WiCyS is helping veterans and other women answer that call by connecting them with opportunities and resources to succeed, ultimately beginning to remove the many roadblocks that continue to prevent women from advancing in the field.

(PRWEB)
November 21, 2019

National nonprofit Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) has received a $150,000 gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to expand its work to recruit, retain and advance women in the cybersecurity field.

It is predicted that, by 2021, there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs around the world. Simultaneously, women currently make up 20 percent of the global industry, according to a March 2019 study. WiCyS works to help fill this industry gap with much-needed talent by training women in cybersecurity and connecting them with meaningful career opportunities. Since its inception in 2013, over 4,900 women in cybersecurity have participated in the organization’s annual conference.

“WiCyS is a tribe of like-minded peers and mentors,” said Ambareen Siraj, founder of Women in CyberSecurity. “We are a community that shares, supports, and, most importantly, works together to end under-representation of women in cyber.”

With this philanthropic funding from the organization of craigslist founder Craig Newmark, WiCyS builds on its track record by launching the Veterans Assistance Program. This new effort offers exclusive opportunities to women veterans who are either currently in cyber or aspiring to transition into the field. The program helps veterans connect with WiCyS sponsors and partners, earn a discounted WiCyS membership, apply for the Veteran Fellowship Award, belong to an effective community forum, and more.

“There is a serious need in the US for talented people to help protect our democracy and defend the country from cyber threats,” said Newmark. “WiCyS is helping veterans and other women answer that call by connecting them with opportunities and resources to succeed, ultimately beginning to remove the many roadblocks that continue to prevent women from advancing in the field.”

The gift will also allow WiCyS student chapter members to compete for free in the National Cyber League (NCL) virtual cybersecurity competition, powered by Cyber Skyline. This competition experience helps to provide another layer of skills that are needed to advance in the cybersecurity workforce.

About WiCyS:

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is the premier nonprofit organization with international reach dedicated to bringing together women in cybersecurity. Founded by Dr. Ambareen Siraj from Tennessee Tech University through a National Science Foundation grant in 2013, WiCyS offers opportunities and resources for its members and collaboration benefits for its sponsors and partners. The organization’s founding partners are Cisco, Facebook and Palo Alto Networks. WiCyS’ strategic partners include Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Equifax, Facebook, Fidelity Investments, Google, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Nike, Optum, PayPal, SANS Institute, and Target. To sponsor the upcoming 2020 conference, visit https://www.wicys.org/conference-sponsor. To become a strategic partner for all year long engagement, visit https://www.wicys.org/become-a-partner.

About Craig Newmark Philanthropies:

Craig Newmark Philanthropies was created by craigslist founder Craig Newmark to support and connect people and drive broad civic engagement. It works to advance people and grassroots organizations that are getting stuff done in areas that include trustworthy journalism & the information ecosystem, voter protection, gender diversity in technology, and veterans & military families. For more information, please visit: CraigNewmarkPhilanthropies.org.

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As technology and threat actors continue to advance, the demand grows for cybersecurity educators to keep up with the trends while preparing their students for the workforce.

CHEVY CHASE, Md. (PRWEB)
November 21, 2019

Cybersecurity educators and innovators are invited to submit their effective practices to the National CyberWatch Center’s fourth annual Innovations in Cybersecurity Education Awards and Recognition program. Submissions are now being accepted.

“As technology and threat actors continue to advance, the demand grows for cybersecurity educators to keep up with the trends while preparing their students for the workforce,” said Casey O’Brien, Executive Director of the National CyberWatch Center. “National CyberWatch wants to recognize the innovative ways educators are expanding their classrooms to invigorate and engage their students.”

Selected submissions will be showcased in the Innovations in Cybersecurity Education publication, which accelerates the adoption of new ideas throughout the academic community. The selected submissions will receive national recognition in news releases, newsletters and social media campaigns, in addition to earning a digital badge.

Last year, National CyberWatch Center received over 70 submissions. The five winning submissions were: Pathway to Advancement in Cybersecurity Education; Thinking Outside the Box: Using Escape Room Games to Interest Teachers and Students in Cybersecurity; Incentive-Based Platform for Teaching Cryptocurrency, Bug Bounty, Reconnaissance and More; and Three Colleges + Three Degrees = One Successful Cyber Career. An honorable mention also was awarded to a submission around PCI Credit Card Security.

