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Experience the Christmas Spirit with Tuya Smart for a Warmer, Cozier Celebration

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NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Christmas is a time of joy, tradition, and celebration. Unfortunately, with the energy crisis today, global economic conditions waning, and inflationary pressures persisting, it may be hard for some to get into the spirit of Christmas this year. A survey of over 400 retailers showed that two-thirds reported decreased foot fall compared to last year’s Christmas season. Only one in five merchants have been satisfied with this year’s sales.

To combat the “energy winter” and keep Christmas a warm yet energy-saving experience, Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA, HKEX: 2391), a global IoT development platform service provider, is collaborating with international partners to provide various smart products and solutions. So, let’s take a brief look at the hottest Christmas products this year.

1. Beat the Winter Chill with Heallux Electric Heating Low-Side Stoves

The Heallux Electric Heating Low-Side Stove has been designed with a silicon-based crystal plate to provide fast and efficient three-sided heating. It includes automatic heating and power-off features for maintaining a constant temperature and energy efficiency. In addition, this stove offers cozy comfort with its 60°C table top, perfect for keeping hot drinks warm during winter. And, great for warming cold hands.

Furthermore, its French-style design is popular in Europe and can be an excellent choice for adding a warm atmosphere to family gatherings at Christmas. Heallux products are renowned for their practical style, functional experience, and superior quality, which continues to impress consumers.

2. Get Deliciously Crispy, Healthy Meals with the SILVERCREST Smart XL Air Fryer – No Greasy Mess, No Guilt!

As Christmas approaches, the festive season brings a special treat – Tuya-enabled SILVERCREST Smart XL Air Fryer. This multi-functional air fryer features 50 different kinds of smart cooking recipes which allows you to make your special meal. You can even use it to control, monitor, and schedule your meals from your smartphone.

In addition, the air fryer comes with ten intuitive presets that allow you to make pizzas, bake cookies, grill meat, fish and vegetables, and more with just a touch of a button. The temperature can be set from 60 ℃ to 200 ℃ so that you can cook meals quickly and easily without additional oil, and offer you a crispy layer and delicious flavor.

3. Get Ready to Enhance Your Home Entertainment with the HDMI Screen Synchronizer, the Ultimate Must-Have for Audio and Video Enjoyment!

The Tuya-enabled HDMI Screen Synchronizer is the perfect solution for creating an immersive entertainment experience in your home. This Zigbee gateway can be used to control and manage sub-devices, allowing them to sync with the lighting and video throughout the house. So when Christmas comes around, your living room can become a magical environment with lights that instantly change in time with the screen image, creating a mesmerizing atmosphere.

Additionally, when watching movies and playing games, the background lighting effects will enhance the experience even further, providing an intense and captivating mood. All these features make the HDMI Screen Synchronizer an ideal choice for those looking to feel right in the middle of their favorite movie or game.

4. Light Up Your Home with Smart String Lights and Create a Winter Wonderland

The Christmas season is a time of joyful celebration, and one way to make it more special is by hanging up smart string lights. These Tuya-enabled string lights come in single and double-color variants and illusion designs that allow for dynamic UI experiences, multi-scenario selection, and even music rhythm modes.

These Tuya-enabled smart string lights can be used both indoors and outdoors to create various shapes, instantly transforming a space into a fun and festive atmosphere. Furthermore, they can be easily controlled through apps, voice commands, or remote control to reduce energy usage, making them an eco-friendly choice for lighting up any location.

5. Create a Festive Holiday Atmosphere with Smart Dimming Solutions for the Perfect Glow!

Tuya Smart’s all-in-one dimming solution offers a comprehensive and convenient interactive experience, perfect for fostering the feeling of Christmas. It features a wide range of functions such as color, temperature, brightness control, music rhythm setting, and longitude and latitude biorhythm adaptation.

