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Cloud-first WAN company and end-to-end managed SD-WAN provider, Aryaka, is now partnering with Check Point Software Technologies. Together the companies intend to use Aryaka’s cloud-first managed SD-WAN solution and Check Point’s CloudGuard Connect, CloudGuard Edge and CloudGuard IaaS to deliver integrated security and SD-WAN as-a-Service.

Adobe, IBM and Red Hat today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation and strengthen real-time data security for enterprises, with a focus on regulated industries.

It is both incredible and disturbing what we are capable of when the lives, health, or security of ourselves and loved ones are threatened. Fear is an incredibly powerful tool. It has been used as a weapon to manipulate and control for thousands of years, says Eleanor Barlow, content manager for SecurityHQ.

In today’s environment businesses need to move quickly to gain full control over their data assets if they want to reap the rewards of activated data. This will create an effective data supply chain that delivers demonstrable, transformative results that can be used to tackle immediate challenges and allow for organisations to reconfigure and reaffirm themselves for a post-COVID world. Zhiwei Jiang, CEO of the Insights & Data Global Business Line at Capgemini reports.

Global analytics and technology provider FICO has won Financial Crime Product of the Year at this year’s Risk Technology Awards, held by Risk.net.

The prevalence and severity of cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate every year. So say statistics from Cybersecurity Ventures which estimates that cybercrime will cost the global economy a colossal US$6 trillion (€5 trillion) per year by 2021.

Since the beginning of the current pandemic, false and unsubstantiated rumours of 5G and its impact on people’s health have been prevalent in social media. Phone masts have reportedly been damaged or destroyed in several European countries, says Adrian Taylor, regional VP of sales for A10 Networks.

The global pandemic is reversing global communications trends as voice calls make a comeback, says Colin Abrey of Nextivity.

Mobileum Inc., a global provider of analytics-based roaming, network security, and risk management solutions, is to acquire SIGOS. This is the third acquisition that Mobileum has completed, following the purchase of WeDo Technologies in August 2019, and Evolved Intelligence in October 2018.

Anonymous data from the Verizon Connect Reveal platform shows how initial lockdown measures impacted commercial vehicle usage across several European countries. Commercial drivers in France were hardest hit with recorded hours spent on the road dropping by 58% in the same time period, followed by the UK (55%) and Spain (54%).

Return-to-work strategies, work stoppages, social distancing, and PPE (personal protective equipment) are the vernacular of manufacturers today. The evolving manufacturing enterprise is adapting and adjusting to this new pandemic reality, says Thomas R. Cutler, president and CEO of TR Cutler, Inc.

The load balancer market is expected to grow to £4.7billion by 2023, and trends such as mobile broadband, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, virtualisation, remote working, and bring your own device (BYOD) have helped to fuel this growth, says Anthony Webb, EMEA vice president at A10 Networks.

Vilicom is providing a mobile network during the construction, development and deployment of what will be the offshore wind farm, Orsted’s Hornsea Two.

Trace Software International is celebrating the opening of its first office in Frankfurt. This aims to provide the German market with smart engineering software solutions in the fields of electrical design and maintenance, energy management, and digital data management within the BIM environment.

Blue Yonder and Uber Freight have partnered on a design to help businesses build efficient and transparent global supply chains at this crucial time.

VIAVI Solutions’ 13th annual State of the Network global study of enterprise networking and security challenges, released today, shows that IT teams critically require better visibility into the network.

Birmingham City Council’s Information, Technology and Digital Service (IT&D) is teaming up with Nutanix to migrate its legacy hardware to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Fabienne Dulac, Deputy CEO of Orange Group and CEO of Orange France and Nicolas Wolff, vice chairman and general manager of Boralex Europe, announced the conclusion of a Corporate Renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

In the ongoing push for more secure IoT devices and applications, the hardware choices for embedded security are growing dynamically.

Global safety charity, Lloyd’s Register Foundation today launched a report called Operational Cyber Security for the Industrial Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities. It highlights an impending threat to critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, given the growing reliance on the Internet of Things (IoT), say Robert Hannigan, executive chairman international at BlueVoyant and Sadie Creese, professor of Cyber security, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Customers of Microsoft Azure can now access the MYHSM fully-managed, PCI-compliant, Payment HSM service. By using the latest Thales PayShield 10K’s to execute a full cloud deployment, payments HSM Service provider, MYHSM reports users can eliminate the need for a physical Payment HSM infrastructure, thereby providing businesses with a full digital experience.

“Virtual SIM card plan is instantly connecting users to the world’s mobile network in select countries worldwide.”

G-Core Labs, an international provider of cloud and edge solutions, has launched Meet, a universal video call service for business based on WebRTC technology.

Whether you are an established designer or an entrepreneur looking to turn a new idea into reality, getting parts and products manufactured can be a daunting prospect.

GTT Communications, Inc, a global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, reports that GTT’s chief revenue officer Ernie Ortega has been named as the interim CEO while the Board continues its search for a new CEO.

While lockdown restrictions are continuing to ease, certain changes to the way we work – such as widespread remote working – look set to become a permanent fixture in some capacity. With the workplace still in a state of flux and many employees still feeling the emotional impact of the current pandemic, now is the perfect time for businesses to take assertive steps to remove the stigma attached to workplace mental health issues. This is according to data and information management expert Aiimi.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a financial institution, has recorded high levels of digital adoption across its retail and corporate banking services in the first half of 2020.