Written By: An IntelliGenesis Senior Software Engineer
At the November SCIF Dinner, we talked about developing software for the cloud versus developing on traditional client/server platforms and dove into the pros and cons of each platform and how it relates to the work we do with IntelliGenesis.
Written By: An IntelliGenesis Cyber Specialist
During my 12-month tenure as Cyber-Lead, I’ve been tracking some major movements in the Cyber-arena. In celebration of October Cyber Month, the following are highlights of recent changes in the Cyber-battlefield having huge impacts on the future of Cyber rules of engagement (ROE) as we know it.
Written By: An IntelliGenesis AI Specialist It seemed only appropriate for this newsletter to talk about resorts! I’ll even start with Velas Resorts. In 2011, Velas Resorts ran a promotion in which they gave away a free wedding package valued at about $13,000. To enter the contest, all you had to do was Like their Facebook page. The contest ran for about 6 weeks, and in that time they received nearly 7000 Likes, 700 Twitter followers, and thousands of page views. For reference, Doritos aired a 30 second commercial at Super Bowl 50 at a cost of $5 million, and is estimated to have gained 7000 Twitter followers. So Velas Resorts got 10% of the impact for less than 1% of the money. It’s clear that social media is a phenomenal way for smaller companies to make big leaps in building their brand. We all know that businesses are gathering and using more data than ever about their customers to provide better products and services. Hotels and resorts are no exception. What’s unique about hospitality organizations is that they can leverage this data to provide better service on an individual level.
“Big hacks” are commonplace these days – Target in 2013, Sony in 2014, and most recently, the DNC during the 2016 presidential election. These large-scale attacks are devastating, however, seemingly minor hacks, in mass, are just as damaging. Although the highly publicized hacks are more visible, countless medium and small businesses (and individuals) fall to hacks each day. Whether the door to your crown jewels is left wide open or you simply have an unlocked window in your digital “house,” a vulnerability is a vulnerability, no matter how large.
Written By: An IntelliGenesis Senior All-Source Intelligence Analyst This is what most of our days consist of– large unruly sets of non-sense that we must make sense. Or that used to be the case, more than likely nowadays we are looking at multiple haystacks of data. Some of those will be kind to us and have some form of structure, most will not. It is said that by the year 2020, the amount of digital data will breach 40 zettabytes. We all know some form of structured data–from banking records and medical records to inventory stock lists. The data within each cell for instance will be formatted in a single fashion (think a UPC code or serial number) and it can only ever be that format. Unstructured data on the other hand is structured data’s unruly cousin Eddy. It will contain some bit of information that you need, but it will not be in a well-defined field nor will it be consistently formatted throughout. Now imagine taking the structured data and trying to link it via one of its edges to the table of cousin Eddy data. You would end up just as crazy as Clark.