“My hope is that the curated submissions and subsequent dissemination of the various innovations in cybersecurity education and workforce development will accelerate the adaptation and adoption of new ideas throughout the academic community, while at the same time, recognizing individuals and organizations for their work,” said Casey.

Award winners will be acknowledged at the Community College Cyber Summit at Sinclair Community College in Dayton OH Aug. 4-6, 2020. Submissions should be currently in use or have been used in cybersecurity education, and will be accepted through Jan. 15, 2020. For more information, visit nationalcyberwatch.org/innovations/.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB)
November 20, 2019

Evalueserve, a leading global analytics firm, today launched new enhancements to Insightsfirst, a market and competitive intelligence platform powered by mind+machine™. Insightsfirst’s AI engine processes internal and external data faster, which coupled with our team of domain experts helps clients generate actionable insights.

Enhanced features to the platform include:

• Up-to-the-minute intelligence: AI technology keeps all deliverables and intelligence in near real time. This enhancement enables clients to be responsive and adaptable to industry and competitor actions.
• Collaboration: deeper collaboration across business functions and geographies with a shared knowledge base, user tagging, comments and alerts. This allows team members to interact with each other, make contributions to projects, and share ideas.
• Visualization: new age visualization tools give clients the ability to obtain intuitive insights through best in-class UI and tools, without the need to purchase new software licenses and adapt to new processes.
• Knowledge management: single harmonized base that brings together external and internal knowledge, which makes it easy to locate and share insights. The fully searchable repository enables clients to maintain documents, files and insights.

Ravi Mehrotra, Evalueserve’s co-CEO says, “With our domain experts and AI powered Insightsfirst platform, we deliver real-time, bespoke intelligence that can instantly translate to action across our client’s organization.”

The Insightsfirst platform also features a brand-new module, Disruption-360. This new module enables clients to stay ahead of the disruption curve by following a systematic and proactive intelligence framework. Innovative and disruptive forces, including high-growth and emerging trends, are continuously monitored thus enabling clients to always stay up-to date with market forces. Disruption-360 also provides analytical frameworks that facilitate decision-making for clients as they assess the impact of various forces and take timely decisions on opportunities to tap and threats to mitigate.

Learn more about Insightsfirst in action here

About Evalueserve

Evalueserve is a leading analytics partner that helps clients increase effectiveness and efficiency of their core processes by applying a unique mind+machineTM methodology. For over 25% of the Fortune 1000, mind+machine™ weaves human expertise with digital products & platforms to build analytics’ capabilities that enable successful business outcomes.

Contact Us

For more information about Evalueserve, visit: https://www.evalueserve.com/

For interview requests and any other information, please contact Radhika Mathur at radhika.mathur@evalueserve.com

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iPi Soft, LLC, developers of the marker-less motion capture technology iPi Motion Capture, announced enhancements to its iPi Recorder 4.4.4 and iPi Mocap Studio 4.3.0 software.

“Tighter integration with the Unity real-time game engine is a huge benefit that will provide content creators increased flexibility to create more quickly and accurately” Michael Nikonov, Founder and Chief Technology Architect of iPi Soft, says.

MOSCOW (PRWEB)
November 20, 2019

iPi Soft, LLC, developers of the marker-less motion capture technology iPi Motion Capture, announced enhancements to its iPi Recorder 4.4.4 and iPi Mocap Studio 4.3.0 software. New features include improved live feedback and foot tracking for depth sensors, further integration with the Unity gaming engine, as well as support for Azure Kinect sensors. iPi Soft is also offering a 30 percent discount on iPi Motion Capture throughout the holidays.

“The live feedback improvements are key capabilities that will accelerate the motion capture workflow for game designers and visual effects artists,” Michael Nikonov, Founder and Chief Technology Architect of iPi Soft, says. “Tighter integration with the Unity real-time game engine is a huge benefit that will provide content creators increased flexibility to create projects quickly and with more accurate results.”

Improved Live Feedback:

The new version of iPi Mocap supports higher resolution in tracking mode providing more motion capture accuracy with lower jitter, while the smoothing filter can now remove visual jitter during live feedback tracking. Users can also change target 3D characters for motion transfer without the need to stop and restart live feedback. Recent live tracking settings are now stored thus eliminating the need to reset every time live tracking feature is used.

Integration with Unity:

Closer integration with the Unity gaming engine gives users the ability to stream tracking results to Unity, in both live feedback and offline tracking mode, allowing them to see how the motion will look in a 3D setting. Animation can also be post processed in real-time via Unity.

