NordVPN Fast facts Our rating: 4.7 stars out of 5.Pricing: Starts at $3.69 per month.Key features: 6,350+ servers in 111 countries. Meshnet encrypted file-sharing. Malware, ad, and tracker blocker. NordVPN is one of the more popular, if not the most popular, VPNs today — and for good reason. It brings an impressive server network, an extensive range of security features, and a polished user experience. This is on top of providing both fast and reliable VPN speeds across its server locations. While its pricing isn’t the most budget-friendly, NordVPN provides an all-around package that makes it a compelling VPN for most everyday users. ESET PROTECT Advanced Employees per Company Size Micro (0-49), Small (50-249), Medium (250-999), Large (1,000-4,999), Enterprise (5,000+) Any Company Size Any Company Size Features Advanced Threat Defense, Full Disk Encryption , Modern Endpoint Protection, and more ManageEngine Log360 Employees per Company Size Micro (0-49), Small (50-249), Medium (250-999), Large (1,000-4,999), Enterprise (5,000+) Micro (0-49 Employees), Medium (250-999 Employees), Enterprise (5,000+ Employees), Large (1,000-4,999 Employees), Small (50-249 Employees) Micro, Medium, Enterprise, Large, Small Features Activity Monitoring, Blacklisting, Dashboard, and more Is NordVPN free? No, NordVPN is not free and doesn’t have a free version. If you’re specifically looking for a free VPN to use, I recommend trying out Proton VPN or hide.me VPN. They’re good options, especially since both have zero bandwidth or data limits. SEE: NordVPN vs Proton VPN (2024): Which VPN Should You Choose? (TechRepublic) Instead of a free plan, NordVPN offers a seven-day free trial available for Android. While I appreciate Nord offering a free trial via Android, I hope it extends access to iOS or iPhone users in the future as well. NordVPN pricing NordVPN divides its paid subscriptions into three tiers: Basic, Plus, and Complete. Each tier has a monthly, a yearly, and a two-year contract option. As a side note, subscription names can vary depending on the region per my research (NordVPN Complete being synonymous with NordVPN Ultimate or Ultra; NordVPN Basic being the same as NordVPN Standard). Basic Plus Complete Monthly $12.99 per month $13.99 per month $14.99 per month 1 year $4.99 per month $5.99 per month $6.99 per month 2 years $3.09 per month $3.99 per month $4.99 per month Feature differences Main VPN service, Threat Protection ad blocker All Basic features plus tracker blocker, anti-malware and browsing protection, password manager, and data breach scanner All Plus features plus 1TB of encrypted cloud storage Of its plans, I recommend going for NordVPN Plus one-year subscription at $5.99 per month. It gives you a healthy set of NordVPN’s extra security features at a reasonable one-year contract length. In comparison to other VPNs, NordVPN falls in the upper range in terms of price. For example, Surfshark’s equivalent Surfshark One subscription is priced at $4.09 per month, while Proton VPN’s Plus plan is at $5.99. If you’re on a tighter budget, these picks are probably a better choice. SEE: Private Internet Access vs NordVPN: Which VPN Is Better? (TechRepublic) However, if you have the money, I feel NordVPN offers enough meaningful add-ons to make it worth the spend. In particular, the fact that you get access to Nord Security’s NordPass password manager with NordVPN Plus is a significant value-add, especially if you’re also looking for a dedicated password manager. You also get anti-malware and browsing protection on top of the main VPN service. One thing to note: NordVPN’s one-year and two-year plans have different pricing upon renewal. While it isn’t the only VPN provider to do this, I do wish it had consistent pricing all throughout. This would save users the confusion of having to recalculate pricing past the initial contract. All of NordVPN’s plans offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, allowing you to test out the service and refund it within the allotted period. Is NordVPN safe? NordVPN is a safe and secure VPN to use in 2024. It utilizes AES 256 encryption, widely recognized as one of the most secure encryption algorithms today. This is evidenced by how U.S. government agencies and banking institutions also use AES encryption to protect user data. For VPN protocols, it carries the OpenVPN protocol and its own NordLynx protocol based on the WireGuard communication protocol. I like how Nord gives its users the flexibility to choose a VPN protocol with either fast performance via NordLynx or more security with OpenVPN. SEE: The Top 7 NordVPN Alternatives for 2024 (TechRepublic) Most importantly, NordVPN has a no-logs policy, which states that it doesn’t log any data about users’ browsing activity or online traffic. While any company can make security promises like this, I’m happy to report that NordVPN has undergone independent testing to confirm this policy. NordVPN’s fourth no-logs