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US 3846395 A Abstract Thermoplastics compositions contain ketones, thioketones, oximines, imines or hydrazones as prodegradants. The preferred additives are p-laurylacetophenone and p-laurylbenzophenone.
Claims available in Description (OCR text may contain errors) United States Patent 11 1 1111 3,846,395 Harper et al. Nov. 5, 1974 [5 PLASTICS COMPOSITIONS 3,001,970 9 1961 Ebel et al....... 260 45.7 R 3,014,799 12/1961 Oster 260/DIG. 43 [75] Inventors: Dav! Harper; Forgle 3,300,462 1 1967 Guzzetta a a] 260/DIG.43 McKellar, both of Blackley, 3,423,484 1/1969 Allison 260/457 R England 3,444,155 5/1969 Fish 260/949 cc 3,454,510 7 1969 Newland et al. 260 949 cc [73] Assgnee' 95 chegmal s' 3,493,536 2/1970 Weisfeld 260/457 R Eng an 3,642,690 2/1972 Mills 260/457 R [22] Filed: Oct. 26, 1971 [21] Appl. No.: 192,661 Primary ExaminerI-Iosea E. Taylor Attorney, Agent, or FirmCushman, Darby & Cushman [30] Foreign Appllcatlon Prlorlty Data Nov. 2, 1970 Great Britain 51920/70 [57] ABSTRACT 52 us. Cl. 260/949 GC, 260/DIG. 43, 260/94.76C 51 Int. Cl. 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According to the invention a thermoplastics polymer composition contains a prodegradant 0.001 percent up to percent by weight of either a ketone or a ketone derivative, said keytone having the general formula where R is an aromatic group, preferably a phenyl group or an alkylphenyl group; R is a substituted phenyl group, e.g. an alkylphenyl group or a saturated aliphatic group, eg an alkyl group, or R and R are both aromatic groups which are joined together either directly orvia a chain of one or more carbon atoms, and n 1 or 2; said ketone derivative having the formula:- where R is a phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group, R is an aromatic or aliphatic group, and X is a sulphur atom, an oximino group, an imino group, a hydrazone group or a substituted derivative of one of these groups. The preferred ketones are those in which n 1, R is phenyl and R is a p-alkylphenyl or those in which n 1, R is p-alkylphenyl and R is alkyl. Examples of these are p-laurylbenzophenone and plaurylacetophenone. Examples of the substituted ketone derivatives, i.e., values for X, are butoximino, acetyloximino, lauryloximino groups; methyl-, ethyl-, propyl-, butyl-, cyclohexy1-, octyl-, dodecyl-, octadecyl-, phenyland substituted phenylamino groups; and phenylhydrazone, methylphenylhydrazone, methylhydrazone and octylhydrazone groups. The compositions according to the invention are preferably polyolefine compositions, e.g. compositions in which the thermoplastics polymer is a polymer of ethylene, propylene, butene-l, and 4-methyl pentene-l and copolymers of these monomers either with each other or with other a-olefines. The ethylene polymers may be either the high density or the low density type. In addition to the polymer and the prodegradant a composition according tothe invention may also ine ude th ddi es i arqwn snti na ly n porated in thermoplastics polymer compositions, for example in the case ofpolyolefines they-may incorporate anti-blocking agents, slip agents, anti-static agents, ' stabilisers to stabilise the composition during process- EXAMPLES l 14 Various prodegradantjs, as set out in Table 1, were incorporated into polypropylene to give final concentrations of 0.06 and 0.006 moles/kg of the final composition (about 1 percent weight for most of the prodegradants). Two sets of samples were prepared; in one set the prodegradants were added to unstabilised polypropylene in the other to polypropylene containing: 0.04 percent weight of 1,1,1-tetrakis (3,5-di-t. bu- tyl-4-hydroxy phenyl) propionyl oxymethylmethane 0.17 percent weight distearyl thiodipropionate 0.2 percent weight calcium stearate These mixtures were pressed to a film of thickness microns using a compression moulding cycle comprising: heat at 488K for 180 seconds at a pressure of 154.4 kN/m pressed for 240 seconds at 488K and a pressure of 3.089 MN/m and, maintaining the same pressure, cool to 298K over a period of about 600 seconds. Samples 1 cm by 3 cm were cut from the pressed film and subjected to UV irradiation in a Xenotest accelerated ageing machine. The samples were inspected daily and tested for flex-crack failure. The time to failure is taken as a measure of the performance of the additive. The unstabilised polypropylene samples were also. tested by outdoor exposure to sunlight. These tests were carried out at Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England and they began on Dec. 11, 1970. The procedure was as follows. Speciments of foil 0.1 mm thick were mounted between Perspex (RTM) sheets with a circle 2 cm in diameter uncovered and these were exposed at 45 to the horizontal facing south. The specimens were tested for embrittlement at weekly intervals by dropping a 3.8 g mass in the form of a 7.5 mm diameter rod onto the horizontal specimen. The mass was dropped from a height of 310 mm down a vertical guide tube. Repeats with the same formulations gave identical embrittlement times. The results of these tests are given in Table 1. TABLE 1 H Xenotest. Days to embrittle Open Air at additive conc.