ViSWIR HYPER-APO Series “ By using ultra-low dispersion glass and low partial dispersion glass paired with superior design technology developed from Computar’s extensive optics experience, the focus shift is minimized within a few micron mm at a super wide range of wavelengths,” according to Katsuya Hirano, Chief Optical Designer, CBC Group, “With this, spectral imaging is achievable with a single sensor camera by simply syncing the lighting.” With ViSWIR HYPER-APO, it is unnecessary to adjust focus for different wavelengths or to keep the resolution high from short to long working distances. By adopting an APO floating design*, the focus shift is reduced at any wavelength and any working distance. This function makes the series ideal for multiple applications, including machine vision, UAV, and remote sensing. ViSWIR HYPER-APO/ Lite Series The ViSWIR HYPER-APO/Lite Series achieves a clear and precise image visible to the SWIR range by applying a multilayer coating to absorb the specific light. The application of a multilayer coating on the metal lens parts makes it possible to minimize the negative lighting effects. The broadband anti-reflection coating is applied on all ViSWIR lens elements, allowing high and stable transmission at a super-wide wavelength range: 400nm to 1,700nm. The ViSWAR lens series delivers a high-quality image using the latest Visible + SWIR sensors. This high-performance lens is designed for non-visible range imaging allowing diverse applications into multiple markets, including Agriculture, Medical, Remote Sensing etc. *Specific floating mechanics to realize Apochromatic design  

VAMS Global, the world’s leading visitor management system, hosted the first-ever Tech Confluence on the future of security technology in Mumbai on 17th August, drawing attendees from leading consultancies, and end users like Reliance Industries, Bharat Diamond Bourse, Nxtra, Sify. The event took place against the backdrop of the industry’s growing need for an integrated security solution that eliminates gaps in security technology. The Tech Confluence was brought together by technological leaders such as Gallagher (Integrated Access Control & Perimeter Security), VAMS Global (Visitor Authentication & Management System), Milestone (Video Management System), and Vivotek (Video Surveillance System) to focus on the intersection of safety, efficient workplaces, and emerging technologies. Chakrapani Dussa, AGM from the STT Global Data Centers, in the panel discussion highlighted the lack of connectivity between platforms in the security industry and the value of integrated platform solutions offered by VAMS, Gallagher, Milestone, and Vivotek. Other key discussions also included the role of efficient visitor management, data security, and standards for system integrators. The attendees also saw the first ever impression of VAMS 3.2, the newest version of the visitor authentication & management system. VAMS 3.2 was used to send event passes to the pre-registered attendee and later at the event, the QR-coded passes were used to authenticate the visitor while checking in. There was 0 wait time at the reception desk with this 5 seconds check-in process. “The goal of such partnership is to bring individual companies with specialized platforms and deliver an integrated solution which maximizes value to the end user,” said VAMS Global Founder & CEO, Nikhil Kothary. VAMS Global is the World’s leading Visitor Management Platform that manages over 100+mn annual check-ins. It has been in the business for over a decade and the solution over the years has now graduated into a ‘must have’ for practically all Enterprises & Commercial Real Estate. VAMS Global is present in 15+ countries across Asia, Middle East, Africa & North America serving 1000+ clients. Being an agile player, they were the first to integrate seamlessly with Aarogya Setu and CoWIN for contact tracing & vaccination status and are VA/ PT compliant.  

