Reading, UK. 19 May 2022 – Egnyte, the specialist in cloud content security and governance, released the findings of a benchmarking survey of UK Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) professionals to evaluate how the industry is responding to the threat of ransomware attacks. The survey reveals that despite 87% of respondents having strong concerns about ransomware attacks, 71% describe their firm’s recovery strategy as being ‘weak’, ‘could be better,’ or admit to having ‘no plan.’
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Cybereason announces inaugural report from the cyber defenders council
London, UK. 20 May 2022 – Cybereason, the XDR company, has announced the publication of the inaugural report from the Cyber Defenders Council, a group of 50 preeminent security leaders from public and private sector organisations across North America, EMEA, and APAC. The report, titled Defend Forward: A Proactive Model for Cyber Deterrence, discusses the concept of Defend Forward that originated with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and how security leaders can adapt it for the private sector via six guiding principles.
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From major advances in medicine to taking the automotive industry by storm, the widespread implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming global industry at every level. As technologies, such as Big Data, robotics, and the Internet of things (IoT) continue to advance at a phenomenal rate, AI is becoming a key driver in global innovation, says Dr. Ray O. Johnson, chief executive officer, Technology Innovation Institute (TII).
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London, UK. 19 May 2022 – Global Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), SecurityHQ, have announced their partnership with cyber security solutions provider, SentinelOne.
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London, UK. 18 May 2022 – KnowBe4, the provider of the security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, announced that its research arm, KnowBe4 Research, has launched the 2022 Security Culture Report, which looked at trends in security culture for the first time, finding that security culture worldwide has improved overall.
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Mentor, Ohio & San Diego – Avery Dennison Corporation, the provider of RFID and digital ID solutions, and Wiliot, the Internet of Things provider, announced a strategic partnership dedicated to scaling the IoT to the next level, creating a new era of IoT that benefits people and the planet.
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Marketing teams often work with sensitive data, be it customer or contact data, in your CRM, WordPress site, payment details, and much more. Chief marketing officers (CMO’s), head of marketing, and marketing directors are accountable for data, how it is used, stored, and shared within their marketing teams, says Radmila Blazheska, CMO & Eleanor Barlow, content manager at SecurityHQ.
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Tel Aviv, Israel. 11 May 2022 – The ability to offload production logistics, overcome challenges in the worldwide supply chain and ease of maintenance over in-house design are among key factors that will drive the System on Module (SoM) market for the next 5 years, according to experts at Variscite, a System on Module / Computer on Module provider.
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According to a report from Seagate Technology, about 68% of data available to enterprises goes unleveraged. Data can be a valuable resource, particularly in manufacturing, so by considering how they collect, store and interpret data, manufacturers can use this resource to its full potential. Here Mike John, technical director of industrial metrology specialist The Sempre Group, explains how manufacturers can streamline data collection and use the data they are already collecting for quality control.
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Today at Intel Vision, Intel announced that Habana Labs, its data centre team focused on AI deep learning processor technologies, launched its second-generation deep learning processors for training and inference: Habana Gaudi2 and Habana Greco. These new processors address an industry gap by providing customers with high-performance, high-efficiency deep learning compute choices for both training workloads and inference deployments in the data centre while lowering the AI barrier to entry for companies of all sizes.
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It has been reported that the number of connected IoT devices will exceed 75 billion by 2025 (Source, Findstack), meaning for every human on earth, there will be approximately nine connected devices, says Jordan Appleson, CEO at Hark.
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We live in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ever more integrated into our lives and the economy. It’s no surprise, therefore, that it’s also getting some serious funding.
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UK, London. 11 May 2022 – Five9, Inc., a provider of intelligent cloud contact centres, has announced the general availability of two data centres located in Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
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London, UK. 11 May 2022 – The financial services industry is embracing digital transformation plans that were accelerated as a result of the pandemic, according to a major recent study from Vodafone Business. This has led to 29% of financial services firms globally being considered ‘Fit for the Future’ (FFTF) and better prepared to deal with future challenges such as increased competition, changing employee expectations, and rising customer demand.