(mole/kg) Test Example Weeks Prodegradant Unstabilized Stabilized 0,06 l /k 0.06 0.006 v 0.06 0:006 Prodegradant 1 9-Fluorenone 3 4 4 7 2 Benzil 2 4 2 6 3 4,4'-bis(N-dimethylarnino) benzophenone 3 3 6 TABLE l- Continued h Xenotest. Days to embrittle .Open Air at additive conc.(mole/kg) 1 Test Example Weeks Prodegradant Unstabilized Stabilized 0.06 mole/kg 0.06 0.006 0.06 0.006 Prodegradant 4 4-chloroben zo ph enone 1 1 2 6 5 2-chlorobenzophenone 1 2 6 6 3-bromobenzophenone 1 2 6 7 4-bromobenzophenone 1 2 2 7 8 4-nitrobenzophenone 1 4 2 1 1 9 4-methy1benzophenone 1 2 6 Y 10 4-methoxybenzophenone 1 3 2 6 1 l 2,4-dichlorobenzophenone 1 2 1 6 12 4,4 '-dichlorobenzophenone 1 2 2 6 13 Anthrone 1 2 1 6 14 1,2-benzl O-ketoanthracene 3 6 Blanks were also carried out to compare with results given in Table l. The results on the blanks were: Xenotest (Stabilised) 5 days Xenostest (Unstabilised) 4 days Outdoor Test 13 weeks Thus Table 1 shows that all the prodegradants reduced .the time to embrittle in the Xenotest; in most cases there was a substantial reduction. In the outdoor test sample 8 produced a small reduction, the other samples cut the time to about half. EXAMPLES 15 17 The prodegradants whose fomulae are given in Table 2 were blended at 0.1 percent weight with low density polyethylene. Tensile specimens, 1.5 mm thick and cut parallel to the direction of extrusion, were tested by 3 months exposure to sunlight in Florida during which time they received 40,000 Langleys of radiation. The elongation to break was measured (on duplicate samples) before and after exposure. The percentage retention of elongation is given in Table 2. TABLE 2 Example Prodegradant Retention l5 CH COC H C, H 35 16 C H COC I-LOH 47 17 C H COC l-I CL 42 The C H was para linked. Without a prodegradant, i.e., the blank, the low density polyethylene retained 75 percent of its extension. This clearly illustrates the effectiveness of the additives. EXAMPLES. 18 26 and 27 29 Table 3 gives the results of accelerated ageing tests. on polypropylene plaques stabilised with: 0.1 percent weight of 2,6-di-t.butyl-4-methyl phenol hours) for the polypropylene samples and in Table 4 (in days) for the low density polyethylene. TABLE 3 Sample Blank Example Prodegradant (hours) (hours) 18 CaHsCO CoH4C1zHzs 16 41 19- COHISCO COCiHs 24 73 20.. CHaCOCuHiCrHs 16. 5 41 21.. CHaCOCuH4C1zH15 16. 5 41 22- CQHsCO CH4S 020611 24 73 I 23 CoH5COCoH4COCuH5 24 28 C O C12H25 (lHZOHIC O 0 01115): Now: All COH4-2T011p5 are linked para. TABLE 4 Example Prodegradant Sample Blank (days) (days) 27 C H,.CO.C H .C H 21 39 28 CH .CO.C 1-I,.C, H 28 39 29 C,H,,.C0.C 1-1,.CO.C H,, 21 39 Note: All CJh-groups are linked para. 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A poly-alpha-olefin composition selected from the group consisting of homopolymers and copolymers of alpha-mono-olefins having up to 6 carbon atoms which has incorporated therein as prodegradant 0.00lpercent up to 10 percent by weight of a ketone selected from the group consisting of p-lauryl acetophenone or plauryl benzophenone, [of the general formula R COR where R is a phenyl group with one of more substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl and halogen, and where R is a alkyl group, a phenyl group or a phenyl group with one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl and halogen,] said poly-alpha-olefin composition being capable of degradation by ultraviolet light faster than a poly-alphaolefin composition without said prodegradant. 2. A composition according to claim 1, in which the prodegradant is an alkyl p-alkylphenylketone. 3. A composition according to claim 1, in which the prodegradant is a p-lauryl acetophenone. 4. 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Festival's 40th lauds town boom
From sleepy town to party central
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Forty years ago Queenstown had three pubs, a smattering of accommodation and a sleepy little airport.