audit. Image: NordVPN In late 2023, NordVPN’s no-logs claims were verified by a third-party audit conducted by Deloitte. This is NordVPN’s fourth security audit confirming its no-logs policy — showing the company’s commitment to upholding user privacy and security. While I definitely commend NordVPN for having its service independently audited, I have a small nitpick. With its fourth no-logs audit, only those with an active NordVPN subscription are able to access the full report and results. According to NordVPN, this “ensures the audit results are not taken out of context or misunderstood.” While I understand where NordVPN is coming from, I feel that sharing the full report with the public is a better move in terms of overall transparency. With that being said, NordVPN is one of the most secure VPN services to use today. Key features of NordVPN Meshnet encrypted file-sharing Meshnet lets you connect multiple devices to an end-to-end encrypted virtual network and serves as a way to securely share important files across devices. Specifically, you can have 10 devices connected to the network and seamlessly transfer, send, or receive files through Meshnet. Accepting a file in Meshnet network. Image: Luis Millares To its credit, I used it to send a few files from my Android phone to my laptop and it worked pretty flawlessly.

A recent survey conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Red Hat polled 609 IT managers across the United Kingdom and other major markets. More than 80% of IT managers reported an urgent AI skills shortage, mainly in areas such as generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and data science. This is up from 72% last year. The need to sell AI, the need to consume AI, and the inability to do so lead to what I’m calling “AI stagnation,” a complex issue that is confounding many in the AI space, including yours truly. AI at a near standstill Technology providers continue to pour resources into AI development, creating advanced tools, platforms, and infrastructure. Tech giants’ and startups’ investments in AI are reaching unprecedented heights, with industry watchers predicting more than $120 billion in funding for AI startups in 2024 alone. The contributions of major players, such as Nvidia, OpenAI, and Anthropic, to a thriving AI market are reminiscent of the dot-com era. This type of capital influx is typically a positive indicator, signaling robust interest and faith in the potential for future returns. source

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Author and speaker Malcolm Gladwell probably wasn’t an obvious choice to give a guest keynote for an audience of IT leaders gathered this week at Gartner’s IT Symposium/Xpo in Orlando, Florida. His books and talks mostly focus on looking at social issues from different perspectives. But a packed ballroom of CIOs and other IT leaders learned that a conventional approach to problem solving could lead to catastrophe — especially when dealing with “radically asymmetrical” problems that don’t adhere to a normal curve of distribution. Gladwell cited several events that defied conventional wisdom, where the culprit was an exception. From a faulty assumption by health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic, to a particularly gifted North Korean cybercriminal, to LA’s explosion of bank robberies in the 1990s — homing in on outliers may have produced better outcomes and solutions, Gladwell contends. While a normal distribution would be the default way of viewing a problem, where the offenders fit into a category along with many others, radically asymmetrical problems defy a normal distribution, placing the culprits on the extreme. Normal distribution “is our default for making sense of the world,” Gladwell said. “When we look at data, it’s going to organize itself in that kind of shape. We have an expectation about the story that data tells us, and the expectation is that the story is going to be about the middle … My question is, what happens when we have a problem where that story doesn’t work?” Related:2024 InformationWeek US IT Salary Report: Profits, Layoffs, and the Continued Rise of AI The COVID-19 Superspreader Conundrum At the onset of COVID-19, one of the earliest reported largescale outbreaks happened after a Biogen event in Boston, Mass. Many attendees were infected and then traveled to various destinations around the country. According to a report in Science, as many as 300,000 people wound up being infected because of that one event. Gladwell said researchers believe the source was a single person — a superspreader — someone who was genetically inclined to release a much higher level of aerosols. “This was the Taylor Swift of aerosols,” Gladwell said. In this case, the source of the problem was an example of a radically asymmetrical one. Had authorities been able to focus their efforts on so-called superspreaders, instead of focusing on social distancing measures for