Moreover, it supports various operation modes, including mobile phone apps, physical buttons, infrared remote control, and voice control. Scene automation allows users to customize their lighting links according to their needs, providing them with a healthier and more exciting environment.

During this holiday season, Tuya is helping customers target their markets more accurately and capture the opportunities of this special holiday time. Despite some of the concerns this winter, Tuya and its partners are offering a range of smart products and solutions to keep us in the Christmas spirit. By combining cutting-edge IoT technology with deep customer understanding, Tuya is leading the way in smart consumer innovation.

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Five Types of Shoppers You’ll Find This Holiday Season (and the Cyberscams They Must Watch Out For)

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — With the holidays around the corner, we’re smack in the middle of every shopper’s favourite season. Big sales days like Singles’ Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and 12.12 all offer many great opportunities for shoppers to get their fill of good deals.

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the cloud company that powers and protects life online, shares five common shopper profiles observed during the year-end shopping period and the cyberscams they should watch out for to help consumers and businesses identify potential blind spots, and learn how to protect themselves this holiday season.

“The number of cyber-attacks continues to rise and mutate all the time. In 2022, the most alarming has been the sharp increase in malicious bot attacks, where we recorded a three-fold increase of such attacks. What this means for the retail industry is the likelihood of increased credential stuffing, where attackers use lists of compromised user credentials to breach into a system and data scraping attacks, the process of importing information from a website into a spreadsheet or local file saved on your computer.” said Dean Houari, Director of Security Technology and Strategy, APJ, Akamai.

“It is no surprise that attackers are looking to take advantage of the flurry of peak retail activity online during the extended shopping festival season since there’s much to gain financially, especially in Asia that accounts for approximately 60 percent of global ecommerce sales. It’s essential that both shoppers and retailers work together to learn how to watch out for scams and protect themselves,” he continued.

FIVE TYPES OF YEAR-END SHOPPERS

1.     THE PLANNER
You can spot a planner miles away! Planners have their presents wrapped and ready, months before the holidays. Making and planning purchases well ahead of time, Planners often save their credit card information, log ins and other personal information on shopping sites.

Most likely to fall for: Credential Stuffing
During such attacks, attackers use lists of compromised user credentials to breach into a system via malicious bots, based on the assumption that many users reuse usernames and passwords across multiple services.

Tips to protect against credential stuffing:

  • Be wary of saving payment details on merchant websites. While this may be convenient, it can leave data vulnerable if the merchant is breached.
  • Practice good password hygiene, by setting up different passwords for different sites. Better yet – use a password manager to set up unique, difficult-to-guess passwords.

2.     THE LAST-MINUTE SCRAMBLER
The opposite of Planners, Last-Minute Shoppers often remember its sale day on 11.11 or 12.12 itself, just before the clock strikes midnight. They snag their deals, but it’s always down to the wire for them!

Most likely to fall for: Phishing
In their rush, the Last-Minute Shopper is likely to accidentally click on untrustworthy links and fall prey to phishing scams. What appears to be an email from a reputable retailer with a coveted discount may be fraudulent, but the last-minute shopper doesn’t have time to check.

With the rise of online marketplaces, this is becoming more common. Earlier this year, Singapore’s most popular peer-to-peer sales platform was affected when attackers posing as legitimate buyers directed victims to a fake bank website where they would be asked to give their banking details to receive payment. This resulted in at least 72 people losing over $109,000. 

Tips to protect against phishing

  • Verify the validity of sites before clicking on them or providing any personal information.
  • If emails are unsolicited, be alert to any potential errors. Do not proceed if it includes wrong information, or requests to enable macros, adjust security settings or install applications.

3.     The Bargain Hunter
The price point is the most significant purchase consideration for these shoppers, who would sift through various sites to get a substantial deal.

Most likely to fall for: Social Engineering Attacks
Bargain hunters would be likely to click on spoofed emails or accept malicious extensions that function as price comparison tools.

