market

If Netflix builds a software product to run some of its most rigorous backend business processes, you can be damn sure that the product will be robust. To serve its 200+ million subscribers seamlessly, Netflix has to spin up a mind boggling array of content. It cannot afford to mess up. If the core team that authored this open source software decides to leave Netflix and build a startup, you can be damn sure they know what they are doing.

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