Day: August 27, 2021

Grene Robotics has designed and developed India’s first 100% indigenous unified, distributed and wide-area autonomous drone defence dome called Indrajaal. Indrajaal will protect a large area of 1000-2000sq.km. per system against threats such as UAV’s, Incoming Weapons, Loitering Munitions, Low RCS targets autonomously. Grene Robotics has developed extensive AC6ISRT capabilities in the form of Defence OS over an 8 year of R&D journey backed by decades of system development experience for the armed forces. Grene Robotics advisory board consists of Retired Defence Scientific Advisor, Deputy Chief of Army Staff, BEL Director and Air Force veteran who was instrumental for designing India’s most comprehensive command and control system for the Indian Air Force called IACCS. Why is this critical?  India must stop adopting reactive measures and embark on responsive and autonomous systems to be prepared for modern warfare. Manual weapons and point based defence systems cannot fight modern warfare driven by AI and robotics. For the first time in India and many times globally rogue forces have adopted cutting-edge technologies such as UAV’s, Smart Swarms etc. Jammu Air Base on June 27th was attacked by such technologies to drop explosives next to Mi-17 hangar. PLA is already toying with advanced weaponry in Western Theatre Command (WTC) tasked with military operations against India along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Drones are being used to train the infantry to conduct beyond visual line of sight targeting. The PLA also developed a high-altitude and high-speed armed drone, the WJ-700, in 2021. In 2020, it introduced armed robots, and in 2021, reconnaissance robots, in its military exercises. Limitation of current deployments Point defence Anti-UAV systems will not be able to counter and protect large defence bases, NCR and linear infrastructure like international borders and such sensitive areas against afore mentioned threats. A minimum of 300 systems are required to be deployed to protect the entire western border and this is financially not a viable option. On the contrary 6-7 sectorally deployed Indrajaal systems with their seamless connectivity can protect the entire western border. How does Indrajaal work  Autonomous defence/ weapon systems is the 3rd revolution of the warfare and Indrajaal’s design principles are based on delivering such autonomy to the defence forces leveraging a combination of 9-10 modern technologies powered by artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and robotics that is capable of identifying, assessing, deciding, acting and evolving autonomously in real-time. Whether the threat is single or multiple or a combination of UAVs, Low-RCS, loitering munitions and such, Indrajaal is capable of countering all such threats. Real-time situational awareness. Distributed, decentralised and mobile. Integrated and intelligent meshed network. Ability to integrate with all current weapons suite and infrastructure. Honeycombed cell structure seamlessly built over a combination of 9-10 technologies . 24x7x365 persistent and autonomous monitoring, tracking and action. Wg Cdr MVN Sai (Retd), CEO Defence, Grene Robotics said, “I urge the defence leadership to take an integrated and comprehensive approach against all the UAVs, loiter ammunition swarm drones and low RCS threats with indigenously developed autonomous defence systems. Conventional defences will be overwhelmed in a swarm attack scenario and an AI enabled autonomous dome with its own ecosystem of sensors and processing is the way forward. The process of establishing a fully functional system is an evolutionary process and needs technology vision and user involvement.” Earlier this year Grene Robotics announced their partnership with (BEL) to jointly develop first-of-its-kind autonomous air defence technology, bringing India on par with the best autonomous defence systems of the world. They believe that technology augments human capability, not replace it. The answer to some of the greatest challenges faced by humanity can be found in nature. What is stopping from learning from them is the lack of tools to transfer knowledge from nature to human design. At Grene Robotics they are leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing to building future autonomous technologies that can self-learn and self-adapt to foster mankind’s vision towards a better planet. They believe autonomy is the future and they are delivering it NOW. They put in over 12 years of R&D to build Grene Robotics. Today, they are an innovation-led, robust, cutting-edge technology organisation that delivers autonomy as a service, augmenting human capabilities. Their solutions are helping Governments and organisations across the globe to run efficiently.  