Attackers prey on buyer’s eagerness for a good deal by sending them fake offers that request for their personal data on a page, even impersonating legitimate tools like Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager to compromise code and steal valuable information, impacting shopping sites.

Tips to protect against social engineering attacks

  • Always verify the validity of the offer and the legitimacy of the sender.
  • Use a good spam filter for emails, as a first barrier of defence against suspicious files and links.

4.     The Impulse Buyer
Driven solely by emotions, impulse shoppers often do not have a specific product in mind before placing an order. They often respond to time pressure to access a coveted item on a limited time offer, at a price too good to refuse.

Most likely to fall for: Brand Impersonation Attacks
Via fraudulent links, cybercriminals impersonate popular brands, tricking victims into sharing personal information, buying contraband products, visiting a fake website, downloading malware, and more. Exacerbating these trends is social media, where attackers can easily impersonate brands, engage with customers seeking to purchase items, and request for their personal details.

Tips to protect against brand impersonation

  • Scrutinize links provided in emails and be on high alert if they are not pointing to the correct location or direct to a third-party site not affiliated with the brand.
  • If in doubt, reach out to the brand on their official channels to verify offers before clicking on any links to make payments. Make sure to check that accounts are verified.

5.     The Researcher
Researchers extensively compare products and offers before purchasing. They often have various browser extensions installed on their browsers to make quick comparisons.

Most likely to fall for: Extension Malware Attacks 
Cybercriminals hide viruses behind add-ons, which can then install adverts, gather users’ browsing history, and seek login credentials by impersonating famous apps and extensions. Malicious extensions could go undetected especially if security software programs treat known extensions as trusted applications.

Most recently, attackers have been using information-stealing malware like FB Stealer, which mimics the harmless and standard-looking Chrome extension Google Translate, to prey on users. Financially motivated, attackers after effectively locking a user out of their Facebook account, abuse access to ask the victim’s friends for money.

Tips to protect against extension malware attacks

  • Only install extensions from official Web stores.
  • If permissions that extensions require even before installing seem suspicious, it’ll be best not to install them.

Retailers must do their part too!
For a cybersafe shopping experience, retailers have a part to play as well.

Attacks on popular retail behemoths in the last few years have revealed important lessons for merchants. Prevention is better than cure. Taking proactive steps to monitor potential threats and being ready to block unauthorised access and keep shoppers safe throughout their retail experience is essential.

“As web traffic increases, attackers similarly increase their attacks. Case in point,  malicious bot attacks tripled during Single’s Day last year. These attacks could, immediately or in future, drain customer accounts, damage site functionality, and hold encrypted data ransom — all at enormous costs to businesses,” explained Houari.

“To ensure loyalty long term, retailers must make every effort to keep shopper data safe. This could include deploying a bot solution to stop credential stuffing attempts early and using password managers and multi factor authentication to secure users,” he concluded.

About Akamai
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences — helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. Learn more about Akamai’s security, compute, and delivery solutions at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Tencent Cloud Empowers Pakistan’s Top Livestreaming Portal ARY to Provide High Quality Streaming Experience to Viewers

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HONG KONG, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud – the cloud business of global technology company Tencent – announced its collaboration with ARY ZAP, Pakistan’s top live broadcast platform owned by ARY Digital Network, where Tencent Cloud Media Services will be enabling ARY ZAP to deliver high-quality and low-latency streaming experience to its users.

Responsible for streaming the world’s top soccer championships such as the World Cup and the LaLiga to Pakistani users, ARY ZAP also won the rights to broadcast the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022, the most popular cricket tournament globally. To cope with the large number of concurrent view access requests and high demand for the content distribution bandwidth of these events, Tencent Cloud Media Services have provided a full suite of live sports streaming solutions that support ARY ZAP to livestream a total of 136 matches of global sports events, with a peak bandwidth utilization of around 1Tbps and peak concurrent views of nearly 1 million.