For the 40th year of the Queenstown Winter Festival, the resort welcomed tens of thousands of people for a 10-day spectacular.
The festival started in earnest on Saturday with the Main St parade in downtown Queenstown, hot tubs in Earnslaw Park and a Narnia-themed ball at the Memorial Centre.
Today, festival-goers can choose from the Day on the Bay with the infamous birdman competition, a race at Coronet Peak and the comedy debate with Tim Shadbolt, Paul Ego and host Jeremy Corbett.
In the mid-70s, New Zealand's annual visitor tally stood at six figures but today 2.75 million people visit the country each year, and Queenstown Airport is one of the fastest-growing in Australasia.
The resort welcomed about 200,000 visitors in 1975 but, in 2014, that figure has risen to 1.2 million.
A 10-000 strong crowd packed Earnslaw Park and Queenstown Bay foreshore on Friday night for fireworks and the start of the annual party season.
Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Vanessa van Uden told the crowd to have a wonderful night.
"This is a special night - 40 years we have been doing this in Queenstown. Welcome to the party, welcome to Queenstown."
Associate Tourism Minister Todd McClay - taking the spot usually overseen by Prime Minister John Key - said the most important part of New Zealand last night was Queenstown.
"It's the most amazing festival, here to celebrate 40 years."
Former mayor Clive Geddes, who helped start Winter Festival in the 70s, said progress was driven as much by world events as the people who lived and worked in the resort.
"The population of Queenstown was 4000 in 1975. The tourism season ran from October to May, there was nothing in between. We retired to one of the three pubs at 4pm, and at 10pm we drove home. After a while, you got good at it."
Geddes said the number of attractions back then was limited, the most exciting activity was Shotover Jet and there was one rafting company.
"In the next 40 years, the advantages of living here will always outweigh the disadvantages. There will be a resident population in the order of 55,000 to 65,000 people. There will be somewhere between 6 and 7.5 million visitors a year."
Today, Queenstown is a year-round destination, with more than 300 licensed premises, 60 major hotels and resorts, 28 caravan parks and campgrounds, 105 motels, 40 backpackers and hostels, and about 15,000 beds.
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Government figures showed that senior civil servants earn three times as much as nurses, more than twice as much as teachers and seven times the pay of kitchen porters.
Permanent secretaries and other top staff in Whitehall enjoyed average weekly earnings of pounds 1,117 in the 1997-98 financial year, compared with pounds 370.10 for nurses, pounds 473.30 for teachers and pounds 167 for kitchen porters. The total average earnings of the lowest paid increased by 4 per cent, but the highest paid enjoyed a rise of 4.8 per cent.
Bharti Patel, of the Low Pay Unit, said that the poorest manual workers now earned less, relative to the average, than at any time since 1886 when the figures were first collected.
While the difference in pay between men and women has widened by only 0.25 per cent, women's groups registered concern that the "minimal" progress towards equality had now come to a halt.
The Office for National Statistics estimated women are earning about 72 per cent of average male weekly pay, down by 0.25 per cent from the previous year. Men earned an average of pounds 427 a week, up by 4.5 per cent on the previous year, while the figure for women was pounds 310 - a rise of 4.2 per cent. Average earnings for all workers rose by 4.6 per cent to pounds 384 for a 42-hour week.
