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  • 1.  🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Community Leadership
    Posted Fri May 06, 2022 05:15 PM

    Our IBM Champions are here to answer your questions! Ask them about any of the topics that were covered today during the day's event:

    Day 1

    • Leading in a changing world
    • Modernize business with hybrid cloud
    • Putting sustainability strategy into action

    Day 2

    • Rethink business and IT operations with AI and automation
    • Prepare for next-wave cybersecurity threats
    • Future of computing

    Our experts will hop on the Community Front Porch discussion forum on May 10 and May 11 at 4:30pm Eastern/1:30pm Pacific and start answering your questions right here in this thread. You can also join the preceding Champions Roundtable (Day 1 info; Day 2 info), or Think Broadcast (on our Community Front Porch from 10am-12 noon Eastern/7am-9am Pacific, May 10 & 11).

    This AMA event will take place entirely in the discussion forum, so there is no meeting to join.  If you can't be online during the hour, don't worry; you can post your questions in advance and read the responses later.  


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    Douglas (Doug) Moran
    IBM Software

    Community Leader for Cloud Pak for Data & Hybrid Data Management
    Information Architect, Content Designer
    Community Video Coordinator
    Blogging Program Manager
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  • 2.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Community Leadership
    Posted Tue May 10, 2022 04:35 PM
    Welcome to the Ask Me Anything event! Please go ahead and ask our Champions whatever is on your mind!

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    Douglas (Doug) Moran
    IBM Software

    Community Leader for Cloud Pak for Data & Hybrid Data Management
    Information Architect, Content Designer
    Community Video Coordinator
    Blogging Program Manager
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  • 3.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Community Leadership
    Posted Tue May 10, 2022 04:39 PM
    One of this morning's speakers talked about using AI to build equity into the mortgage application process. Do you believe companies will actively use the same technology to eliminate implicit bias in the hiring process?

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    Krista Summitt
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  • 4.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue May 10, 2022 05:00 PM
    Edited by Doug Moran Tue May 10, 2022 05:02 PM
    Hey Krista,

    I hope one of the AI champions will swoop in to save the day here, but I wanted to highlight that we had a conversation today during the roundtable that I'm sure you picked up on about AI and equity and how we as technologists have to combat biases in our data to prevent training our AI to become as biased as we are.

    I am personally very encouraged to know that the top minds of the AI-space are cognizant of this as an inherent problem that we need to combat. Bryan Young was very inspiring about how we can leverage AI to help bring equity to the homebuying process and I truly hope that we can see that same technology being used to bring equity to hiring processes. This is brilliant lateral insight on your part and I hope others draw that same connection!

    - Steven

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    Steven Perva
    Sr Mainframe Innovation Engineer
    Ensono
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  • 5.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue May 10, 2022 05:45 PM
    That's an excellent question and the answer is... maybe. Maybe because one of the biggest challenges with hiring and fairness is that we have to decide WHAT constitutes fair. For example, if you blind all resumes, you might think you're being fair (removing bias from candidate selection), but if your selection pool is biased to begin with, then you haven't really fixed the problem. Suppose you were committed to gender diversity but your applicant pool was 95% male. By blinding the resumes, you still have a pool that's 95% male, you just don't know whether any individual resume is male or not. If you wanted to commit to 45/45/10 split on gender, then you'd have to implement fairness differently.

    There are PLENTY of opportunities to trim back bias, to be sure - the obstacles shouldn't prevent us from making strides towards equity. But the elimination of it will be a substantially challenging problem with no easy answers.

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    Christopher S. Penn
    Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
    Trust Insights, Inc.
    cspenn@trustinsights.ai
    https://www.trustinsights.ai

    http://twitter.com/cspenn
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/cspenn
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  • 6.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Community Leadership
    Posted Tue May 10, 2022 04:48 PM

    We have an ethical hacker as part of our Champions Roundtable tomorrow. Can you share some insight on the following?

    What is the most common hack?

    Do people underestimate the dangers of social media security? 



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    Wendy Batten
    Community Manager
    IBM Security
    Cambridge MA
    wjbatten@us.ibm.com
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  • 7.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Posted Wed May 11, 2022 01:41 PM
    What is the most common hack?

    It's hard to point to a single most common hack, but there are several common mistakes that happen frequently:

    • Weak, or re-used passwords
    • Unpatched or outdated software
    • Misconfigurations
    These are not hacks themselves, but they are the underlying vulnerabilities that enable a lot of the most common attacks. 
    Even in the modern Cloud Native world, the nuts-and-bolts of good security practices like multi-factor authentication, patch management and configuration are as important as ever.

    Do people underestimate the dangers of social media security?

    Yes. 

    In particular, a lot of people think: "I'm nobody special, so no one has any reason to target me."  But just like real-world criminals, cyber criminals are often looking for easy opportunities and not just high-value victims.  You can still be targeted by an attacker who is just hoping to catch you off-guard so that they can convince you to send them gift cards, a password, banking information, etc.

    It's also easy to lose track of how seemingly innocuous pieces of data that we leave on social media can be cobbled together to learn surprising amounts of detail about us.  A few years ago my colleagues on the IBM Security Ethical Hacking Team did a research project (with express permission from our "victim") where they showed how they could discover a shocking amount of detail about the victim, knowing only their name and their employer's name.  

    That's not to say that everyone should panic and delete all of their social media accounts immediately.  But we should all be thoughtful about how much we share, who might be able to see it, and what sort of mischief can be done with that information. 

    In the enterprise we do "threat modeling" where we try to imagine how a product or service could be attacked and plan ways to mitigate those attacks.  We can do similar exercises in our personal online lives.  Ask: "How might someone attack me?" and then for any attacks that seem realistic, ask "How can I protect myself from that attack. 

    An example that probably applies to a lot of us:
    Someone trying to access your bank account. 

    You can help protect yourself by:
    • Using a strong password (and keeping it in a password manager) that is not reused anywhere else
    • Enabling multi-factor authentication
    • Having a plan if someone claiming to be from the bank contacts you (do not share any information; hang up and call the bank directly using the number on the bank card or bank website; do not click any links an emails)
    • Avoiding sharing information about your bank online.  Even something innocuous like "I have banked with Big National Bank since 1993 and they're great!"
    Because everyone has unique concerns, there is no one-size-fits-all approach.  But with a little bit of care and advanced planning we can all have a more realistic understanding of the dangers presented by social media, and how we can reasonably protect ourselves while still being able to participate.

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    Troy Fisher
    OSCP
    Ethical Hacker
    IBM Security
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  • 8.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Posted Thu May 12, 2022 05:38 AM
    Hii sir good discussion





  • 9.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Posted Fri May 13, 2022 10:53 AM
    I am interested.





  • 10.  RE: 🌟 IBM Champions Think Ask-me-anything (AMA)

    Posted Sat May 14, 2022 03:07 AM
    Iam interested