Leveraging Tencent Cloud’s expertise built over the past 20 years, ARY ZAP managed to deploy its live broadcast service on cloud within 20 days, delivering ultra-high definition sports events to its users. ARY ZAP also benefitted from Tencent Cloud’s products and services including Cloud Streaming Services, StreamPackage and StreamLive, which improve its capability to provide stable live video streaming and reduced ‘stuttering rate’ by 40%.

Furthermore, the multi-input auto-failover capability of Tencent Cloud ensured stable transmission service for the original live feeds, and the multi-region and multi-availability zone cloud design provided a reliable media service center, where professional video processing capabilities such as multiple video codecs, streaming protocols and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) were utilized to ensure the live video quality. These industry-leading technologies helped ARY ZAP provide a top-notch user experience, while reducing bandwidth and storage costs when compressing video bitrates, increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of ARY ZAP’s business operations.

Poshu Yeung, Senior Vice President, Tencent Cloud International, said, “Tencent Cloud is committed to helping media and communications companies all around the world provide the best, high-quality streaming experiences to their viewers. Through our collaboration with ARY ZAP, viewers and sports fans in Pakistan can be assured of a continuous, uninterrupted and real-time experience while watching their favorite, most exciting entertainment and athletic events. We strive to support more media groups from other countries in the future.”

Tencent Cloud is committed to providing a professional, stable, and high-quality live streaming media processing platform for global users. With live audio and video streaming such as live sports, esports, and other live shows requiring high-quality transcoding, accelerated delivery services, instant loading of live streams, and more, Tencent’s streaming services combine its self-developed audio and video technology platform and the computing resources of Tencent Cloud’s global deployment of 70 availability zones and over 2,800 acceleration nodes, to support stable live streaming services with a latency as low as 800ms and under.

About Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries. Through our extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT and network security. It is our constant mission to meet the needs of industries across the board, including the fields of gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel and transportation.

About Tencent Cloud Media Services

Tencent Cloud Media Services has accumulated over 20 years of experience in audio & video technologies, providing industry-leading, comprehensive one-stop media solutions from PaaS to SaaS, including real-time communication, video on demand, live streaming, global acceleration and security. It provides support for customers from content creation, processing, to distribution, enabling real-time and engaging audience experiences worldwide.

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Amazon Brings 17 Different Echo Devices to Matter

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What is Matter? At least we think that is what some of you might be asking before anything else. It is an Internet of Things (IoT) thing. It is, in our opinion from our research, the future of connected devices.

There are plenty of in-depth explanations out there about what Matter is and why it will be a good thing for universal connected devices. We are not going in-depth, but we do need to explain Matter a little bit.

Matter is a standard for IoT hardware developed by Connectivity Standards Alliance. The Alliance is a sort of collaboration and standardized guidelines to all things IoT, connected, and smart home. Collaborators include Google, Samsung, Apple, and Amazon. In short, they aim to make all IoT and connected devices universally available to every person no matter what device they own. For example, you should be able to connect to a Samsung washing machine even if you do not have Smart Things on your Apple iPhone or Google Pixel. Your Samsung TV should also be able to control that new Amazon light bulb you just bought for your smart home ecosystem.

Matter is rather new though, and not every device is compatible with it yet. While there are new smart home products that comes with Matter compatibility, it is the older stuff that needs some attention. For example, Amazon’s various Echo devices.

A month after Amazon announced that they have committed to add Matter compatibility to their Alexa compatible devices, they delivered with 17 of their existing products including their plugs, switches, and bulbs. This is only Amazon’s first wave of Matter compatibility update though, and they are bringing the update to their most popular devices first. They added that they will roll out Matter update to other devices later.

