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According to Gartner, IT outsourcing will be a $335 billion industry by 2019. Within the growing number of IT organizations adopting this approach to managing infrastructure, outsourced IT administrators are routinely granted broad privileges to accomplish even the most narrowly focused tasks.

However, traditional privileged identity management solutions require organizations to create and manage identities for outsourced IT administrators within their internal environment and grant full VPN access. This practice increases risk, as the gap between the number of disconnected privileged accounts and an authoritative identity provider grows, and more laptops establish VPN connections to internal networks. The result is an expansion of potential attack points for hackers, disgruntled insiders, and malware.

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Skype, WhatsApp and services like them could soon fall under the same European Union regulations as telephone calls and SMS text messages, a leaked legislative draft reveals.

Although Skype and WhatsApp can both be used to make voice calls and send text messages, they don’t fall under existing EU communications privacy legislation because they are data services that run over the top of an internet connection, rather than native functions of the network like phone calls and SMS.

But legislators want to bring such «over-the-top» services within the scope of rules protecting users’ privacy with their proposed Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation, a draft of which was obtained by Politico on Monday. The regulation is intended to replace the 2002 ePrivacy Directive.

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Since time immemorial, or at least since the earliest businesses started selling their services and products, marketers have been vying for the consumer’s attention. In this age of all-pervasive technology, never have brands been so integrated into the lives of consumers. And marketers who understand technology and its implications are able to use it to connect their brands to their consumers.

Mobile trends and consumer data prove that mobile is getting bigger by the day and has already surpassed desktop as the preferred mode of internet access worldwide. In 2015, the time spent per adult user in the U.S. per day with digital media was 2.8 hours which was 51 percent of the total. 90 percent of the time spent by consumers on mobile is on apps. This clearly shows a path for marketers to design consumer-centric apps to market their brands.

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Drones will start getting digital identification certificates under a new service being launched on Tuesday that hopes to bring trust and verification to the skies.

The Drone IDs will be SSL/TLS certificates from DigiCert issued through AirMap, a provider of drone flight information data, and will first be available to users of Intel’s Aero drone platform.

Under the system, drone owners receive the digital ID in the form of an SSL/TLS certificate when they register for AirMap services. The ID is different from the identification number issued to drone owners by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and isn’t part of any government scheme.

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Game theory is the science of strategy. A branch of mathematics and economics that explores strategic situations across multiple stakeholders with different goals, whose actions can affect one another. Pioneering companies are changing the game with blockchain technologies. The new game of consumer interactions redefines transparency, immutability and security across industries.

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Much progress has been made with game theory. John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern’s 1944 book Game Theory and Economic Behavior outlined classic game theory. Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that “competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.” Game theory analyzes strategic interaction and can be applied to economics, political science and military science. In game theory, players (decision-makers) adopt strategies (complete plans of action) and receive payoffs (rewards or punishments), all of which depend on the strategies of all of the players. A strategy is a complete plan that describes the action a player will take in every circumstance that is observed.

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Welcome to episode No. 8 of «CIO Career Coach,» a video collaboration between Heller Search Associates, CIO.com and IDG.tv, the video division of CIO’s parent company, IDG.

This first season of «CIO Career Coach» focuses how to run the most effective and successful job search. Whether you are a CIO, CTO, CISO, a vice president, a director in the IT organization, or you aspire to one of these roles, the advice in these videos will help you land your next great job as a technology professional.

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