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Barracuda delivers sophisticated email threat detection and remediation for Office 365 customers

Barracuda’s new email security plans offer a unique combination of threat prevention, API-based detection, and response, with data protection and compliance capabilities 

 India. – (December 8, 2021) – Barracuda Networks, Inc., a trusted partner and leading provider for cloud-enabled security solutions furthered its commitment to deliver leading email security solutions which are easy to buy, deploy, and use with the announcement today of three new Email Protection plans which scale to meet customers’ evolving threat protection needs. Barracuda’s comprehensive solutions combine gateway and API based AI technology to detect and remediate threats and reduce the risk that a malicious attack succeeds by immediately and automatically eliminating the user’s ability to view or launch flagged emails.  

Recent attacks have shown that Office 365 native security alone has gaps and that third-party solutions are required to ensure customers are fully protected. According to Gartner, “Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MSDO) offers a wide set of email security capabilities, but due to the rise in business email compromises, account takeovers and other sophisticated attacks, many times some malicious emails are actually missed by MSDO, and in fact by any other email gateway solutions. Therefore, organizations should strongly consider integrating third-party solutions to strengthen their email security capabilities. Aside from traditional gateway solutions, security and risk management leaders should evaluate API-based solutions to act as an additional layer of protection.”1.  

With Barracuda, customers receive an integrated and validated suite of capabilities to protect their people and business which includes:

  • Threat prevention: Prevent attacks from getting through by combining email-gateway defenses, API-based inbox defense, and web security. 
  • Post-delivery detection and response: Identify and limit the impact of any threats that reach users with automated response and user security awareness training.
  • Data protection: Ensure compliance and stay productive during downtime. Back up important Office 365 email and data to recover easily from malware attacks or lost data. 
  • Automated workflows: Easily create custom workflows to completely automate incident response.
  • SIEM/SOAR/XDR integrations: Public-facing APIs for integrating with third-party platforms to enable seamless and consistent response to security events. 
  • Barracuda Data Inspector: Data classification capabilities to help find sensitive data such as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and malware.

According to an SE Labs test report published November 17, 2021, Barracuda’s email security solutions provided the best level of malicious threat detection efficacy. SE Labs carried out extensive testing of top email security providers and their ability to detect various threat types including phishing, social engineering, business email compromise, and scamming. Barracuda came out on the top and was recognized in the SE Labs report as “Best Email Security Service.” See the full report here: https://selabs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/annual-report-2021.pdf 

Barracuda’s new email protection plans are immediately available to customers and partners at the following levels:

  • Advanced: Email gateway defense, impersonation and phishing protection, and automated remediation.  
  • Premium: Everything in Advanced plus incident response, domain fraud protection, and DNS filtering.  
  • Premium Plus: Everything in Premium plus data protection, archiving, and user security awareness training. 

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“The threat landscape has evolved and, coupled with the gap in security professional talent facing most businesses, protecting against these threats is extremely complex. Barracuda Email Protection offers customers complete protection by combining gateway defense, API-based inbox defense, incident response, data protection, and user security awareness capabilities,” said Don MacLennan, SVP, Engineering & Product Management, Email Protection. “Barracuda was the first to bring an “API approach” to impersonation and phishing protection  leveraging AI and machine learning. Today, we continue to lead with our unique combination of gateway and API-based AI technology to detect and remediate email threats in real time for Office 365 customers.”  

“Email attacks are getting more sophisticated, so we expanded our Advanced Email Security test to include threats like business email compromise this year,” said Simon Edwards, SE Labs founder. “Addressing these types of targeted attacks was a strength for Barracuda, which helped it stand out as Best Email Security Service, based on our intelligence-led testing.”   

“We’re excited about Barracuda’s integrated approach to Email Protection. The new plans include all the necessary capabilities that customers need to protect against email threats,” said James Range, President, White Rock Cybersecurity. “We see these new SaaS plans as an easy, straightforward way to get customers the Office 365 protection they need in a single cloud-based solution.”  

“We’re impressed with Barracuda’s comprehensive approach. They combine the capabilities needed to secure us against email threats,” said Jay Glatt, VP of Technology, Giumarra. “We’ve evaluated different solutions and were impressed with Barracuda’s ability to provide combined gateway and API-based AI tech to do the real-time detection and remediation that we need.”   

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Tenable Introduces Tenable.cs to Provide Security from Code to Cloud

Mumbai, INDIA, December 8, 2021 – Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced the release of Tenable.cs, adding new cloud-native security capabilities to its platform. Coming on the heels of its acquisition of Accurics, Tenable.cs enables organizations to accelerate innovation by aligning development, operational and security teams behind security and resiliency goals.

With the release of Tenable.cs, Tenable will help organizations protect the full cloud-native stack throughout the DevOps lifecycle, from the time applications and infrastructure are defined in code through production usage. Tenable.cs scans Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to detect and remediate any flaws, policy violations and potential breach paths before provisioning to the cloud infrastructure.

Implementing secure and compliant IaC is a cornerstone to aligning DevOps, security and compliance, which helps prevent cloud security risk, improve developer productivity and ultimately strengthen security and compliance. DevOps and security teams today face the challenge of “staying in their lanes” while attempting to effectively collaborate without impeding innovation. This pursuit is further complicated by cloud-native environments that are ever evolving and increasing in complexity.