There is a small caveat with the new Matter compatibility from Amazon though. While it now works with Matter, you still must have an Android smartphone and you can only connect to the devices via WiFi. That also means that if you have an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo device, you still might not be able to access Alexa via your iPhone. The Echo devices that works with Matter now are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Echo Dots, the Echo Show 8 (2021), Echo Show 10 (3rd Generation), Echo Show 5 (2021), Echo Show 15, v3 Echo, Echo Input, and Echo Fex. More information on Amazon’s Alexa ready Matter compatible devices can be found on their developer blog.

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[CES 2023] More SmartThings for the Future – A Samsung Editorial

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CES 2023 is upon us early in January of 2023, there is no surprises there. The show is also a place where you can find the latest and greatest from all sorts of electronics manufacturer, a sort of showcase of what end users like us can expect to see throughout the entire year. It is not uncommon to see new smartphone concepts, new laptop concepts, and even new ways to experience technology in the show. While it is happening early in the year, you can expect manufacturers to bring their big guns to the show. One of those manufacturers you can be excited about is Samsung.

Samsung is in a rather unique position in the world. It is a technology giant that is involved and participates in many industries. If you have not known yet, Samsung has rather unique role in the military equipment industry as well. What they are most known for today is their unique approach to smartphones with their folding flexible displays. But according to the latest editorial you can find in their newsroom, written by their current CEO, JH Han, that is not all they want to be known for.

It is no secret that Samsung, very much like Apple, wants to build an ecosystem for themselves. At some point, it looked like their ecosystem, known as the Galaxy ecosystem, built around the smartphone experience is going to take over and pivot the South Korean giant away from Google’s complete ecosystem. Now, they seemed to have turned things around a little and embrace Google a little bit more, save for a few things.

Samsung’s Galaxy ecosystem is not technically a failure though. It has evolved a little bit more instead. It has developed into something they call the SmartThings ecosystem.

SmartThings – The Heart of it All

SmartThings, in a lot of sense, has always been there. It is not a replacement to the Galaxy ecosystem; it is a big part of it. It has a lot more potential in the smart home space than you think though. For 2023 then, instead of focusing on the smartphone side of things, Samsung plans to bring more IoT products and expand on SmartThings, which could be more exciting than it sounds.

According to the published editorial, Samsung is working with more partners this time for SmartThings. That can only mean that Samsung is expanding its compatibility and ability to more than just Samsung products. They are integrating AI implementations into SmartThings too, which is not entirely unheard of, but just means that their SmartThings products can just be smarter and more intuitive to work with over time than before. Where this will sit between the Apple Home and Google Home IoT framework, only time can tell.

The focus is not to just make the SmartThings ecosystem smarter and more readily available for users, but to also make it more sustainable than ever before. In a way, Samsung wants to make SmartThings the center of your eco-friendly practices. That also means that Samsung will be committed to creating more energy efficient products and more environmentally conscious packaging decisions.

We mentioned earlier that Samsung is in rather unique position in the world. They are in all sorts of sectors and are rather successful in all the industries it has participated in. They make some of the world’s most popular Television, they are the world’s leader in terms of display technology, they are a leader in the world of smartphones in both popularity and innovation, they make very compelling and very clever home appliances. They are in the perfect position to introduce a whole host of products and solutions that can talk to each other and integrate them seamlessly into your lives.

From the published editorial, we think that we can be excited for Samsung in 2023. You can expect Samsung to shift its focus a little in 2023. Of course, that does not mean that you will not see the usual Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy Z flagship smartphones being released and pushing smartphone technology to the limits. But you can expect Samsung to shift gears when it comes to their home appliances. For CES 2023 at least, we think that Samsung will focus more on smart home appliances or even announcing new partners to their SmartThings ecosystem. We can only wait and see.

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PureSoftware announces partnership with Databricks to empower businesses to unlock the power of integrated data ecosystem

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SINGAPORE, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — PureSoftware, a global software products and services major announced its partnership with Databricks, a lakehouse company, excelling in enabling businesses to unify data and AI seamlessly to take data analytics potential to a new level. The Databricks Cloud Platform is designed for organizations that require an integrated view of data across multiple clouds and hybrid deployments, allowing businesses to make better decisions faster.

