Encryption software a growing market for resellers to capitalise on

Demand for encryption software is increasing, with Asia Pacific leading the growth charge thanks to the growing penetration of cloud computing and increasing workforce mobility in the region.

Allied Market Research says the global encryption software market – where key players include Symantec, Sophos, McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and Trend Micro – is expected to reach US$2.5 billion by 2021, registering a compound annual growth rate of 14.2% between 2016 and 2021.

How The 'Internet of Things' Impacts Security

The range and number of “things” connected to the internet is truly astounding, including security cameras, ovens, alarm systems, baby monitors and cars. They’re are all going online, so they can be remotely monitored and controlled over the internet. But many have security or privacy holes. Here’s what to look for to keep yourself safe online.

Internet of Things (IoT) devices typically incorporate sensors, switches and logging capabilities that collect and transmit data across the internet.

Encryption: A Matter of Human Rights

Government attacks on the encryption of online communication threaten human rights around the world, warned Amnesty International in a briefing published today as tech giant Apple challenges the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in court over an order to provide software to bypass iPhone encryption.

The briefing, Encryption: A Matter of Human Rights, which is Amnesty International’s first official stance on encryption and human rights, says that people everywhere should be able to encrypt their communications and personal data as an essential protection of their rights to privacy and free speech.

Dell could announce the sale of its IT services unit to Japan’s NTT for $3.5 billion as soon as Monday

Capping a process that began late last year, Dell could announce as early as Monday the sale of the company’s IT services unit to Japan’s telecom conglomerate NTT for $3.5 billion, sources briefed on the process tell Re/code.

What Is a Robot?

The year is 2016. Robots have infiltrated the human world. We built them, one by one, and now they are all around us. Soon there will be many more of them, working alone and in swarms. One is no larger than a single grain of rice, while another is larger than a prairie barn. These machines can be angular, flat, tubby, spindly, bulbous, and gangly. Not all of them have faces. Not all of them have bodies.

And yet they can do things once thought impossible for machine. They vacuum carpets, zip up winter coats, paint cars, organize warehouses, mix drinks, play beer pong, waltz across a school gymnasium, limp like wounded animals, write and publish stories, replicate abstract expressionist art, clean up nuclear waste, even dream.

Robotics Researcher Says Autonomous Technology Is 'Absolutely Not Ready' For Widespread Use

Self-driving cars seem to be just about all the auto industry can discuss lately, but at least one robotics expert thinks it’s time to slow that roll a little bit. While a Duke University researcher and is all for autonomous technology, she said it’s far from ready for widespread deployment.

The future of big data is very, very fast

There are only two certainties in big data today: It won't look like yesterday's data infrastructure, and it'll be very, very fast.

This latter trend is evident in the rise of Apache Spark and real-time analytics engines, but it's also clear from the parallel rise of real-time transactional databases (NoSQL). The former is all about lightning-fast data processing, while the latter takes care of equally fast data storage and updates.

The two together combine to "tackle workloads hitherto impossible," as Aerospike vice president Peter Goldmacher told me in an interview.

Robots That Teach Each Other

Many of the jobs humans would like robots to perform, such as packing items in warehouses, assisting bedridden patients, or aiding soldiers on the front lines, aren’t yet possible because robots still don’t recognize and easily handle common objects. People generally have no trouble folding socks or picking up water glasses, because we’ve gone through “a big data collection process” called childhood, says Stefanie Tellex, a computer science professor at Brown University. For robots to do the same types of routine tasks, they also need access to reams of data on how to grasp and manipulate objects. Where does that data come from? Typically it has come from painstaking programming. But ideally, robots could get some information from each other.

The Multi-Billion Dollar Robotics Market Is About to Boom

Here’s another sign that the robotics industry is poised to see big gains in the future.

On Wednesday, a report by International Data Corporation said worldwide spending on robotics and related services will hit $135.4 billion in 2019. The research firm said that global robotics spending in 2015 was $71 billion, and is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17%.