Tenable.cs brings the Accurics platform into the Tenable ecosystem, giving teams pragmatic, real-world solutions from build through runtime. The solution also delivers a best practices framework that unites DevOps and Security teams so companies can innovate in the cloud with confidence.

“Tenable.cs expands our capabilities further into the cloud stack,” said Nico Popp, chief product officer, Tenable. “Our aim is to enable organizations to embrace both the technical and cultural change that is DevSecOps. This is a natural evolution as services increasingly leverage the cloud and IaC. By analyzing this codified state of cloud environments, we enable users to shift security left and address misconfigurations and vulnerabilities before they are deployed.”

This inaugural release of Tenable.cs builds on established Accurics capabilities by optimizing the user experience, enhancing runtime capabilities and reporting and enabling tighter integration with development workflows.

  • Optimized user experience:

○        Unified management console for multiple control planes including code repositories, cloud accounts, Kubernetes clusters & CI/CD or GitOps pipelines

○        A streamlined user experience for configuring complex AWS, Azure and GCP environments and projects

○        A new low code security policy editor which simplifies management of policy logic while eliminating the need to learn another policy language

  • Enhanced runtime capabilities and reporting:

○        Continuous monitoring of AWS configuration changes, enabling real-time management of cloud posture

○        Comprehensive posture management for Kubernetes applications, including detecting configuration drifts in Kubernetes runtime infrastructure

  • Tighter integration with development workflows:

○        Improved integration into development pipelines, including new policies for application vulnerabilities and the ability to enforce policies during build time

○        Kubernetes policy guardrails based on recent NSA & CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance

For more information about Tenable.cs, visit tenable.com/products/tenable-cs.

Senrysa Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Is Now Great Place to Work-Certified ™!

Senrysa Technologies Pvt. Ltd. has been Great Place to Work® – Certified in India for October 2021 to October 2022! This distinguished award is based entirely on what our employees feel and share about their experience working at Senrysa.

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting, and insights they need to make strategic people decisions. The Institute serves businesses, non-profits and government agencies in more than 60 countries and has conducted pioneering research on the characteristics of great workplaces for over three decades.
“Great Place to Work CertificationTM is undeniably the | said Sheetal Chaturvedi, AVP result of the ongoing endeavour an organization invests in its people to deliver wow to its employees”

HR of Senrysa Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
“For us, it’s a testament to our employee’s real-time experience of their company culture. Earning this ward is certainly a proud oment for all of as an organization, and we do not take this for granted given the highly competitive job market of today. We are thrilled that our employees believe that our culture is one where they continue to feel connected, supported and valued, and it motivates us to sustain the trust of our employees as we Venture into the retail tech space with our Al-enabled SaaS-based e-commerce.” platform – NDHGO and add new members to our team. NDHGO offers a level playing field to the organized retail sector, to get online in less than a minute and compete with the online aggregators.”

The Institute’s research shows that great workplaces are characterized by great leadership, consistent employee experience, and sustainable financial performance. These organizations are able to deliver a consistent experience to all their employees irrespective of their role, gender, tenure or level in the organization. Their leaders believe in the vision of creating and sustaining a Great Place to Work FOR ALL and role model being ‘FOR ALL’ Leaders.

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Senrysa Technologies is a full-stack avant-garde product organization with its roots in East India (Kolkata) and expanse PAN India. We blend innovation and next-gen technologies with rich experience of more than a decade and undaunted ambition with the primary objective to build highly scalable solutions that will impact a billion lives.
Senrysa is one of the leading Fintech organizations in financial inclusion with innovative ICT solutions and is an early adopter of the India Stack. Senrysa has pioneered the Aadhaar Enabled Payment System under the flagship of the business correspondent model for the masses and has acquired more than 60 million customers to date under this initiative. The company has been granted RuPay Certification from NPCI and has a diversified client base from Public Sector Bank, Private Bank, Regional Rural Bank to Co-operative Banks across India.

AWS recognized as an IDC MarketScape Leader in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan)

AWS computer vision and Amazon Rekognition: AWS recognized as an IDC MarketScape Leader in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), up to 38% price cut, and major new features

Computer vision, the automatic recognition and description of documents, images, and videos, has far-reaching applications, from identifying defects in high-speed assembly lines, to intelligently automating document processing workflows, and identifying products and people in social media. AWS computer vision services, including Amazon Lookout for Vision, AWS Panorama, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Textract, help developers automate image, video, and text analysis without requiring machine learning (ML) experience. As a result, you can implement solutions faster and decrease your time to value.

As customers continue to expand their use of computer vision, we have been investing in all of our services to make them easier to apply to use cases, easier to implement with fewer data requirements, and more cost-effective. Recently, AWS was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Vision AI Software Platform 2021 Vendor Assessment (Doc # AP47490521, October 2021). The IDC MarketScape evaluated our product functionality, service delivery, research and innovation strategy, and more for three vision AI use cases: productivity, end-user experience, and decision recommendation. They found that our offerings have a product-market fit for all three use cases. The IDC MarketScape recommends that computer vision decision-makers consider AWS for Vision AI services when you need to centrally plan vision AI capabilities in a large-scope initiative, such as digital transformation (DX), or want flexible ways to control costs.

