Tracking, Monitoring & Control

As cybercrime increases, local governments face uphill battle in hardening digital defenses

What would a small community do if its school district’s network was attacked by ransomware? What about if a municipally managed wastewater treatment plant in a rural county was shut down by a digital onslaught initiated by organized cybercriminals operating a continent away?  With cyberthreats increasingly targeting municipal frameworks, these are the types of questions that constituents should be […]

This is Smart Cockpit calling Ground Control: Inside Airbus’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI)

At the virtual track of the AI Summit, part of the jam-packed London Tech Week, an Airbus data scientist outlined conversational AI’s enabling role in the digital transformation. Airbus has managed to train conversational AI using domain classification techniques, data content and interaction models. Once trained, the software has underpinned efforts to create dashboarding & visualization […]

50% of servers have weak security long after patches are released

Many organizations lag in patching high-severity vulnerabilities, according to a new study that reveals more than 50% of servers scanned have a weak security posture weeks and months after a security update is released. To create the “2021 Trustwave SpiderLabs Telemetry Report,” researchers used Shodan, publicly available exploit information, and non-intrusive analysis of vulnerable targets accessible […]

Social media can play an important role in a community’s emergency response

History has proven time and again that communication is often hampered when a natural disaster strikes. Wildfires create widespread chaos that expands beyond political and government-managed borders; flooding events can evolve quickly, making it difficult for first responders to know what’s going on in the corners of their jurisdictions; hurricanes bring ashore intense wind, splintering telephone poles and overwhelming […]
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