the general public, the outcome may have been different, Gladwell says. Leaders could have responded differently if they thought in terms of radically asymmetrical possibilities. What Leaders Can Learn? Related:Curtail Cloud Spend With These Strategies Gladwell offered up other scenarios that illustrated his point about radical asymmetry, including a slew of bank robberies in 1990s Los Angeles, the ongoing opioid crisis, and one that hit very close to home for attendees: the case of Park Jin Hyok, a North Korean hacker at the center of several massive cyberattacks, including the massive 2014 hack of Sony Pictures. “If you talk to people who are in the … high-end cybersecurity business, they will say, ‘Look, a lot of the time, all I’m doing is worried about Park Jin. I’m not worried about those hundreds of everyday hackers in Romania or Bulgaria. No, this one guy who had little crew somewhere in North Korea, and he’s the one who keeps me up tonight.’ That is a radical and radically asymmetrical distribution.” The number of doctors who overprescribed opioids in the 1990s was a relatively small subset of doctors. But those exceptional cases launched an epidemic of drug addiction still lingering today, Gladwell says. The slew of bank robberies in Los Angeles — many of those were carried out by one gang. All these problems may have been better addressed if there was more focus on radical asymmetric problems. “So, I would simply say to all of you as you go back home after this conference is over and you participate in society … When a problem comes up and people come up with solutions, just raise your hand and say, ‘Before we go any further, what’s the shape of the curve?’” Related:Forrester Speaker Sneak Peek: Analyst Jayesh Chaurasia to Talk AI Data Readiness source

Les perspectives économiques de la région ne laissent décidément pas indifférents les Européens. Et les raisons de s’inquiéter ne manquent pas : un conflit intense en Ukraine, l’escalade de la guerre au Moyen-Orient, une productivité de la main-d’œuvre européenne inférieure à celle des États-Unis ou de la Chine, la détérioration des perspectives économiques de l’Allemagne et de l’incertitude quant aux effets des nombreuses élections qui auront lieu en 2024 et qui seront lourdes de conséquences. Malgré tout, les perspectives économiques pour l’Europe en 2025 restent légèrement positives : l’inflation devrait tomber à 2,2 %, le PIB augmenter de 1,5 % et le chômage devrait rester proche de son niveau le plus bas depuis 20 ans, avec une prévision de 6,0 %. Les régulateurs de l’UE seront plus occupés que jamais en 2025 ; ils commenceront à appliquer les parties pertinentes de la loi européenne sur l’IA (EU AI Act), de la Directive relative à la publication d’informations en matière de durabilité par les entreprises (CSRD) et de la loi sur la résilience opérationnelle numérique (DORA). Pour aider les dirigeants européens à naviguer dans cet environnement complexe, voici quelques-unes des prévisions les plus importantes de Forrester pour l’année à venir : L’interférence des satellites par une puissance hostile entraînera des perturbations majeures. En 2024, la France, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas, la Suède et l’Ukraine se sont adressés à l’Union internationale des télécommunications pour se plaindre d’interférences dans les réseaux satellitaires. La technologie satellitaire est omniprésente ; les perturbations interfèrent avec les vols, les systèmes de navigation, les systèmes financiers, les réseaux de télévision, les dispositifs d’objets connectés (IoT), les systèmes autonomes et bien d’autres choses encore. L’UE a récemment créé un nouveau centre pour la sécurité spatiale, et l’OTAN accorde également la priorité à cette question. Évaluez vos risques pour comprendre vos dépendances – et celles de vos fournisseurs – ainsi que la continuité potentielle de vos activités. Les entreprises européennes s’appuieront sur les fonds de l’UE pour investir 100 millions d’euros dans le cloud souverain. En décembre 2023, la Commission européenne a approuvé un premier projet important d’intérêt européen commun (IPCEI) visant à créer une chaîne de valeur européenne pour les infrastructures et les services en nuage (CIS). Au total, le projet IPCEI Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) fournira 1,2 milliard d’euros de financement public, l’UE espérant débloquer 1,4 milliard d’euros supplémentaires d’investissements du secteur privé d’ici 2031. Les fournisseurs saisiront cette opportunité pour développer de nouveaux services modulaires, durables et sécurisés dès leur conception et les déployer dans des lieux plus proches des consommateurs de l’UE. En 2025, les fournisseurs de services ajouteront au moins 100 millions d’euros de nouveaux investissements privés nets aux aides d’État IPCEI-CIS qu’ils reçoivent. Les clients actuels du cloud souverain devraient s’y intéresser de près. Votre organisation devrait examiner