Lumping together everything from robot software to hardware components to robot services (like robotic hotel receptionists) in its tally of robotic spending, the report’s authors explain that the total spend on robot services, business consulting, education, and training will eventually eclipse sales of the robots themselves by 2019.

“Robotics as a technology has really reached its tipping point,” said IDC Manufacturing Insights research manager John Santagate in a statement. “Robotic capabilities continue to expand while increasing investment in robot development is driving competition and helping to bring down the costs associated with robots.”

The authors said that the two fastest growing industries for robotics are healthcare and process manufacturing, which is a branch of manufacturing that involves developing products based on recipes or formulas, like sodas or drugs.

Currently, the manufacturing sector is purchasing the most robots and related services. But the report explained that the healthcare sector is expected to see a bump in robotics purchases, with spending expected to double by 2019.

Read More: http://fortune.com/2016/02/24/robotics-market-multi-billion-boom/

Upgrading India’s cyber security architecture

Two things set aside India’s digital spaces from that of major powers such as the United States and China: design and density. India is a net information exporter. Its information highways point west, carrying with them the data of millions of Indians. This is not a design flaw, but simply reflects the popularity of social media platforms and the lack of any serious effort by the Indian government to restrict the flow of data. Equally important is the density of India’s cyberspace. Nearly 500 million Indians use the Internet today, but they do not access the Internet from the same devices. Apple’s market share in the U.S., for instance, is 44 per cent, but iPhones account for less than 1 per cent in India. The massive gap between the security offered by the cheapest phone in the Indian market and a high-end smartphone makes it impossible for regulators to set legal and technical standards for data protection.

With little control over the hardware used by Indian Internet users as well as the information that is carried through them, India’s national security architecture faces a difficult task in cyberspace. India’s infrastructure is susceptible to four kinds of digital intrusions: espionage, which involves intruding into systems to steal information of strategic or commercial value; cybercrime, referring to electronic fraud or other acts of serious criminal consequence; attacks, intended at disrupting services or systems for a temporary period; and war, caused by a large-scale and systematic digital assault on India’s critical installations.

Indian authorities have spent the lion’s share of their resources tackling localised cybercrime while responding to major attacks on a case-by-case basis. Recognising the strategic dimensions of cyberspace, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) created the position of the National Cyber Security Coordinator in 2014, a welcome first step. There is, however, no national security architecture today that can assess the nature of cyber threats and respond to them effectively. India’s civilian institutions have their own firefighting agencies, and the armed forces have their own insulated platforms to counter cyber attacks.

Read More: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/upgrading-indias-cyber-security-architecture/article8327987.ece

Cyber Security Trends To Watch: 2016

LONDON—One year ago, Control Risks highlighted two prominent cyber trends and made four predictions for 2015. While none of those predictions appear particularly revelatory in hindsight, they have all proven correct and, along with the trends discussed then, are likely to continue through the year ahead. Moreover, they provided a brief snapshot of the dynamism of the cyber threat landscape, a snapshot that I will look to expand upon in this year’s edition of our cyber security trends to watch.

The role of geopolitics and the emergence of cyber deterrence

Recalling a theme from last year, the first point to note is that geopolitics will be the core determinant of the shape and severity of the cyber threat many public and private sector organizations face. As countries grapple with the uncertainties and vicissitudes of contemporary international relations, it is becoming increasingly clear that cyber deterrence will eventually become a core pillar of 21st century diplomacy. The US is currently working out the finer points of its official cyber deterrence policy and, through websites directly linked to state-run media outlets, the Chinese military has given a fairly clear indication of its own. Russia, on the other hand, has already put its approach to cyber deterrence into action, regularly carrying out retaliatory operations seemingly intended to punish and shape the decision-making of strategic rivals and erstwhile allies. Likewise, North Korea has episodically lashed out with disruptive attacks against identified adversaries, knowing that its self-contained internet infrastructure largely protects it from external cyber retaliation.

