How to navigate the e-commerce minefield so you can launch the best site possible. The presentation goes over payment gateways, how credit card processing works, merchant accounts, SSL certificates, PCI compliance, WordPress security tips and (briefly) some of the more popular e-commerce plugin solutions for WordPress.
The document summarizes the key requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) including who must comply, compliance deadlines, and consequences for non-compliance. It outlines the 12 PCI DSS requirements and priorities remediation of the top failed requirements. Merchants, acquirers, issuers and service providers must comply with PCI DSS to protect cardholder data, with penalties for non-compliance including fines and legal action.
eMusic is a digital music subscription service that allows users to discover, download, and own music. It is moving its content management system from a legacy platform to WordPress to take advantage of WordPress' custom post types, taxonomies, and plugin ecosystem. This transition involves planning the import of existing content and customizing WordPress with plugins to support eMusic's regionalized catalog and complex data needs. The experience has highlighted both WordPress' capabilities for complex websites and the ongoing costs and challenges of maintaining a dynamic WordPress site at scale.
WordCamp SF 2011: Debugging in WordPressandrewnacin
The document discusses various debugging techniques in WordPress, including:
1. Using WP_DEBUG, SCRIPT_DEBUG, and SAVEQUERIES constants to enable debugging and view queries.
2. Installing plugins like the Debug Bar and Log Deprecated Notices to aid debugging.
3. Checking for issues like permissions, JavaScript errors, redirects, and rewrite rules when troubleshooting.
4. Tips for local development including using hosts files and output buffering to replace live URLs.
5. Mention of tools like Xdebug and unit testing to improve the debugging process.
Coding, Scaling, and Deploys... Oh My!Mark Jaquith
You're a professional WordPress developer in charge of a professional WordPress site. It's time to have professional development and deployment practices.
Taking WordPress to the World : Options for a Multilingual Site | WordCamp Sa...Shannon Smith
Taking WordPress to the World : Options for a Multilingual Site
Presented by Shannon Smith • Professional/Large-scale Track
About 2/3 of the world population speak more than one language and most of the world doesn’t use the Internet in English. This presentation will cover what components are needed for a successful multilingual WordPress site. We’ll compare different set-ups, review key plugins and examine common pitfalls. Then we’ll look at advanced features like e-commerce and email marketing.
Don't Repeat Your Mistakes: JavaScript Unit Testingaaronjorbin
The document discusses how to avoid repeating mistakes by implementing unit testing for JavaScript code. It recommends writing testable JavaScript by focusing on scope and closures. It also provides examples of tools for testing aspects like cookies, XHR requests, and different browsers using phantomJS, mockjax, and frameworks like JSUnit, YUI Test, and QUnit. The document encourages asking questions and provides contact information for the author.
These are the slides from a talk "DNS exfiltration using sqlmap" held at PHDays 2012 conference (Russia / Moscow 30th–31st May 2012) by Miroslav Stampar.
A look at WordPress in 2016, and a proposal for a future direction for the project functionality and organization, delivered in December 2016 at WordCamp US in Philadelphia.
You can watch it on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl6U7UotA-M
Pushing Python: Building a High Throughput, Low Latency SystemKevin Ballard
This document discusses Taba, a distributed event aggregation service. It notes that Taba can process over 10 million events per second across over 50,000 metrics and 1,000 clients using 100 processors. It then discusses four key lessons learned in building Taba: 1) getting the data model right; 2) the difficulty of centralized state; 3) how asynchronous iterators and greenlets can improve performance; and 4) how memory fragmentation is a problem in CPython and some techniques to address it like hybrid memory management and avoiding ratcheting.
This document summarizes WordPress developments in 2015, including key statistics about WordCamp events and the WordPress community. It outlines recent WordPress releases from versions 4.1 through 4.4, highlighting new features like the REST API and responsive images. It also discusses work to address version fragmentation and plans for upcoming releases, emphasizing a continued focus on accessibility, customization, and an open web through the WordPress API.
Git is a distributed version control system that focuses on speed, efficiency, and usability for large projects. It allows for distributed development, non-linear development, efficient handling of large projects, and cryptographic authentication of history. The document provides an overview of Git and outlines 8 steps for a Git study guide, including setting up the environment, initializing and committing projects, viewing logs and history, tagging, branching, and working with remote repositories. Resources for further learning about Git are also listed.