“Vision AI is one of the emerging technology markets,” says Christopher Lee Marshall, Associate Vice President, Artificial Intelligent and Analytics Strategies at IDC Asia Pacific. “AWS is placed in the Leader’s Category in IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Vision AI Software Platform 2021 Vendor Assessment. It’s critical to watch the major vendors and more mature market solutions, as the early movers tend to consolidate their strengths with greater access to training data, more iterations of algorithm variations, deeper understanding of the operational contexts, and more systematic approaches to work with solution partners in the ecosystem.”

A key service of focus in the report was Amazon Rekognition. We’re excited to announce several enhancements to make Amazon Rekognition more cost-effective, more accurate, and easier to implement. First, we’re lowering prices for image APIs. Next, we’re enriching Amazon Rekognition with new features for content moderation, text-in-image analysis, and automated machine learning (AutoML). The new capabilities enable more accurate content moderation workflows, optical character recognition for a broader range of scenarios, and simplified training and deployment of custom computer vision models.

These latest announcements add to the Amazon Textract innovations we introduced recently, where we added TIFF file support, lowered the latency of asynchronous operations by 50%, and reduced prices by up to 32% in eight AWS Regions. The Amazon Textract innovations make it easier, faster, and less expensive to process documents at scale using computer vision on AWS.

Let’s dive deeper into the Amazon Rekognition announcements and product improvements.

Up to 38% price reduction for Amazon Rekognition Image APIs

We want to help you get a better return on investment for computer vision workflows. Therefore, we’re lowering the price for all Amazon Rekognition Image APIs by up to 38%. This price reduction applies to all 14 Regions where the Amazon Rekognition service endpoints are available.

We offer four pricing tiers based on usage volume for Amazon Rekognition Image APIs today: up to 1 million, 1 – 10M, 10 – 100M, and above 100M images processed per month. The price points for these tiers are $0.001, $0.0008, $0.0006, and $0.0004 per image. With this price reduction, we lowered the API volumes that unlock lower prices:

  • We lowered the threshold from 10 million images per month to 5 million images per month for Tier 2. As a result, you can now benefit from a lower Tier 3 price of $0.0006 per image after 5 million images.
  • We lowered the Tier 4 threshold from 100 million images per month to 35 million images per month.

We summarize the volume threshold changes in the following table.

  Old volume (images processed per month) New volume (images processed per month)
Tier 1 Unchanged at first 1 million images
Tier 2 Next 9 million images Next 4 million images
Tier 3 Next 90 million images Next 30 million images
Tier 4 Over 100 million images Over 35 million images

Finally, we’re lowering the price per image for the highest-volume tier from $0.0004 to $0.00025 per image for select APIs. The prices in the following table are for the US East (N. Virginia) Region. In summary, the new prices are as follows.

 

Pricing tier

Volume (images per month) Price per image
Images processed by Group 1 APIs: CompareFaces, IndexFaces, SearchFacebyImage, and SearchFaces Images processed by Group 2 APIs: DetectFaces, DetectModerationLabels, DetectLabels, DetectText, and RecognizeCelebrities
Tier 1 First 1 million images $0.00100 $0.00100
Tier 2 Next 4 million images $0.00080 $0.00080
Tier 3 Next 30 million images $0.00060 $0.00060
Tier 4 Over 35 million images $0.00040 $0.00025

 

Your savings will vary based on your usage. The following table provides example savings for a few scenarios in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.

API Volumes Group 1 & 2 Image APIs: Old Price Group 1 Image APIs Group 2 Image APIs
New Price % Reduction New Price % Reduction
12 Million in a month $9,400 $8,400 -10.6% $8,400 -10.6%
12M Annual (1M in a month) $12,000 $12,000 0.0% $12,000 0.0%
60M in a month $38,200 $32,200 -15.7% $28,450 -25.5%
60M Annual (5M in a month) $50,400 $50,400 0.0% $50,400 0.0%
120M in a month $70,200 $56,200 -19.9% $43,450 -38.1%
120M Annual (10M in a month) $98,400 $86,400 -12.2% $86,400 -12.2%
420M in a month $190,200 $176,200 -7.4% $118,450 -37.7%
420M Annual (35M in a month) $278,400 $266,400 -4.3% $266,400 -4.3%
1.2 Billion in a month $502,200 $488,200 -2.8% $313,450 -37.6%
1.2B Annual (100M in a month) $746,400 $578,400 -22.5% $461,400 -38.2%

Learn more about the price reduction by visiting the pricing page.

Accuracy improvements for content moderation

Organizations need a scalable solution to make sure users aren’t exposed to inappropriate content from user-generated and third-party content in social media, ecommerce, and photo-sharing applications.

The Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation API helps you automatically detect inappropriate or unwanted content to streamline moderation workflows.

With the Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation API, you now get improved accuracy across all ten top-level categories (such as explicit nudity, violence, and tobacco) and all 35 subcategories.

The improvements in image model moderation reduce false positive rates across all moderation categories. Lower false positive rates lead to lower volumes of images flagged for further review by human moderators, reducing their workload and improving efficiency. When combined with a price reduction for image APIs, you get more value for your content moderation solution at lower prices. Learn more about the improved Content Moderation API by visiting Moderating content.