Anil Puri CMD, APS group A first generation serial entrepreneur, thought leader and an action catalyzer rolled into one – Anil Puri is a rare combination of a visionary, an innovator and a strategic thinker. He has used this combination to innovate and implement on-ground many new business ideas. His rich experience in various businesses has enabled him to nurture & mentor innovative ideas and scale them up. Introduction E-commerce has come a long way since Michael Aldrich created online transaction processing in 1979. The term refers today to the buying and selling of goods or services using the internet, and the transfer of money and data to execute these transactions. From a customs perspective, it is used to refer to the sale of physical products online, including illicit ones (the risk of this is ever increasing). Driven by the increase in internet users worldwide as well as smartphone and mobile penetration, e-commerce has revolutionized the way businesses and consumers market, buy and sell goods and services, providing a vast choice of products as well as advance shipping, payment, and delivery options. There are now even specific terms to refer to mobile-commerce (M-Commerce) and social media commerce (S-Commerce – which integrates social media into e-retail sites and adds e-commerce functionality to social networks. Approximately 18% of e-commerce takes place via social media). Today, it is widely recognized that the growing e-commerce sector is an important growth engine for economies, providing and developing new trade modes, driving new consumption trends, and creating new jobs. It has ‘enabled’ growth opportunities to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in terms of wider access to larger markets by lowering entry barriers and reducing operational costs. E-commerce has become one of the largest industries in the world to function. Today, it is widely recognized that the growing e-commerce sector is beneficial to economies, providing new growth engines, developing new trade modes, driving new consumption trends, and creating new jobs. The evolution of technology and the internet led to the opening of infinite ways to engage with consumers worldwide. But larger the business, the greater the risk and this is the case for e-commerce as well. As an organization, it becomes imperative to protect the organization from various and varied threats. When you traverse along the Indian highways, every mile is dotted with mushrooming warehouses. Deploying security systems for the warehouse and logistics category can seem daunting to anyone outside of the security industry. Everything risk-related needs to be factored in, from theft prevention, access control, surveillance, fire and safety, to disaster recovery, data security. Environment monitoring has also become a part of the ‘security threat’ and needs to be continuously monitored and factored in. The days of the facilities manager simply contracting a single service provider or vendor (usually the lowest-quoted priced) for each risk category and hiring them to install and forget about it, are all but gone. ‘one or single point’ is an expression we in the security business use to describe the advantages of working with a single integrator to handle everything security-related. That way, when something needs to be addressed or fixed, there is only ‘a single point.’ The need for such ‘single point’ processes are gaining prominence as manufacturers, distributors and retailers look to optimize their supply-chain processes. Warehouses are evolving into highly automated centers equipped with the latest, cutting edge technology. Identifying risk and threats At its core, physical security refers to protecting people, property, and physical assets from the risk of physical actions and events such as fire, flood, natural disasters, burglary, theft, vandalism, and terrorism. Some of the most common processes for Security monitoring and prevention are the most basic – warning signs or stickers, fences, vehicle barriers, restricted access points, security lighting, etc. When physical security and ‘E-Security’ divisions operate in silos, they lack an overall and coordinated view of security threats targeting their enterprise. As a result, successful attacks are more likely to occur and can result in the theft of sensitive or proprietary information, economic damage, disruption of critical functions, or even loss of life. Physical Security & ‘E-Security’ – an ultimate solution Physical security integrates with ‘E-Security’ by limiting access to spaces where is needed and the reverse is also true. Physical security components connected to the Internet, such as RFID key card door locks, smartphones, and video surveillance cameras, are often vulnerable to cyber-attacks and are thus a security risk. Traditionally, physical security operations were run by professionals with expertise in maintaining the physical safety of a facility using solutions such as locks, cameras, guards, fencing, and alarms. While ‘E-Security’ was the exclusive domain of the IT department, which had responsibility for the computer systems and network. The two departments lacked an integrated approach to and in decision-making for security procedures. Physical security is a vital business practice to give a ‘human touch’ helping prevent unauthorized persons from entering your business and causing harm, protect your intellectual property from corporate espionage, and mitigate workplace violence, amongst other concerns. A strong ‘E-Security’ strategy safeguards and enhances the sensitivity of physical security. This combo strategy on security will enable network devices, applications, and software that power smart, cloud-based devices and security systems as well as the people who manage, monitor, and make business decisions for these functions based on real-time threat assessment and prevention and last but not the least an ‘informed reaction.’ Principles of application of convergence strategy Whether you are responsible for your organization’s physical security or ‘E-Security,’ you still need to apply the following principles: Identify and classify your assets and resources (what to protect). Identify likely vulnerabilities that threats may exploit (the likelihood). Identify plausible threats (who to protect it from). Identify the expected cost if bad things happen (the consequences). The Benefits of Integration The benefits of ‘E-Security’ and physical security integration can broadly be categorized as: Cost Saving. Incident response and management. Risk reduction. ‘E-Security’ Helps Build a Physical Security Framework ‘ E-Security’ supports and enhances the…