The document is a presentation about building applications on the Twitter platform. It discusses why developers should build on Twitter, highlighting Twitter's massive reach and real-time capabilities. It then outlines the various Twitter APIs and tools available for developers to build applications that integrate with Twitter, such as the Streaming and REST APIs.
Time to climb-- results of national study of disadvantaged entrepreneurs ...Richard Swart, PhD
The document summarizes key findings from a national study on crowdfunding opportunities and obstacles for disadvantaged entrepreneurs, including women and minorities. Some of the main findings are that women are more engaged in crowdfunding and more successful than minorities; minorities lack knowledge about crowdfunding and connections to facilitate campaigns; and accelerating business model development may be more important than initial capital access. The study utilized interviews with various groups to gather perspectives and insights into these issues.
This document provides an overview of attacking ColdFusion applications. It begins with an introduction to ColdFusion and discusses how to find sites running it. Common vulnerabilities in ColdFusion like XSS, SQL injection, and exposed admin interfaces are explained. Specific exploits like BlazeDS XML injection and the locale traversal issue are covered in detail. The document also discusses brute forcing admin logins, interacting with CFCs, and abusing long-lived admin cookies. It concludes with a section on post-exploitation activities like scheduling tasks and executing code once administrative access is obtained.
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There are many ways to customize your WordPress site, some wrong and some right. In this presentation we explore the wrong ways and the right ways to make you a better WordPress developer.
Learn why it is important to include video content on your site, along with the best ways to create and implement a video library for your WordPress website.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Radka Nacheva on the importance of design and usability for WordPress websites. The presentation covered design conventions and usability heuristics, examples of good design, and how to check the usability of a WordPress website. It emphasized that good design helps users complete tasks efficiently and comfortably.
Online, everything's a competition. If your website isn’t healthy enough to compete, you lose, which can be detrimental to the profitability and viability of your business. If you want your business to win the online marketing race — or at least place in the top 10 — you have to train for it, just as you would if you were preparing for an actual, physical race.
In this session, I will provide you with a five-point training regimen that will help you whip your WordPress website into shape and make it a true contender in online marketing.
1. Learn what website architecture issues to look for and what tools will help you detect them
2. Discover the role of keyword research in today’s online marketing landscape and how to properly optimize content
3. Understand content’s role in online competition
4. Learn social media’s threefold role in your website’s health and how it impacts search rankings
5. Know what usability issues you should be testing to make using your site effortless for visitors
The document discusses secure payment integration solutions for SAP. It provides an overview of Paymetric as an award-winning payment processor and describes the challenges of accepting electronic payments within SAP systems, including limited functionality, PCI compliance, and high costs. The document outlines Paymetric's solutions that securely integrate payments into SAP, including credit card processing, accounts receivable payments, tokenization for sensitive data, and reconciliation reporting.
PCI Compliance—Love It, Hate It, But Don’t Ignore It (11NTCpci)Miminten
PCI Compliance is a standard for security of payment card data that all businesses processing credit cards must comply with. It aims to enhance payment security through requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. The standard is maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council and enforced by the major credit card brands. Compliance involves conducting a risk assessment and completing a Self-Assessment Questionnaire to validate security controls.
The document summarizes the state of eCommerce in 1999 and discusses various challenges and trends. It covers topics like choosing an eCommerce payment provider, authentication alternatives to SSL/credit cards like digital wallets, and the future of technologies like SET. Key points discussed include the lack of integration among eCommerce software suites, difficulties implementing public key infrastructure for payments, and how digital wallets and new authentication methods need widespread adoption to be truly useful.
Payliance offers an industry partner program that provides integrated payment and recovery solutions. The program offers benefits like PCI scope minimization, multiple payment methods through a single gateway, branded marketing materials, and an extremely competitive revenue share. Partners gain access to Payliance's portfolio of over 30,000 merchants across industries and can offer their clients a total payment solution with competitive pricing, electronic check guarantee, custom reporting, and an integrated payment recovery process.
This document summarizes the options for building an online store, including building it from scratch, buying a hosted solution, or using an open-source platform like Magento or WordPress. It discusses factors to consider like features, costs, development time, technical requirements, and ease of use. Specific solutions mentioned include Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, and WordPress eCommerce plugins. The presenter's background and agenda are also briefly outlined.