Data in the New Earnings Survey also confirmed that about two million workers would benefit from the pounds 3.60-an-hour minimum wage to be introduced next year, according to Professor George Bain, the chairman of the Low Pay Commission. Both the Low Pay Unit and the public service union Unison said the statistics showed that the minimum wage should be pounds 4.79 an hour.
n Leaders of 1.5 million local authority workers defied Government calls for pay restraint and submitted a wage claim pitched at twice the inflation rate.
Unison, the GMB general union and the Transport and General Workers' Union called for a rise of 5 per cent or pounds 500.
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Thanks to his talents as an actor, comedian, and TV host, Wayne Brady is one of pop culture's most recognizable entertainers. Now, catch him like never before when he hits Paramount Theatre on Saturday, April 12 for an evening featuring his famed improv flair, musical talents and impersonation skills sure to leave everyone laughing.
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Software Modernization Strategies
Every year, I get a replacement desk calendar to help keep all of our activities straight – and for a family of four, that is no easy task. I start with taking all of the little appointment cards the dentist, orthodontist, pediatrician and GP give to us for appointments that occur beyond the current calendar dates. I transcribe them all. Then I go through last year's calendar to transfer any information that is relevant to this year's calendar. And finally, I put the calendar down in the basement next to previous year calendars so I can refer back to them if I need. Last year's calendar contains a lot of useful information, but no longer has the ability to solve my need to organize schedules for this year.
In a very loose way – this is very similar to application retirement. Many larger health plans have existing systems that were created several years (sometimes even several decades) ago. These legacy systems have been customized to reflect the health plan's very specific business processes. They may be hosted on costly hardware, developed in antiquated software languages and rely on a few developers that are very close to retirement. The cost of supporting these (most likely) antiquated systems can be diverting valuable dollars away from innovation.
The process that I use to move appointment and contact data from one calendar to the next works for me – but is relatively small in scale. Imagine if I was trying to do this for an entire organization without losing context, detail or accuracy!
There are several methodologies for determining the best strategy for your organization to approach software modernization, including:
- Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) is the initiative to standardize views of the existing systems in order to enable common modernization activities like code analysis and comprehension, and software transformation.
- SABA (Bennett et al., 1999) is a high-level framework for planning the evolution and migration of legacy systems, taking into account both organizational and technical issues.
- SRRT (Economic Model to Software Rewriting and Replacement Times), Chan et al. (1996), Formal model for determining optimal software rewrite and replacement timings based on versatile metrics data.
- And if all else fails: Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is being investigated as an approach for reverse engineering and then forward engineering software code
My calendar migration process evolved over time, your method for software modernization should be well planned prior to the go-live date for the new software system.
Data Security – A Major Concern in 2015
I have to admit, I was one of those who saw the movie and found the film humorous to say the least and can see why a desperate regime like North Korea would not want their leader admitting they love margarita's and Katy Perry. What concerned me about the whole event was whether these unwanted security breaches were now just a fact of life? As a disclaimer, I have no affinity over the downfall of the North Korean government however what transpired was fascinating and amazing that companies like Sony continue to struggle to protect sensitive data despite being one of the largest companies in the world.
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 761 reported data security breaches in 2014 impacting over 83 million breached records across industries and geographies with B2B and B2C retailers leading the pack with 79.2% of all breaches. Most of these breaches originated through the internet via malicious WORMS and viruses purposely designed to identify and rely back sensitive information including credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and social security information used by criminals to wreak havoc and significant financial losses to merchants and financial institutions. According to the 2014 Ponemon Institute Research study:
- The average cost of cyber-crime per company in the US was $12.7 million this year, according to the Ponemon report, and US companies on average are hit with 122 successful attacks per year.
- Globally, the average annualized cost for the surveyed organizations was $7.6 million per year, ranging from $0.5 million to $61 million per company. Interestingly, small organizations have a higher per-capita cost than large ones ($1,601 versus $437), the report found.
- Some industries incur higher costs in a breach than others, too. Energy and utility organizations incur the priciest attacks ($13.18 million), followed closely by financial services ($12.97 million). Healthcare incurs the fewest expenses ($1.38 million), the report says.