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Lagos, Nigeria. 11 May 2022 – elev8 education, a global digital skilling and transformative education partner, has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training Partner programme. Through this program, elev8 will deliver cloud computing skills training, developed and maintained by AWS, to organisations and learners in Nigeria and Rwanda.
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10 May 2022 – Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division announced Intergraph G/Technology, Hexagon’s advanced utility geographic information system (GIS), has achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud Expertise and is now available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The new deployment option provides utility operators a scalable, secure and highly available GIS solution with reduced start-up costs and needed infrastructure.
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Boston, USA – Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, and IT infrastructure services provider, Kyndryl announced a strategic partnership to help customers embrace open, differentiated automation technologies and managed services to modernise core business applications and IT infrastructure, while enabling scalable enterprise operations and greater resilience with advanced security capabilities. Together, Red Hat and Kyndryl will offer integrated services and solutions based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate critical workloads from the enterprise datacentre to the edge and across public clouds.
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Armonk, NY, 10 May 2022 – IBM announced the expansion of its roadmap for achieving large-scale, practical quantum computing. This roadmap details plans for new modular architectures and networking that will allow IBM quantum systems to have larger qubit-counts up to hundreds of thousands of qubits. To enable them with the speed and quality necessary for practical quantum computing, IBM plans to continue building an increasingly intelligent software orchestration layer to efficiently distribute workloads and abstract away infrastructure challenges.
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Armonk, NY, USA. 10 May 2022 – IBM announced education initiatives with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Specialisterne Foundation, and six Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) to provide no-cost STEM job training to U.S. military veterans, neurodivergent learners worldwide, and university students from underrepresented communities in the U.S.
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London, UK. 10 May 2022 – Cybereason, the XDR company, launched new Incident Response (IR) and Professional Services subscription bundles with services designed to help organisations measure and optimise their security program, packaged with unlimited incident response services that identify, contain and remediate malicious cyber incidents in minutes.
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London, 10 May 2022 – Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cybersecurity exposure, announced the results of its 2022 FTSE 100 Credential Theft Study outlining the number of breached credentials from the UK’s most profitable companies online ready to be exploited by threat actors.
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London, UK. 4 May 2022 – Panasas, the data engine for innovation, today unveiled its new portfolio of high performance storage solutions for the complex data challenges. Two new ActiveStor systems will accelerate advanced AI/ML training, modelling and simulation, high performance data analytics, and massive-scale data workloads.
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According to Arimo, manufacturers can deal with up to 800 hours of downtime per year. As unscheduled downtime is far more costly than planned downtime, it’s important that manufacturers have real-time information about their equipment and processes to avoid unexpected faults and failures. Here Johan Jonzon, CMO and co-founder of edge analytics platform developer, Crosser, explains how edge analytics provides instantaneous data to prevent unscheduled downtime.
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Sustainability is a broader term than it used to be. Today, it is often seen as consisting of three pillars: environmental; business and human impact. The traditional view of sustainability was that if you wanted to favour one of these pillars, you had to sacrifice, or at least neglect the others, says Yan Simard, CEO, Kognitiv Spark.
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According to the United Nations, we can expect 68% of the global population to live in urban areas by 2050. To cope with this increase, cities are focusing on the use of technology to improve equity for residents, facilitate more sustainable living and encourage better use of resources. Here Richard Mount, director of sales at ASIC design and supply company Swindon Silicon Systems, explores the sensor-driven technologies that enable smart cities, and the application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that support them.
Continue reading “What can ASICs do for the smart cities of the future?”Trustonic awarded industry ‘gold standard’ certification for Kinibi operating system
Trusted cybersecurity firm, Trustonic, has been granted Common Criterial Evaluation Assurance Level [EAL] 5+ for its Kinibi operating system [OS].
Continue reading “Trustonic awarded industry ‘gold standard’ certification for Kinibi operating system”Sean Mulryan invests in Zoosh Group
Ballymore Group founder and group CEO Sean Mulryan has acquired a significant minority stake in the Zoosh Group (Zoosh), the cloud venture builder. He will now join the board as a non-executive director along with the four founders Balazs Bakos, Bert Farrell, David Brophy and Mervyn Graham.
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