les nouvelles possibilités offertes par l’IPCEI-CIS pour compléter les capacités de vos supercalculateurs existants ou pour répondre aux demandes non satisfaites de souveraineté numérique ou de durabilité de l’informatique en nuage. Un fournisseur de genAI se verra infliger la première amende prévue par la loi européenne sur l’IA. En février 2025, les parties privées (mais pas les régulateurs) pourront commencer à appliquer les dispositions de la loi européenne sur l’IA contre les cas d’usage interdits. En août 2025, les régulateurs, y compris l’Office européen de l’IA et les autorités chargées de la protection des données dans les États membres de l’UE, seront autorisés à prendre des mesures d’exécution à l’encontre des contrevenants aux exigences du modèle d’IA à usage général (GPAI). Nous ne pensons pas que les régulateurs attendront longtemps ; en effet, Forrester prévoit qu’un fournisseur de modèle GPAI recevra la première amende pour violation de la loi européenne sur l’IA entre août et décembre 2025. Bien que la loi vise les exigences GPAI (telles que l’obligation de divulguer les sources d’entraînement et de partager les résultats des évaluations de modèles, y compris les tests contradictoires) directement aux fournisseurs d’IA générative, elle lie les obligations de conformité à l’ensemble des acteurs de l’IA, y compris tous les fournisseurs de logiciels qui s’appuient sur ces modèles. Par conséquent, votre entreprise a besoin d’un processus d’approbation des fournisseurs de modèles d’IA générative pour s’assurer qu’ils recueillent les preuves nécessaires afin d’éviter de s’exposer (et potentiellement d’exposer votre entreprise) à des enquêtes et à des amendes. Consultez notre rapport complet Predictions 2025 : Europe (en anglais) pour obtenir plus de détails sur chacune de ces prévisions et en découvrir d’autres.  Planifiez une session d’accompagnement Forrester pour discuter de ces prévisions ou planifier votre stratégie pour 2025. Vous n’êtes pas encore client ? Téléchargez nos guides gratuits, qui abordent d’autres de nos prévisions pour 2025. Vous trouverez d’autres ressources gratuites, y compris des webinaires, sur le hub Prévisions 2025. Note: Cet article a été traduit. Langue originale : anglais. source

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Dutch-Nordic carbon capture startup Paebbl has raised $25mn as it looks to turn the sector that uses the bulk of the world’s mined materials — the built environment — into a permanent sink for the world’s most potent greenhouse gas — CO2.  Berlin-based VC Capnamic led the round, with participation from the likes of Amazon and German cement industry giants Holcim and Goldbeck. Paebbl will use the fresh funds to expand its offices in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, where its pilot plant is located.   In June, we visited the facility, discreetly hidden amid the sprawling docks, warehouses, and factories of Europe’s largest port. It’s also conveniently positioned a stone’s throw from some of the world’s biggest carbon emitters — Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil.  When I arrived at the facility, I was greeted by co-CEO Marta Sjögren, a former Northzone partner who co-founded Paebbl in 2021 alongside early Klarna investor Jane Walerud, former Slush CEO Andreas Saari, and Dutch scientist Pol Knops. Marta Sjogren, Co-CEO and Co-Founder at Paebbl. Credit: Paebbl Paebbl is one of an emerging cohort of carbon removal startups looking to capture CO2 and use it as a resource to make new, cleaner products. Known as carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS), this differs from the more established carbon capture and storage (CCS) championed by the oil and gas industry, where carbon is captured at source and buried underground.  “CCUS will be a core lever for decarbonisation,” Sjögren, originally from Sweden, told TNW. “And luckily, world governments and hard-decarbonise industries like cement and steel are starting to realise that.”   Supercharging carbon mineralisation On that rainy day in June, Paebbl was celebrating its first ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured. While just a tiny fraction of the billions of tons we need to remove from the air to meet climate goals, for the startup, it was a crucial milestone.  Paebbl’s technology — which, to the untrained eye, looks like a tangled mesh of metals pipes, valves, and vats — artificially accelerates the slow, natural process of carbon mineralisation.  In nature, carbon mineralisation naturally occurs over hundreds or thousands of years when certain minerals inside rocks react with atmospheric CO2 to create carbonates like limestone. Paebbl’s reactor supercharges this process — mineralising a lot more CO2 in a lot less time.   