Despite all the media attention around these awful events last year, 2015 does not seem like it's going to get any better. According to CNBC just this morning, Morgan Stanley reported a data security breach where they had fired an employee who it claims stole account data for hundreds of thousands of its wealth management clients. Stolen information for approximately 900 of those clients was posted online for a brief period of time. With so much to gain from this rich data, businesses across industries have a tough battle ahead of them as criminals are getting more creative and desperate to steal sensitive information for financial gain. According to a Forrester Research, the top 3 breach activities included:
- Inadvertent misuse by insider (36%)
- Loss/theft of corporate asset (32%)
- Phishing (30%)
Given the growth in data volumes fueled by mobile, social, cloud, and electronic payments, the war against data breaches will continue to grow bigger and uglier for firms large and small. As such, Gartner predicts investments in Information Security Solutions will grow further 8.2 percent in 2015 vs. 2014 reaching $76.9+ billion globally. Furthermore, by 2018, more than half of organizations will use security services firms that specialize in data protection, security risk management and security infrastructure management to enhance their security postures.
Like any war, you have to know your enemy and what you are defending. In the war against data breaches, this starts with knowing where your sensitive data is before you can effectively defend against any attack. According to the Ponemon Institute, 18% of firms who were surveyed said they knew where their structured sensitive data was located where as the rest were not sure. 66% revealed that if would not be able to effectively know if they were attacked. Even worse, 47% were NOT confident at having visibility into users accessing sensitive or confidential information and that 48% of those surveyed admitted to a data breach of some kind in the last 12 months.
In closing, the responsibilities of today's information security professional from Chief Information Security Officers to Security Analysts are challenging and growing each day as criminals become more sophisticated and desperate at getting their hands on one of your most important assets….your data. As your organizations look to invest in new Information Security solutions, make sure you start with solutions that allow you to identify where your sensitive data is to help plan an effective data security strategy both to defend your perimeter and sensitive data at the source. How prepared are you?
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Securing Sensitive Data in Test and Development Environments
If you use production data in test and development environments or are looking for alternative approaches, register for the first webinar in a three part series on data security gaps and remediation. On December 9th, Adrian Lane, Security Analyst at Securosis, will join me to discuss security for test environments.
This is the first webinar in a three part series on data security gaps and remediation. This webinar will focus on how data centric security can be used to shore up vulnerabilities in one of the key focus areas, test and development environments. It's common practice that non-production database environments are created by making copies of production data. This potentially exposes sensitive and confidential production data to developers, testers, and contractors alike. Commonly, 6-10 copies of production databases are created for each application environment and they are regularly provisioned to support development, testing and training efforts. Since security controls deployed for the source database are not replicated in the test environments, this is a glaring hole in data security and a target for external or internal exploits.
In this webinar, we will cover:
- Key trends in enterprise data security
- Vulnerabilities in non-production application environments (test and development)
- Alternatives to consider when protecting test and development environments
- Priorities for enterprises in reducing attack surface for their organization
- Compliance and internal audit cost reduction
- Data masking and synthetics data use cases
- Informatica Secure Testing capabilities
Register for the webinar today at http://infa.media/1pohKov. If you cannot attend the live event, be sure to watch the webinar on-demand.
IDC Life Sciences and Ponemon Research Highlights Need for New Security Measures
The Healthcare and Life Sciences industry has demonstrated its ability to take advantage of data to fuel research, explore new ways to cure life threatening diseases, and save lives. With the adoption of technology innovation especially in the mobile technology segment, this industry will need to find a balance between investments and risk.
ModernMedicine.com published an article in May, 2014 stating how analysts worry that a wide-scale security breach could occur in healthcare and pharmaceuticals industry this year. The piece calls out that this industry category ranked the lowest in an S&P500 cyber health study because of its high volume of incidents and slow response rates.
In the Ponemon Institute's research, The State of Data Centric Security, respondents from the Healthcare and Life Sciences stated the data they considered most at risk was customer, consumer and patient record data. Intellectual Property, Business Intelligence and Classified Data responses ranked a close second.
In an Informatica webinar with Alan Louie, Research Analyst from IDC Health Insights (@IDCPharmaGuru), we discussed his research on 'Changing Times in the Life Sciences – Enabled and Empowered by Tech Innovation'. The megatrends of cloud, mobile, social networks and Big Data analytics are all moving in a positive direction with various phases of adoption. Mobile technologies tops the list of IT priorities – likely because of the productivity gains that can be achieved by mobile devices and applications. Security/Risk Management technologies listed as the second-highest priority.
