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Celonis, IBM and Red Hat announced a global strategic partnership to help accelerate the adoption of the Celonis Execution Management System and help deliver more flexibility and choice in how customers deploy the technology. "Through the strategic partnership with IBM and Red Hat, we plan to help power the shift from analog to intelligent business execution, helping many of the world's largest companies with their transactional systems, boosting their business performance," said Miguel Milano, Chief Revenue Officer and co-owner of Celonis.

This strategic alliance will integrate MEHITS and MEPPI IT Cooling Solutions and Uninterruptible Power Supplies and offer turnkey solutions and services for data center applications in North American markets. Mitsubishi Electric Uninterruptible Power Supplies enjoy an expanding presence in the North American market, particularly within cloud and colocation data centers.

Enterprises, government agencies, and law enforcement use Cobwebs Technologies' geospatial data and spatial analysis to get location intelligence, which is a powerful tool to understand situations or events, get insight into, e.g., where events take place and who is involved to make informed decisions. In general, harnessing geospatial data requires a geospatial intelligence platform.

ReliaQuest announced the appointment of Kara Wilson to its Board of Directors and Alex Bender as its Chief Marketing Officer. "Providing world-class cybersecurity capabilities requires a world-class team, working together with the common goal of building trust and confidence for businesses of all sizes and sectors," said Brian Murphy, ReliaQuest CEO and co-founder.

Software AG announced the appointment of Dawn Colossi as Chief Marketing Officer. With over 25 years of digital marketing experience, Colossi brings a wealth of experience in driving digital marketing programs for high-growth companies.

For four days this past week, Internet-of-Things giant Ubiquiti failed to respond to requests for comment on a whistleblower's allegations the company had massively downplayed a "Catastrophic" two-month breach ending in January to save its stock price, and that Ubiquiti's insinuation that a third-party was to blame was a fabrication. All of a sudden, local-only networks were being connected to Ubiquiti's cloud, giving rise to countless discussion threads on Ubiquiti's user forums from customers upset over the potential for introducing new security risks.

Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned can now be used to check if your personal information was exposed in yesterday's Facebook data leak that contains the phone numbers and information for over 500 million users. Troy Hunt has added the leaked data to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service to help users determine if a Facebook member's data was exposed in the leak.

The Windows 10 Spring 2021 Update will be rolled out on Windows 10 2004 and Windows 20H2 as an enablement package, which will install very quickly and with a single reboot. What's coming in Windows 10 21H1. Sadly, Windows 10 21H1, the Spring 2021 update, is not a very exciting release with a lot of new features.

Canadian IoT solutions provider Sierra Wireless announced that it resumed production at its manufacturing sites halted after a ransomware attack that hit its internal network and corporate website on March 20. The Canadian multinational added that the ransomware attack did not impact its customer-facing products and services since the affected internal IT systems are separated.

Attackers tried to insert backdoor into PHP source codeThe PHP development team has averted an attempted supply chain compromise that could have opened a backdoor into many web servers. The growing threat to CI/CD pipelinesBy hardening CI/CD pipelines and addressing security early in the development process, developers can deliver software faster and more securely.