For a CIO in 2022, there remains several challenges that need to be tackled but the major concern will always be security. Though businesses started moving their assets to the cloud even before the pandemic, the switch to a remote workforce further accelerated the process and with it, IT monitoring and security became one of the top priorities for a CIO. “With the increase in SaaS based applications, organisations are required to build stringent security controls at their edge networks,” said Saravanakumar Krishnamurthy, Executive Vice President – Technology Engineering – IT, Network & Cyber Security at YES BANK, “The underlined statement should always be to secure the data, whether it is on the cloud or on premises. At the same time I believe that internal threats, which are mostly unknown or internal dark web for many organisations will be one of the key issues CISOs need to address on a war foot basis. Cyberattack groups are openly challenging and stating openly they are injecting attacks on big organisations. The Lapsus$ group is one of the classic examples.” The BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) sector has always remained a primary target of cybercriminals over last several years, given the amount of sensitive data that they have to deal with. As someone from the BFSI sector, Saravanakumar believes that some of the top cybersecurity threats that continue to threaten this sector are Ransomware, DDOS, Bots, Phishing, Data Exfiltration (Data Theft), DNS & Domain Hijack. “These are the most sophisticated attacks that give real threats to the BFSI sector,” he said. The need for Regulations & data protection laws A data breach or a cyberattack of any kind can have a long-term psychological effect on an individual or a business, while also impacting the reputation of a brand. Also, every society perceives threats differently and so every different kind of threat has to be measured and addressed in a different manner and approach. The key concern however still remains the ‘Awareness.’ “The amount of initiatives and programs relevant to Cybersecurity happening across the globe and in our country are still in a minuscule percentage as compared with the amount of cyberattacks taking place. Many countries in fact do not have adequate policies and strategies in place to combat these kind of cybersecurity issues,” Saravanakumar observed. In a country like India, where business model are mostly technology driven and businesses adopt all the latest technologies well in advance than many developed countries, Saravanakumar said that ground level issues should be addressed first before formulating any security policy. “Security policies, frameworks and standards should be aligned after addressing these issues and only then it will get easily assimilated into the culture itself,” he explained. The regulatory landscape is however slowly changing with most nations coming up with their individual data protection laws and regulations. But as Saravanakumar explains, before understanding exactly what we expect from a Data Protection law, we need to, as an organisation segregate the data as structured and unstructured; classify the data; secure the data and then should know how to govern the data. “We should first formulate a proper data lifecycle model first and then implement the data protection or privacy regulations. As far as the BFSI sector is concerned, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) should bring more data awareness programs and publications and make an assessment of the industry,” he concluded.  

Arcserve, the world’s leading ransomware protection and unified data resilience platform provider, recently announced the expansion of its award-winning OneXafe family of immutable data storage solutions. The new Arcserve OneXafe 4500 Series enables a greater storage capacity of up to 216TB while providing a native immutable store for ransomware protection of growing volumes of backup and unstructured data for organizations of all sizes. Offering near-zero configuration, Arcserve OneXafe 4500 Series can be installed and available to users very rapidly without reconfiguration to accommodate various workload requirements. It also protects existing investments while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) through seamless integration with existing OneXafe 4400 Series clusters. Arcserve OneXafe 4500 Series features: Built-in protection against ransomware: Arcserve OneXafe 4500 Series is a native immutable store for unstructured data and backup, which supports customers’ 3-2-1-1 backup strategies (3 backup copies on 2 different media, with 1 located offsite and the crucial extra 1 is immutable storage). It provides a logical airgap allowing customers to retrieve unaltered copies of their data. The continuous data protection capabilities take a snapshot once every 90 seconds, including pointin-time recovery, and impose no limit on the number of snapshots taken. Seamless scale-out architecture: OneXafe supports one or multiple OneXafe nodes in a cluster and a single global file system thanks to its flexible and seamless scale-out architecture. As storage requirements change, organizations can rely on the agility of the OneXafe 4500 series to add any number of drives or nodes at any time in any capacity, without configuration changes or application downtime, saving businesses time and cost. Protect existing investments while lowering TCO: Customers with existing OneXafe 4412 or 4417 clusters can seamlessly increase their storage capacity by adding OneXafe 4512 nodes. OneXafe offers powerful global inline deduplication and data compression, allowing organizations to reduce their storage footprint and their overall associated power consumption. Minimal Configuration: The Arcserve OneXafe 4500 Series delivers a highly flexible, powerful, and easy to configure storage and recovery solution. OneXafe removes the burden of application downtime and configuration changes for nearly every storage management task. Said Matt Urmston, Executive Vice President of Product Management at Arcserve, “Today, organizations are grappling with the need to backup growing quantities of data within diminishing windows while protecting against ransomware. Arcserve OneXafe 4500 Series combines traditional NAS’ reliability and productivity advantages with the security benefits of immutable object storage to provide organizations with a safe and powerful secondary storage solution ideally suited to the modern world. Simply put, the OneXafe 4500 series delivers more. It represents a proactive response to our customer’s demand for more storage capacity, data protection, and improved TCO from their data resilience investments.”