11 Street is an online shopping company. They’re using Amazon Rekognition to automate the review of images and videos. “As part of 11st’s interactive experience, and to empower our community to express themselves, we have a feature where users can submit a photo or video review of the product they have just purchased. For example, a user could submit a photo of themselves wearing the new makeup they just bought. To make sure that no images or videos contain content that is prohibited by our platform guidelines, we originally resorted to manual content moderation. We quickly found that this was costly, error-prone, and not scalable. We then turned to Amazon Rekognition for Content Moderation, and found that it was easy to test, deploy, and scale. We are now able to automate the review of more than 7,000 uploaded images and videos every day with Amazon Rekognition, saving us time and money. We look forward to the new model update that the Amazon Rekognition team is releasing soon.” – 11 Street Digital Transformation team

Flipboard is a content recommendation platform that enables publishers, creators, and curators to share stories with readers to help them stay up to date on their passions and interests. Says Anuj Ahooja, Senior Engineering Manager at Flipboard: “On average, Flipboard processes approximately 90 million images per day. To maintain a safe and inclusive environment and to confirm that all images comply with platform guidelines at scale, it is crucial to implement a content moderation workflow using ML. However, building models for this system internally was labor-intensive and lacked the accuracy necessary to meet the high-quality standards Flipboard users expect. This is where Amazon Rekognition became the right solution for our product. Amazon Rekognition is a highly accurate, easily deployed, and performant content moderation platform that provides a robust moderation taxonomy. Since putting Amazon Rekognition into our workflows, we’ve been catching approximately 63,000 images that violate our standards per day. Moreover, with frequent improvements like the latest content moderation model update, we can be confident that Amazon Rekognition will continue to help make Flipboard an even more inclusive and safe environment for our users over time.”

Yelp connects people with great local businesses. With unmatched local business information, photos, and review content, Yelp provides a one-stop local platform for consumers to discover, connect, and transact with local businesses of all sizes by making it easy to request a quote, join a waitlist, and make a reservation, appointment, or purchase. Says Alkis Zoupas, Head of Trust and Safety Engineering at Yelp: “Yelp’s mission is to connect people with great local businesses, and we take significant measures to give people access to reliable and useful information. As part of our multi-stage, multi-model approach to photo classification, we use Amazon Rekognition to tune our systems for various outcomes and levels of filtering. Amazon Rekognition has helped reduce development time, allowing us to be more effective with our resource utilization and better prioritize what our teams should focus on.”

Support for seven more languages and accuracy improvements for text analysis

Customers use the Amazon Rekognition text service for a variety of applications, such as ensuring compliance of images with corporate policies, analysis of marketing assets, and reading street signs. With the Amazon Rekognition DetectText API, you can detect text in images and check it against your list of inappropriate words and phrases. In addition, you can further enable content redaction by using the detected text bounding box area to blur sensitive information.

The newest version of the DetectText API now supports Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish languages in addition to English. The DetectText API also provides improved accuracy for detecting curved and vertical text in images. With the expanded language support and higher accuracy for curved and vertical text, you can scale and improve your content moderation, text moderation, and other text detection workflows.

OLX Group is one of the world’s fastest-growing networks of trading platforms, with operations in over 30 countries and over 20 brands worldwide. Says Jaroslaw Szymczak, Data Science Manager at OLX Group: “As a leader in the classifieds marketplace sector, and to foster a safe, inclusive, and vibrant buying and selling community, it is paramount that we make sure that all products listed on our platforms comply with our rules for product display and authenticity. To do that, among other aspects of the ads, we have placed focus on analyzing the non-organic text featured on images uploaded by our users. We tested Amazon Rekognition’s text detection functionality for this purpose and found that it was highly accurate and augmented our in-house violations detection systems, helping us improve our moderation workflows. Using Amazon Rekognition for text detection, we were able to flag 350,000 policy violations last year. It has also helped us save significant amounts in development costs and has allowed us to refocus data science time on other projects. We are very excited about the upcoming text model update as it will even further expand our capabilities for text analysis.”

VidMob is a leading creative analytics platform that uses data to understand the audience, improve ads, and increase marketing performance. Says James Kupernick, Chief Technology Officer at VidMob: “At VidMob, our goal is to maximize ROI for our customers by leveraging real-time insights into creative content. We have been working with the Amazon Rekognition team for years to extract meaningful visual metadata from creative content, helping us drive data-driven outcomes for our customers. It is of the utmost importance that our customers get actionable data signals. In turn, we have used Amazon Rekognition’s text detection feature to determine when there is overlaid text in a creative and classify that text in a way that creates unique insights. We can scale this process using the Amazon Rekognition Text API, allowing our data science and engineers teams to create differentiated value. In turn, we are very excited about the new text model update and the addition of new languages so that we can better support our international clients.”

Simplicity and scalability for AutoML

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an AutoML service that allows you to build custom computer vision models to detect objects and scenes in images specific to your business needs. For example, with Rekognition Custom Labels, you can develop solutions for detecting brand logos, proprietary machine parts, and items on store shelves without the need for in-depth ML expertise. Instead, your critical ML experts can continue working on higher-value projects.

With the new capabilities in Rekognition Custom Labels, you can simplify and scale your workflows for custom computer vision models.

First, you can train your computer vision model in four simple steps with a few clicks. You get a guided step-by-step console experience with directions for creating projects, creating image datasets, annotating and labeling images, and training models.

Next, we improved our underlying ML algorithms. As a result, you can now build high-quality models with less training data to detect vehicles, their make, or possible damages to vehicles.

Finally, we have introduced seven new APIs to make it even easier for you to build and train computer vision models programmatically. With the new APIs, you can do the following:

  • Create, copy, or delete datasets
  • List the contents and get details of the datasets
  • Modify datasets and auto-split them to create a test dataset

For more information, visit the Rekognition Custom Labels Guide.