When we asked Security Professionals in Life Sciences in the Ponemon Survey, 'What keeps you up at night?', the top answer was 'migrating to new mobile platforms'. The reason I call this factoid out is that all other industry categories ranked 'not knowing where sensitive data resides' as the biggest concern. Why is Life Sciences different from other industries?
One reason could be the intense scrutiny over Intellectual Property protection and HIPPA compliance has already shone a light on where sensitive data reside. Mobile makes it difficult to track and contain a potential breach given that cell phones are the number 1 item left behind in taxi cabs.
With the threat of a major breach on the horizon, and the push to leverage technology such as mobile and cloud, it is evident that the investments in security and risk management need to focus on the data itself – rather than tie it to a specific technology or platform.
Enter Data-Centric Security. The call to action is to consider applying a new approach to the information security paradigm that emphasizes the security of the data itself rather than the security of networks or applications. Informatica recently published an eBook 'Data-Centric Security eBook New Imperatives for a New Age of Data'. Download it, read it. In an industry with so much at stake, we highlight the need for new security measures such as these. Do you agree?
I encourage your comments and open the dialogue!
The Five C's of Data Management
A few days ago, I came across a post, 5 C's of MDM (Case, Content, Connecting, Cleansing, and Controlling), by Peter Krensky, Sr. Research Associate, Aberdeen Group and this response by Alan Duncan with his 5 C's (Communicate, Co-operate, Collaborate, Cajole and Coerce). I like Alan's list much better. Even though I work for a product company specializing in information management technology, the secret to successful enterprise information management (EIM) is in tackling the business and organizational issues, not the technology challenges. Fundamentally, data management at the enterprise level is an agreement problem, not a technology problem.
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Time to Change Passwords…Again
The information security industry is reporting that more than 1.5 billion (yes, that's with a "B") emails and passwords have been hacked. It's hard to tell from the article, but this could be the big one. (And just when we thought that James Bond had taken care of the Russian mafia.) From both large and small companies, nobody is safe. According to the experts the sites ranged from small e-commerce sites to Fortune 500 companies. At this time the experts aren't telling us who the big targets were. We could be very unpleasantly surprised.
Most security experts admit that the bulk of the post-breach activity will be email spamming. Insidious to be sure. But imagine if the hackers were to get a little more intelligent about what they have. How many individuals reuse passwords? Experts say over 90% of consumers reuse passwords between popular sites. And since email addresses are the most universally used "user name" on those sites, the chance of that 1.5 billion identities translating into millions of pirated activities is fairly high.
According to the recent published Ponemon study; 24% of respondents don't know where their sensitive data is stored. That is a staggering amount. Further complicating the issue, the same study notes that 65% of the respondents have no comprehensive data forensics capability. That means that consumers are more than likely to never hear from their provider that their data had been breached. Until it is too late.
So now I guess we all get to go change our passwords again. And we don't know why, we just have to. This is annoying. But it's not a permanent fix to have consumers constantly looking over their virtual shoulders. Let's talk about the enterprise sized firms first. Ponemon indicates that 57% of respondents would like more trained data security personnel to protect data. And the enterprise firm should have the resources to task IT personnel to protect data. They also have the ability to license best in class technology to protect data. There is no excuse not to implement an enterprise data masking technology. This should be used hand in hand with network intrusion defenses to protect from end to end.
Smaller enterprises have similar options. The same data masking technology can be leveraged on smaller scale by a smaller IT organization including the personnel to optimize the infrastructure. Additionally, most small enterprises leverage Cloud based systems that should have the same defenses in place. The small enterprise should bias their buying criteria in data systems for those that implement data masking technology.
Let me add a little fuel to the fire and talk about a different kind of cost. Insurers cover Cyber Risk either as part of a Commercial General Liability policy or as a separate policy. In 2013, insurers paid an average approaching $3.5M for each cyber breach claim. The average per record cost of claims was over $6,000. Now, imagine your enterprise's slice of those 1.5 billion records. Obviously these are claims, not premiums. Premiums can range up to $40,000 per year for each $1M in coverage. Insurers will typically give discounts for those companies that have demonstrated security practices and infrastructure. I won't belabor the point, it's pure math at this point.
There is plenty of risk and cost to go around, to be sure. But there is a way to stay protected with Informatica. And now, let's all take a few minutes to go change our passwords. I'll wait right here. There, do you feel better?
