IBM steps away from face recognition market

Vendor adamantly opposed to use of technology for mass surveillance, racial profiling. In a letter to the United States Congress, technology giant IBM has declared it will no longer offer its general-purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. Arvind Krishna CEO at IBM stated it “firmly opposes and will not…

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StarHub becomes one-stop service provider of Silver Peak SD-WAN

Business policies can be remotely applied across the enterprise. SD-WAN company Silver Peak has signed up with Singapore info-communications service provider StarHub to meet the connectivity needs of enterprises amid the increasingly distributed nature of business operations. With the acceleration of digitalisation, enterprises increasingly seek solutions to streamline the management of their…

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Cyber resilience strategies requires need for improvement

Organisations facing same threats, using same tactics. Email and data security company, Mimecast’s fourth-annual State of Email Security 2020 report showed a large majority (77 per cent) of respondents say they have or are actively rolling out a cyber resilience strategy. However, 60 per cent of respondents believe it is inevitable or…

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NZ telco chooses Fortinet Secure SD-WAN for secure services

Latest project from Spark NZ and Fortinet to improve application experience. New Zealand telecommunications and digital services company Spark NZ has chosen Fortinet Secure SD-WAN to expand and differentiate its service offerings to corporate, enterprise and government customers. By leveraging Fortinet Secure SD-WAN, Spark will be able deliver better application experience, automate…

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