Have you been hacked and you don’t know it?
There’s a tsunami of cyber attacks sweeping through the UK right now, and I’m willing to bet you’ve seen more than one headline, subject or banner ad warning you that without adequate protection, your business is at risk.
The reality is that infosec sales are notorious for using scare tactics to sell their products and services. They’ll highlight the various cyber threats and vulnerabilities that organisations face, and emphasise the consequences of not having adequate cybersecurity measures in place. Scare tactics might be effective in the short term, but they’re not a sustainable way to build trust and establish long-term relationships with customers, which surely should be the foundation of any business.
That’s why at Xonetic, we’re not in the business of trying to cause alarm by telling you all the ways things can go wrong with their security systems. Instead, we want you to be as informed as possible about every aspect of your IT. It’s important to keep in mind that you’re always vulnerable and should always try to keep your security moving forwards: people are never going to stop trying to find new and inventive ways to scam you.
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In the news…
AI continues to dominate the headlines, with Microsoft and Google launching their platforms at the same time last month… and the Google launch really didn’t go as planned.
Bard (Google’s platform) showed an incorrect answer in a demo video, which, coupled with an unsuccessful press conference in Paris, led to Google’s share prices tumbling by 10% over the following week. They have subsequently released Bard only for over 18’s with lots of caveats.
So does this mean the beginning of the end for Google? The future of search is AI-powered, meaning that when you search, instead of getting pages of results (leaving you to figure out which is one you need), you just get the right answer.
Think back to the pandemic and how useful that would have been! Trying to figure out the lockdown rules when everything was changing on a daily basis was a job in itself- how could you tell if the top results on Google were right, or just popular? It was impossible to tell.
So are we all going to suddenly stop using Google? I really don’t think that’s the case right now, but it’s certainly a story to keep watching.
Meanwhile, over at Xonetic…
This month Business Technology has been in the spotlight! At UCISA’s annual conference for the higher education sector, Juha Huovinen (Founder BT Forum) was part of a panel led by John Butterworth (Director, Office of the CIO, Kings College London) discussing what the BT standard is and how it can help the sector. Just to recap, the BT Standard is an open-source management framework for IT wherever it occurs in a business. The University sector has been very excited about the prospect of a single framework because it brings obvious cost reduction benefits – there are many areas where the BT community has already done the thinking, and training costs can be shared by the sector.
Xonetic was also proud to provide the second annual view of BT maturity across the sector. With more contributing universities than last year, the ambition to create an complete overall sector view is getting closer. Its fair to say that the Demand portion of the BT model is a focus for everyone, especially with the shift to distance based learning, and digital transformation, meaning more and more smaller projects that need to be triaged and prioritised, ahead of placing them in a development funnel.
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Just for fun…
“If Chat GPT was a person, who would it most be like?”
“As an AI language model, I don’t have a physical existence, personality or individuality like a human being. However, if you were to imagine ChatGPT as a person, you could perhaps compare it to someone who is very knowledgeable and well-informed, as well as capable of understanding and processing complex information quickly.
ChatGPT has been trained on a vast amount of data and is capable of generating human-like responses on a wide range of topics. Similarly, someone who is well-read, has a strong academic background, and has a broad range of interests might be comparable to ChatGPT in terms of their intellectual capabilities.
However, it’s important to note that ChatGPT is not a person, and it does not have emotions, desires, beliefs or values like a human being. Its responses are generated based on patterns and associations in its training data, and it does not have personal experiences or subjective perspectives like a human being.”
I don’t know about you, but I think if ChatGPT was a person they’d make an excellent politician…!
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