Paebbl feeds CO2 captured from industry — and in the future, from its own direct carbon capture (DAC) machines — and crushed olivine rock into its machine, where it undergoes enhanced mineralisation. The CO2 turns into CO3 (carbon trioxide) and binds to the olivine. For every ton of CO2 captured it produces about three tons of powder, the scientific name for which is “silicon-rich” magnesium carbonate.  This powder feels like a soft, fine dust and is gray with a tinge of green from the olivine it’s made from. Around half of the emissions from cement are produced when limestone is heated to produce lime. Paebbl’s powder can replace lime and other additives in things like wall filler, turning buildings into carbon sinks.  Scaling up In June, Paebbl was hurriedly putting together the pieces of its first demonstration plant, scheduled to open early next year. With the new facilities, the startup will ramp up its production capacity tenfold to 3 tons of rock powder per day, for use in trials by pioneering industry partners — presumably, the likes of Holcim and Goldbeck. The next step is a commercial-scale plant, scheduled for 2027. While the company hasn’t yet disclosed the location of this facility, Marta says that they will focus on setting up factories in areas with “high demand for end products (building material), nearby feedstock supply (CO2 and olivine rock)”, and access to renewable energy. In Europe, the Nordics, Spain, and Portugal stand out in this respect.   Paebbl aims to bring 1 million tons of its product to the market by 2030. The startup will make money from selling the rock powder itself and through providing carbon removal credits to companies looking to offset their emissions. source

Presented by Celonis Current C-suite and board views of AI can be summed up in a single phrase with the famous line from the American movie classic Jerry Maguire: “Show me the money!”  For many enterprises, AI’s honeymoon period has ended. Poll after poll makes clear that today’s top bosses want AI to turbocharge business KPIs and digital transformation to provide clear value — and fast. The opportunities to quickly create cost-saving and revenue-enhancing AI sought by organizational leaders are huge, says Divya Krishnan, VP of product marketing at Celonis. “Right now, there’s a big disconnect between AI’s potential in organizations and its actual performance,” she explains. “Large language models (LLMs) are impressive, but many enterprises are struggling to translate their use into meaningful business outcomes.” Similarly, while AI agents can automate tasks and workloads, she explains, they lack understanding of important business context and nuance, and often fall short. “Without process intelligence, there is no class of data that captures how work gets done that is being given to enterprise AI models,” she notes. “And that means there’s always going to be a ceiling on what they can realistically automate for you until they have that input at hand.” Fast, impactful AI that drives the right actions and outcomes must be trained with specific performance data from a company’s own process intelligence, not generic industry modes, she says.  The key: Powering AI with PI At Celosphere, its annual user conference in Munich, Celonis announced multiple product innovations and extended partnerships that make it easier for customers to power AI with process intelligence. The company unveiled AgentC, a suite of tools, integrations and partnerships that enable enterprises to develop AI agents and CoPilots powered by Celonis Process Intelligence or use AI agents pre-built by partners like Rollio and Hypatos. Organizations can choose to build agents with leading platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, IBM watsonx Orchestrate, Amazon Bedrock Agents and open-source developer environments like CrewAI. Enterprises creating their own agents can benefit from support of expert consulting partners Accenture, EY and IBM.     “Those integrations are crucial,” said Krishnan, “because that’s what’s going to enable people to build these agents with the right data at hand, data that can make sure the agent you build is tailored to your unique business, data that you won’t get anywhere else.” Celonis Process Intelligence powers AI agents with process  data and business context — key to improving processes across systems, departments and organizations. Users of LLM AI fed by process intelligence can now ask conversational questions like those enjoyed by consumers:  “Why is my on-time delivery rate low and how much is it costing us?” “Give me three recommendations for improving working capital.” “Which regions are likely to have late deliveries and what can we do about it?” Early adopters report real value  According to Gartner, the global market for process mining software grew 40% in 2023. Worldwide sales for process automation are expected to reach $26 billion by 2027. Nearly 90% of corporate leaders surveyed by HFS Research plan to increase investments in process intelligence. A big part of the appeal, Gartner concludes: “Generative AI helps organizations use process mining to uncover hidden patterns, optimize operations and make informed decisions.”  