Prodege, LLC is a cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform that leverages its global audience of reward program members to power its business solutions. Prodege uses Rekognition Custom Labels to detect anomalies in store receipts. Says Arun Gupta, Director, Business Intelligence at Prodege: “By using Rekognition Custom Labels, Prodege was able to detect anomalies with high precision across store receipt images being uploaded by our valued members as part of our rewards program offerings. The best part of Rekognition Custom Labels is that it’s easy to set up and requires only a small set of pre-classified images (a couple of hundred in our case) to train the ML model for high confidence image detection. The model’s endpoints can be easily accessed using the API. Rekognition Custom Labels has been an extremely effective solution to enable the smooth functioning of our validated receipt scanning product and helped us save a lot of time and resources performing manual detection. The new console experience of Rekognition Custom Labels has made it even easier to build and train a model, especially with the added capability of updating and deleting an existing dataset. This will significantly improve our constant iteration of training models as we grow and add more data in the pursuit of enhancing our model performance. I can’t even thank the AWS Support Team enough, who has been diligently helping us with all aspects of the product through this journey.”

Says Arnav Gupta, Global AWS Practice Lead at Quantiphi: “As an advanced consulting partner for AWS, Quantiphi has been leveraging Amazon’s computer vision services such as Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract to solve some of our customer’s most pressing business challenges. The simplified and guided experience offered by the updated Rekognition Custom Labels console and the new APIs has made it easier for us to build and train computer vision models, significantly reducing the time to deliver solutions from months to weeks for our customers. We have also built our document processing solution Qdox on top of Amazon Textract, which has enabled us to provide our own industry-specific document processing solutions to customers.”

Get started with Amazon Rekognition

With the new features we’re announcing today, you can increase the accuracy of your content moderation workflows, deploy text moderation solutions across a broader range of scenarios and languages, and simplify your AutoML implementation. In addition, you can use the price reduction on the image APIs to analyze more images with your existing budget. Use one or more of the following options to get started today:

  • Learn more through tutorials, workshops, and solution templates on Amazon Rekognition resources
  • Sign up for the AWS Free Tier to explore Amazon Rekognition for free
  • Let us know your feedback through your account teams or on the Amazon Rekognition Forum
  • Start building on the Amazon Rekognition console

Start building with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and the AWS Software Development Kit (AWS SDK) by checking out Set up the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs

AppsFlyer teams up with Intel to introduce The AppsFlyer Privacy Cloud

Bangalore, December 8, 2021 — AppsFlyer announced it is collaborating with Intel to build the AppsFlyer Privacy Cloud. The AppsFlyer Privacy Cloud allows multiple entities to safely bring their data together based on their own business logic, guidelines and privacy requirements while leveraging a privacy-preserving tech stack including Aggregated Advanced Privacy (AAP), Aggregated Conversion Modeling (ACM), Data Clean Rooms, privacy preserving cryptographic solutions, Predictive analytics, and others.

AppsFlyer is collaborating with Intel to leverage the hardware-enhanced crypto acceleration in Intel’s 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable platform to significantly speed up computation for the Privacy Cloud’s high performance advanced homomorphic encryption (HE) applications.

Sanjay Trisal, General Manager of India, Southeast Asia, and Australia, New Zealand, AppsFlyer, “APAC consumers have become more guarded about their personal data and information while navigating apps – In the Indian Subcontinent, 69% of them were concerned about data collection when it comes to mobile apps. With the recent iOS update, 46% of app users opted in for tracking, demonstrating a shift towards greater privacy. This trend has posed a huge challenge for app marketers in measuring app usage and activities. AppsFlyer is the first mover to help marketers adapt, while accelerating this crucial ecosystem transition. Our partnership with Intel will enable brands to fetch better insights while championing a privacy-centric marketplace for consumers. This move is significant for leading app markets like India where categories like Fintech are fast growing. The sweet spot between user-experience and privacy will provide a win-win for app marketers and consumers in 2022 and beyond.”

“The AppsFlyer Privacy Cloud is a natural next step of our current offering and our long-term vision,” said Oren Kaniel, CEO and Co-Founder, AppsFlyer. “AppsFlyer’s unique positioning means that we have a responsibility to carry out during these major ecosystem shifts. Cryptographic solutions such as HE could be a huge step forward for privacy led measurement, revolutionizing how brands gain insights. We’re thrilled to be working with Intel on this technology to make it a reality for our customers, and the entire ecosystem.”

AppsFlyer’s Privacy Cloud

AppsFlyer’s Privacy Cloud is a trusted open platform for innovation that enhances end-users experience while preserving their privacy when using any connected device, on any platform, app store, OS or browser. Within the Privacy Cloud, platforms, app stores, ad-networks, and app developers will be able to define their own Privacy Cloud Applications (PCA) based on their business logic, privacy guidelines and tech stack.

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a powerful new technique for enabling computation and collaboration on private and sensitive data through end-to-end encryption. It is an emerging form of encryption allowing private data computation without the need to decrypt the data. HE enables computing on always-encrypted data, resulting in enhanced privacy preserving capabilities. HE offers developers and brands a way to collaborate and gain insights across organizations, without compromising their end user privacy. Intel’s platform improves performance to support end-to-end data encryption.

