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Most businesses suffered, some businesses failed, but for those who survived the ravages of the pandemic, what lessons have been learned and, perhaps more importantly, what plans are now in place to make businesses more resilient moving forward? History is littered with pandemics; following bird flu & swine flu, and COVID-19 has arguably been the worst since the Spanish flu.

Gone are the old background noises of office chatter and printers whirring. Since remote working has become the norm, more homely sounds have come to the foreground. Although these sounds might add a personal, mildly endearing touch to your calls, it’s not always welcome. Here, Doug Mulvihill, UK marketing manager at Cloud phone system provider Ringover, explains how to use technology to keep things professional while working remotely.

London. 1 December 2021 – London-based RegTech Artesian : DueDil has announced a solution to one of the most complex challenges impacting banks and financial service institutions. The company is set to launch its new Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) API endpoint, to improve onboarding speed and customer experience, whilst vitally mitigating regulatory, financial, and reputational risk.

Belfast based software consultancy firm Pytilia were selected as part of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) ‘Digital Security by Design’ (DSbD) competition to deliver technologies that will improve software defences against cyber vulnerabilities.

London, UK. 1st December – FinTech Connect, the UK’s fintech show, has shared its 2021 Industry Survey. With insights collected from over 100 FinTech executives from across the industry ecosystem in Q4 2021, the report reveals the biggest challenges felt and opportunities anticipated by the today’s leaders.

London, UK. 30 November 2021 – Analysys Mason a specialist telecoms, media and technology consulting and research firm has released its annual industry predictions on the major trends it expects to make an impact in 2022.

During the past two years contact centres have changed at an incredible rate thanks in a large part to businesses moving to the cloud, accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. One of the most obvious developments, says Gary Bennett, VP UKI/MEA/Northern Europe at Enghouse Interactive, was the shift of office-based agents working remotely from home.

One of the greatest cyberthreats today isn’t locked to an earthbound endpoint, data centre or server, but can walk around with us, follow us home and into work all from the comfort of our own pockets, says Richard Melick, director, product marketing for endpoint security at Zimperium.

London. 29 November 2021 – Karma.vc, an early-stage venture capital fund committed to European early-stage deep-tech entrepreneurs, has announced the closing of its second fund ‘Karma Ventures II’ at a hard cap of €100 million. The new fund will target investment in early stage deep-tech start-ups across Europe that focus on commercialising technology innovation needed to solve significant global challenges.

London, UK. 30th November 2021-  Untapped AI, the company that combines transformational human relationships with the disruptive power of AI feedback, has found that ethnically diverse groups have the highest emotional intelligence (EQ) among colleagues.

London, UK, 30 November 2021 – Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, announced the release of Netwrix SbPAM 3.5. This solution simplifies how customers secure, control, manage and monitor privilege usage by eliminating standing privileged accounts. The newest version offers support for more platforms as well as a bevy of additional features.

Solace, the specialist in powering real-time event-driven enterprises, announced the results of a survey on event-driven architecture (EDA), shedding light on how organisations are striving to incorporate real-time data and event-driven architecture into their IT landscape. 

While hybrid working has now become an established practice, debate has continued around whether workers can maintain similar productivity at home as in the office. According to research sponsored by Kyocera and conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit, 64% of employees that fully support using digital tools have seen an increase in productivity when working remotely.

Behavioural analytics software provider, Pasabi, has seen a sharp rise in interest in its AI Analytics platform for online fraud detection, with a number of key wins including a global luxury brand group, and online reviews platform, Trustpilot.

In a rapidly advancing digital age, with the power of the internet at our fingertips, voice and the telephony channel is far more prevalent in our daily lives than people realise. However, this channel leaves numerous opportunities for fraudsters to exploit us, says Dr Nikolay Gaubitch, director of research at Pindrop.

November 29, 2021 – GlobalPlatform, the standard for secure digital services and devices, has certified its Secure Element (SE) Protection Profile (PP) with the international standard for computer security certification, Common Criteria (CC).

Rotary Power, part of the British Engines Group, has invested over £3 million (€3.55 million) in an automated DMG Mori machining cell which has been installed at the company’s manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom

Laiye, a provider of intelligent automation, and HUAWEI CLOUD, a global provider of cloud services, announced a strategic alliance to drive digital transformation in Brazil through of cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. The alliance will be implemented in the rest of Latin America. 

This holiday season, eCommerce retailers are expected to generate sales reaching up to $218 billion (€194.24 billion) in the United States alone, according to Deloitte. Globally, Adobe Analytics projects the eCommerce sector to generate revenue of up to $910 billion (€810.80 billion), an increase of 11% compared to the same period in 2020.

London, UK. November 25^th, 2021 – A new report published by ethiXbase an Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and value chain sustainability solutions company, highlights how the technology industry is essential to eradicating forced labour in retail supply chains. Value chain sustainability solutions company, ethiXbase, is now calling for more in-depth auditing and thorough risk assessments of retailers’ third-party networks to eradicate modern slavery.

No handshake, no deal. Life has been tough for sales people raised on face-to-face meetings and networking, says Andy McDonald, CEO, Cloudapps. Yet while some have railed against the lack of personal contact over the past 18 months, digitally empowered individuals have gone from strength to strength, tapping into deep online data and fast video access to prospects to transform the sales process.

Helsinki, Finland. 26 November 2021 – Global cyber security provider F-Secure has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Switzerland-based CyberPeace Institute, an independent non-governmental organisation whose mission is to protect the security, dignity, and equity of people in cyberspace. The letter outlines a broad plan for cooperation in a number of areas, including the forensic analysis of cyber incidents which increasingly affect vulnerable communities. 

AI is, say the experts, set to revolutionise every aspect of connectivity. The zero-touch, software-defined, self-healing, threat-aware networks of tomorrow will be light years from the clunky, hardware-heavy, manually-driven connections of the recent past. We are currently at a transition point between these worlds, says Guy Matthews, editor of NetReporter.

This month, the research team analysed the data by industry to confirm our suspicion that certain types of companies are targeted more than others. Some of the findings were quite surprising, however, it is important to note that this data represents incidents that Cyren detected and remediated.

London, UK — CyrusOne Inc., a global data centre REIT (real estate investment trust), is partnering with University Technical College Heathrow (UTC Heathrow) and techUK to create the Data Centre UTC in the UK. This is part of the recently launched Digital Futures Program.

Hampshire, UK. 23^rd November 2021: A new Juniper Research study has found that total SMS firewall revenue will increase from $911 million (€811.97 million) in 2021 to $4.1 billion (€3.65 billion) in 2026; representing an absolute growth of 346%.

London, UK. 24^th November 2021 – As we move into 2022, the trends we see emerging will increasingly be geared towards delivering improved user experiences and innovation at speed.