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IPC provider, Advantech, has launched edge AI (artificial intelligence) inference systems that meet rising demands for AI image recognition. As AI devices are widely deployed at the edge, remote management and information security at the cloud/edge remain key concerns.

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire BRIDGEi2i, an artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics firm headquartered in Bengaluru, India, with additional offices in the US and Australia.

The security measures we rely upon to protect our networks and defend against those looking to exploit them are no longer up to the job. Some of the most devastating cyber attacks to have ever occurred have taken place over the past year, with SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline attacks being a couple of the most infamous, to name a few.

As organisations come to grips with the reality of a permanent digital-first world, the pressure to digitise and modernise operations remains high. While this modernisation is imperative, it’s equally difficult; true digitisation and transformation efforts are complex, extensive, and must happen without compromising a company’s ability to support ongoing business needs.

There were more than 206,000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in 6 months measured. between January to June 2021. Of these, more than 30,000 attacks originated from Nigeria (14,071), Kenya (10,697), and South Africa (5,499).

General Micro Systems launched its Velocity “4×4” quad GPGPU artificial intelligence (AI) server designed for battlefield applications. These include command posts, tactical operation centres (TOCs) and protected platforms such as autonomous vehicles, wide body airborne sensor fusion, surveillance, data mining, synthetic vision and any platform than needs massive computational resources from a small, air-cooled rackmount server.

Today organisations store multiple data types in a range of on-premise, in-cloud and SaaS locations. This makes data compliance complex and costly. Organisations are increasingly required to comply with government, regulatory, and internal policies.

Cisco has unveiled its Hybrid Work Index (HWI) based on millions of aggregated and anonymous customer datapoints. The index, which will be updated quarterly, examines how people’s habits and technology interactions have permanently reshaped work a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic.

ActiveOps PLC, the provider of management process automation (MPA) solutions for enterprises, announced major updates to its ControliQ workforce management (WFM) software.

New data from Untapped AI has revealed more than 4 in 5 people have described themselves as feeling in the grip of change fatigue in September, exhausted with workplace and social uncertainty.

Cyber security provider F-Secure and broadband networking solutions provider Zyxel Communications are working together to help people and families protect all their internet-connected devices.

New controversies regarding Tether are likely to cause short-term volatility in the cryptocurrency market, affecting the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum and others.

Most of us are aware that we need to keep security risks front-of-mind when we’re doing things online. We don’t open any email attachments or links that look even vaguely suspicious, we have a secure password vault so that we don’t use the same password over and over again, and we warn our friends and family if we think their WhatsApp has been hacked rather than clicking on the dodgy-looking link they’ve sent through, says Paul Balkwell, vice president, international sales at Zix.

Payment organisations came together to celebrate innovation in the financial sector last night at the Emerging Payments Association’s (EPA) 14^th annual Emerging Payments Awards (EP Awards) ceremony. Held at JW Marriot Grosvenor House Hotel, London, the event was attended by over 750 individuals from the most influential companies in fintech.

London’s international artificial intelligence (AI) art fair, deeep, aims to disrupt the city’s art market with new AI generative art and NFT exhibition from 14^th – 17^thOctober in the heart of street art and tech hub, Shoreditch, London.

ScaleOut Software has announced extensions to its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service . These are said to enable real-time digital twin software to implement and host machine learning and statistical analysis algorithms that immediately identify unexpected behaviours exhibited by incoming telemetry.

Richard Jeffery, CEO of ActiveOps discusses how cloud computing changes the way organisations manage their operations and how their employees see themselves; a new, highly optimised workforce in the digital enterprise world.

New cyber security research on European enterprises suggests an expanding attack surface due to cloud transformation, staff shortages and poor visibility are systemic weaknesses. This is prompting a focus on threat intelligence, automation and integrating disparate tools in the upcoming year. About a quarter of respondents plan to invest in managed services to boost their security operations capabilities by extending them with outside expertise.

As Customer Service Week begins, new research from gig customer experience (GigCX) platform Limitless has revealed that consumers are more loyal and more likely to buy from brands that feature customer-led customer service. When it comes to getting advice and support on products and services, the majority of consumers want to communicate with tried and tested product users versus customer service call centre agents.

Virtana, the AIOps observability company for hybrid cloud, brings cloud usage efficiencies to agribusiness software company, Software Solutions Integrated (SSI).

Cybersecurity technology provider Trustonic announces the availability of Kinibi 510 on Renesas‘ R-Car Gen3 automotive reference platform. This development will support and enable co-operation and partnerships within the connected car and electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem.

Researchers at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are said to have improved the feasibility of a new class of algorithms to protect blockchain applications against quantum computing cryptographic attacks. This builds on the considerable research already underway across the cryptographic community in developing better protocols for improving zero-knowledge proofs.

UK businesses encountered a new cyberattack every 47 seconds over the summer as the volume of attempts to breach their systems online resumed its upwards trajectory, according to new data published by Beaming, a specialist business ISP.

Beyond by BearingPoint, a digital platform solution provider, announced it is joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program.

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys, and UnionBank of the Philippines (UBP), a bank in the Philippines, announced that the bank will migrate from an on-premise deployment to the state-of-the-art Finacle Digital Banking Solution Suite on Cloud.

RavenCSI is releasing new functionalities for its real-time customer experience and staff survey & research management system. The enhancements, developed since its initial launch at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020, will give organisations access to powerful and secure market intelligence capabilities.

Accedian, a provider of performance analytics, cybersecurity threat detection and end user experience solutions, released new analyst research on the future of 5G in manufacturing.