This is a long-term ecosystem collaboration AppsFlyer and Intel will be investing in, and once it becomes widely available, AppsFlyer will be able to migrate parts of the Privacy Cloud Data Clean Rooms to a zero-trust cryptography solution, while preserving backward compatibility interfaces.

“Homomorphic encryption is a powerful new tool, which will enable AppsFlyer’s partners and customers to gain valuable insights while maintaining a very high standard of user privacy,” said Nir Peled, general manager, Private AI and Analytics, Intel. “Our collaboration with AppsFlyer is a step toward the future of privacy preserving computing.”

About AppsFlyer: AppsFlyer helps brands make good choices for their business and their customers through innovative, privacy-preserving measurement, analytics, fraud protection, and engagement technologies. Built on the idea that brands can increase customer privacy while providing exceptional experiences, AppsFlyer empowers thousands of creators and 9,000+ technology partners to create better, more meaningful customer relationships. To learn more, visit www.appsflyer.com.

TO THE NEW launches CK Lens ™, an AWS Cost Management Platform on AWS Marketplace

New Delhi, 07 December 2021: TO THE NEW (TTN), a digital technology company providing digital transformation and product engineering services to independent software vendors (ISVs), consumer internet, and large enterprises across the globe, has launched their new AWS Cloud Cost Analytics platform, CK Lens ™ on the AWS Marketplace.

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalogue that makes it easy for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software.

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With TO THE NEW’s analytics platform, CK Lens ™, organizations can effectively manage their cloud resources and optimize their AWS spending instantly in a single place. The solution provides a complete view of infrastructure consumption costs, identifies areas for optimization, billing breakdown, daily cost usage, and much more. CK Lens ™ is a part of TTN’s proprietary solution, CloudKeeper, an in-house cloud FinOps solution that ensures a 5-15% reduction of your AWS expenses.

TTN also offers a 90-days free CK Lens ™ trial period to customers, to help kick-start their journey to monitor and analyze their usage to ensure efficient AWS deployment at all times.

Deepak Mittal, CEO & Co-Founder, TO THE NEW said, “We’ve seen a surge in demand for cloud-based Cost Management platforms recently as companies rush to move to the cloud. CK Lens will improve businesses’ operational efficiency, streamline cloud costs, and allow them to make better business decisions by leveraging important data insights. Migration to the cloud is expected to continue in the future, and CK Lens will evolve to keep up with the pace of digital transformation requirements.”

CK Lens ™ serves over 200+ customers globally and has been developed as a result of TO THE NEW’s decade-long experience working with AWS. TO THE NEW has also been an AWS Premier Consulting Partner since 2018.

Comment from Tenable: ZoHo ManageEngine zero-day(s)

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“Over recent months, ManageEngine has been targeted in campaigns from multiple threat groups. According to ZoHo, CVE-2021-44515 has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day, making this the third vulnerability this year in ManageEngine to be adopted by threat actors. It’s common to see these sorts of pile-ons after a product has been leveraged in publicized attacks; once it is known that a product or service is vulnerable, threat actors often put it under a microscope to find additional avenues of attack.” — Claire Tills, Senior Research Engineer, Tenable

Tech Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

By Dr. Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com

We have reached an inflection point. After AWS pioneered cloud technology more than 15 years ago, cloud infrastructure has evolved to a place where we are seeing all parts of the cloud reach practically anywhere on the planet—and even into space. The cloud has allowed what was once science fiction to become science fact. Models and techniques in the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) realm have gotten better and better—so much so that we see glimpses of new kinds of use cases emerging that we previously only imagined in movies and comics. We are entering a phase where data is abundant, access to it is almost instantaneous, and our ability to make sense of it in new and subtle ways is practically automatic. But this technology is not replacing humans; it is augmenting how we engage with the world. 2022 will be an exciting year for technology, with it pushing all of us, and our planet, forward in the process.

Prediction One: AI-supported software development takes hold

Software development is a creative process, but one that has many repetitive tasks. In 2022, ML will begin to play a major role in augmenting software developers’ workstreams, helping them create more secure and reliable code.

Since the advent of the cloud, we’ve seen companies across the world bring new ideas to their customers at scale faster than ever. However, even with this acceleration in product delivery, people still spend a disproportional amount of time in one area of technology: software development.

While there have absolutely been improvements in programming languages, software development toolkits (SDKs), and other tools that enable developers to be more efficient, these have all been minor evolutions. There haven’t been the major leaps forward that we’ve seen in other areas of technology … yet. Over the past few years, we’ve started to see the foundations laid for what will become the future of software development. Tools like Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon CodeGuru, GitHub Copilot, and GPT-3 are the first steps in what I see as the future of development, where ML is used in code development and software operations workstreams to help developers become more effective. In the coming years, I believe that we are going to see an explosion of capabilities in this area.

ML will free developers from the mundane parts of their jobs, such as code reviews and bug fixes­—the undifferentiated heavy lifting of their world—and allow them to focus more on creating. The same technology will help us write sophisticated systems faster than ever and in ways that open the door to a new class of developers. Imagine a scenario where a builder describes how they want an app to operate, and then the tools interpret the request through natural language processing and deliver back the fully functional code. On the backend, ML techniques will also check for software bugs and continuously verify that the software is doing what it is supposed to do. This kind of ML-supported software development will be a game-changer by allowing more people across an organization to help define and build software and software-driven products. Longer term, this same approach of ML freeing us up to create more will be used in all kinds of other areas, including media creation. We will see generative AI techniques increasingly create movies, music, and literature. Just as importantly, in a similar way, this technology will also start to play a role in detecting fake content, scams, and fraud. 2022 is the year where AI/ML takes on the heavy lifting in the lives of developers.

