Jan Schaumann shares insights into TLS cipher specs and protocols and threat analysis of dozens of vulnerabilities and attacks and explains how to effect change across a diverse legacy stack, how to collaborate with a significant number of teams on goals that may not be directly in line with their roadmaps, and how to get buy-in from your executives.

Dr. Catherine Lotrionte Over the past two decades, governments and non-state actors have become increasingly sophisticated in their attacks on the digital systems …

After years of personal data breaches and mishandled payment data, lawmakers are waking up to the importance of online privacy. Eleanor McHugh explains why, to comply with new laws, we need to put privacy at the heart of our design processes. But how do we do this when design itself is often seen as the enemy?

In May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect for firms doing business in the EU, but many companies aren't prepared for the strict regulation or fines for noncompliance (up to 20 million or 4% of global annual revenue). Steven Ross and Mark Donsky outline the capabilities your data environment needs to simplify compliance with GDPR and future regulations.

Demba Ba discusses two new signal processing/statistical modeling courses he designed and implemented at Harvard, exploring his perspective as an educator and that of the students as well as the steps that led him to adopt the current cloudJHub architecture. Along the way, Demba outlines the potential of architectures such as cloudJHub to help to democratize data science education.

Alexis Menard offers an overview of the new W3C Generic Sensor API, which enables you to use hardware sensors in your website or web app. Join in to learn how you can implement it today and catch a glimpse of future plans.

Exposing internal HTTP-based services to the Internet is a well supported and documented feature of Kubernetes. What's less well understood is how to do it for thousands of services running on behalf …

Building a better web means removing barriers for users and helping them live more productive lives. Marcy Sutton explores how the work we do with technology can have a monumental impact on the lives of people with disabilities by providing independence, privacy, and growth opportunities. But making a positive impact depends on our willingness to do the work.

Many businesses will have to address EU GDPR as they deploy big data projects. This is an opportunity to rethink data security and deploy a flexible policy framework adapted to big data and regulations. Eric Tilenius explains how consistent visibility and control at a granular level across data domains can address both security and GDPR compliance.

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation is an ambitious legal project to reinstate the rights of "data subjects" within an increasingly lucrative data ecosystem. Aurlie Pols explores the legal obligations on companies and their respective interpretations and looks at how scale and integrity will be safeguarded in the data we increasingly base decisions upon in the long term.

The global populace is asking for the IT industry to be held responsible for the safe-guarding of individual data. Steve Touw examines some of the data privacy regulations that have arisen and covers design strategies to protect personally identifiable data while still enabling analytics.

What if you had to build more models than there are data scientists in the worlda feat enterprise companies serving hundreds of thousands of businesses often have to do? Leah McGuire offers an overview of Salesforce's general-purpose machine-learning platform that automatically builds per-company optimized models for any given predictive problem at scale, beating out most hand-tuned models.