C2 Summer 2021

A Note from Connect Leadership

With fingers crossed it looks like most of the world is digging out from the pandemic and beginning to contemplate life in a post-covid world. Things will probably never go back to the way they were before but one of the constants in this world is that you either evolve or die. We at Connect chose to evolve (as I hope you do too) and have been busy at work on the HPE Discover conference along with our NonStop Bootcamp which will be a great show this year.
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Editor’s Letter

What a year this week has been.
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Before everything got weird, this was the time of the year that we readied for HPE Discover. Naturally, some complained behind the scenes. Could Las Vegas in June be any hotter, and my feet are killing me in these shoes! And then someone asked me if I enjoyed the Chainsmokers. But the good news is we all have a little more time to brush up on our in-person social skills.…

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The Flipside

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Agility Gets you to the starting line – Adaptability wins the race!

In a recent article in Forbes magazine, Steve Denning, a leader in agile management, leadership, and innovation, persuasively argues that only the agile will survive. He suggests that COVID-19, which we all agree is now the mother of all disruptions, will accelerate a new way of working, playing, learning, leading and even living.

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New look. New brains. All the tools!

The HPE DEV team is excited to present its revamped HPE Developer Community web portal. Featuring a fresh look and feel, with easier navigation, it provides the resources you need to design and build software experiences that harness the most value from your data. With a new backend system and new design, it’s easier to use and contribute to.
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PCI DSS 4.0 Is Coming. Will You Be Ready?

Since the release of PCI-DSS 3.0 in 2013, the PCI Security Standards Council has been quite busy.  A little over a year after it was published, the council released PCI-DSS 3.1, followed by several new templates and supplements, including the “Migrating from SSL and early TLS Information Supplement” in April 2015 which highlighted the risks of SSL and TLS 1.0.  The supplement described a migration plan as well as set a migration deadline of 1 July, 2016.
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Ransomware Data Recovery — Protect and Recover Your Data

A ransomware attack is devastating. Compromised businesses and organizations suffer steep financial losses (an estimated $10.5 trillion annually by 2025) compounded by the loss of customer and partner trust. If a healthcare organization is a victim, it can even risk human life. By virtue of the increased value of data to organizations, not only are the number of ransomware attacks growing, but so too are the different types of this threat. According to Bitdefender’s Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020, global ransomware reports increased by 715% year over year.
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Three Years of GDPR – a Look Back

It might be hard to imagine, but it has been three years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented in the European Union (EU) on 25 May 2018. Time certainly does fly by when you are trying to protect data. Nevertheless, the term ‘GDPR’ has set a precedent on what is to be expected from organizations when it comes to protecting personally identifiable information (PII) of EU data subjects and has served as the foundational inspiration for many international data security regulations.
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