10 Steps To Secure and PCI Compliant Credit Card Processing In Oracle Receiva...amadhireddy
With the recent tightening of credit markets, companies are increasingly moving toward credit cards as the preferred receipt method. This helps companies transfer substantial part of credit risk to card issuer. However, processing of credit cards requires compliance with security standards, fraud prevention guidelines and often Purchase Card Industry Guidelines. This session will highlight the 10 things to know while implementing a credit card receipt model and how Oracle helps security and compliance. Learning Objectives: 1. Learn the credit card industry guidelines for security and compliance and industry operating model 2. Know how Oracle stores credit card data and the patches required for advanced security 3.Understand the zero-touch credit card processing features offered by Oracle Receivables and Payments 4.Case Study on how VeriSign Inc integrated its web stores with Oracle Payments and key lessons 5.Learn how Advanced Collections could be integrated with Payments for real-time credit card authorizations.
This document provides an introduction to PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). It defines key terms like PCI, cardholder data, and sensitive authentication data. It explains why PCI security standards are important to protect payment card data and prevent fraud. The document outlines the six goals and twelve requirements of PCI-DSS, as well as introducing PA-DSS which focuses on developing secure payment applications. It provides instructions on determining an organization's PCI compliance level and selecting the appropriate Self Assessment Questionnaire.
Payment card security By Hitesh Asnani SVIThiteshasnani94
The document discusses various topics related to payment card security on the internet. It begins with introducing security issues like authorization, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation. It then discusses the Payment Card Industry standards and requirements. The document outlines different protocols for secure online payments including Secure Electronic Transaction (SET), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and electronic cash/coins. It compares advantages and disadvantages of these protocols and concludes that SET is an outstanding payment protocol that provides security for e-commerce transactions.
Tokenization Payment Data Out Securing Payment Data Storage- Mark - Fullbright
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
These are the slides from a talk "DNS exfiltration using sqlmap" held at PHDays 2012 conference (Russia / Moscow 30th–31st May 2012) by Miroslav Stampar.
A look at WordPress in 2016, and a proposal for a future direction for the project functionality and organization, delivered in December 2016 at WordCamp US in Philadelphia.
You can watch it on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl6U7UotA-M
Pushing Python: Building a High Throughput, Low Latency SystemKevin Ballard
This document discusses Taba, a distributed event aggregation service. It notes that Taba can process over 10 million events per second across over 50,000 metrics and 1,000 clients using 100 processors. It then discusses four key lessons learned in building Taba: 1) getting the data model right; 2) the difficulty of centralized state; 3) how asynchronous iterators and greenlets can improve performance; and 4) how memory fragmentation is a problem in CPython and some techniques to address it like hybrid memory management and avoiding ratcheting.
This document summarizes WordPress developments in 2015, including key statistics about WordCamp events and the WordPress community. It outlines recent WordPress releases from versions 4.1 through 4.4, highlighting new features like the REST API and responsive images. It also discusses work to address version fragmentation and plans for upcoming releases, emphasizing a continued focus on accessibility, customization, and an open web through the WordPress API.
Git is a distributed version control system that focuses on speed, efficiency, and usability for large projects. It allows for distributed development, non-linear development, efficient handling of large projects, and cryptographic authentication of history. The document provides an overview of Git and outlines 8 steps for a Git study guide, including setting up the environment, initializing and committing projects, viewing logs and history, tagging, branching, and working with remote repositories. Resources for further learning about Git are also listed.
The document is a presentation about building applications on the Twitter platform. It discusses why developers should build on Twitter, highlighting Twitter's massive reach and real-time capabilities. It then outlines the various Twitter APIs and tools available for developers to build applications that integrate with Twitter, such as the Streaming and REST APIs.
Time to climb-- results of national study of disadvantaged entrepreneurs ...Richard Swart, PhD
The document summarizes key findings from a national study on crowdfunding opportunities and obstacles for disadvantaged entrepreneurs, including women and minorities. Some of the main findings are that women are more engaged in crowdfunding and more successful than minorities; minorities lack knowledge about crowdfunding and connections to facilitate campaigns; and accelerating business model development may be more important than initial capital access. The study utilized interviews with various groups to gather perspectives and insights into these issues.
