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CommScope partners with Microsoft to help transform industrial manufacturing

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CommScope announced that it has collaborated with Microsoft to create a converged private wireless network solution, enabling new low-latency and mobile applications to transform industrial manufacturing.

CommScope successfully deployed the combined solution—using Microsoft Azure private MEC and CommScope CBRS access points—in its own manufacturing innovation center in Shakopee, Minnesota. Through this cloud-connected, low-latency private wireless network, CommScope is already improving both the operational efficiency and manufacturing agility of its facilities.

This solution brings augmented reality applications and cloud-based manufacturing tools to factory engineers. This includes immersive technology training, aggregated assembly line data, and real-time remote assistance to improve production ramp times and worker capabilities. CommScope also leverages its low-latency wireless network to mobilize testing equipment across the production line. As an example, specialized microscopes are now mobilized so fiber optic quality testing can be done anywhere in real time as opposed to pulling product off the line.

“CommScope is excited to work with Microsoft to enable the next generation of private wireless networks,” said Upendra Pingle, SVP Intelligent Cellular Networks, CommScope. “We have deployed Microsoft’s private MEC platform in combination with CBRS access points in our own manufacturing innovation center to improve operational efficiencies. Together, we are showcasing the immediate, real-world advantages of private networking in industrial manufacturing, as our combined solution paves the way for the evolution of private wireless networks and manufacturing.”

“We see a tremendous opportunity to transform workforce efficiency by making it easy to deploy and develop private wireless that can underpin agile factories,” said Shriraj Gaglani, GM for Azure for Operators at Microsoft. “We collaborated with CommScope to implement use cases that increase worker and production line efficiency, and to help incubate and inspire industry 4.0 transformations.”

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Appknox partners CED Technologies on mobile app security | The Guardian Nigeria News

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Appknox, an enterprise mobile application security solution firm and its African partner, CED Technologies have created awareness on the need for consumers to be security conscious in app usage. 
   
Speaking at a webinar with the theme, “How an insecure mobile app can tarnish your company’s reputation”, which had stakeholders mostly from the financial institutions across Africa, the Co-founder and CEO of appKnox, Harshit Agarwal, noted that the essence of the webinar is to encourage developers, security researchers and enterprises to build safe and secure mobile applications.
  
“We want to encourage more African Organisations to make a cultural shift from DevOps to DevSecOps by using best-in-class technology,” he said, adding that Appknox approaches security testing with an automated vulnerability assessment, which includes Static, Dynamic and API testing combined with manual penetration testing to ensure security is addressed all nine yards.
  

Also speaking at the webinar, the Chief Technology Officer of CED Technologies, Chukwuebuka Ume-Ezeoke, advised that as organisations – big or small, it is important that everyone practices a healthy cyber environment as they provide best-in-class mobile apps for their users.

He explained that as African partner to Appknox, CED Technologies understands the pain points of businesses and how it can help address them bringing superior technology at an affordable rate while placing the importance on the personal touch in servicing clients.
  
“We strive to be the most trusted technology advisor for our clients as we stand behind our work and our clients in their needs. In the era of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) for Mobile App Security we provide Appknox to our clients,” he stated.
   
He reiterated CED Technologies’ commitment to connecting businesses with the highest-rated and vetted software solutions in Africa.
  
Meanwhile, the duo of Harrison Nnaji, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at FirstBank and Lanre Adelanwa Basamta, Group Head, Mobile Financial Services at Interswitch Group, have advised organisations to add Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing…

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U.S., partners dismantle Russian hacking ‘botnet,’ Justice Dept says

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Law enforcement in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain dismantled a global network of internet-connected devices that had been hacked by Russian cyber criminals and used for malicious purposes, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

The network, known as the “RSOCKS” botnet, comprised millions of hacked computers and devices worldwide, including “Internet of Things” gadgets like routers and smart garage openers, the department said in a statement.

RSOCKS users paid a fee of between $30 and $200 per day to route malicious internet activity through compromised devices to mask or hide the true source of the traffic, the department said.

“It is believed that the users of this type of proxy service were conducting large scale attacks against authentication services, also known as credential stuffing, and anonymizing themselves when accessing compromised social media accounts, or sending malicious email, such as phishing messages,” it said.

Several large public and private entities have been victims of RSOCKS, including a university, a hotel, a television studio and an electronics manufacturer, the department said. It did not name any of them.

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Aryaka Partners With Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab To Research Threat Mitigation

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  • Aryaka announced it formed a strategic partnership with CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Security and Privacy Institute. These are the details.

Aryaka, a leader in fully managed SD-WAN and SASE solutions, today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with CyLab – which is Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Security and Privacy Institute – to research new threat mitigation techniques and innovate solutions for enterprise networking and security.

Launched in 2003, CyLab is Carnegie Mellon University’s public/private collaborative computer security and privacy research institute. With over 100 core and affiliated faculty and 100 graduate students, it is one of the largest cyber security research centers in the United States. And Aryaka’s partnership with CyLab will consist of providing funding and industry expertise to assist research and innovate sophisticated security techniques to address today’s most pressing threat issues.

Aryaka is also sponsoring CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security (FutureEnterprise@CyLab) initiative, a multi-disciplinary approach to making complex security solutions available to all. And the sponsorship will connect Aryaka with students, academics, and other key industry partners to make security more accessible and understandable to end-users.

As a founding sponsor of this initiative, Aryaka will provide support at multiple levels in the program. This ranges from guiding the research topics based on the newest challenges and threats our customers are encountering, providing industry expertise, data sets for learning and building AI models, feedback on the efficacy of various techniques as well as practical experience to the students via mentorship and internships.

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“Aryaka shares the future of enterprise security vision of CyLab. Together we will develop and innovate security techniques to defend against emerging and immediate risks and democratize it via open source to small and large enterprises. With acute skills shortage in cybersecurity, most enterprises are faced with tremendous pressure and risk—when strong tools are available to everyone, we’re all more…

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