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“Unified Technology Solution” – An InfoNetworks Service that Delivers Managed IT & Network Security Plus Voice and Internet Solutions

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LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–InfoNetworks today announced a new and unique service called “Unified Technology Solution.” Promoted as the answer to fill an existing void in the marketplace, InfoNetworks’ Unified Technology Solution offers businesses managed IT services, complete network security, voice and telephony services, and connectivity via a complete package from a single provider.

For more than a year, businesses worldwide have faced unprecedented global events that are dictating policies and procedures. Companies have necessarily cut key budget items, face new challenges, and manage their businesses with reduced workforce. Many of these organizations have been tasked with creating remote infrastructure to help mitigate the ever-changing landscape and support work-from-home or hybrid work environments.

InfoNetworks’ Unified Technology Solution is designed to address these challenges with an all-inclusive platform that allows employees, managers, and executives to stay connected and secure both in the office and remotely. InfoNetworks’ data connections support the added influx of traffic to the office while the included cloud-based PBX allows for extensions to be accessible via mobile device or laptop. The Unified Technology Solution network supports a mix of Desktop, Softphones, Teams, SIP and PRI interfaces. All technologies are managed by InfoNetworks’ experienced Technical Support and Network Engineering Teams and are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week by the watchful eye of CyberSecure(SM), an advanced Network Security Software capable of locking-down up to 500,000 end points.

“Our Unified Technology Solution is a four-pronged approach,” said Bruce Hakimi, Senior Executive at InfoNetworks. “By delivering Managed IT, Network Security, Voice and Data under one source, we can maximize the efficiency and productivity of any organization.” He further explained: “By being able to oversee all network elements from the data connection to internal Local or Cloud based Network, InfoNetworks has the advantage of acting and resolving issues quickly without having to wait for other vendors.”

Although some data carriers may offer a…

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Industry Leaders Create First Unified Cybersecurity Guide

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World oil markets have rebounded from the massive demand shock triggered by Covid-19 but still face a high degree of uncertainty that is testing the industry as never before, according to a new IEA report. 

The forecast for global oil demand has shifted lower, and demand could peak earlier than previously thought if a rising focus by governments on clean energy turns into stronger policies and behavioural changes induced by the pandemic become deeply rooted, according to Oil 2021, the IEA’s latest annual medium-term market report. But in the report’s base case, which reflects current policy settings, oil demand is set to rise to 104 million barrels a day (mb/d) by 2026, up 4% from 2019 levels.

“The Covid-19 crisis caused a historic decline in global oil demand – but not necessarily a lasting one. Achieving an orderly transition away from oil is essential to meet climate goals, but it will require major policy changes from governments as well as accelerated behavioural changes. Without that, global oil demand is set to increase every year between now and 2026,” said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA’s Executive Director. “For the world’s oil demand to peak anytime soon, significant action is needed immediately to improve fuel efficiency standards, boost electric vehicle sales and curb oil use in the power sector.”

Those actions – combined with increased teleworking, greater recycling and reduced business travel – could reduce oil use by as much as 5.6 mb/d by 2026, which would mean that global oil demand never gets back to where it was before the pandemic.

Asia will continue to dominate growth in global oil demand, accounting for 90% of the increase between 2019 and 2026 in the IEA report’s base case. By contrast, demand in many advanced economies, where vehicle ownership and oil use per capita are much higher, is not expected to return to pre-crisis levels.

On the supply side, the heightened uncertainty over the outlook has created a dilemma for producers. Investment decisions made today could either bring on too much capacity that is left unused or too little oil to meet demand. Only a marginal rise in global upstream investment is…

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US establishes Cyber Unified Coordination Group to respond to SolarWinds compromise. Report on Chinese influence ops delayed.

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The US Government and a large number of private organizations continue to assess the extent of the SolarWinds incident. The scope and extent of the damage are known to be large, but just how large, and who specifically was affected, remains under investigation. An op-ed by former US Homeland Security Advisor Bossert probably has it right in saying that the breach is “hard to overestimate.”

A joint statement yesterday from the US FBI, CISA, and ODNI says that the Government has invoked Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 41 to establish a Cyber Unified Coordination Group to coordinate a whole-of-Government response to the Russian cyber operation that exploited SolarWinds’ Orion platform.

According to KrebsOnSecurity, FireEye, Microsoft, and GoDaddy cooperated on a response to the SolarWinds compromise by establishing a killswitch to disable Sunburst backdoor instances still beaconing to their original domain. As FireEye said in widely quoted statement, “this actor moved quickly to establish additional persistent mechanisms to access to [sic] victim networks beyond the SUNBURST backdoor,” so the killswitch is far from representing a thorough remediation. BleepingComputer has a summary of what’s publicly available so far.

Bloomberg reports that the US Director of National Intelligence said yesterday that the Intelligence Community will not meet tomorrow’s deadline to report to Congress about Chinese influence operations in the 2020 election season. That there were attempts seems clear enough, but how extensive they were, and how much prominence they should be given, remains a matter of disagreement among the agencies in the Intelligence Community.

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