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How The Crisis Impacted Businesses Via Cyberattacks

We witnessed a substantial increase in cyber-attacks, during Covid-19 outbreak. Phishing scams and malicious software attacks have become the norm rather than exception across public offices and health care organizations. Thus, industry to work with its enterprises on being more proactive at stopping attacks in the first place, and that involves doing more than just buying and selling a cyber policy that fits the budget and thinking that addresses the risk

OF MOBILE VANS AND MOBILE APP PAYMENTS

Rohit Kumar, CEO & CMD, XPay.Life talks about how they help with bill payments in rural and Tier-2/3 cities via ATP kiosks, PoS machines and mobile vans at the same time providing earning opportunities to franchisees as well

INDIAN DRONE STARTUPS TURN THEMSELVES INTO FORCE MULTIPLIERS DURING LOCKDOWN

Indian drone startups are now acting as force multipliers for the municipal bodies and the police forces. During the lockdown, we have seen them exploring new and innovative ways drone tech can be used in battling the ongoing crisis—by doing surveillance, detecting infections, disinfecting areas, delivering medical supplies and so on.

SOCIAL DISTANCING FOR IOT—NO, YOU AREN'T PARANOID WHEN YOU SAY IT!

Corona Vaccine and Zero-day attacks, carrier-infection and IoT crowds, AI and immunity – the world of security and Corona-fighters is not too different after all. They have the same challenges, same slippery enemies and, definitely, the same monster of humanrecklessness or ignorance that feeds the bigger monsters. Debasish Mukherjee, VP, Regional Sales APAC at SonicWall lets us take a peek in this petri-dish to learn how the white coats in this space are fighting the black creatures

NEED FOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND INTEGRITY DURING REMOTE WORKING

The increasing adoption of remote working, there is an immediate need to deploy advanced cyber-security technologies to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation of data

HOW BANKS AND FINTECH COMPANIES CAN HOLD THE ECONOMIC FORT TOGETHER

Recently, a UK based FinTech company came up with a tool to assist businesses in securing loans based on their past incomes as a collateral. Once fully operational, this tool could be a great support for smaller businesses to stabilize their revenues and keep afloat in these uncertain times

WHEN THE WORLD WENT VIRTUAL OVERNIGHT

Major shifts and disruptions in the workplace due to COVID-19 can lead to critical gaps in the employee experience and have serious implications on employee well-being, productivity, and the long-term business, if not addressed quickly, feels Anand Raisinghani, Vice President, Platforms & Technologies, SAP Indian Subcontinent

HOW AI-ML & DATA SCIENCE CREATE A PLATFORM FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING ONLINE

Online learning has taken a lot of tedious procedures such off the back of the teachers. A significant portion of work is automized, creating more space for a teacher to focus on designing learning modules. AI-ML can easily identify correct answers and catch plagiarism, if any.

A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR CYBERCRIMINALS

Cybercriminals are trying to exploit the Coronavirus crisis considering employees, who are working from home, an easy target

We May Become Smarter In A Post-Covid-19 World

Global pandemics will only push the world into creating systems where the human being can be replaced in emergencies and the number of tasks that can be done artificially will only increase exponentially. Humanity’s march towards AI may only become faster

5G Key For India To Enable A Connected Future

Damien Stephens, Associate Vice President, Mobility & IoT, Tata Communications, feels 5G will lead to the growth of embedded SIMs to manage the network connectivity of each car, ultimately ensuring a seamless driving experience

How Data And Analytics Are Reshaping HR Role

Data analytics can be used to manage risk,look at employee safety, manage costs and reduce bias.It can change the traditional way that we look at human resources to bring about a lasting transformation

AVAYA CU-360 REVIEW

Do you remember how many meetings you did last month? The communication methods have changed and now with technological development, we not only meet people, but we also interact and collaborate with them.

WILL AR & VR BECOME THE BREAKOUT STARS OF THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD?