For more information on Informatica's data masking technology click here, where you can drill into dynamic and persistent data masking technology, leading in the industry. So you should still change your passwords…but check out the industry's leading data security technology after you do.
The New Data Dynamics: Why You Need to Put Data First
Today's data pours into your business from more sources than ever before. It arrives in in all shapes, sizes and colors, changing every department and discipline along the way. Trying to manage it can feel like playing a gazillion simultaneous games of pong.
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In response to the growth, organizations seek new ways to unlock the value of their data. Traditionally, data has been analyzed for a few key reasons. First, data was analyzed in order to identify ways to improve operational efficiency. Secondly, data was analyzed to identify opportunities to increase revenue.
As data expands, companies have found new uses for these growing data sets. Of late, organizations have started providing data to partners, who then sell the 'intelligence' they glean from within the data. Consider a coffee shop owner whose store doesn't open until 8 AM. This owner would be interested in learning how many target customers (Perhaps people aged 25 to 45) walk past the closed shop between 6 AM and 8 AM. If this number is high enough, it may make sense to open the store earlier.
As much as organizations prioritize the value of data, customers prioritize the privacy of data. If an organization loses a customer's data, it results in a several costs to the organization. These costs include:
- Damage to the company's reputation
- A reduction of customer trust
- Financial costs associated with the investigation of the loss
- Possible governmental fines
- Possible restitution costs
To guard against these risks, data that organizations provide to their partners must be obfuscated. This protects customer privacy. However, data that has been obfuscated is often of a lower value to the partner. For example, if the date of birth of those passing the coffee shop has been obfuscated, the store owner may not be able to determine if those passing by are potential customers. When data is obfuscated without consideration of the analysis that needs to be done, analysis results may not be correct.
There is away to provide data privacy for the customer while simultaneously monetizing enterprise data. To do so, organizations must allow trusted partners to define masking generalizations. With sufficient data masking governance, it is indeed possible for data obfuscation and data value to coexist.
Currently, there is a great deal of research around ensuring that obfuscated data is both protected and useful. Techniques and algorithms like 'k-Anonymity' and 'l-Diversity' ensure that sensitive data is safe and secure. However, these techniques have have not yet become mainstream. Once they do, the value of big data will be unlocked.
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The application landscape is constantly evolving. For this reason, data archiving is a strategic component of a data growth management strategy. Application owners need a plan to manage data as applications are upgraded, replaced, consolidated, moved to the cloud and/or retired.
When you don't have a plan in production, data accumulates in the business application. When this happens, performance bothers the business. In addition, data bloat bothers IT operations. When you don't have a plan for legacy systems, applications accumulate in the data center. As a result, increasing budgets bother the CFO.
A data growth management plan must include the following:
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- How to smartly store the application data
- How to ultimately dispose data while staying compliant
Structured data archiving and application retirement technologies help automate and streamline these tasks.
Informatica Data Archive delivers unparalleled connectivity, scalability and a broad range of innovative options (i.e. Smart Partitioning, Live Archiving, and retiring aging and legacy data to the Informatica Data Vault), and comprehensive retention management and data reporting and visualization. We believe our strengths in this space are the key ingredients for deploying a successful enterprise data archive.
For more information, read the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement.
ILM Day: Test management, Data archives and Data security discussions and more…
At the Informatica World 2014 pre-conference, the "ILM Day" sessions were packed, with over 100 people in attendance. This attendance reflects the strong interest in data archive, test data management and data security. Customers were the focus of the panel sessions today, taking center stage to share their experiences, best practices and lessons learned from successful deployments.
Both the test management and data archive panels had strong audience interest and interaction. For Test Data Management, the panel topic was "Agile Development by Streamlining Test Data Management"; for data archive, the session tackled "Managing Data Growth in the Era of Application Consolidation and Modernization". The panels provided practical tactics and strategies to address the challenges and issues in managing data growth, and how to efficiently and safely provision test data. Thank you to the customers, partners and analysts who served on the panels; participating was EMC, Visteon, Comcast, Lowes, Tata Consultancy Services and Neuralytix.
The day concluded with a most excellent presentation from the ILM General Manager, Amit Walia and the CTO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Jeff Northrop. Amit provided an executive summary pre-view of Tuesday's Secure@Source(TM) announcement, while Jeff Northrop provided a thought provoking market backdrop on the issues and challenges for data privacy and security, and how the focus on information security needs to shift to a 'data-centric' approach.
