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Welcome back to the continuing series on IAM strategy. Though not as visual (or creative) as the last one, I wanted to capture some highlevel thoughts as I've been delving deeper into learning about h…

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a complicated subject. My son, Ellis, and I tried to find a better way to explain it. Here's a few key components to IAM told through the lens of grand gala and illustrated through kid-built Legos

In the digital age, the financial sector is a pivotal hub of global economic activity, constantly targeted by cyber threats. Rooted in the principles of the CIA triad—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—cybersecurity strategies are deployed to comb...

Financial institutions must understand and address cybersecurity threats to protect against data breaches and strengthen resilience. Phishing, malware, and social engineering are pervasive risks. Proactive measures such as employee training, technological t...

Compliance is complicated. RegTech may offer a path forward. Let's review some major regulations and how RegTech can provide support.

In the world of finance, cybersecurity is no joke. With the rise of digital threats like ransomware and the complexities of compliance, financial institutions face a tricky balancing act. From embracing emerging tech to warding off AI-powered attacks, they'...

Several regulatory changes and initiatives have enabled the growth of fintech in recent years. These changes aim to foster innovation, competition, and financial inclusion while maintaining consumer p…

The integration of technology in financial services, known as fintech, reshapes customer interaction, market dynamics, and operational efficiency, setting new benchmarks for innovation and customer service. Fintech's transformative force demands a keen unde...

Published by Deloitte to centralize AI use cases actively being used at client across six major industries:

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Intro: Commercial Banking & Services

The treasury management (TM) department is typically responsible for managing a bank's financial resources, including its cash and investments, as well as its financial risks. In a typical bank's hier…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) can help financial service companies improve the customer experience by providing faster, more efficient service and personalized recommendations…

Excellent research by Jason Mikula. Although this is not a cautionary tale about avoiding innovation and new revenue streams, it does provide a glimpse into the consequences of not fully understanding the risks involved.

Open Banking refers to the use of open application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow financial service companies to share data and functionality with third parties. This can offer a number of ben…

Governments around the world regulate FinTech companies in order to ensure the security, accessibility, and competition in the market, as well as to protect consumers from fraud, abuse, and predatory practices.

Solid collection of a few sources with a z training materials and insights to prepare for the SAAC02 exam. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate — Learning Materials | by Alexandra Petre | Mar,…

Much of the Great Resignation and Reshuffling are influenced by demographic and psychographic changes to the workforce. In this article, the St. Louis Fed presents research into the main causes of workforce shortage.

The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past.

What does it really mean to be serverless? And how do serverless options offered by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform compare? In this post, we explore the basics of serverless and FaaS (or Functions as a Service) and look at s...

This document is intended to provide an introduction to AWS’s approach to security, including the controls in the AWS environment and some of the products and features that AWS makes available to customers to meet security objectives.

Adit Modi provides an introduction to the Lake House model using the unique facets of each role in the architecture and how data can best move between each.

An excellent reminder of how screen time can affect both adults and children.

Similar to the DevOps skill-set, Site Reliability is about automating delivery and decreasing opportunities for system downtime. Identified and matured through Google, this resource unpacks the how, what and why behind implementing SRE within your organizat...

Pete Hodgsen discuss the Cynefin model of frameworks/triage and the effects of system architecture on identifying solutions.

Candid discussion around the characteristics of work addiction and how the current hiring ecosystem is a place to review how leaders approach supporting their teams.

A collection of GitHub repositories to improve development skill and knowledge of the current ecosystem.

Looking at a few of the largest and most popular IaaS, Jazz Tong reviews a project combining Azure, AWS and Terraform.

Interest in headless CMSes has seen spectacular growth over the past few years with many businesses looking to adopt the tooling. With this new partnership model, Cloudflare is expanding into more mainstream CMSs.

As an early adopter to Jamstack, it's exciting to see these folks building their own rocketship to move the movement forward.

Quick writeup of Cloudflare Workers and how to use them in a serverless function for OAuth on a Statically Generated website.

Harsh Makadia walks through some basic ideas of what he has learned as a developer as it relates to career, self and the work.

Adam Talcott, a director of product engineering and former lead engineer at two SaaS companies, provides a great synopsis of using the SMART model for goal setting and examples of application to engineers and development teams.

Comparison of Gen Z and Millennials in workplace needs and wants in a post-COVID work environment. The primary goals of both are flexibility, wellbeing. The primary difference is boldness for Gen Z and risk aversion for Millenials.

Basil Ihuoma gives an introduction to DevOps and a brief intro to Continuous Integration and Continuous Development. Extensive look at Kubernetes and how containers make sense in some (not all) situations.

High-level and insightful walk through of the planning and migration of the development environments that served Lyft’s engineering team as it grew from 100 engineers and a handful of services to 1000+ engineers and hundreds of services.

We celebrate success and push away failure despite the powerful lessons it can bring. It’s an unavoidable and integral path to achieving anything novel, so let’s find ways to get more comfortable with failing, and figure out why people fear it. Mandeep give...

Some organizations are already on the road to improved sustainability and have announced ambitious net zero targets. But for others taking their first tentative steps, where should they focus their efforts?