This document provides an overview of attacking ColdFusion applications. It begins with an introduction to ColdFusion and discusses how to find sites running it. Common vulnerabilities in ColdFusion like XSS, SQL injection, and exposed admin interfaces are explained. Specific exploits like BlazeDS XML injection and the locale traversal issue are covered in detail. The document also discusses brute forcing admin logins, interacting with CFCs, and abusing long-lived admin cookies. It concludes with a section on post-exploitation activities like scheduling tasks and executing code once administrative access is obtained.
Ako na rýchly web - WordCamp Žilina 2016 - xKatkaKatarina Novotna
Prezentácia z WordCamp Žilina 2016 by xKatka | Katarína Novotná
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There are many ways to customize your WordPress site, some wrong and some right. In this presentation we explore the wrong ways and the right ways to make you a better WordPress developer.
Learn why it is important to include video content on your site, along with the best ways to create and implement a video library for your WordPress website.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Radka Nacheva on the importance of design and usability for WordPress websites. The presentation covered design conventions and usability heuristics, examples of good design, and how to check the usability of a WordPress website. It emphasized that good design helps users complete tasks efficiently and comfortably.
Online, everything's a competition. If your website isn’t healthy enough to compete, you lose, which can be detrimental to the profitability and viability of your business. If you want your business to win the online marketing race — or at least place in the top 10 — you have to train for it, just as you would if you were preparing for an actual, physical race.
In this session, I will provide you with a five-point training regimen that will help you whip your WordPress website into shape and make it a true contender in online marketing.
1. Learn what website architecture issues to look for and what tools will help you detect them
2. Discover the role of keyword research in today’s online marketing landscape and how to properly optimize content
3. Understand content’s role in online competition
4. Learn social media’s threefold role in your website’s health and how it impacts search rankings
5. Know what usability issues you should be testing to make using your site effortless for visitors
The document discusses secure payment integration solutions for SAP. It provides an overview of Paymetric as an award-winning payment processor and describes the challenges of accepting electronic payments within SAP systems, including limited functionality, PCI compliance, and high costs. The document outlines Paymetric's solutions that securely integrate payments into SAP, including credit card processing, accounts receivable payments, tokenization for sensitive data, and reconciliation reporting.
PCI Compliance—Love It, Hate It, But Don’t Ignore It (11NTCpci)Miminten
PCI Compliance is a standard for security of payment card data that all businesses processing credit cards must comply with. It aims to enhance payment security through requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. The standard is maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council and enforced by the major credit card brands. Compliance involves conducting a risk assessment and completing a Self-Assessment Questionnaire to validate security controls.
The document summarizes the state of eCommerce in 1999 and discusses various challenges and trends. It covers topics like choosing an eCommerce payment provider, authentication alternatives to SSL/credit cards like digital wallets, and the future of technologies like SET. Key points discussed include the lack of integration among eCommerce software suites, difficulties implementing public key infrastructure for payments, and how digital wallets and new authentication methods need widespread adoption to be truly useful.
Payliance offers an industry partner program that provides integrated payment and recovery solutions. The program offers benefits like PCI scope minimization, multiple payment methods through a single gateway, branded marketing materials, and an extremely competitive revenue share. Partners gain access to Payliance's portfolio of over 30,000 merchants across industries and can offer their clients a total payment solution with competitive pricing, electronic check guarantee, custom reporting, and an integrated payment recovery process.
This document summarizes the options for building an online store, including building it from scratch, buying a hosted solution, or using an open-source platform like Magento or WordPress. It discusses factors to consider like features, costs, development time, technical requirements, and ease of use. Specific solutions mentioned include Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, and WordPress eCommerce plugins. The presenter's background and agenda are also briefly outlined.
10 Steps To Secure and PCI Compliant Credit Card Processing In Oracle Receiva...amadhireddy
With the recent tightening of credit markets, companies are increasingly moving toward credit cards as the preferred receipt method. This helps companies transfer substantial part of credit risk to card issuer. However, processing of credit cards requires compliance with security standards, fraud prevention guidelines and often Purchase Card Industry Guidelines. This session will highlight the 10 things to know while implementing a credit card receipt model and how Oracle helps security and compliance. Learning Objectives: 1. Learn the credit card industry guidelines for security and compliance and industry operating model 2. Know how Oracle stores credit card data and the patches required for advanced security 3.Understand the zero-touch credit card processing features offered by Oracle Receivables and Payments 4.Case Study on how VeriSign Inc integrated its web stores with Oracle Payments and key lessons 5.Learn how Advanced Collections could be integrated with Payments for real-time credit card authorizations.
