Day: November 22, 2020

Videonetics, world’s leading AI & DL powered Unified Video Computing Platform™ development company, has recently announced technology integration with RBH Access, a leading manufacturer of access control and security management systems. Built on the powerful integration framework between Videonetics Intelligent Video Management Software (VMS) and RBH ‘AxiomX’ Alarm Management Suite, the users are empowered to gain end-to-end control over the physical access points through one centralized interface. The ‘truly’ seamless integration allows visual verification of the person, captures events as they happen and the ability to respond immediately, from the user-friendly GUI of Intelligent VMS. Coupling greater visibility, improved security, forensics at reduced TCO At the time of incident, the operators will be notified with an alert and they can leverage full power of both RBH AxiomX and Videonetics IVMS to quickly lock/ unlock doors, control cameras, retrieve live video and much more. Henceforth, they are equipped to make decisions, after conducting investigations of specific access points using video evidence, analyse patterns and generate reports. The user can manage access rights with live videos and real-time notifications using Intelligent VMS desktop, web, and mobile clients. Best suited for all sizes of installations with scalability, the integrated solution simplifies security operations and enhances safety measures of the businesses. Moreover, customers will also benefit with reducing total cost of ownership due to only upgrading the surveillance system, rather than adding multiple hardware components. Videonetics Unified Video Computing Platform™ helps users make sense of surveillance, by providing them with an end-to-end solution for a wide range of applications. The platform is powered by Videonetics artificial intelligence and deep learning engine, which is trained on humongous data sets, making their solutions incredibly robust and smart. All products and solutions are integrated yet modular, ONVIF compliant, OS and hardware agnostic, scalable and interoperable. Videonetics has been ranked #1 video management software provider in India, and among the top 5 in Asia (IHS/ Informa Tech Research). They remain driven by innovation, and committed to making the world a safer, smarter, happier place. RBH is a Canada based manufacturers of integrated security systems with in-house R&D for hardware and software. With 25 years of experience RBH systems are deployed in almost all type of customers ranging from Defence headquarters, SEA port, Airports, Metro, Universities, manufacturing units globally. RBH have some largest deployment of integrated access control globally to its credit. RBH have a comprehensive alarm management suit and their solutions are industrial grade with best of industry certifications. RBH solutions are available under make in India program for Indian customers.  

iValue InfoSolutions, India’s premium technology aggregator, announced recently of their collaboration with SecurityAdvisor Technologies. A partnership focusing on providing security solutions, reporting of security outcomes, and targeting personalized, contextual, real time security awareness coaching to end users. iValue manages and optimizes digital assets and provides security checkups, vulnerability assessment and threat intel services to protect digital assets. The partnership of these two companies is not only meant to enhance the security features of their customer base, but also to aid in creating security awareness for the most at risk end-users and closing the human gateway for threat actors to go after sensitive data. “People, process and technology have been the core and consistent pillars of cyber security since its inception back in late 1980s. While huge investments have been made on the technology front, followed by process improvisation from time to time, focus and investment on people has not been in-line with the threat associated with them. Inline with the quote, ‘Amateurs hack systems and professionals hack people,’ iValue is delighted to partner ‘SecurityAdvisor,’ to introduce versatile, comprehensive and scalable platform to evaluate, access, train and continuously measure readiness of people in the enterprises to effectively fight and win against potential cyber threats and attacks,” said Harsh Marwah, Chief Growth Officer at iValue InfoSolutions. For more than a decade now, iValue InfoSolutions has been focusing on diverse aspects of security. iValue’s broad range of services also includes security audits and forensic assessments, and security infrastructure assessment, architecture, design and engineering. This multidisciplinary approach across verticals with technical expertise across 100+ brands in DNA area for design, sizing, POC, deployment, integration and optimization allows iValue to not just understand the security needs of the organization, but also help them in finding the right solution helping them adapt to the changing cyber milieu. Sai Venkataraman, Co-Founder & CEO at SecurityAdvisor said, “SecurityAdvisor focuses on detecting teachable moments for specific users and provides personalized security awareness education for each user, department and organization. Just as importantly we deliver measurable results like a 30-50% reduction in malware or a 90% drop in users clicking on phishing emails.” SecuityAdvisor Technologies believes that developing an effective group or cultural cybersecurity model, organizations must leverage an individual cybersecurity behavior model. Knowing hackers leverage human cognitive biases to get users to make cybersecurity errors such as