Alarmingly for business, the majority of apparent cases of cyber deterrence involved targeting of commercial entities. This reflects the imperative role that corporate enterprises play in ensuring that, at a fundamental level, populations are provided with basic commodities like electricity, food, water, fuel and the ability to communicate. It is also indicative of the internet’s status as the backbone of any modern society. Because they deliver a privately-owned public good, critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers are likely to bear the brunt of nation-states’ deterrent cyber attacks. There is little prospect of many of the more outlandish doomsday scenarios put forward about cyber operations against CNI being realized. Nonetheless, the threat is real and growing.

Formerly, Iran was assessed by many observers in the Western intelligence community as one of the nations most likely to conduct a destructive attack against their core industries. However, the lifting of US and international nuclear sanctions will bring about a step change in Iranian operations that will reshape the nature and potentially reduce the scope of the Iranian cyber threat to the West. Namely, there will be a transition from cyber operations almost solely focused on developing situational policy awareness and collecting target-specific intelligence with a view to future disruptive attacks, to a situation in which cyber-enabled corporate espionage becomes increasingly prominent.

Read More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/riskmap/2016/03/08/cyber-security-trends-to-watch-2016/#629e505a1a36

3D Printing and Technology Convergence

Unexpected convergent consequences… this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once.

This blog (the 5th of 7) is a look at 3D printing. Future blogs will look at other tech areas.

An expert might be reasonably good at predicting the growth of a single exponential technology (e.g. 3D Printing), but try to predict the future when A.I., Robotics, VR, Drones, and Computation are all doubling, morphing and recombining… You have a very exciting (read: unpredictable) future. ​ This year at my Abundance 360 Summit I decided to explore this concept in sessions I called "Convergence Catalyzers."

For each technology, I brought in an industry expert to identify their Top 5 Recent Breakthroughs (2012-2015) and their Top 5 Anticipated Breakthroughs (2016-2018). Then, we explored the patterns that emerged.

3D Printing – Context
At A360 this year, my expert on 3D Printing was Avi Reichental.

Avi is the Founder and CEO of XponentialWorks, an expert advisory, venture investment and incubation ecosystem company that is focused on monetizing exponential tech innovation and business model disruption. For 12 years, Avi was the CEO of 3D Systems, the largest publicly traded 3D printing Company in the world. A dear friend and brilliant entrepreneur, Avi is also part of our core faculty in additive manufacturing at Singularity University.

Before we dive in, here's some more context around 3D printing:

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is the process of printing, layer by layer, any three-dimensional object based on a digital file.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/3d-printing--technology-c_b_9397578.html?section=india

Cloud computing: What's coming next

It is ten years since the official launch of Amazon Web Services -- and, during that decade, the cloud has moved from an over-hyped concept to a business reality.

Today, on-demand IT is used in a variety of ways by organisations of all shapes and sizes. But what will the future bring? We analyse the current market for on-demand services and predict how businesses will use the cloud by 2020.

How big is the cloud market, really?

Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon Web Services, a globe-spanning cloud computing network that is part of the online retailing giant Amazon, has rapidly become one of the most powerful forces in technology. It has also become a target for poachers.

Last October, at a conference in Las Vegas with thousands of corporate executives and software developers in attendance, A.W.S.’s chief, Andy Jassy, strode before an intentionally poorly disguised image of Lawrence J. Ellison, founder and chairman of the Oracle Corporation. Foot-tall words like “bullies,” “extorted” and “strong arm” appeared next to Mr. Jassy and the image of Ellision. The logo of Oracle, one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley, was barely crossed out.

“Our marketing team needs work on redaction,” Mr. Jassy joked.

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Better cloaked was the reason for his enmity: Oracle had been slow to get into the cloud business, but recently made multiple hiring raids on A.W.S. Both Oracle and Amazon declined to comment on Mr. Jassy’s dig.

