Archive for October 17, 2019

Martello Partners with SecureServ

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 17, 2019 by itnerd

Martello Technologies Group Inc. announced today that Australian cyber security solutions and network performance reseller, SecureServ, has become a Martello Alliance Partner, reselling the Company’s products and solutions in the Australian market.

Martello’s products include unified communications (UC) performance management software, IT operations analytics software and SD-WAN technology. The company’s solutions are deployed in more than 4,000 networks, reaching over 175 countries around the world in such industries as education, hospitality, government, healthcare, enterprise networks, IoT and professional services.

Related Resources:

Martello Partner Alliance

Become a Martello Partner

SecureServ Live Demo: Martello SD-WAN and Bandwidth Optimization

Martello’s accomplishments have been recognized by the industry. The Company was recently ranked for a third consecutive year on the Growth 500 list of high growth companies, and took position 215 in the 2019 edition of the widely respected Branham300listing of Canada’s top ICT (Information and Communications Technology) companies. Martello is focused on global growth both organically and through acquisitions. The Company recently announced partnerships and sales wins with the City of Ottawa,Paessler PRTG, Onepoint and Suria Business Solutions.

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Zoho Opens Up Its Infrastructure and Launches Catalyst

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 17, 2019 by itnerd

Zoho Corporation, a global, privately held company that offers the most comprehensive suite of business software applications in the industry, today announced the release of Catalyst, the company’s visionary full-stack serverless platform for developers. Catalyst is a simple to use yet extremely powerful offering that allows developers to create and run microservices and applications. Catalyst gives developers access to the same underlying services and frameworks that power Zoho’s 45+ applications used by more than 45 million users around the world.

As a technology company, Zoho has built and vertically integrated all of the layers of its tech stack, from applications to app infrastructure to operating systems to network infrastructure all the way down to data centers. It has been a decades-long investment in technology, and now this reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure—and all that it promises—is being opened up to developer.

Catalyst has already empowered developers to build services and applications, including a bug-filing bridge application, an app used to import users into a CRM, a microservice for lead distribution, a data-cleansing microservice, and more. Here are some of the key features of Catalyst:

Back-End as a Service

  • Catalyst provides scalable storage for both structured and unstructured data via easy-to-use relational databases and file stores.
  • Listeners enable developers to monitor Catalyst’s databases and file stores for changes in real time, while schedulers allow for the execution of functions at set-time intervals.

Function as a Service

  • Over the past 13 years, more than 26 million functions have been built and executed on Zoho’s infrastructure by more than 200,000 developers. The expertise we’ve gained in this time is today being exposed to developers as Function as a Service.
  • Powerful server-side functions can be created in Catalyst by developers in their preferred programming languages, including Java, Node.js, and Python.
  • In addition to using the services provided by Zoho, developers can build their own microservices by utilizing Catalyst’s functions and persistent data stores.

Microservices

  • Zoho is exposing some of the same functionality it uses to support its own apps and services as microservices in Catalyst. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and object detection are currently available, with more services such as anomaly detection and prediction analysis on the way.
  • In the coming months, Zoho will expose business-oriented services such as grammar and diction checking (powered by Zoho Writer) and document previews (powered by Zoho Docs). Zoho will expose more microservices through the platform.
  • Developers can use Catalyst to access other out-of-the-box services including sign-up and authentication, push notifications, search indexing, and emailing.

Tools By Developers, For Developers

  • Catalyst’s unified interface drives developer productivity by enabling them to access all necessary tools from a single location.
  • Catalyst provides web and mobile SDKs and APIs for developers to easily build serverless applications.
  • Catalyst provides powerful command-line tools that enable developers to build, test, and deploy.
  • Developers can simply create multiple sandbox environments to test their application before taking it to production.
  • Developers are able to host their web applications within Catalyst as well as manage distribution via built-in Mobile Device Management (MDM).
  • Catalyst comes with extensive performance monitoring and metrics for tracking usage in real time.

Pricing & Availability

Catalyst is available upon request at catalyst.zoho.com. As with all things Zoho, Catalyst will be priced aggressively.

 

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TP-Link Link Wifi 6 Router Arrives in Canada

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 17, 2019 by itnerd

TP-Link is now bringing its first AX router to Canada, the AX6000 Next Gen Dual-Band Wi-Fi Router. TP-Link is known for its high-quality networking products at consumer-friendly price points.

At the hub of the powerful AX6000 router is Broadcom’s 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) chipset. The next generation 802.11ax standard is designed to provide incredible Wi-Fi speed with the stability, range and efficiency to optimize home Wi-Fi networks

Archer AX6000 Key Features Highlight

  • Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) speeds of 4,804 Mbps (5GHz) and 1,148 Mbps (2.4GHz)
  • Backwards compatibility with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
  • Advanced OFDMA, MU-MIMO and 1024-QAM (4x more capacity, performance and speed)
  • 2.5 Gbps WAN port
  • 1.8 GHz 64-bit Quad-Core CPU
  • 1 Type C USB 3.0 Port
  • 1 Type A USB 3.0 Port
  • 8 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
  • HomeCare Parental Controls and Antivirus monitoring
  • RangeBoost, Beamforming and Smart Connect Technologies
  • Accelerated VPN Access (5× faster OpenVPN and PPTP VPN connections)
  • Airtime Fairness
  • Link Aggregation doubles the connection speeds

Pricing and Availability

TP-Link Next-Gen AX Routers can be purchased at BestBuy Canada starting at MSRP $199.99 CAD for Archer AX50, $399.99 CAD for Archer AX6000 and $549.99 CAD for Archer AX11000.