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Current panorama of temporomandibular disorders' field in Brazil.
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Effect of low-level laser therapy on pain levels in patients with temporomandibular disorders: a systematic review.
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The red dress is hideous and she's the most orange here that I've ever seen her. Why is she still being photographed again? I'll never understand why spoiled-rotten attention wh*res become so famous in our society. (sigh)
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she should stop trying to so hard and her shtick might work..but until then, she'll be a "special" peacock with massive feet, a lazy eye and herpes...sorry Paris
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How do you solve a problem like damaged vocal cords?
Connie Fisher's plight highlights occupational hazard for singers
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The West End star Connie Fisher is not the first singer who has had their career cut short by difficulties with the voicebox, but she is rare in having a problem that has almost certainly been with her since childhood.
Ms Fisher, 28, was forced to drop out of her leading role of Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music because she suffers from a congenital disorder of the vocal cords, for which she had surgery in April 2009.
The singer, who in 2006 won the BBC1 talent contest How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, admitted that her vocal range had "altered dramatically" recently, with the result that she has had to drop out of the West End version of the musical at the London Palladium.
Commentators have pointed to the similarities with Julie Andrews, the original Maria in the 1965 award-winning film, who also had to retire because of problems with her vocal cords. But Ms Andrews' difficulties were related to the growth of non-cancerous nodules on the cords, and an operation that left her bereft of her trademark, crystal-clear tones.
In the case of Ms Fisher, the problem was a disorder known as sulcus vocalis. Instead of a smooth surface on the leading edge of the two vocal cords, Ms Fisher developed a groove which in effect creates two edges where there should be one.
The vocal cords consist of two folds of skin that come together and vibrate when air is blown through them.
A set of complex muscles and nerves is able to control the movements of the vocal cords with extreme accuracy, enabling the generation of the complicated sounds needed for speech and song.
Ms Fisher said she had been battling with her problem for many months and finally decided to give up singing because her musical range had altered so dramatically.
In fact, Ms Fisher has probably been dealing unwittingly with the problem for longer that she has realised. Many people with congenital sulcus vocalis are able to compensate for it by adapting the use of the vocal muscles, according to Martin Birchall, professor of laryngology at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. "They are able to recruit muscles not normally used. One of the problems they face is that the groove creates two vibrating edges in the vocal cords, which causes the generation of two sounds or tones. It is a form of hoarseness," Professor Birchall said.
"Clearly, she has been compensating for this but anyone with this condition who uses the voice intensely will tire our their muscles. They need a lot of 'downtime' to give their muscles some rest," he said.
It is possible to have corrective surgery to fill in the groove, but like any medical intervention it carries risks and does not always work.
"It is very difficult to correct and the operation has to be done under a microscope because the vocal cords are relatively small," Professor Birchall said.
Ms Fisher's problem is quite different to the development of nodules on the vocal cords. These growths come about rather like the hardened calluses on a workman's hands, when skin is subjected to heavy physical contact.
Nodules are a frequent problem with rock singers who are not trained in the same way as opera singers and tend to shout rather than using their chest muscles to create loud sounds.
Nodules on the vocal cords mean the two vibrating edges do not meet in the middle as they should, according to John McMurray, English National Opera's head of casting. Voice training can help prevent them forming, but this is no guarantee.
"They tend to come from overuse or strain: people singing things that make them tired," Mr McMurray said.
"The problem tends to come if you have a less-than-perfect technique. That's when you get wear and tear. Rock singers get it more because they shout a lot. They are delicate things, vocal cords," he said.
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Justin Timberlake When recording Signs, his 2005 collaboration with Snoop Dogg, the former member of N-Sync was found to have a long-standing throat condition. He was admitted to hospital to have vocal nodules removed. He made a full recovery but was left unable to sing or speak loudly for several months.
Placido Domingo The three tenors became the two tenors and a baritone when, in 2007, Placido Domingo announced he was switching vocal repertoires. Ageing frequently affects the quality of the voice and, over his 50-year long career, his had deepened audibly, assuming a darker timbre.
Elton John The singer lost his voice while on tour in 1986. He underwent surgery for the removal of several non-cancerous polyps and rested – cancelling dates for a tour the following year. His voice became lower in pitch as a result.
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