The hunt for the hard-to-find talent that can build and run the massive data centers behind cloud computing is pitting three generations of companies against one another. Old-guard companies like Oracle, tech’s current giants like Amazon and its peers, as well as Bay Area start-ups are offering big salaries and big perks for cloud computing experts.

On the social media site LinkedIn, for example, there are over 130 engineering positions available at Oracle Seattle. Many of them are the kind of jobs that now pay $300,000 to $1 million a year, according to Shannon Anderson, who has been recruiting engineers in Seattle and the Bay Area for 25 years.

Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/technology/tech-companies-new-and-old-clamor-to-entice-cloud-computing-experts.html?_r=0

Hardware Encryption Market is Expected to Reach $296.4 Billion, Worldwide, By 2020

A new report by Allied Market Research titled, “World Hardware Encryption—Market Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014–2020” forecasts that the world hardware encryption market would garner revenue of $296.4 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 54.6% during the forecast period of 2015–2020. Hard disk drives are the most widely encrypted devices, accounting for the highest market share throughout analysis period. Asia-Pacific is the largest revenue generating region for hardware encryption, followed by North America and Europe.

Self-Service Technology Market is Expected to Reach $31.75 Billion, Globally by 2020 - Allied Market Research

According to a new report by Allied Market Research titled, "Global Self-Service Technology Market (ATM Machines, Kiosk Machines, Vending Machines and Geography) - Size, Share, Industry Analysis Trends, Opportunities Growth Segmentation and Forecast, 2014 - 2020", the global self-service technology Market would garner $31.75 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 13.98% during the forecast period 2015 - 2020.

Commercial HVAC Contractors Keep Data Centers Healthy

According to Internet Live Stats, around 40 percent of the world’s population has an Internet connection today. In 1995, less than 1 percent had access.

Enterprises turn to outsourcings as data analytics market booms

The world data analytics outsourcing market is expected to reach $US5.9 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 29.1 percent during 2015 to 2020.

“Over the years, there has been an exponential increase in the data generated by enterprises,” says Gunjan Malani, Research Analyst, Allied Market Research.

“This data is now being outsourced to data analytics service providers enabling the enterprises to make effective insights-driven business decisions, offer enhanced services to customers, and avoid risks and losses.

“Most of the enterprises do not have in-house analytics capabilities or skilled workforce, thereby accelerating the growth of data analytics outsourcing market.”

Allied Market Research findings suggest that organisations are increasingly turning towards data analytics outsourcing due to its “numerous benefits” such as strategic decision making, operational efficiency, reduced operational costs, and enhanced customer service among others.

Read More: http://www.reseller.co.nz/article/593765/enterprises-turn-outsourcings-data-analytics-market-booms/

Data analytics outsourcing to grow

The market for data analytics outsourcing is set to grow to $5.9bn by 2020, according to a report from Allied Market Research.

According to the report, entitled “World Data Analytics Outsourcing – Market Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014-2020”, the market’s CAGR will be 5.9% per annum.

The reason is that enterprises are generating more and more data and the Big Data market is growing as a result. Mobile devices are fueling this data explosion further as individuals put comments and data out into the world from wherever they are. Unfortunately – unless you’re one of the specialists selling services – the tools to make this data into something useful are not easy to master and are often unavailable in house.

So outsourcing is the answer for many enterprises wanting to take full advantage of strategic decision making and of course reduced costs as a result.

The report also notes a shift from descriptive analytics to more advanced models such as predictive analytics.

For more details: http://www.professionaloutsourcingmagazine.net/newsitems/data-analytics-outsourcing-to-grow

Tackling Data Theft With Managed Security Services

While organizations across the world have begun to appreciate the criticality of data security, the cost and sophistication of data breaches have increased simultaneously, posing a serious threat to governments and businesses alike. The situation becomes even more dire if companies lack the required security talent to deal with such cyber menaces.

Encryption isn’t at stake, the FBI knows Apple already has the desired key

Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 and injured 24 in an attack in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015.