Support For Azure Kinect Sensors:

Azure Kinect sensors recently released by Microsoft are a new generation of popular Kinect depth sensors that have better depth quality, wide field of view mode and other advantages over Xbox 360 and Xbox One Kinects. iPi Motion Capture now supports Azure Kinect giving customers improved tracking quality and the ability to use the system in spaces as small as 7-feet by 5-feet. (Depth sensors comparison is available here.)

Pricing and Availability:

For the holidays, iPi Soft is currently offering a 30-percent discount for orders placed before December 31, 2019 (please use coupon code NY2020). This includes a discount off of iPi Soft’s perpetual license that includes two years of full support and software updates, as well as its subscription-based pricing model.

iPi Motion Capture Version 4 is available as perpetual license or subscription-based model. Prices range from $165 to $1995 depending on the version of software (Express, Basic, Pro) and duration of subscription. Additional information on iPi Soft pricing is available here.

About iPi Soft:

Moscow-based developer, iPi Soft, LLC, develops powerful markerless motion capture software technology that uses sophisticated image processing and computer vision algorithms to recognize and track the human body. The company’s software is used by creative professionals and prosumers around the world to digitize the movement of a human skeleton, rendering it expressive in 3D characters for video games, computer generated films, as well as for medical, military and other applications. For additional information, on iPi Soft, product pricing, configurations or a 30-day free trial please visit http://www.ipisoft.com.

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Readiness Pro Edition is an excellent tool for businesses to review, revise and revisit processes for handling the personally identifiable information (PII) of their customers, vendors, and employees. – Douglas Williams

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
November 20, 2019

Williams Data Management, southern California’s leader in data protection, has announced the launch of its Williams Data Protection Readiness Pro Edition, powered by CSR Privacy Solutions (CSR). This program helps businesses small and large reduce the risk of a data breach.

“Readiness Pro Edition is an excellent tool for businesses to review, revise and revisit processes for handling the personally identifiable information (PII) of their customers, vendors, and employees,” said Douglas Williams, President and CEO of Williams Data Management. “Firms need to identify and know their data retention vulnerability.”

The Data Protection Readiness Pro program provides a self-assessment data privacy questionnaire and gives businesses a prioritized list of remediation recommendations, policies and best practices regarding compliance, security, incident response planning and governance. It provides data privacy education and improves overall privacy awareness and compliance.

“Data protection, information privacy and non-disclosures can be mitigated by first understanding what the vulnerabilities are, through a rigorous self-assessment,” said Williams. “After doing the self-assessment, the summary report directs businesses to a clear program to understand what the gaps are to reduce their vulnerabilities, with the ability to help close those gaps. After all, it’s all about protecting your business, and our team of data protection professionals will coach you how to develop your plans of action to close the gaps!”

In the event of a suspected data breach or actual data breach, CSR’s privacy professionals assist the company with understanding and implementing the legal requirements to report the loss or breach of personal identifiable information (PII) to an ever-increasing number of authorities, in all 50 states.

The Williams Data Protection Readiness Pro is available for $49.95 per month including the breach reporting services. For more information or to register for the Williams Data Protection Readiness Pro kit, please visit http://bit.ly/WDMReadinessPro. To learn more about Williams Data Management, visit https://www.williamsdatamanagement.com.

About Williams Data Management

Williams Data Management is southern California’s leading source for data protection management. The company educates, consults, has the source materials, and provides the structure for self-assessment and corporate plan structure for information breach notifications in the United States. Over the last decade, the firm has become an expert solution provider, offering professional records management, data protection, imaging and digitization, cloud storage and certified data destruction services to all sectors and sizes of businesses. Williams holds numerous certifications for data compliance and destruction including SSAE16, NAID “AAA” Certification, and is a member of PRISM. For more information, visit http://www.williamsdatamanagement.com or call 888-478-FILE.

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Solix Technologies, Inc. Logo

Our partnership with SRA expands their portfolio by combining their innovative, leading edge technology and operations optimization solutions with Solix’s award winning Common Data Platform for cloud and advanced analytics.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRWEB)
November 19, 2019

Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading big data application provider for empowering data-driven enterprises, today announced a strategic alliance with SRA (Software Research Associates) Inc., an information management services and solutions company. SRA will provide the Solix Common Data Platform (CDP) and SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving to its customers across Japan, supported by localized consulting, training, and management of services.