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Prediction two: The everywhere cloud has an edge

The cloud will extend into every locale via purpose-built devices and specialized solutions. In 2022, we’ll see these solutions bring all the muscle of the cloud to transform warehouses, restaurants, retail stores, farms, and more­.

When talking about supply chain and transportation, we refer to the last leg of a journey as the “last mile.” It’s that final trip to your door. In ecommerce, it is a challenging part of the journey as there are many variables depending on the location. For instance, think of the difference between delivering a package to a customer on a crowded street in Tokyo and delivering it on a rural road in the United States. At Amazon, we’re developing specialized solutions for this last mile delivery, with innovations like Amazon Scout, a fully electric autonomous delivery device. The cloud has its own challenges in its “last mile,” and I predict a number of innovations are coming to help address it.

Over the last 15 years of AWS, we’ve built out an impressive global infrastructure that spans over 25 geographic regions and 81 Availability Zones across the globe, with more than 310 points of presence to serve over 245 countries and territories. But now, we are seeing cloud services that are pushing beyond the bounds of our traditional AWS Regions and out to the edges of the network—or, like in ecommerce, the last mile.

We’ve already seen the cloud go practically everywhere. The shift we’ll witness in 2022 is the cloud becoming highly specialized at the edges of the network. To fully realize the benefits of the cloud in workshops and warehouses, in restaurants and retail stores, or out in remote locations, there must be tailored solutions at the edge. The parallels to Amazon Scout in the cloud are devices like Amazon Monitron and AWS Panorama, purpose-built devices that bring cloud capabilities to the edges of the network to do a specific job. They bring all of the high security, advanced features, and speed of delivery of the cloud, but they can be placed almost anywhere in the world. Yet, rather than isolated boxes sitting someplace, these devices become true extensions of the cloud with a link back to all of its core capabilities.

What we will see in 2022, and even more so in the years to come, is the cloud accelerating beyond the traditional centralized infrastructure model and into unexpected environments where specialized technology is needed. The cloud will be in your car, your tea kettle, and your TV. The cloud will be in everything from trucks driving down the road, to the ships and planes that transport goods. The cloud will be globally distributed, and connected to almost any digital device or system on Earth, and even in space.

Prediction three: The rise of smart spaces, especially in senior care

In 2022, our homes and buildings will become better assistants and more attentive companions to truly help with our most human needs. The greatest impact in the next few years will be with the elderly.

One of the things that inspires me the most about technology is its role in solving truly hard human problems. After years of meeting with customers across the globe that are using the cloud to do just that, we had an idea to begin documenting their stories through a show called Now Go Build. One of the inspiring customers we featured on the show was a company in Japan named Z-Works, which focuses on improving elder care and helping scale it through technology.

The problem Z-Works faced was how to offer smart and attentive care for seniors in Japan when there are fewer and fewer people available to do the job. The solution this company arrived at was to arrange sensors in beds and throughout rooms in senior homes and connect all of them to the cloud for continuous data analysis. The sensor arrays don’t just monitor vital signs. Because they run machine learning models trained in the cloud, the sensors can also tell if a person goes to use the bathroom and simply doesn’t return. In that case, the system can notify someone on duty to check on the resident’s well-being. In essence, it is a very human response made possible by a very smart space. People would do that intrinsically, if they were aware of the need. In this case, ML models, fed by a private and secure stream of data, arrive at a similarly intelligent action to signal people. We are approaching a point where concepts like ambient computing, collections of IoT sensors, remote/mobile data collection and processing at the edge, and smart devices like Amazon Alexa will have the positive impact we always knew they would.

Over the next several years, we’ll see smart spaces come to life in a number of settings, but none with higher impact than elder care. It will be a combination of the simple tasks you would expect—from dimming lights, locking doors, and switching off the oven if someone forgets—to the more contextual and proactive things that technology can do: asking questions when normal living patterns diverge and enacting common sense solutions when necessary. It will result in taking better care of people, and in the case of an aging population, it means that we will create a new class of homes­ so people can actually stay at home.

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Prediction four: Sustainability gets its own architecture

In 2022, developers will begin to make sustainability-conscious decisions about the systems and applications they are building. They will seek new approaches to cloud architectures that optimize for the needs of the planet as well as the needs of end users.

As developers, we are trained to think about how to optimize our architectures for factors like security, performance, reliability, and cost. In 2022, you can add sustainability to that list. What we will begin to see in the coming years is developers taking an active role in building sustainability-conscious architectures that take into account not just the problems they are solving, but the planet as well.

As consumers, we have long wanted our videos and music streamed in higher quality, our webpages to load faster, and the ability to store more and more photos, but people are also beginning to realize the negative impacts this convenience can have on the environment. Do consumers truly need a download to happen as fast as absolutely possible or can we help them make informed decisions about storing an asset in a more carbon-friendly way with a minor penalty in download speed? Likewise, can we provide the ability to stream a video in slightly lower quality than 4K to reduce our carbon footprint and, by doing this at scale, have a positive impact on the planet? Sustainable architectures will take decisions like these into account.

