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ADT Extends its Connected Security to Mobile

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At a time when consumers have grown accustomed to using their mobile phones to order services and to receive updates on any information they want to monitor, the security industry is looking to meet their expectations.

For example, ADT has been working to extend its subscription-based security services beyond the home and into automotive and mobile phone-based safety initiatives.

During its investor day event held Tuesday (March 1), ADT executives outlined several ways in which the company has reshaped and strengthened its portfolio. Among the newer initiatives are automotive and mobile.

“As we craft our longer-term vision, we’re looking beyond the home, and it’s important for us to talk about the extension into providing safety and security for people — wherever they are,” Leah Page, vice president, emerging business and mobile at ADT, said during the event.

Providing Personal Safety Through Mobile Phones 

To provide personal safety for people on the go, ADT offers its SoSecure mobile app. This allows customers to call ADT for help in many ways — by sliding a button, SMS chat, video or hands-free with a secret code word.

Once activated, SoSecure discretely connects users with trained ADT monitoring security professionals who can assess the situation and notify 911 with the user’s location and profile details to help first responders find them faster.

“We envision situations like running at night, being alone in a parking lot, walking across campus or being the last worker left at your job, and how having an ADT agent stay connected with you or check in on you might make a difference,” Page said.

She noted that the service can help reduce false alarms to 911, ease a caller’s concerns that 911 won’t take them seriously and more efficiently relay data such as the caller’s location to 911.

Integrating With Partner Companies’ Apps 

This service can also be integrated into partner companies’ apps. For example, the personal safety feature integrated into the Lyft app connects Lyft riders and drivers to an ADT monitoring professional.

Page said this mobile phone-based service accommodates the new ways people are living their lives, noting that just a few…

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Corero extends automatic DDoS protection to counter ‘carpet bomb’ and botnet attacks | VanillaPlus

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24 February, 2022 at 9:59 AM

Posted by: Anasia D’mello

Corero extends automatic DDoS protection to counter ‘carpet bomb’ and botnet attacks

Amersham, UK. 23 February 2022 – Corero Network Security plc, a provider of real-time, DDoS (distributed denial of service) cyber defence solutions, is extending its automatic protection against Carpet Bomb and Botnet attacks.

Corero’s mission is to make the internet a safer place to do business by protecting against the downtime and disruption caused by DDoS attacks. Corero is enabling organisations around the globe to maintain business continuity in the event of DDoS attacks, with its intelligently automated, SmartWall DDoS protection solution.

As DDoS attacks continue to grow in magnitude, frequency, and sophistication, it is no longer safe to address this growing problem with traditional blackholing or manual interventions. Corero’s real-time automatic approach is the only way to effectively prevent DDoS-downtime as it blocks over 98% of attacks in seconds, with no operator intervention required. Our ongoing market growth is being further propelled by multiple new product enhancements which ensure we continue to do so.

Corero’s new SmartWall DDoS protection includes:

  • Automatic Spread Spectrum attack protection to address the increase in volumetric ‘Carpet Bomb’ attacks that target entire network ranges and enables them to evade conventional DDoS mitigation solutions.
  • Automatic Advanced Botnet/Source flood protection to address the harmful high-rate traffic sources experienced with Botnet flood attacks as well as new TCP protocol flood protections (SYN-ACK, ACK, etc…)
  • Intelligent Fragment protection using Corero’s patented heuristics-based Smart-Rule technology enhances the ability to automatically block the large volumes of packet fragments associated with many of today’s DDoS attacks.

“As botnet and carpet bomb attacks continue to increase, these new capabilities enable Corero to further expand our automatic DDoS protection to address these significant threats, helping to keep our customers, and theirs, online, all the time,” says Corero’s head of security operations..

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HackerOne Extends Internet Bug Bounty Program To Include Open Source Bugs

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HackerOne has received sponsors from Facebook, TikTok, Shopify, and more for the extended Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program scope.

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Mavenir extends AI and analytics portfolio to enable optimization, automation and security of mobile networks

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Mavenir extends AI and analytics portfolio to enable optimization, automation and security of mobile networks

Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud native network software provider and a leader in accelerating software network transformation for communication service providers (Communication Service Providers , CSPs), today announced its extended portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics to enable closed-loop automation and drive digital transformation.

Mavenir’s AI / ML-based security and anti-fraud solutions are taking care of Telefónica Argentina’s continued revenue savings”

AI and machine learning (ML) in the mobile network infrastructure are expected to reduce costs by automating functions that normally require human interaction, and to accelerate new revenue-generating service offerings, becoming increasingly important as open radio access networks (Open RAN) and 5G cores are deployed.

Mavenir’s AI and analytics portfolio includes solutions designed to analyze and derive inferences from large amounts of unstructured data to automate networks, achieve cost savings and build 5G use cases. Many Industry 4.0 use cases, such as Intelligent Video Analytics and AR / VR, are powered by 5G which require AI-based inferences at the tip. Mavenir’s portfolio includes these AI-enabled applications for network automation, intelligent operations, EdgeAI and network security.

  1. Network Automation: Mavenir’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) and Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) follow the specifications introduced by the O-RAN Alliance and 3GPP and operate at the heart of a network automation vision. RIC and NWDAF allow the network to dynamically adapt to traffic conditions, using machine learning (ML) based algorithms and applications that can be deployed on any network in a multi-vendor environment. Mavenir’s containerized RIC and NWDAF product features include:
  •    Non-RT RIC: designed to host advanced ML algorithms (rApps) to optimize network performance and train ML models using long-term RAN data for dynamic and adaptive policies to optimize RAN performance.
  •    Near-RT RIC: designed to host trained AI / ML models (xApps) to infer and control functional O-RAN elements in near real time.
  •    NWDAF: designed to…

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