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7 Benefits of Metadata Management

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Metadata management is key to wringing all the value possible from data assets. What Is Metadata? Analyst firm Gartner defines metadata as “information that describes various facets of an information asset to improve its usability throughout its life cycle. It is metadata that turns information into an asset.”.

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Four Use Cases Proving the Benefits of Metadata-Driven Automation

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Organization’s cannot hope to make the most out of a data-driven strategy, without at least some degree of metadata-driven automation. Metadata-Driven Automation in the BFSI Industry. The banking, financial services and insurance industry typically deals with higher data velocity and tighter regulations than most.

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Trojanized Comm100 Live Chat app installer distributed a JavaScript backdoor

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The malicious installer was used to infect organizations in multiple sectors, including the industrial, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, insurance and telecommunications sectors in North America and Europe. The attackers used the Microsoft Metadata Merge Utility binary to load a the MidlrtMd DLL. 156 at the time of the incident.”

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

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. “You need to create this file and inject into the machine(s) like this so that metadata would say that they were created on his computer,” they continued. “One of my clients did it, I don’t know how. “It’s not going to be forensically solid, but that’s not what they care about,” he said.

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Previously undetected Earth Longzhi APT group is a subgroup of APT41

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The second campaign from 2021 to 2022, targeted high-profile victims in the defense, aviation, insurance, and urban development industries in Taiwan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ukraine. . The new APT group used spear-phishing emails as an attack vector to deliver Earth Longhzhi’s malware.

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Data Intelligence and Its Role in Combating Covid-19

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Privately it will come from hospitals, labs, pharmaceutical companies, doctors and private health insurers. Unraveling Data Complexities with Metadata Management. Metadata management will be critical to the process for cataloging data via automated scans. Data cataloging to capture object metadata for identified data assets.

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Why data observability is essential to AI governance

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Metadata is the basis of trust for data forensics as we answer the questions of fact or fiction when it comes to the data we see. Being that AI is comprised of more data than code, it is now more essential than ever to combine data with metadata in near real-time.