The Solix CDP is an award-winning big data application framework built on Apache Hadoop that helps enterprises organize, manage, and process all of their structured, semi-structured and unstructured enterprise data, for advanced analytics, compliance, infrastructure optimization, and data security. Key features of the Solix CDP include:

• 
  Data Fabric: Architecture and set of services that provides consistent data management throughout the data lifecycle—including data creation, ingestion, preparation, and end-of-life—integrating disparate data types from on-premise and multi-cloud environments.
• Data Governance: A compliance framework that satisfies governance, risk, and compliance requirements, including GDPR and NIST 800. Automated and pre-built rules concerning data classification, data retention, and data sovereignty are grounded in Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) best practices.
• Data Security: Includes the necessary tools for data encryption, role based security, data masking, and data monitoring. All data classified as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Personal Credit Information (PCI), and Personal Health Information (PHI) is encrypted end-to-end.
• Data Discovery: Solix data discovery relies on a centralized catalog of metadata containing database object definitions including base tables, views, and indexes. As data is replicated across multi-cloud landscapes, discovery enables data analysts, data scientists, and developers to find and visualize the data they need.

SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving is a fully-managed software-as-a-service solution built on the Solix CDP framework, enabling enterprises to strengthen their data management processes via the cloud, with the help of robust data fabric, data governance, data security, and data discovery capabilities. SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving is hosted on Microsoft Azure. Key features of SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving include:

• Support for databases, file servers, email, and application retirement
• Elastic, pay-as-you-go pricing model
• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
• Retention Management & Legal Hold
• Data Governance & Auditing
• Metadata management
• Robust data discovery: Text Search, Query, Forms, Reports, File Explorer, and more
• API Access

“Amid demand for responding to DX in all fields, SRA decided to propose and provide the Solix CDP to customers as a solution that supports data-driven management. We believe the Solix CDP is a cutting-edge product that realizes Enterprise Data Archiving and Enterprise Data Lake applications and its introduction will enable data-driven management,” said Makoto Ishisone, President and CEO, SRA Inc.

“Our partnership with SRA expands their portfolio by combining their innovative, leading edge technology and operations optimization solutions with Solix’s award winning Common Data Platform for cloud and advanced analytics—enabling Japanese customers to continue their journey into the digital data era with a proven advanced data platform,” said Sai Gundavelli, Founder/CEO, Solix Technologies.

To learn more about the Solix CDP, click here.

To learn more about SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving on Azure, click here.

About Solix Technologies

Solix Technologies, Inc. is a leading big data application provider that empowers data-driven enterprises with optimized infrastructure, data security and advanced analytics. Solix Common Data Platform (CDP) provides end-to-end data fabric, data governance, data security, data discovery, and a unified Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) framework for Enterprise Archiving and Enterprise Data Lake applications, deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or both. SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving is the world’s first archiving as-a-service solution built on the Solix CDP and hosted on Microsoft Azure, enabling enterprises to strengthen their data management processes with cloud-based Application Retirement, Email Archiving, File Archiving, and Database Archiving. Solix is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and operates worldwide through an established network of value added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators. To learn more, please visit https://www.solix.com

About SRA

SRA, Software Research Associates, was established in November, 1967 in Tokyo with six associates. It is one of the oldest independent software houses in Japan. As of March 1, 2005, SRA Inc. was listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In 2006, SRA changed company organization to establish SRA Holdings, Inc. as holding company and it was listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Our mission as SRA Group is to provide the best solution to day to day business operations and management of the customers through software information technologies. SRA’s main roles have been consultation and development of our clients’ IT systems. Today’s clients require high quality of service at low cost. They are concerned about ROI in their IT systems. Our consultants, from high level planner/designer to developer, can meet this requirement through the devoted service. We are successfully accomplishing the mission with customer satisfaction. To learn more, please visit https://www.sra.co.jp/en/

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Graphcore IPU Servers

Cirrascale is extremely pleased to offer its customers Graphcore IPU systems in two flavors: as instances in our cloud; and, as servers with eight Graphcore C2 IPU-processor cards for on-premise installations

DENVER (PRWEB)
November 19, 2019

Supercomputing Conference – Cirrascale Cloud Services®, a premier cloud services provider of deep learning infrastructure solutions for Autonomous Vehicle, Medical Imaging, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) workflows, today announced it is offering Graphcore Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) systems with the Graphcore Poplar® software stack as part of its bare-metal cloud service offerings. In addition to offering Graphcore IPU cloud instances, Cirrascale also offers Graphcore IPU systems based on the Dell EMC DSS8440 IPU Server for on-premise customer applications. Graphcore’s IPU machine learning platform provides state of the art performance for training and inference on today’s workflows such as Natural Language Processing, financial risk analysis and alpha estimation, image recognition and many other machine intelligence applications.

