All news with #telemetry minimization tag

Cybersecurity on a Budget: Strategies for Downturn

🔒 During economic downturns, organizations must preserve cybersecurity with constrained budgets by prioritizing risk-based controls, hardening existing systems, and blending open- and closed-source tools. The blog recommends defense-in-depth, isolating legacy hardware, disabling unnecessary features, and tuning EDR/AV, logging, and network filters to reduce exposure. It also advises retaining skilled incident response partners and investing selectively in early-to-mid career talent to maintain long-term resilience.

Challenges and Best Practices in Internet Measurement

📊 Cloudflare explains why measuring the Internet is uniquely difficult and how rigorous methodology, ethics, and clear representation make findings reliable. An internal February 2022 Lviv traffic spike illustrates how context and complementary data can prevent misclassification of benign events as attacks. The post contrasts active and passive techniques and direct versus indirect measurement, outlines a lifecycle of curation, modeling, and validation, and stresses low-impact, ethical approaches. It concludes by inviting collaboration and continued exploration of passive measurement methods.

Satisfaction Analysis for Untagged Chatbot Conversations

🔎 This article examines methods to infer user satisfaction from untagged chatbot conversations by combining linguistic and behavioral signals. It argues that conventional metrics such as accuracy and completion rates often miss subtle indicators of user sentiment, and recommends unsupervised and weakly supervised NLP techniques to surface those signals. The post highlights practical considerations including privacy-preserving aggregation, deployment complexity, and the potential business benefit of reducing churn and improving customer experience through targeted dialog improvements.

CrowdStrike to Acquire Onum for Real-Time Telemetry

📡 CrowdStrike announced an agreement to acquire Onum, a leader in real-time telemetry pipeline management that will extend the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's data advantage. Onum transforms telemetry in motion by filtering, enriching and optimizing events as they stream, delivering high-fidelity intelligence to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, customer AI agents and data lakes. CrowdStrike highlights gains in speed and cost efficiency, saying the integration will reduce storage overhead, accelerate incident response and enable an agentic SOC powered by real-time, AI-driven detection.

Google rolls out age assurance to protect U.S. youth

🛡️ Over the coming weeks Google will begin a limited U.S. rollout of age assurance, a system designed to distinguish users under 18 from adults and apply age-appropriate protections across its products. For accounts identified as minors Google will enable defaults such as YouTube Digital Wellbeing tools, disable Maps Timeline, turn off personalized advertising, and block adult-only apps on Google Play. The approach combines machine-learning age estimation based on existing account signals with optional age verification — including a government ID or a selfie — when users dispute their estimated age, and Google will notify users and provide options for adult verification.

SAFECOM/NCSWIC AI Guidance for Emergency Call Centers

📞 SAFECOM and NCSWIC released an infographic outlining how AI is being integrated into Emergency Communication Centers to provide decision-support for triage, translation/transcription, data confirmation, background-noise detection, and quality assurance. The resource also describes use of signal and sensor data to enhance first responder situational awareness. It highlights cybersecurity, operability, interoperability, and resiliency considerations for AI-enabled systems and encourages practitioners to review and share the guidance.