This document provides an introduction to PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). It defines key terms like PCI, cardholder data, and sensitive authentication data. It explains why PCI security standards are important to protect payment card data and prevent fraud. The document outlines the six goals and twelve requirements of PCI-DSS, as well as introducing PA-DSS which focuses on developing secure payment applications. It provides instructions on determining an organization's PCI compliance level and selecting the appropriate Self Assessment Questionnaire.
Payment card security By Hitesh Asnani SVIThiteshasnani94
The document discusses various topics related to payment card security on the internet. It begins with introducing security issues like authorization, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation. It then discusses the Payment Card Industry standards and requirements. The document outlines different protocols for secure online payments including Secure Electronic Transaction (SET), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and electronic cash/coins. It compares advantages and disadvantages of these protocols and concludes that SET is an outstanding payment protocol that provides security for e-commerce transactions.
Tokenization Payment Data Out Securing Payment Data Storage- Mark - Fullbright
company names mentioned herein are for identification and educational purposes only and are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners.
CreditCall offers a payment processing solution for telesales, ecommerce, and mail order businesses. The solution provides [1] reliable and available card processing through a robust network with multiple processing nodes, [2] cost effective processing with flexible pricing and no hidden fees, and [3] a straightforward integration process.
This document provides an overview of digital banking and credit cards. It discusses the history of credit cards, different card types like debit cards and credit cards, features of EMV technology and NFC payments. It also summarizes the approval process, profitability, backend operations, data security standards, and processes for recovery and follow up.
PayU provides payment processing services to over 80 of the top 100 ecommerce companies in India. They offer a wide range of payment options including credit cards, debit cards, net banking, EMI, international payments, and cash cards/wallets. PayU's dynamic switching technology routes transactions across multiple acquirers to maximize conversion rates, increasing success rates by 2-2.25% compared to competitors. They also provide analytics, risk management, mobile payment solutions, and work to simplify the two-factor authentication process on mobile.
The document discusses Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and related acronyms and guidelines. It begins by describing how a malware attack on the South Carolina Department of Revenue in 2012 resulted in the theft of tax returns and credit card numbers of South Carolina citizens. It then defines several common acronyms related to PCI compliance including PCI DSS, QSA, ROC, AOC, SAQ, and ASV. The document goes on to provide more context about various PCI compliance topics such as compensating controls, e-commerce guidelines, application security, and call center security. It concludes by summarizing some key changes in PCI DSS version 3.0 released in 2014, including revised SAQs, more specific requirement
AtomicPay eliminates the involvement of a third-party processor, allowing merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments directly from their customers, in a secured and trustless environment
How To Avoid PCI Pitfalls in Keeping Your SAP® System Compliant and SecurePaymetric, Inc.
Many companies find it challenging to keep sensitive card data out of their SAP® systems.
View this presentation to learn how you can leverage Paymetric's XiIntercept for SAP® to prevent card data from ever entering your SAP environment - minimizing PCI Compliance scope and reducing the risk of a data breach.
For more information, visit www.paymetric.com.
This talk was held during the Magento Developers Paradise 2012. It describes the possibilities of PayPal's Adaptive Payments and how to use them in combination with Magento.
The document discusses Secure Electronic Transaction (SET), which is a protocol that aims to secure credit card transactions on the internet. It consists of a set of protocols to provide confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. SET uses public key cryptography including digital signatures and certificates to authenticate parties and encrypt transaction information. The key steps in a SET transaction involve the customer sending encrypted order and payment information to the merchant, who then requests payment authorization from the payment gateway before fulfilling the order.
RBS WorldPay offers full-service payment processing including authorization, settlement, and virtual terminals. They provide competitive pricing, excellent customer service, and a reliable infrastructure backed by redundant data centers. RBS WorldPay handles all major credit and debit cards with software that recognizes debit transactions and requests PINs. They also offer custom stored value cards and equipment replacement programs.
Credit card processing
https://www.highriskgateways.in/credit-card-processing/
Our credit card processing facility allows you to accept payments from customers around the world, using a variety of credit card brands, including Visa, MasterCard and Cirrus Maestro. In order to support your business, we take a unique approach to credit card payments, focusing on real-time processing, cardholder security, and online fraud prevention
Create a Beautiful Terminal for Windows 🚀Chris Wahl
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiT3CyGrzvU
The complete setup of a Windows terminal environment using VS Code, PowerShell, and Windows Terminal. Learn how to install and configure Nerd Fonts, use Oh My Posh for stunning themes, and customize your PowerShell profile for an optimized development workflow. This tutorial covers everything from font selection, theme installation, setting up environments in VS Code and Windows Terminal, to maintaining and upgrading your tools seamlessly.
