Security concern on email attacks/Tough days ahead with GDPR

It is also true that the phishing email to delivering ransomware. Organizations need to understand how ransomware works and what needs to happen in order for an infection to be successful. Let’s break down what the infection process looks like, starting with the most common ways ransomware gets delivered and the steps you can take to reduce your risk. We’ve heard the horror stories about employees finding USB flash drives in the parking lot and plugging them in. But by far, the two primary, most likely delivery channels for ransomware are email and compromised websites. Email is the most ubiquitous method of communication on the Internet. Email is the most ubiquitous method of communication on the Internet .

E-mail was not designed with any privacy or security in mind. There have been many efforts to make email more secure and the lack of email security is also having some surprising collateral damage.For cyber criminals, email serves as a direct line straight to the soft, chewy, vulnerable center of your network – your users. By sending emails disguised as legitimate messages the hope for ransomware authors is they can trick users into either opening an infected attachment or clicking a link that takes the user to an infected website.

It’s a tactic referred to as phishing (attackers try to catch users by luring them into taking the bait). Unfortunately, it can be highly effective – according to the Verizon 2016 Data Breach Investigation Report, phishing emails have an average open rate of 30% – and research shows ransomware is now the #1 type of malware that phishing delivers…..Read More

 

Social Influence Platform Klout To Out On May 25th

It is absolutely fact in this digital world that, you understand that your online presence can really help your offline career. Whether you’re a marketer analyzing Super Bowl ads, an investor posting about Bitcoin, or a software engineer explaining the newest technologies, you grasp the power of thought leadership to improve your career.

The San Francisco-based startup, which had raised around $40 million in funding from some big-name investors, was acquired by social customer service company Lithium Technologies for a reported $200 million back in 2014. Lithium later launched a product called Reach, powered by Klout, to “put the social back in social media marketing. the Klout deal gave it access to AI and machine learning capabilities, but as a service on its own? – well, that’s a different matter.

Klout, the pioneer in using big data to measure online expertise founded way back in 2008. Lithium acquired Klout and the combination brings together the 100 million consumers who engage across Lithium communities every month with the 500 million consumers touched by Klout to establish one of the biggest data footprints of consumer attitudes, preferences and activities. The Klout acquisition provided Lithium with valuable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities but Klout as a standalone service is not aligned with our long-term strategy….Read More

 

 

NPCI with Payso to create awareness in digital payments

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has collaborated with Payso Fintech in a bid to create awareness about digital payments in four cities namely, Mumbai, Pune, Bhopal and Indore. Under the association Finternship, an eight weeks internship program will be organized for about 600 graduates and postgraduates students of prime institutes to make them digitally sound. These students will undergo a certified training program free of cost and post the training they will reach out to merchants in order to help them accept cashless payments. Earlier this week the program was started in Mumbai and it will also be conducted sequentially in Pune, Bhopal and Indore this month.

Kunal Kalawatia, Senior Vice President – Marketing & Branding, NPCI said, “We intend to enable over 12,000 merchants with BHIM UPI payments in a span of 8 weeks through this Finternship programme. We are happy to collaborate with Payso Fintech and spread awareness about Bharat Interface for Money – Unified Payments Interface (BHIM UPI) among students and merchants. Digital payments landscape has been growing with each passing year and we believe the key lies in educating the nation about the advantages of digital transactions.”….Read More

 

 

Jio rolls out Rs.199 per month Postpaid Plan

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (“Jio”) has announced its new Postpaid offering with a promise to redefine postpaid services in India. The all-new JioPostpaid will be available for subscription starting 15th May, 2018. JioPostpaid marks a paradigm shift in the way postpaid services are offered and consumed, just like Jio did with its prepaid services.

With JioPostpaid, Jio has strengthened the service offerings suited to the requirements of postpaid subscribers. It has redefined the postpaid services that Indians have experienced till date by introducing the revolutionary “Zero-Touch” Postpaid. Jio Postpaid brings a differentiated connected living experience to postpaid users and will once again challenge the industry status quo by offering the lowest tariffs in India and abroad to the postpaid users, who end up paying disproportionately higher as compared to the prepaid segment….Visit to know more

 

 

SAP launches SAP S/4HANA Cloud in India powered by ML and AI capabilities

SAP SE has announced that its intelligent cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution SAP S/4HANA Cloud is now available in India.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is an Intelligent ERP with built-in machine learning and AI capabilities and helps to streamline business processes with a simplified user experience, thus helping organizations transform into “Intelligent Enterprises”. The solution combines automation of mundane tasks with pre-emptive decision making, to increase overall business agility. With the S/4HANA Cloud, businesses will be notified of the latest innovations through quarterly updates, granting them access to the latest innovations in areas such as predictive analytics.

With conversational AI platforms being the next big paradigm shift in IT, SAP has integrated SAP CoPilot with the SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The solution is the first true voice-activated digital assistant for enterprises that enables users to to get their work done more quickly and efficiently, while increasing teamwork across business processes. Powered by machine learning and AI, SAP CoPilot is aware of business contexts, driving efficient collaboration, quickly recognizing and connecting to business data and offers in-context chat….Visit to know more

 

 

Accelerate to Win: the Future of Work at Citrix Summit 2018

Citrix Summit 2018 has kicked off with the presence of 2,500 of dignitaries travelled from across the globe to be part of the annual summit in the famous, Anaheim Convention Center , which has been buzzing with conversation. The drone overhead captured some great photos, including this one:

The most energetic Citrix President & CEO David Henshall addressed on his vision key note address, the opening keynote session has presented the view of Citrix vision, customer innovation and technology. This is really an eye opening session by delivering the elegant experience and comprehensive security which could help organizations be productive, engage customers, and unlock innovation, which has continued for an hour.