As a Databricks system integration partner, PureSoftware will combine the platform capabilities of Databricks with its data and AI expertise to create an integrated data ecosystem for both multi-cloud and hybrid cloud business models. The partnership will assist businesses to leverage the best of both worlds – Data lakes and Data warehouses, to simplify structural complexities in data governance, data engineering, data sharing, data streaming, and data science besides managing large-scale data pipelines to access real-time insights.

About PureSoftware

PureSoftware is a global software products and digital services company that has been driving transformation for the world’s top organizations across multiple verticals, such as banking and financial services, telecom, healthcare, gaming, and entertainment. Arttha, by PureSoftware, is a globally trusted financial technology platform. It helps businesses embrace digital solutions in the areas of consumer and MSME banking, agency/ branchless banking, digital lending, payments, BNPL and merchant management. Arttha5G, by PureSoftware is an ORAN-compliant 5G platform that enables companies to deploy digital RF front-end solutions for enhanced connectivity.

For more information, visit https://puresoftware.com/.

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Ribbon Appoints Channel UC as Partner and Distributor for Ribbon Connect for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

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Extends reach of cloud solutions in Australia/New Zealand Market

SYDNEY, Dec. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN), a global provider of real time communications software and IP optical networking solutions to service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure sectors, today announced that it has appointed Channel UC as a partner and distributor in Australia and New Zealand. The agreement covers Ribbon Connect for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, and both appliance and software-based Session Border Controllers.

“Ribbon Connect is an easy, efficient route to market for partners looking to quickly activate Microsoft Teams SIP trunks to Microsoft phone system licensing or extend Direct Routing to include connectivity to existing PBX infrastructure,” said Brad Milne, Managing Director, Channel UC. “Including it in our Microsoft Teams product portfolio of software solutions enables us to strengthen our partner communities’ offering while reducing their overheads. This is especially important today, when finding skilled staff to manage complex environments is challenging.”

Ribbon Connect is a cloud-based service that securely connects new or existing phone lines, numbers and calling plans to Microsoft Teams. The solution is delivered on a per-user, per seat basis, and adds “dial tone” to Microsoft Teams deployments making it easy to place and receive business phone calls, turning Teams into the office phone system. Ribbon Connect streamlines the installation process for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, eliminating the need to manage any on premise SBC hardware infrastructure.

“We are delighted to extend our relationship with Channel UC in Australia and New Zealand – their expertise in providing partners with simple and easy to deploy solution that are helping organizations of all sizes to get the most out of their Microsoft Teams environments, is a tremendous asset to the Channel community,” said Manny Christophidis, Channels Director, Asia Pacific, Ribbon Communications. 

Based in Sydney, Australia, Channel UC is a specialist Unified Communication, Contact Centre and Analytics Software Solutions distributor. The company was formerly a stand-alone division of Mia Distribution and was spun out as a separate business when Mia was acquired by Bluechip Infotech in August of 2022.

About Ribbon
Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) delivers communications software, IP and optical networking solutions to service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors globally. We engage deeply with our customers, helping them modernize their networks for improved competitive positioning and business outcomes in today’s smart, always-on and data-hungry world. Our innovative, end-to-end solutions portfolio delivers unparalleled scale, performance, and agility, including core to edge software-centric solutions, cloud-native offers, leading-edge security and analytics tools, along with IP and optical networking solutions for 5G. We maintain a keen focus on our commitments to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) matters, offering an annual Sustainability Report to our stakeholders. To learn more about Ribbon, please visit rbbn.com.

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Microland Recognized as a Leader for the Third Consecutive Year in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Network Services

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BENGALURU, India, LONDON and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — For the third consecutive year, Microland has been named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Network Services. Microland has been recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision in this space.