The post-pandemic world is likely to see people and businesses evolving to make room for newer experiences and newer modes of engagements enabled by digital technologies, especially the immersive ones

WORKING IN THE ZERO TRUST ERA

David Wakeman, Business Leader for APJ, End-user Computing, VMware, talks about his company’s holistic vision where no matter what the cloud or what the application, you’ve got to simply deliver the experience down easily into someone’s hands

TECH CAN ADDRESS LOOPHOLES OF TRADITIONAL CREDIT MODELS

Sandeep A, Co-Founder & CPO, Crediwatch, says that despite the tremendous progress it has made in recent years, FinTech’s disruptive power is yet to be fully exploited, especially in the credit risk sector

PEBBLE VOLT POWER BANK REVIEW

Pebble has introduced a new power bank ‘Volt’ with 10,000 mAh of capacity.

GROWING IMPORTANCE OF IOT-BASED SMART WATER NETWORKS

Internet of Things devices can be used to monitor the quality of drinking water, trackwater leakages,detect toxicity levels in the wastewater industry and automate the entire water distribution network of a city

EMERGING TECH LEADS THE WAY TO PAPERLESS VERIFICATION

The biggest risk of paper-based verification is identity/data theft in addition to it not being environment-friendly. With many new technologies combined with stringent GDPR regulations for privacy protection, the world needs to move to paperless verification

CUTTING DOWN ON THE ‘WORK AROUND WORK'

Employees want to spend the majority of their time doing the actual work and not on doing meetings, assigning tasks, tracking progress, etc. Hence, workstream collaboration tools that deliver a conversational workspace are gaining momentum, says Rashmi Choudhary, Associate Principal Analyst, Gartner

CRUNCHING NUMBERS & ANALYSING DATA: HOW TO BECOME A DATA SCIENTIST

There are many reasons which make the career of a data scientist worth it. Each analysis can be unique. You will always arrive at the right solution empirically. The field gives you a lot of space to explore and analyse without interference

IN QUEST OF SENTIENT, UNIFIED, AND SEAMLESS COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE

Tools that promote flat hierarchies, frictionless sharing of vision and roadmaps, and flexible always-connected environments that promote remote work and agile interactions will be the most wanted, says Rajendran Dandapani, Director of Zoho University

X-FACTORS IN COLLABORATION: INTUITIVE AND IMMERSIVE

Collaboration tools are helping organizations to create flexible and always-connected environments that promote remote work and boost the productivity of teams and individuals

COGNITIVE COLLABORATION TAKING OVER PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL MEETINGS

With geographical boundaries no longer a barrier for work, remote collaboration is becoming the new norm. People want tools and technology that allow them to have immersive and richer collaborative experiences and that is pushing us to develop some of these technologies says Pankaj Agrawal, Director Sales - Collaboration Business, Cisco India & SAARC

IOT TO DRIVE INDIA'S SMART HOME REVOLUTION

IoT is going to increasingly use Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, computer vision and other tech to create safer, comfortable and healthier indoor spaces. IoT connected smart solutions will be used to plan and monitor real time multiple smart home facilities

IMMERSIVE TECH OFFERS WIDESPREAD OPTIONS

Tithi & Gautam Tewari, Founders of SmartVizX and Creators of Trezi, feel that through collaboration,millions of dollars can be saved worldwide which would have otherwise been spent on shopping samples and mock-ups across ever-increasing distances—benefiting the environment greatly.

ALEXA—LET THERE BE LIGHT!

Smart lighting can be connected wirelessly with your phone, tablet, or smart assistants like Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. In addition to making provisions for mood lighting, the future is moving towards devices powered with AI which are also emotionally intuitive.

DATA MANIPULATION ATTACKS: HOW TO DETECT AND PREVENT

For organizations, it’s inevitable that attackers will take data; it’s more of a challenge to determine when an attacker makes a small change to data, then leaves the scene of the crime

8 USES OF BLOCKCHAIN OTHER THAN BITCOIN

When we talk of blockchain, we invariably think of cryptocurrencies and then the famous or infamous (depending on how you view it) Bitcoin. However that is only a small application of this technology even though it has sucked the air out of most of the debate when it comes to this new way of doing things

FUTURE OF THE INDIAN ELECTRIC VEHICLE INDUSTRY

Many of the biggest automobile players have launched EVs–both four and two-wheelers.Now, there is an urgent need to build viable infrastructure support for EVs like fast chargers, e-highways and overhead electricity networks for trucks and buses