clicking on fraudulent links or falling victim to malicious emails, it’s imperative that end-users learn to combat these biases. Various factors influence the cybersecurity behavior of an individual employee, but when fortified, the collective cybersecurity behavior of all employees can build an organization’s cybersecurity culture. Jagannathan K, Head – Services Business at iValue InfoSolutions said, “People are the soft and easy target for hackers, and they have become the primary threat vector. They can be first line of defence and reduce security incident provided they are given customized, personalized, engaging, easy to consume training at the right time. This will change the behaviour of people and help organizations build a cyber immune culture. We have partnered with SecurityAdvisor, which has vast training catalogue, integration with security and IT tools and AI based behavioural management platform to enable organizations to build cyber immune culture with a measurable outcome. I am excited about the partnership and the benefits it can bring to the partners and customers.” By analyzing a sea of data from various verticals, SecuityAdvisor offers four solutions/ services that help in protecting the organizations and its employees from cyber threats. Employee risk assessment: SecurityAdvisor has a proprietary analytics engine that leverages the data organizations already have. With the data collected by the existing security products they identify and visualize the top 5 human risks and recommend tailored security awareness programs for the organization and its employees. Phishing simulation: SecurityAdvisor has a novel phishing simulation solution that allows organizations to simulate and attack end users. Contextual coaching for employees: Every organization has 5% of users who account for over 90% of the security risk. SecurityAdvisor identifies the high risk users and targets them with personalized messages. It has a proprietary and patented AI engine that identifies unique teachable moments for each employee and delivers bite-sized tips for each of these moments. Security outcomes reporting and visualization: SecurityAdvisor provides the customers with a complete understanding of their organization’s security posture, through result driven reports that focus on real world outcomes, not a fake phishing click rate. The analytics based approach focuses on leading real-world outcomes that impact organizations the most.  

Fortinet, a leading global provider of broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, recently announced that a commissioned survey conducted by TelecomTV in association with HardenStance and ETSI found broad-based optimism for 5G revenue opportunities among Telecom sector respondents, but only if the new 5G services were both more secure and better tailored to key enterprise use cases. 5G has the potential to boost consumer and enterprise market bringing a series of benefits such as high speeds, lower latency and more bandwidth. The fifth generation of mobile standards also pave the way to enhance domains such as healthcare, transport with autonomous vehicles or smart cities offering new usages and improving daily lives. On the other hand, 5G increases considerably the number of connected devices which provide a new profitable field for cyber adversaries. Considering this, mobile network operators and enterprises must have a strong cybersecurity strategy that can protect their entire infrastructure, from the mobile core to the edge. A prominent business opportunity Overall, almost 90% of respondents anticipate growth in average revenue per user (ARPU) from their investments. This growth is expected to be split evenly between public and private 5G networks, but since at least half of all private networks are likely to be built and managed by the operators, such companies could potentially capture as much as 75% of the overall 5G business. Critical to achieving these gains however, according to 64% of respondents, will be the augmentation of existing security – as much in terms of architecture as in operations – as well as the tailoring of solutions to specific business use cases which are either critical or very important for nearly three quarters of respondents – especially within the key vertical markets of transport, logistics, automation, manufacturing and healthcare. The overarching implication of this is that the old business model of providing undifferentiated mobile connectivity services will no longer suffice. To succeed, most will need to create shared-responsibility partnerships with other providers as well as with their enterprise customers. The need to partner with other ecosystem providers – even those recognized as competitors – was clear among the survey’s respondents with 44% seeing cloud providers as partners, or at least mainly partners, and only 11% viewing them as pure competitors. These findings map well to the existing division of responsibility between cloud providers and their enterprise customers, where the maintenance and security of the infrastructure falls to the provider, while the enterprise is left to secure its own data and applications. The importance of a strong security value proposition Fortunately, cybersecurity is a top of mind consideration. More than 80% of survey respondents consider that the inherent security features of 5G 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP)’s specifications as nothing more than a baseline for the 5G market; and 62% of all respondents asserted that some, or most, 5G use cases will require additional security features. In addition, providing a value proposition that extends beyond connectivity – as 61% of respondents consider unlikely business growth in ARPU if they confine themselves mainly or entirely to the connectivity layer of the 5G value chain – and adequately addresses the increased security requirements of 5G and the use cases it will deliver, was regarded as either critical, or very important by almost 90% of respondents. Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC at Fortinet said, “From an infrastructure perspective, the migration of today’s mobile networks to 5G – especially standalone (SA) implementations – creates new security imperatives that extend well beyond inherent 5G capabilities as defined by 3GPP. The virtualized, distributed and dynamic nature of the 5G core combined with massive increases in scalability, the growing utilization of multi-access edge computing (MEC), and overall critical use cases, requires strong security for the underlying infrastructure and the business use cases. This is where Fortinet’s proven success at delivering 4G and 5G carrier-grade user and control planes visibility and protection, scalability and price-performance demonstrates a clear advantage to those looking to capitalize on these new 5G opportunities.” From Fortinet’s standpoint, the advent of 5G and the expansion of the cyber threat landscape will impel mobile networks and enterprises to adopt a holistic security approach to cope with this evolving environment. Methodology The TelecomTV survey for Fortinet asked telecom sector respondents around the world for their perspective on the evolution of the 5G market in enterprise services as well as the security requirements and security business models needed to support those enterprise services. Among the respondents, more than one third comes from the network operator/ service provider community, including major global tier one mobile network operators and a further quarter from the hardware/software systems vendor sector.  

Micro Focus recently launched CyberResilient.com, a new digital resource designed to support CISOs and board members as they navigate the shifting demands of the digital economy, and attempt to continue to drive business growth during times of uncertainty. In the face of unprecedented global challenges and the rise of cybercrime, organizations are seizing the opportunity to transform into a resilient enterprise designed to have the agility, structure, and growth-centric focus to not only weather adverse conditions but also drive sustained business performance. Knowing how to successfully adapt to an evolving business and threat landscape can be a challenge and as such, CyberResilient. com provides leaders with a trusted resource to help them build their roadmap to cyber resilience, and ultimately business resilience. Like any journey, understanding where a person is, and where he wants to be allows him to understand the steps to take to deliver on his end goal and the gaps to fill as he moves forward. CyberResilient.com provides the ‘360º cyber resilience assessment tool’ as a means by which CISOs and cybersecurity leaders can holistically assess their current status and identify strategy gaps so that they can take the necessary actions to protect their business, detect the changing risk surface, and evolve their competencies in line with changing threats. Each of the core pillars of cyber resilience (protect, detect and evolve) is covered as part of the assessment and are considered critical elements in enabling teams to continually and intelligently deliver an intended outcome in the face of a potential threat a reality. “Internal and external adversity are always the forces that impact business continuity and performance, and those organizations that have the frameworks in place to assess, pivot and adapt will be in a better position to successfully navigate those challenges,” said John Delk, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security, Micro Focus, “The launch of this trusted new resource and ‘360º assessment tool’ provides security leaders and senior stakeholders with knowledge and means to not only better understand financial, operational, and information risk, but how to evaluate and elevate their posture in a manner that ultimately drives business growth, profitability and sustained organizational modernization.” Underpinning the core pillars of cyber resilience is the ability of the organization to strategize, communicate, plan, implement and integrate technologies designed to allow an organization to ‘pivot at scale,’ secure the business value chain and enable resilient operational excellence and digital transformation. To do this, it is critical that organizations use a business outcome centric approach leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and automation to streamline and reduce the cost of becoming more resilient. The proper implementation of AI and ML technologies at each stage of protect, detect and evolve is a foundational element and is essential for a resilient organization to follow guidelines to maximize effectiveness in their deployment. Visitors to CyberResilient.com can expect to discover resources and strategic knowledge to better equip their businesses for the new security landscape. Micro Focus delivers enterprise software to empower our 40,000 customers worldwide to digitally transform. With a broad portfolio, underpinned by a robust analytics ecosystem, the company enables customers to address the four core pillars of digital transformation: Enterprise DevOps, Hybrid IT Management, Predictive Analytics and Security, Risk & Governance. By design, these tools bridge the gap between existing and emerging technologies so customers can run and transform at the same time.