Microland Recognized as a Leader for the Third Consecutive Year in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Network Services
Microland Recognized as a Leader for the Third Consecutive Year in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Network Services

In the post-Covid world, Microland has enhanced its approach to network transformation and management by shifting its focus to User Experience and User Productivity. The new user-centric network management methodology optimizes productivity, experience, and security through a persona-based access policy, on-demand business application-specific prioritization, and enhanced operations by leveraging Automation, AIOps, and Analytics. We believe that our redefined focus and innovations to enrich User Experience through intelligent network operations have led to increased customer satisfaction and have resulted in us being positioned as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Network Services.

Our solution suite called Microland Intelligent Network Experience (m.i.n.e.) provides wing-to-wing network services from consulting and assessment to transformation services as well as managed services. The m.i.n.e. suite of solutions covers key next-gen networking technologies including SD-LAN, SD-WAN, SASE, OT Networking, SDN for Datacenters, Cloud Networking, and Private 5G. The m.i.n.e. suite is supported by a one-of-a-kind unique platform, called Network Assurance Platform (NAP), our in-house developed transformation accelerator and operations excellence platform.

Robert Wysocki, Senior Vice President and Global Client Solutions Leader – Networks & Cybersecurity at Microland said “We are extremely thrilled to be positioned as Leaders in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Managed Network Services for a third consecutive time. We believe this recognition serves as an acknowledgment of our continued commitment towards an innovative approach to move away from infrastructure-based Network Management to User-Centric Network Management and this recognition by Gartner re-confirms the faith our clients have in us due to our relentless focus on innovation, optimization, and ability to drive efficiencies.”

To know more about the recognition, please visit: https://www.microland.com/analyst-insights/leader-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-managed-network-services-2022

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About Microland

Microland’s commitment to “Making Digital Happen” allows technology to do more and intrude less. We make it easier for enterprises to transition to nextGen digital infrastructure through our extensive service portfolio including Cloud and Data centers, Networks, Digital Workplace, Cybersecurity, and Industrial IoT. We ensure that the embrace of digital services is predictable, reliable, and stable.

Microland is making digital happen for enterprises with a laser focus on services that are more relevant to our clients and prospects than ever before, guaranteeing business outcomes. Incorporated in 1989 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Microland has more than 4,500 digital specialists across offices and delivery centers in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America.

Read more here: https://www.microland.com/

Media Contact: madhur.dubey@microland.com

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At Bacancy, React Is 1st Choice of Australian CTOs for Web App Development In 2023

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AHMEDABAD, India, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — When it comes to result-driven and mission-critical application development, Bacancy has become synonymous with quality and excellence. As a leading and committed offshore software application development team, Bacancy has boisterous skills, impressive talent, and a deeper understanding of modern development approaches to support projects with positive outsourcing experience.

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ReactJS Development Company

Australia’s Free Trade Agreement 2022 (FTA) with India, is significant for new business opportunities across various sectors. With its global reach and proactive approach, Bacancy has managed to become the first choice for Australia-based CTOs to develop 100% customized and optimized mobile, web, and cloud-based applications.

For Australian CTOs, Bacancy is First Preference for IT Support

Bacancy Technology believes in maintaining integrity while catering to global clients. Many leading Australia-based businesses, like Alpha Fintech and OnePayPoint PTY LTD, laid faith in Bacancy as they needed React-based solutions.

With over 107+ Australian clients from multiple industries, Bacancy can proudly say that they’re shaping the IT industry of this contingent and fueling it with the latest skills and technologies. 

Bacancy has spent 11+ glorious years in this industry and has 100+ seasoned React developers.

Quality Service and Best Skillset at a Justified Price

The average per-month expense to hire React developers in Australia ranges between AUD $3500–$4000; in which customers will get the elite expertise of Bacancy’s Developer. So leverage our salient React services with a risk free trial.

