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Concept artwork of handwritten passwords on sticky notes, generated by Blue Willow . World Password Day , the first Thursday in May, has come round again — highlighting one of the vulnerabilities in our cyberdefences. Darren Guccione, CEO and co-founder, Keeper Security, noted that weak and compromised credentials remain the leading cause of breaches. "In a new study by Keeper Security, 92% of IT security leader respondents revealed that cyberattacks are more frequent now than one year ago — and are growing more sophisticated," he said.  "While no one likes updating their passwords, World Password Day is a great time to recognise and enforce this critical best practice. Passwords act as the first line of defence — protecting access to applications, systems, secrets and IT resources."  Keeper Security  found that  only 25% of people are using strong, unique passwords for all their accounts, which leaves 75% of individuals with dangerously weak password ...

BeyondTrust , the intelligent identity and access security provider, has released the 2024 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report . Produced annually, this report analyses data from security bulletins* publicly issued by Microsoft throughout the previous year and helps organisations understand, identify, and address the risks within their Microsoft ecosystems.  Total and critical vulnerabilities demonstrated some of the most consistent data, year over year, since this report’s debut, a strong indicator that overall long-term security efforts are paying off. This may also reflect that attackers are increasingly refocusing their efforts on exploiting identities, rather than Microsoft software vulnerabilities. After hitting an all-time high in 2022, total vulnerabilities continue their four-year holding pattern near their highest-ever numbers in 2023, remaining between 1,200 and 1,300 (since 2020). - The Elevation of Privilege vulnerability category continues to dominate, accounting for 4...

Neo4j, the graph database and analytics company, has announced new native integrations with Google Cloud that speed up generative AI (gen AI) application development and deployment. The results address complexity and hallucinations when building and deploying successful gen AI applications requiring real-time, contextually rich data and accurate, explainable results. Knowledge graphs support gen AI. They capture relationships between entities, ground LLMs in facts, and enable LLMs to reason, infer, and retrieve relevant information accurately and effectively. According to Gartner’s November 2023 report AI Design Patterns for Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI, “data and analytics leaders must leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) with the robustness of knowledge graphs for fault-tolerant AI applications.” Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the technique by which LLMs access external datasets. Combining knowledge graphs with RAG , known as GraphRAG, ensures that...

By Eric Wong, Head of Asia Pacific, Expereo Source: Expereo. 2024 has begun in earnest, and despite facing economic uncertainty, the Asia Pacific region is displaying a strong sense of optimism among businesses. This optimism stems from a rapidly growing digital economy and an unprecedented infrastructure expansion across key economies like India, China, and Southeast Asia. In this context, organisations are increasingly focusing on technology investment as a strategic move. To them, it is not just about gaining a competitive edge but also about building resilience against future market volatilities and disruptions. In fact, Forrester is predicting that the Asia Pacific region will lead the way with 5.7% in technology spend growth globally in 2024*. In our conversations with customers and partners over the past year, we are seeing organisations homing in on pivotal areas such as investing in connectivity as the backbone of economic growth, as well as investing in digital infrastructu...

Appear and Skyline Communications have introduced newly-developed and integrated features designed to streamline live event production workflows. Key highlights of the joint development include:  - Developing a new off-the-shelf HTML application, based on Skyline’s new dataminer.mediaOps solution, and integrating with Appear’s X Platform, providing a central view of all connections including a geographic overview depicting connections and key metrics such as bandwidth between locations.  - Software router panels, offering an intuitive interface for ad-hoc event connections. Similar to using a serial digital input (SDI) router, users can easily connect Appear sources with destinations using protocols such as SRT and JPEG-XS .  - Featured scheduling functionality allowing operators to plan connections and reserve required bandwidth ahead of time. Skyline Communications' DataMiner acts as an orchestrator, keeping track of resource utilisation and preventing overbooking. “Our...

Qwilt has become the world’s largest federated edge cloud with over 1,000 points of presence (PoPs ) embedded within the last mile of Internet service providers (ISPs) around the globe. The native content delivery service of Qwilt’s edge cloud is now the world’s largest network deployment that is compliant with the Streaming Video Technology Alliance’s (SVTA's) Open Caching specifications, the company said. Through SVTA-compliant open APIs, content publishers can quickly join Qwilt’s global network.  Qwilt has outperformed all other content delivery networks (CDNs) across measures such as buffering time and time-to-first frame (TTFF), the company added.  “From live and on demand video to gaming and software downloads, our edge cloud is ideal for today’s content streaming and application delivery workloads,” said Alon Maor, CEO at Qwilt.  “Together with our content and service providers partners, we are committed to expanding our all-edge network, which provides the globa...

MediaKind, a global media technology company, together with industry-leading technology partners Qvest and Qibb, have delivered a technology-driven solution for Television New Zealand (TVNZ) that sets new standards across the streaming industry. TVNZ+ ’s new sports streaming service, enriched by the integration of MediaKind’s streaming technology, Qvest’s expertise in systems integration, and Qibb’s cloud-native orchestration software solutions, enables the broadcaster to seamlessly scale complete workflows for multiple sports events in parallel with minimal user intervention. This launch follows TVNZ's acquisition of a number of major sporting events rights, resulting in the creation of a fully cloud-based over-the-top (OTT) livestreaming platform.  MediaKind provided TVNZ with Aquila Cloud, a cloud-agnostic streaming solution recognised for its ease of deployment within its existing AWS account. This choice enabled TVNZ to focus its investments on infrastructure and streaming...