Developers will take an active role in reducing the carbon footprints of their applications. This will happen in a variety of areas, like taking into account where in the world they choose to run their applications to take advantage of green energy in the grid, considering the time needed to process a task, or even specifying the chipset they use. When operating at web scale, small savings can scale out to have a large impact. We will also start to see developers further consider the power of switching off resources. “Always on” is a mantra that many build to, but it comes with a cost. When considering the idle resources needed for an “always on” architecture, we may start to see a new mantra emerge that “the greenest energy is the energy we don’t use.” This doesn’t mean we don’t architect for high availability; it just means being more sustainability-conscious in our architectural decisions.

Let’s be clear: technology uses energy, and at AWS, we are committed to making smart infrastructure choices. We’re on track to run on 100% renewables by 2025—five years ahead of our original goal of 2030. But making the cloud run on wind, sun, or hydropower is only part of the sustainability responsibility that we developers, and really anyone running a company, must shoulder. It is a shared responsibility and a genuine effort that customers, employees, and potential employees will increasingly demand to see.

Prediction five: A new wave of connectivity will bring about a new class of applications

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are set to bring affordable broadband to every corner of the planet. This will change the lives of billions of people as teachers, students, small businesses, and virtually anyone gets online.

Over the next five years, more than 20,000 satellites are going to fan out in LEO above our planet. Among them will be about 1,500 from Amazon’s Project Kuiper, a network of satellites with the goal of delivering fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. (The first are planned to go into orbit in the fall of 2022.) What I see coming along with this planet-scale broadband are a whole new class of applications that will benefit from it.

Today, most digital applications are constrained by the existing network—designed for low bitrates or intermittent connectivity. In some cases, we have digital applications and systems that are designed to be operated offline, but these typically go out of date quickly or have limited functionality compared to their connected counterparts. Think about a traditional GPS navigator as compared to using a mobile app on your phone. But what happens when you are no longer constrained by connectivity, bandwidth, or high latency? A world of untapped possibilities will become reality when affordable connectivity reaches these places. Enter LEO satellites.

With ubiquitous connectivity, we start to unlock use cases that simply aren’t possible today. Try to imagine what happens in schools when every kid can use the same learning tools, or when small and medium-sized businesses get hold of digital tools they need to win more customers, grow their businesses, and create jobs in rural and remote communities around the world. We can more readily monitor reforestation efforts in remote locations, and we can better track and take quicker action on disaster situations such as fires and floods. Large enterprises with remote assets—such as solar installations, heavy equipment, or far-flung buildings—will be able to better optimize the use and maintenance of those assets. Transportation companies with vehicles, planes, and vessels on the move will have access to continuous data streams uploaded to the cloud, and regular updates downloaded to vehicles and vessels on the ground, in the air, and on the water. Ubiquitous connectivity will take us from intelligent spaces to intelligent cities, intelligent countries, and finally, toward an intelligent world.

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Softline expands in MENA by increasing its investments in the Egyptian market

The leading company in digital transformation and cybersecurity services announced its strategy to increase its presence in the Middle East region by investing in the Egyptian market 

CAIRO, Egypt – December 6, 2021 – Softline, the leading company in digital transformation, cloud and cybersecurity services, unveiled a plan to increase its business and investments in Egypt. The company recently held a series of meetings with officials in different sectors and government institutions including the Ministry of Communications and Information, The General Authority for Investments and the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA).

During these meetings, representatives from the company and government discussed a wide range of issues including Softline’s targeted investments over the next few years, as the company works to consolidate its presence and investments in Egypt. They also discussed the joint frameworks of cooperation to support Egypt’s national plan for digital transformation, which encompasses various companies and sectors.

The meetings also touched on the company’s plan and strategy to hire recent engineering graduates from Egyptian colleges – especially the technology colleges – and also providing ongoing support through training.

The meetings were attended by Roy Harding, President of Softline International; Atul Ahuja, Softline Senior Vice President for Middle East, Africa and Asia; Engineer Ahmed Nabil, Managing Director of Softline Egypt; and Mohamed Khattab, director of government and education sector at Softline Egypt.

Ahmed Nabil, Managing Director, Softline Egypt commented: “It was an honour to meet with officials and decision makers in Egypt, which is making a great leap forward in terms of its digital transformation and IT. Today we are looking forward to expanding our business in the Middle East by increasing our investments in Egypt, which will also serve as a hub for our business in the region.”

Softline provides digital transformation and cybersecurity services in more than 50 countries and around 95 global cities.

Roy Harding, Softline International’s President mentioned: “These meetings have given us a very clear sense of how Softline can support the public and private sectors, and we’re excited to be playing a part in realizing Egypt’s vision for overhauling its digital infrastructure over the next decade.”

Atul Ahuja, Softline Senior Vice President for Middle East, Africa and Asia, commented: “At Softline Egypt, we feel we are at the right time and right place. Softline’s global experience in offering solutions and services for emerging economies would be just right for the growth and transformation Egypt as a country is experiencing”.

The company also contributes to building and managing a safe hybrid infrastructure for its clients. It also provides support and maintenance teams for the required infrastructure to support global digital transformation, cloud services and cybersecurity.

Nabil, asserted that the stable economic situation in Egypt and the continued improvement of the investment environment in Egypt “gives us a confident push to increase our investments in Egypt and support Egypt’s national agenda and the long-term strategic plan of the state to achieve the principles and goals of the sustainable development in all sectors according to Egypt 2030 vision”.