5 ways to keep virtual assistants from sharing your company's secrets

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Network World Virtualization Alert Apr 24, 2017 5 ways to keep virtual assistants from sharing your company's secrets Consumers love talking to Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google Now. But what should CIOs be doing to prepare for the growing use of virtual assistants among their employees? Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Virtual assistants hear everything, so watch what you say. I'm not kidding • Dunkin' runs on AWS • Review: VMM 2016 stiffs Azure, older Hyper-V • Users' orders: Make it easier to build hybrid clouds • Facebook wants you to hang out with your friends in VR • The emergence of software-defined application delivery technology - and what it can do for your network • By Djingo, there's a new virtual assistant • Avaya plan deploys network virtualization, segmentation to guard business jewels Video/Webcast: Dell EMC & Intel® Data Lake: Harnessing the Power of Unstructured Data Gain control over the flood of unstructured data. In this webcast, you'll hear how a Data Lake efficiently consolidates all your unstructured data within a single data fabric. Read More ▶ Virtual assistants hear everything, so watch what you say. I'm not kidding Virtual assistants such as Google Home and Amazon Echo lack security guards, raising questions about safety and privacy. Read More ▶ Dunkin' runs on AWS As Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins increasingly encourage customers to use mobile apps to pay and rack up rewards, the company needed a new hosting platfrom to deal with unexpected peaks in traffic, so it turned to Amazon Web Services. Read More ▶ Review: VMM 2016 stiffs Azure, older Hyper-V System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager shines for Windows Server 2016, but does little for prior versions of Hyper-V Read More ▶ Users' orders: Make it easier to build hybrid clouds At its spring conference next week, the Open Networking User Group will focus on enterprises extending their infrastructure to create hybrid clouds, a process the group says is too hard and too time-consuming. Read More ▶ Facebook wants you to hang out with your friends in VR Facebook is making it possible to hang out with your friends in virtual reality using Spaces , a new app the company launched Tuesday for the Oculus Rift. The app will allow people to join a shared, immersive video call, represented by a personalized avatar. Read More ▶ The emergence of software-defined application delivery technology - and what it can do for your network Virtual appliances for load balancing inherit the challenges of legacy solutions. What's needed is an architecture based on software-defined principles Read More ▶ By Djingo, there's a new virtual assistant How many virtual assistants can you fit in one smartphone? European network operator Orange is hoping there's room to squeeze in one more, called Djingo. Read More ▶ Avaya plan deploys network virtualization, segmentation to guard business jewels Avaya has rolled out products it says will help enterprise customers more easily segment traffic between widely dispersed networked resources and effectively protect corporate data. Read More ▶ Video/Webcast: Druva | AWS From On-Premises to Cloud: Modernize Data Protection with Druva Phoenix and AWS In this webinar, learn how Druva helped AWS customer TRC Companies Inc. (NYSE:TRR) to significantly lower their backup costs and storage footprint as well as modernize their overall data protection strategy. Hear how to leverage modern backup technology to scale on demand, how to maintain security and compliance across all data, and how to implement additional best practices for moving backup to the cloud. When: May 17, 2017 | 10 am PDT/1 pm EDT Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS 31 tech pros share favorite IT products New products of the week 4.24.17 Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. Twitter's porn problem is 'trending' 2. MIT selling 8 million coveted IPv4 addresses; Amazon a buyer 3. The hidden cause of slow Internet and how to fix 4. 18 free cloud storage options 5. Cisco issues 7 "high priority" security advisories, Firepower iOS and ASA issues among them 6. Peeping into 73,000 unsecured security cameras thanks to default passwords 7. he AMD Effect might be back—and that's a good thing 8. 4G vs LTE: What's the difference? 9. Cisco certifications target business professionals eyeing software roles 10. Trump claimed on Earth Day: 'Rigorous science is critical to my administration'

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