Articles

Despite 88% of cybersecurity professionals believing automation will make their jobs easier, younger staffers are more concerned than veterans that the technology will replace their roles. This is according to new research by Exabeam.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed Collaborative Information Server (CI Server) and will be releasing it to the market in January 2021 as part of the OpreX Control and Safety System family.

Brands have embraced agile working practices in the drive for resilience, but are neglecting key contributory factors – including ‘Humanity’ – that could help future-proof them against subsequent crises, according to a new study out today.

A new distributed control system (DCS) offers process functionality native to controllers, cyber-secured architectures, and improved system availability and workflows. It aims to unlock value and reduce overall costs at all phases of the plant lifecycle for hybrid and continuous process industries.

An online platform designed to help Internet of Things (IoT) vendors receive, assess, manage and mitigate vulnerability reports has been launched by the IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF). VulnerableThings.com aims to simplify the reporting and management of vulnerabilities whilst helping IoT vendors comply with new consumer IoT security standards and regulations.

Centreon, a global provider of business-aware IT monitoring for always-on operations and performance excellence, has released its first State of IT Monitoring survey.

One consequence of our rapidly changing world has been an explosion of seemingly endless essential systems and services.

Web scraping can improve your bottom line and competitive positioning if done correctly. According to BRC-KPMG’s retail sales monitor, retail sales in the UK increased by 6.1% in September on a like-for-like basis from the same period last year.

Aspen Technology, Inc., a global provider of asset optimisation software, has announced the general availability of the aspenONE V12 software release, which embeds artificial intelligence (AI) across the portfolio. It also uses the cloud for delivery of enterprise-wide analytics and insights for increased safety, sustainability, and improved margins.

IT efficiency remains a major objective for enterprises in every sector, all too-frequently undermined by costly or ineffectual implementation of ITSM solutions. Yet ITSM is critical to the future, says Mark Twomey, CEO of Xcession. Despite the pandemic, research and advisory company Technavio says growth in the IT service management software (ITSM) market will be nearly eight per cent this year (2020), climbing to nine per cent overall up to 2024.

Opengear, a digi International company, and a provider of solutions that deliver secure, resilient network access and automation to critical IT infrastructure, will spotlight its latest solutions and innovations advancing network resilience – including the new OM1200 and OM2200 console servers – at the ONUG Fall 2020 virtual conference on October 14 – 15, 2020.

Cashless parking provider, RingGo recently surveyed councils across the UK. The aim was to understand the impact of COVID-19 and other factors on the parking industry, what organisations have learned, what they would do differently and how the impact of this year may shift future priorities.

For years now, brick-and-mortar stores have been faced with the challenge of competing with online competitors that may be offering a broader range or cheaper products. The result, says Paulette Rowe, CEO, integrated & eCommerce solutions at Paysafe, has been a decline of footfall on the high street.

AfricaCom and AfricaTech are anchor events of the new Africa Tech Festival, which will take place – online – from November 10-12^th this year.

The UN Broadband Commission and Huawei held the sixth Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2020) online in Beijing. With the theme of “Intelligent Connectivity, New Value Together”, this year’s UBBF discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the connectivity industry in the intelligent era.

Lansweeper, the IT Asset Management platform, today announced the acquisition of Fing, a network scanning and device recognition app. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

Sectigo, a provider of automated digital identity management and web security solutions, reports that Baidu, a Chinese search engine with more than one billion daily page views, has chosen Sectigo to provide back-end services for the company’s all-new Baidu Trust SSL Certificates.

Infovista is helping one of Italy’s established banks, Banca Popolare di Sondrio, to deliver digital innovations by leveraging its Ipanema SD-WAN technology.

While every nation is at a different stage on the pandemic curve, most have one thing in common: organisations of all sizes, especially enterprises, have promoted working from home as a preferred option for staff with suitable roles. Jenny Gruening, head of EMEA Marketing at Smartsheet reports.

Intel has announced a collaboration with AREA15, one of the first purpose-built experiential retail and entertainment complexes. To thrive in the digital age, traditional retailers and malls face a reinventor-die reality.

Software AG, a Germany-based enterprise software company, has become the latest technology company to report a major ransomware attack, Jeremy Cowan reports.

Axis’ Bjorn Callenfors looks at edge processing and open platforms for creating powerful security solutions including analytics, but warns that if an end product seems too good to be true, it usually is.

The IoT Global Awards is a prestigious awards programme honouring the most innovative companies, products and individual talent in 11 IoT industry categories.

2020 has forced businesses worldwide to revise many of their operations. One significant transition is the shift to a remote working model, for which many were unprepared in terms of equipment, infrastructure and security.

ETO (engineer-to-order) manufacturers must first listen to the engineering team to achieve efficiency. When an ETO project is started, says Andrew Schutte, general manager at COUNTERPART ETO ERP, the first task falls to engineering to design the unique aspects of the job.

PAC has published its PAC INNOVATION RADAR “AI-related Services in Germany 2020”. For this evaluation, PAC analysed the services related to artificial intelligence (AI) offered by nearly 30 providers.

Thales has launched the CipherTrust Data Security Platform, said to be the industry’s unified data protection solution that enables organisations to discover, protect, and control their most sensitive data wherever it resides.