Explore the world of Augmented Reality (AR) gaming with our insightful PPT, Step Into the Game: Augmented Reality Gaming Explained. Learn how AR enhances real-world gameplay, the technology behind it, popular AR games, future trends, and its impact on the gaming industry. Perfect for presentations on the future of gaming and immersive technology!" 🚀🎮
If you have any query for AR game development quick ask here: https://www.brsoftech.com/augmented-reality-game-development.html
"This PowerPoint presentation provides an in-depth overview of cloud computing, covering its fundamental concepts, service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models (Public, Private, Hybrid, and Community Cloud), benefits, challenges, and real-world applications. It also highlights key cloud providers and emerging trends in cloud technology. Ideal for students, professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the future of cloud computing."
The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Clustering with Delta Lakecarlyakerly1
The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Clustering with Delta Lake
This deck walks you through best practices, real-world use cases, and hybrid approaches to help you maximize performance while keeping your creative freedom intact.
Video of full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gbq3B1FI-8
Mastering NIST CSF 2.0 - The New Govern Function.pdfBachir Benyammi
Mastering NIST CSF 2.0 - The New Govern Function
Join us for an insightful webinar on mastering the latest updates to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, with a special focus on the newly introduced "Govern" function delivered by one of our founding members, Bachir Benyammi, Managing Director at Cyber Practice.
This session will cover key components such as leadership and accountability, policy development, strategic alignment, and continuous monitoring and improvement.
Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your organization's cybersecurity posture and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Secure your spot today and take the first step towards a more resilient cybersecurity strategy!
Event hosted by Sofiane Chafai, ISC2 El Djazair Chapter President
Watch the webinar on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ty0giFH6Qp0
Making GenAI Work: A structured approach to implementationJeffrey Funk
Richard Self and I present a structured approach to implementing generative AI in your organization, a #technology that sparked the addition of more than ten trillion dollars to market capitalisations of Magnificent Seven (Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, and Nvidia) since January 2023.
Companies must experiment with AI to see if particular use cases can work because AI is not like traditional software that does the same thing over and over again. As Princeton University’s Arvind Narayanan says: “It’s more like creative, but unreliable, interns that must be managed in order to improve processes.”
Emancipatory Information Retrieval (Invited Talk at UCC)Bhaskar Mitra
Our world today is facing a confluence of several mutually reinforcing crises each of which intersects with concerns of social justice and emancipation. This talk will be a provocation for the role of computer-mediated information access in our emancipatory struggles. Information retrieval (IR) is a field in computing that concerns with the design of information access systems, such as search engines and recommender systems, and has traditionally been informed by other fields such as information science, human-computer interaction, and machine learning. I define emancipatory information retrieval as the study and development of information access methods that challenge various forms of human oppression and situates its activities within broader collective emancipatory praxis. The term "emancipatory" here signifies the moral concerns of universal humanization of all peoples and the elimination of oppression to create the conditions under which we can collectively flourish. In this talk, I will present an early framework of practices, projects, and design provocations for emancipatory IR, and will situate some of my own recent work within this framework. My goal is to propose a new framing that challenges the field of IR research to embrace humanistic values and commit to universal emancipation and social justice. In this process, I believe we must both imagine post-oppressive worlds, and reimagine the role of IR in that world and in the journey that leads us there.
Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for RAG: A Smarter Approach to Contextual AI Appl...All Things Open
Presented at All Things Open AI 2025
Presented by David vonThenen - DigitalOcean
Title: Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for RAG: A Smarter Approach to Contextual AI Applications
Abstract: In the ever-evolving field of AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems have become critical for delivering high-quality, contextually relevant answers in applications powered by large language models (LLMs). While vector databases have traditionally dominated RAG applications, graph databases, specifically knowledge graphs, offer a transformative approach to contextual AI that’s often overlooked. This approach provides unique advantages for applications requiring deep insights, intelligent search, and reasoning over both structured and unstructured sources, making it ideal for complex business scenarios.
Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to build a RAG system using a graph database and practical skills for data querying and insights retrieval. By comparing graph and vector database approaches, we’ll highlight when and why graph databases may offer superior benefits for managing complex data relationships. The session will provide concrete examples and advanced techniques, empowering participants to incorporate knowledge graphs into their AI systems for better data-driven outcomes and improved LLM performance. This discussion will conclude with a live demo showcasing key techniques and insights covered in this talk.
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UiPath Automation Developer Associate Training Series 2025 - Session 7DianaGray10
In session 7, you will learn about Orchestrator for Automation Developers and how this ties into the big picture.
For this session, you will need to take this self-paced training:
Orchestrator Overview for Automation Developers - 2 modules - 1h 30m - https://academy.uipath.com/courses/orchestrator-overview-for-automation-developers
⁉️ For any questions you may have, please use the dedicated Forum thread. You can tag the hosts and mentors directly and they will reply as soon as possible.
Think Like and Architect Series: Session 1 of 9 Declarative DesignWalter Spinrad
1st of 9 in a series sharing my thoughts on what it takes to be an architect in the Salesforce ecosystem. I will be sharing from experience as a Salesforce CTA in the ecosystem for 17 years.
Designing for Multiple Blockchains in Industry EcosystemsDilum Bandara
Our proposed method employs a Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and Domain Mapping Matrix (DMM) to derive candidate shared ledger combinations, offering insights into when centralized web services or point-to-point messages may be more suitable than shared ledgers. We also share our experiences developing a prototype for an agricultural traceability platform and present a genetic-algorithm-based DSM and DMM clustering technique.
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14. Merchant Accounts | Tips
• Some merchant account providers have their
own payment gateways
• Plan time to get approval
• Find out about your monthly limits to prevent
shutdowns
• Find out about the reserve amount
• Beware the chargeback
15. encryption
• the process of making information unreadable to
anyone without “special knowledge”
• “special knowledge” is the key
16. TLS/SSL Encryption
Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer
• Some seriously scary • Browser uses the public key
technical voodoo magic found in the certificate to
• Garbles browser to server encrypt information before
communication over the sending it to the server
Internet • Server uses a private key to
• No one else can access the decrypt information from the
information browser
17. Customer
4111 1111 1111 1111 encrypt
web browser
public
f37b13464e451a214b39
507061af9c9a2613fbab
public internet
4111 1111 1111 1111 decrypt
private
Secure
Web Server
server side
18. secure (SSL) certificate
• a specialized electronic document certifies a
public encryption key to an identity
20. PCI
PCI SSC PCI-DSS PA-DSS
Payment Card The PCI Data The Payment
Industry Security Security Standard Application Data
Standards Council Security Standard
The security
The body standards Security standards
responsible for merchants are for payment
managing the required to follow applications such as
security standards and certify their payment gateways
for the industry compliance & shopping carts
22. PCI-DSS
Build and Maintain a Secure Network
Requirement 1: Requirement 2:
Install and maintain a firewall Do not use vendor-supplied
configuration to protect defaults for system passwords
cardholder data and other security parameters
23. PCI-DSS
Protect Cardholder Data
Requirement 3: Requirement 4:
Protect stored cardholder data Encrypt transmission of
cardholder data across open,
public networks
24. PCI-DSS
Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program
Requirement 5: Requirement 6:
Use and regularly update Develop and maintain secure
anti-virus software systems and applications
25. PCI-DSS
Implement Strong Access Control Measures
Requirement 7: Requirement 8: Requirement 9:
Restrict access to Assign a unique ID Restrict physical
cardholder data by to each person with access to
business need-to- computer access cardholder data
know
26. PCI-DSS
Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
Requirement 10: Requirement 11:
Track and monitor all access to Regularly test security systems
network resources and and processes
cardholder data
29. PCI Compliance
Assess Remediate Report
Assess your network and IT resources for vulnerabilities.
Constantly monitor access and usage of cardholder data. Log
data must be available for analysis
30. PCI Compliance
Assess Remediate Report
Remediate (fix) vulnerabilities that threaten unauthorized
access to cardholder data
31. PCI Compliance
Assess Remediate Report
Report compliance and present evidence that data protection
controls are in place
32. SAQ
Self Assessment Questionnaire
• A checklist for the requirements with nice little yes/no boxes
• You “assess” with it
• Get it here: http://j.mp/pcisaqs
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