“Cirrascale is extremely pleased to offer its customers Graphcore IPU systems in two flavors: as instances in our cloud; and, as servers with eight Graphcore C2 IPU-processor cards for on-premise installations,” said PJ Go, chief executive officer, Cirrascale Cloud Services. “Working with Graphcore to provide this solution in our cloud and on-premise represents an exciting shift in how Cirrascale can further assist our customers in making huge performance improvements to their training and inference workloads.”

As part of its deep learning cloud service, customers can use the Graphcore IPU instances in the cloud from Cirrascale Cloud Services monthly, with discounts available for longer-term use. The solution is purpose-built for the unique demands of AI and delivers over 1.6 PetaFLOPS of FP16/32 mixed precision computing performance. With Cirrascale Cloud Services, the customer experience isn’t virtualized, so they receive dedicated access allowing them to gain the absolute raw horsepower of the system.

“We are excited to be launching a bare-metal IPU service with Cirrascale. Cirrascale delivers outstanding performance and predictable pricing with no extra charges allowing customers to have full access to all their data. Customers can now access IPU-Servers from anywhere with a simple, low-cost monthly fee.” said Nigel Toon, chief executive officer and co-founder Graphcore.

Customers can begin using the Graphcore IPU cloud instances or can learn more about how to purchase their own server for on-premise use by visiting http://graphcore.cirrascale.com.

About Cirrascale Cloud Services

Cirrascale Cloud Services is a premier provider of public and private dedicated cloud solutions enabling deep learning workflows. The company offers cloud-based infrastructure solutions for large-scale deep learning operators, service providers, as well as HPC users. To learn more about Cirrascale Cloud Services and its unique cloud offerings, please visit https://www.cirrascale.com or call (888) 942-3800.

About Graphcore

Graphcore’s Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) is designed specifically for machine intelligence. Its unique architecture lets developers run today’s AI models with state of the art performance while enabling transformative new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next breakthroughs in machine intelligence. For more information please visit https://www.graphcore.ai.

Cirrascale Cloud Services, Cirrascale and the Cirrascale logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cirrascale Cloud Services LLC. Graphcore and Poplar are registered trademarks of Graphcore Ltd. All other names or marks are property of their respective owners.

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New ForneyVault logo

Forney implemented this new website to make it easier to learn how ForneyVault brings automation and accuracy into the testing process for construction and building materials.

PITTSBURGH (PRWEB)
November 19, 2019

Forney LP, the premier supplier of construction material testing equipment, recently advanced its newest innovation, the ForneyVault® software platform, with a new website (https://forneyvault.com/) and new logo.

ForneyVault is a cloud-based construction material testing software platform that closes the loop between sample creation, testing, and data collection, dissemination and use. With ForneyVault, data flows seamlessly throughout the process, reducing the risk of errors, increasing compliance and driving more positive outcomes for labs of all types.

To date, laboratories in more than 30 locations in three countries have logged more than 330,000 tests with ForneyVault.

The new website offers easy-to-understand details on how ForneyVault supports a truly automated process. The website includes “A Guide to Truly Automated Testing” and emphasizes that ForneyVault is applicable to 8+ industries in the realm of construction and academia.

“Forney implemented this new site to make it easier for existing and potential clients to gather information about ForneyVault and learn how to bring automation and accuracy into the testing process for construction and building materials,” says Jeff Dziki, CEO, Forney LP.

Visitors to the website can learn how to have more accurate construction material testing data. With ForneyVault, sample and specimen data are loaded at the time of creation and synchronized with the testing machine. After the test, results are instantly available to LIMS packages, third-party software and a secure, private cloud database, as well as end-users. This eliminates numerous manual processes, increases lab accuracy and productivity, and makes results available 24/7/365.

About Forney LP

Forney LP is a material testing equipment innovator and distributor based in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, with additional facilities in Aurora, Colorado. Forney is the maker of ForneyVault®, an auditable, unalterable materials testing system. Forney’s focus is on material testing equipment for cementitious materials like cement, mortar, group and concrete for the construction industry, downhole cement and proppant materials for oil and gas industry, and general metals testing. Forney sells its products to more than 75 countries.

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