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OpenText Launches Core Experience Insights SaaS Application

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OpenText, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), today launched OpenText Core Experience Insights, a SaaS application that provides marketing leaders full visibility over their customer’s journey – from website interactions to email engagement, social media content and call center performance. Core Experience Insights is being premiered at Forrester CX SF 2019 on October 17-18 in San Francisco.

Core Experience Insights is a SaaS application built on OpenText OT2, which tracks data from diverse sources, providing current and historical visualizations across channels throughout the customer lifecycle. It can also integrate data from other systems such as customer communication management, web content management and call center management. With the Voice of Customer application, OpenText Explore, it can also provide a 360-degree view that includes sentiment analysis of customer feedback collected across all channels.

Core Experience Insights uses AI and analytics to reveal campaigns and content that are working best, elevating performance issues early to allow for calibration and correction. Marketers can intelligently optimize customer journeys to improve customer experience and revenue generation.

OpenText Core Experience Insights is available immediately.

Engage with OpenText at Forrester CX SF 2019

  • Forum attendees can view demos of OpenText Core Experience Insights and the OpenText integrated Customer Experience Management platform at Booth #502.
  • Nali Giliana, Vice President of Digital Experience for OpenText, will speak on “The Next Frontier of Omnichannel in the World of Artificial Intelligence” at 11:50 a.m., Thursday, October 17, 2019 in Nob Hill B.
  • Nali Giliana will also speak on “Is Physical Part of Your Digital Experience Transformation?” at a VIP luncheon at Noon, Friday, October 18, 2019 in Nob Hill A.

 

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Growth of Canada’s Technology Industry and Workforce Detailed in New Cyberprovinces Report from CompTIA

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More than 61,000 new workers joined Canada’s technology workforce in 2018, according to a new report from CompTIA, the leading trade association for the global tech industry.

CompTIA’s “Cyberprovinces™ 2019” reveals that net tech employment across Canada totaled an estimated 1.66 million workers at the end of 2018, a 3.8 percent increase over the prior year. Since 2010 net tech employment has increased by an estimated 249,000 new jobs.

The report also finds that tech wages averaged $78,070 CAD in 2018, some 51 percent higher than the average private sector wage of $51,794 CAD.

The outlook for future employment growth appears positive, according to the report. Even with the addition of 61,000-plus tech workers last year, Canadian employers posted job openings for some 116,000 tech positions in 2018. Employer demand for emerging technology skills in areas such as machine learning, robotics, augmented reality/virtual reality, blockchain, and the Internet of Things increased by 23 percent from 2017 and 2018.

Several critical technology occupations are projected to experience double-digit growth between 2018 and 2026, including database analysts and administrators (24 percent), software engineers (20 percent), systems analysts and consultants (20 percent), and computer user support technicians (18 percent). By comparison, Canada’s overall base of employment is projected to increase by nearly 10 percent during the same period.

More from Cyberprovinces 2019

  • Ontario led the nation in tech employment growth in 2018 with 36,698 new jobs, followed by British Columbia (10,840) and Quebec (10,774).
  • On average tech industry wages are highest in Alberta ($81,967) followed by Ontario ($81,726) and British Columbia ($78,927).
  • There are estimated 70,189 tech business establishments – companies with payroll – across Canada. Nearly two-thirds of these firms are located in Ontario and Quebec.

The complete Cyberprovinces 2019 report, with comprehensive national and province level data is available at https://www.comptia.org/content/cyberprovinces-2019.

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Guest Post: NordVPN Discusses The Fact That Hackers Are Selling Passport Credentials To The Highest Bidder

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 17, 2019 by itnerd

Identity theft is becoming a popular crime. In 2018, the Identity Theft Resource Center saw a 126 percent increase in the number of data breaches, most of which affected sensitive personal information.

Hackers steal passport and ID card data to use it for illegal activities, such as crossing borders and taking bank loans in another person’s name. Cybercriminals only need to get the victim’s full name, birthday, nationality, and passport number to falsify their documents. While most people are aware of the common credit card frauds, not all of them know that stolen passport credentials can put them at more risk.

During a massive data breach at Marriot hotels in 2018, hackers accessed its reservation database, reportedly collecting information on 500 million people. The fraudsters stole guests’ names, surnames, contact information, and dates of birth. On top of that, they got the passport credentials of Marriot clients.

“When cybercriminal attack hotels, they gain access to people’s passports. That leads to a significant risk of the hotel clients  getting their identities stolen. Moreover, passports and ID cards contain information that can be useful for social engineering. Fake IDs are later used to enter or leave the country, open bank accounts, or hide from the authorities,” explains Daniel Markuson, the digital privacy expert at NordVPN.

After stealing passport credentials, online hackers sell them in the black market. They use the data to create physical passports, their digital scans, and templates for finished IDs. The prices of passports in the black market may vary. A physical passport costs an average of $14,000 on the dark web. It may include the passport data, a digital chip, and other components, making it useable in many countries. Proof of identification (for example, a person holding a passport and a scanned copy of it) costs about $61 on the black market. Digital scans cost around $15.

There are ways to find out whether your passport data is being exploited by criminals. According to the Department of Homeland Security, people who come and leave the United States can track their international travel history. The system requires to enter their name, surname, birthday, and a passport number.

However, the function is not available in other countries. Fraudsters may be using people’s private data without the victims being aware of that. Thus, it is important to take some preventative actions to ensure that your identity information stays secure.

“First of all, it is worth paying attention to where you enter your passport data. Only enter your identity information on safe websites. Also, if you know that your sensitive information has been leaked during a data breach, it might be good to invest in checking it online. Finally, changing your passport after a possible data breach can also be an option,” advises Daniel Markuson, the digital privacy expert at NordVPN.

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