Fortinet®, a leading global provider of broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, has recently received the 2020 Google Cloud Global Technology Partner of the Year award for Security.  Fortinet was recognized for the company’s achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers: Simplify security management with single-pane control across Google Cloud and on-premises data centers. Gain cloud-native visibility and control into Google Cloud workloads and applications. Strengthen endpoint security with cloud-native endpoint protection, detection and response that is behavior-based rather than signature-based. Leverage Fortinet Cloud Security Services Hub for scalable and multi-layer secure connectivity. Optimize cost management with various consumption models based on customer choice, easily deploying native cloud security offerings in VM, and SaaS form factors with the flexibility of BYOL and PAYG (pay as you go) billing options. Fortinet’s Adaptive Cloud Security for Google Cloud Fortinet has partnered with Google Cloud for more than 5 years and has been significant[1]ly accelerating the partnership to support mutual customers in their transformation and journey to cloud. With Google Cloud, Fortinet has now established a mutual top-tier partnership across companies to ensure customers’ workloads are secure and compliant, helping ease the burden around company overall brand protection. Fortinet is an established Google Cloud premier partner and Google Cloud is an established Fortinet Fabric-ready partner. Fortinet being recognized as Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for security is a natural continuation of the work the companies are doing together to help solve customers’ security concerns and simplify the migration to Google Cloud. The Fortinet adaptive cloud security for Google Cloud provides consistent, advanced enterprise security for customers with Google Cloud-based environments. The Fortinet Security Fabric protects business workloads across on-premises, data centers and cloud environments – providing multi-layered security for cloud-based applications. The solution offers network, application and cloud platform security capabilities provided in a variety of form factors including VM-, container-, and SaaS delivered protection that natively integrates Fortinet security functionality into Google Cloud. Fortinet offers its advanced series of network security solutions integrated with Google Cloud’s platform, enabling protection for cloud-based infrastructure and applications. These solutions include: FortiGate-VM and Secure SD-WAN on Google Cloud’s platform delivers next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities for organizations of all sizes, with the flexibility to be deployed as a NGFW and/ or a VPN gateway. FortiGate-VM delivers integration with Google Cloud’s recently announced Network Connectivity Center (NCC). NCC bridges a first-party native cloud underlay from Google Cloud with Secure SD-WAN and cloud on-ramp service from Fortinet across hybrid and multi-clouds. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF & WAFaaS) complements IaaS Cloud provider security with features and AI-based machine learning detection engines that defend web applications from vulnerability exploits. More specifically bots, malware uploads, DDoS attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and zero-day attacks. FortiManager provides single-pane-of-glass management for unified, end-to-end protection across the extended enterprise. It delivers insight into network traffic and offers enterprise-class features for threat containment. FortiCWP delivers cloud workload protection and cloud security posture management for workloads running on Google Cloud using API level integration into Google Cloud management and security services. This enables organizations to monitor and track cloud resources including their configurations, activity and traffic flows. FortiCWP also integrates with Google Security Command Center (SCC) for visibility and integration of threat feeds across platforms. Secure SAP S/4HANA on Google Cloud provides customers with enhanced security and orchestration that scales across cloud workloads. The Fortinet Security Fabric for Google Cloud protects attack surfaces that span hybrid- & multi-cloud infrastructures providing flexibility for SAP projects. Cloud Native Edge and Endpoint Security  Fortinet has also partnered with Google Cloud to deliver modern endpoint protection, detection and response to reduce the risk of compromised devices that enable user productivity and application delivery anywhere, any time. Specifically, Fortinet FortiEDR enhances Google Cloud’s edge and zero trust solutions and provides customers patented, behavior-based capability. These capabilities detect violations of legitimate operating system activity, defuse violations in real-time without interrupting normal system operations and classifies them with the help of both Artificial Intelligence in the cloud and remote expert human analysis in FortiGuard Labs. This capability has been consistently validated through independent, comparative tests run by AV Comparatives, MITRE Engenuity and customers themselves. Fortinet’s FortiEDR will also soon be available directly from the Google Cloud Marketplace. Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC at Fortinet, “We’re proud to be named a Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Security. This award recognizes our outstanding success in 2020, using a winning combination of Google Cloud technologies with Fortinet’s industry-leading Security Fabric offerings to deliver innovative cloud security and customer satisfaction. Winning this award is an exciting testament to a long-standing partnership with Google Cloud. We’re looking forward to continuing to work together to provide mutual customers with advanced cloud security.” Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud, “We’re proud to recognize Fortinet as our Technology Partner of the Year for Security. This award recognizes Fortinet’s commitment to customer success, and its delivery of innovative and impactful solutions on Google Cloud in security. We look forward to building together with Fortinet and creating business value for customers with cloud technologies.”