Day: April 18, 2022

The continuing modernisation of Middle East banking is leading to increased video upgrade opportunities for systems integrators, in the region’s finance sector and beyond, according to the latest market-focus eBook from IDIS. Investments in corporate infrastructure, including security, are being driven by several factors says IDIS, whose Korean-made end-to-end technology has already been used for a number of large-scale banking CCTV upgrades, as well as for smaller, specialist financial sector applications. The company’s latest guide explains the context of structural change in the sector and highlights success factors for security companies and contractors bidding for new projects. Retail and corporate banks have recognised the need to invest in digitisation and analytics, and to embrace the opportunities of fintech to remain competitive. They are also responding to wider changes, including diversification of the region’s economies away from oil, bringing with it the need to raise capital on global markets. At the same time, authorities have further tightened compliance, to counter cybersecurity risk, money laundering and fraud. For the sector’s risk-averse institutions, compliance with increasingly stringent national, regional, and global regulations is non-negotiable. The resulting investments that are taking place in video surveillance are multi-year journeys, and institutions have shown themselves willing to commit significant time, manpower and resources to achieve the best long-term return on investment (RoI) said Dennis Choi, General Manager, IDIS Middle East & Africa. “Video has been recognised as one of the key risk reduction measures and systems integrators and consultants who can deliver best-fit solutions, with the most proven technologies, stand to win major, ongoing contracts,” he said. Explaining sector requirements in detail, the IDIS eBook points out that while compliance differs between states, in most countries regulations now cover live streaming, retrieval of footage, system administration, and management and control of entire estates (including ATMs) from centralised monitoring environments. Banks are also looking to provide the distributed functionality that branch managers and security teams need for dealing with events locally. Project success factors covered in the report include: providing smooth migration paths with uninterrupted monitoring and recording; reducing storage and bandwidth burdens; understanding the latest developments in multi-task VMS and AI-enabled analytics; ensuring redundancy, resilience and failover; satisfying sustainability and waste reduction concerns; and offering fairer pricing structures. Middle East banks are also increasingly looking for assurance that their video solution and VMS will allow integration of third-party tech, helping in the move away from siloed systems. The Middle East banking e-book is available as a free, one-click download on the IDIS website.  

Kaspersky is proud to announce the appointment of Sandra Lee as Managing Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Sandra and her team will drive the company’s strategy and overall growth in the region. “APAC has always been a focus market for the company and I am excited to take up this leadership role as we continue to see great business opportunities here. With our strong regional team and solid partner ecosystem, I am looking forward to helping our customers and partners benefit even more from our award-winning solutions and threat intelligence expertise across the region,” said Sandra. Sandra will be based in Kaspersky’s APAC headquarters in Singapore. She will report to Chris Connell, Vice President for Global Sales Network, who was previously also in the role of Managing Director for APAC. “APAC has always been a focus market for the company and I am excited to take up this leadership role as we continue to see great business opportunities here. With our strong regional team and solid partner ecosystem, I am looking forward to helping our customers and partners benefit even more from our award-winning solutions and threat intelligence expertise across the region” Sandra Lee Managing Director, APAC, Kaspersky “I am thrilled and excited to see Sandra in this APAC leadership role! Her business acumen, commitment to customer success, and team leadership give us great confidence that she will strategically grow our brand in the region. She is also highly regarded by our customers and partner community. I have worked with her closely and I am certain that she is ready to lead the APAC region to even greater heights,” added Chris Connell, Vice President for Global Sales Network at Kaspersky. Prior to this promotion, Sandra led the company’s global vision for its channel partners by driving higher levels of success for and with the region’s partner community for the past three years. Her strong background in sales management, customer and partner success, and team leadership, coupled with her extensive industry experience, puts her in the perfect spot to drive Kaspersky’s overall strategy in the region to achieve great success. Sandra has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years in sales and channel leadership roles in Southeast Asia and APAC with various market-leading technology companies. Kaspersky is a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company founded in 1997. Kaspersky’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into innovative security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments and consumers around the globe. The company’s comprehensive security portfolio includes leading endpoint protection and a number of specialized security solutions and services to fight sophisticated and evolving digital threats. Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky technologies and we help 240,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them.  

The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) and AEL Sistemas, Elbit Systems’ Brazilian subsidiary, the prime contractor of the Brazilian Link-BR2 strategic program, concluded successful series of flight tests for the integration of E-LynX™ Airborne Software Defined Radio onboard two F-5M aircraft. The Brazilian Link-BR2 program aims to provide National secured datalink capabilities, enable digital connectivity of all aerial platforms among themselves and establish Multi Domain interoperability. The next phase of integration will be onboard SAAB’s Gripen NG aircraft while the Link-BR2 program roadmap includes integration of the System capabilities onboard all of the FAB aircraft. The functionalities that were demonstrated during the recent flights include provision of multi-domain situational awareness, enabling Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) based datalinks (both air-to-air and air-to-ground), facilitating transmission of airborne applications over long ranges including simultaneous audio and data, and display of a common operational picture that is shared among all the members in the network – Airborne segments and Ground segments. Demonstrating the capability of simultaneous multi channel transmission, the Link-BR2 enabled aerial and ground forces to perform target interception, receipt of information from ground radars and rapid closing of sensor-to-shooter loops, as part of the multi-dimensional arena. The Link BR2 strategic program will lead the Brazilian Armed Forces to operate on the NCW concept, a disruptive technology that brings a huge advantage on the local operational scenario. The E-LynX family of SDR is designed in an open architecture approach, featuring unique waveforms and enabling the adoption of European and NATO waveforms. The E-LynX SDR solution was selected by the Israel Defense Force as well as several Armed Forces across Europe including Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, and other NATO countries. The E-LynX radios are developed and manufactured in three Elbit Systems’ Radio Engineering Centers around the globe: in Israel, in Germany by Elbit Systems Deutschland and in Brazil by AEL.