Maureen Fleming, VP for Intelligent Process Automation at IDC, concurred. “Understanding the intricacies of processes and their interdependencies is crucial to achieving effective AI-driven digital transformation.” Companies deploying AI fed with process intelligence are reporting clear benefits in understanding how their businesses run and how to make them run better.  A sampling from across industries: Cosentino, a leading manufacturer of design and architectural surfaces, implemented a Celonis-powered AI assistant for credit block management. The assistant helps the team analyze blocked orders within seconds, enabling credit managers to process up to 5x more orders per day without additional risk. A European packaging company has implemented an agent that allows plant technicians to view spare part inventory levels in nearby plants, enabling them to utilize stock transfers instead of placing orders with suppliers. A multinational construction material provider employs a similar agent to link inquiries and requests to their corresponding invoices and purchase orders, automating the resolution process with features like auto-responses, ERP updates and internal forwarding.  A global consumer goods company uses an agent to extract payment terms from PDF contracts, compare them against terms in their master data, purchase orders and invoices, and recommend actions to accounts payable clerks to resolve any inconsistencies.   A global car manufacturer has adopted an agent that automatically generates email replies to supplier inquiries, such as questions regarding the status of invoices. Lastly, a major technology leader plans to implement an agent that enhances the customer funding request process by predicting the likelihood of request rejections and notifying the applicants accordingly. Building AI agents in-house or on partner platforms Developing agents, fed with process intelligence, in-house allows enterprises to tailor the agents to their specific processes, workflows and industry nuances. Taking this path can provide tight intellectual property protection by keeping proprietary algorithms and insights within the company. Companies can quickly adjust and improve agents based on immediate feedback and changing needs. And because internal teams have intimate knowledge of the company’s operations, they can potentially develop more effective AI agents to competitive advantage.  At the same time, bringing in multiple parties to develop AI agents fed by process intelligence also brings numerous advantages: Diverse expertise, faster innovation enabled by an ecosystem of developers, greater industry customization, wider scalability and faster continuous improvement from a larger ecosystem. Celonis provides a foundation for both in-house development and integration of external AI agents, says Krishnan. This allows companies to remain adaptable, choosing the best approach for each specific use case. Platform innovations on the horizon Celonis also announced multiple innovations that are being rolled out to enhance scalability, ease of use and overall value realization: Celonis Data Core, Celocore for short, is a platform enhancement designed to help customers get data into Celonis more quickly and once it’s there,

Set for Tuesday 19 November, the CIO100 ASEAN Awards event will bring together the top senior technology executives and teams in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong driving innovation and influencing rapid change. These awards are aligned with Foundry’s global awards programme and viewed as a mark of excellence within the enterprise. This collaborative environment is designed to offer CIOs the competitive advantage required to be successful, showcasing examples of best practices while laying the building blocks for future growth. In 2024, CIO100 ASEAN saw expansive entries from the entire region – with tech leaders and teams represented across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. source

By Sarah Jarvis ( October 25, 2024, 7:44 PM EDT) — Lyft Inc. will pay $2.1 million and clarify its claims about driver pay in order to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that the ride-hailing company made deceptive statements about what drivers could expect to earn hourly and through special incentives, according to a Friday announcement from the agency…. Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscription puts you at the center of fast-moving legal issues, trends and developments so you can act with speed and confidence. Over 200 articles are published daily across more than 60 topics, industries, practice areas and jurisdictions. A Law360 subscription includes features such as Daily newsletters Expert analysis Mobile app Advanced search Judge information Real-time alerts 450K+ searchable archived articles And more! Experience Law360 today with a free 7-day trial. source