To begin with Mark Ferrer, EVP and chief revenue officer, spoke about the evolution of Citrix products into solution sets that really resonate with customers, partners and employees. Mark introduced CEO David Henshall for a look back at 2017 highlights-including a 122% increase in new patents and an 80% increase in product releases, along with improved quality-and a look ahead to 2018. As Citrix accelerates to cloud and unifies the portfolio, digital transformation is “not just an opportunity, it’s an obligation to our customers,” David said. “And it all starts with you.”

Mark then introduced Victor Rodriguez, chief technology officer of Health Choice Network, to share their organization’s journey to the cloud and the close collaboration with Citrix that was necessary to make it successful. Mark also welcomed Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, to talk about the opportunity we have in front of us and share what she’s been hearing from enterprise customers.

Citrix technology is at the heart of workspace transformation for so many, Maribel explained, and customers need partners to guide them. “You are the front line of change,” she said. “Opportunity is all around you.” And her takeaway on our direction was encouraging: “I see a Citrix that is now playing to win.”….Visit to know more

 

 

Alphabet to contribute $3 billion in the deal of Flipkart takeover

Absolutely it has proved again by the battleground in the space of e-commerce. It is among the top US based multinationals outside of USA between Walmart and Amazon, each of which lost out on the world’s largest e-commerce market – China.

There are other significant shareholders in the company include early investor Accel Partners, South African media conglomerate Naspers and US-based online marketplace eBay. Walmart and Alphabet are seen joining forces once again as they seek to take on Amazon’s growing retail clout, this time in a market outside the US.

Walmart will acquire about a 60 percent stake in Flipkart, while Alphabet will get a roughly 15 percent stake in the online marketplace for about $3 billion, one of the sources said. US retailer Amazon is Flipkart’s largest online competitor in India, though Flipkart has the biggest market share. Amazon was also reportedly interested in a Flipkart buyout, which would give it control of around 90% of the market. If the Walmart deal goes through, however, Amazon and Flipkart would remain competitors – which would likely be the best result for consumers….Read More

 

 

Citrix Analytics brings newer workspace transformation

One of the compelling aspects of technology is the pace of innovation and change. Not long ago, a laptop or desktop computer with keyboard and mouse hardwired to the corporate network clearly defined a workspace. In this new era of user-centric computing, where users engage across multiple devices, platforms and clouds, how does IT keep up? Visibility into these heavily distributed and complex environments is difficult. The good news is that Citrix is in the business of helping organizations of all stripes navigate this workspace transformation to achieve their future of work.

An essential ingredient for IT pros to help them deliver secure digital workspaces in this fast-paced environment is advanced analytics. Citrix Analytics uniquely aggregates and correlates information across network traffic, users, files and endpoints in Citrix environments to gain a comprehensive view of users, application performance and usage. It provides predictive analytics with prescriptive actions. It uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to surface “hard to find insights” from across Citrix products, and then takes action on that information. Citrix Analytics was born to support the complexity and sophistication of today’s IT environment.

Speaking of speed of innovation, it was just a year ago at Synergy 2017 that Citrix Analytics was introduced for the first time (if you want to see the remarkable progress from inception to launch, check out the initial introduction from last years’ Synergy keynote). Here we are a year later and Citrix Analytics is on the cusp of broad availability….Read More

 

Bitcoin Is a New Age Opportunity For The Scammers

Amit Bhardwaj has been arrested for allegedly scamming investors out of Rs 2,000 crore in Maharashtra alone. One of the biggest Indian names in the digital-currency market, Bhardwaj, ran a slew of ventures, including GainBitcoin, GBMiners, MCAP and GB21.Cyber cell of Delhi Police has arrested founders of bits2btc Kamal Singh and Vijay Kumar for duping 2,500 people for over Rs 100 crore.

Bhardwaj, who is often referred to as a Bitcoin evangelist and Bitcoin visionary, is an alumnus of MGM’s College of Engineering in Maharashtra and has worked with software major Infosys.Bhardwaj founded GainBitcoin in 2013 as a cloud-based platform for trading and mining of bitcoins.It is my vision to get even the smallest investor to ride the Bitcoin wave. I can say with confidence that our early stage hitches have been ironed out and GainBitcoin is firm on its feet to offer a robust, trustworthy trading environment to our 1,00,000+ customers. We have also witnessed a record 47 percent hike in transactions after process restructuring and site revamp,Bhardwaj had told in a statement.

GBMiners was billed as the pioneer of bitcoin mining in India, the biggest in the world outside of China. Bhardwaj’s book Cryptocurrency for Beginners was promoted on social media by Bollywood actors Shilpa Shetty, Neha Dhupia and Huma Qureshi. His events in Dubai were attended by celebrities like Sunny Leone and Prachi Desai. Bhardwaj, who went into a hiding almost a year ago, was arrested at the Bangkok airport on Wednesday evening and later brought to Pune to face the trial….Read More

 

Madhavan Satagopan joins Virtusa as Executive VP for Non-Linear Business Strategies

Virtusa Corporation has announced the appointment of Madhavan Satagopan as Executive Vice-President for Non-Linear Business Strategies.

Kris Canekeratne, Chief Executive Officer, Virtusa Corporation, said, “We are delighted to welcome Madhavan to the team, where he will work with the best people in the industry and drive excellence with his leadership ability, passion, and focus. I am confident that Madhavan’s experience and capabilities will add strength to our business leadership as we look to continue our strong growth and cement our role as the go-to partner for digital engineering services.”

In this role, Madhavan will be responsible for driving changes in the company’s go-to-market approach towards non-linear business models, enhancing engagement in the partner and startup ecosystem, and improving the quantum and velocity of innovation for Virtusa and its clients…..Read More