Bacancy’s React developers have hands-on experience in building apps according to W3C and ECMAScript standards and are comfortable working with ReactJS versions from 0.3.0 to 18.0.

ES6, Redux, Git toolkit, and JSX – name it, and Bacancy’s React developers know how to work with that technology. They can combine the most compatible technologies like React + Node, React + Rails, and so on to meet the customized development requirements.

A preferred choice for obvious reasons 

With over 1050+ developers having full-stack expertise, Bacancy is adding value to Australia’s IT industry and helping businesses of all sorts to be digitally sound. Startups, scale-ups, large-scale enterprises, and fortune 500 clients worldwide have been relying on Bacancy’s React developers for optimized application development since 2011. 

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Chandresh Patel
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XM Cyber Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling a Single View of Security Risks Across the Hybrid Environment in Real Time and Providing Customer Value

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XM Cyber offers various use cases, including third-party risk management, vulnerability prioritization, business risk profiling and management, digital transformation, and proactive cyber defense.

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the global breach and attack simulation market and, based on its findings, recognizes XM Cyber with the 2022 Global Customer Value Leadership Award for its breach and attack simulation (BAS) platform. The company enables organizations to monitor risks continuously and provide the cyber adversary’s perspective. The leading attack path management vendor provides security teams with visibility on all hidden attack paths that lead to critical assets. The company is positioned as a hybrid cloud security provider that leverages attack path management to provide a holistic view of risks across the hybrid environment in real time.

2022 Global Breach and Attack Simulation Customer Value Leadership Award
2022 Global Breach and Attack Simulation Customer Value Leadership Award

XM Cyber’s Attack Path Management platform is a hybrid cloud security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. The platform analyzes exposures and provides an accurate view of various attack paths across the client organization. In addition, the platform provides comprehensive visibility across the enterprise continuously and safely and identifies critical assets’ choke points, which are the key junctures in an attack path that lead a cyber adversary to a critical asset. Rather than fixing all security issues leading to a critical asset, security teams can fix the choke point and protect the asset. The platform, therefore, shows security teams the smallest number of actions to reduce risks significantly, thus improving the team’s efficiency.

According to Swetha Krishnamoorthi, Frost & Sullivan Senior Industry Analyst, “XM Cyber has a fast turnaround with regards to improving the cyber posture of organizations. For instance, in one customer environment, XM Cyber reduced the percentage of assets that could be compromised in a hybrid infrastructure from 93% to 7% in less than three months.”

XM Cyber combines its attack path management capabilities with continuous controls monitoring capabilities following its acquisition of Cyber Observer earlier this year, to provide continuous visibility of security control gaps. The integrated platform offers automated compliance validation and reporting for key standards, such as NIST, GDPR, and SWIFT CSCF. In addition, the company leverages customer satisfaction, strategic partnerships, customer testimonials, and exceptional customer service to offer value and drive stellar growth.

“XM Cyber works closely with customers to continuously release features and capabilities that enable security teams to proactively identify and fix security issues in an efficient and effective way. The company has consistently demonstrated financial and operational excellence, harnessing its superior product and customer support capabilities,” added Krishnamoorthi. With its strong overall performance, XM Cyber earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2022 Global Customer Value Leadership Award in the breach and attack simulation market.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers, with a focus on improving the return on investment that customers make in its services or products. The award recognizes the company’s unique focus on augmenting the value that its customers receive, beyond simply providing good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and customer base expansion.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan

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About XM Cyber

XM Cyber is a leading hybrid cloud security company that’s changing the way innovative organizations approach cyber risk. By continuously uncovering hidden attack paths to businesses’ critical assets and security controls gaps across cloud and on-prem environments, it enables security teams to remediate exposures at key junctures and eradicate risk with a fraction of the effort. Many of the world’s largest, most complex organizations choose XM Cyber to help eradicate risk. Founded by top executives from the Israeli cyber intelligence community, XM Cyber has offices in North America, Europe, and Israel.