Security News
The U.S. citizens'-rights watchdog organization has filed suit in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Illinois against Clearview AI, on behalf of a number of organizations comprised of vulnerable communities-such as survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence and undocumented immigrants-for violating the the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Clearview has been collecting what are called "Faceprints," or unique biometric identifiers similar to someone's fingerprint or DNA profile, and then selling them to "Private companies, police, federal agencies and wealthy individuals, allowing them to secretly track and target whomever they wished using face recognition technology," ACLU Staff Attorney Nathan Freed Wessler wrote in a blog post published Thursday.
Patriot One Technologies wholly-owned subsidiary Xtract Technologies is pleased to announce it has secured a $157,000 contract with Canada's Department of National Defence through the Public Works and Government Services Canada Division, as part of the Innovative Solutions Canada Program. The outcome will be a solution that will provide innovative devices, applications, personal protective equipment and technology to help firefighters work in a more Head Up Hands Free mode of operation on the fire ground.
Siloed security tools and isolated network development and security projects have resulted in vendor sprawl, which means more management consoles to track and more data that isn't being correlated quickly enough to detect fast-moving threats. Some AI systems are now able to aggregate and analyze massive amounts of data coming from hundreds of sources across an organization's IT and security infrastructure to detect hidden threats - a process that not even the best data analysts could match.
Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, announced the general availability of RedisAI and RedisGears. Together, RedisAI and RedisGears transform Redis Enterprise into a low-latency, real-time data platform for infinite processing capabilities across any data model, while simultaneously inferencing artificial intelligence requests all within Redis.
Octo has announced the hiring of award-winning artificial intelligence and machine learning authority Rob Albritton as Senior Director of its AI Center of Excellence. Albritton will guide and shape Octo's AI capability and offerings, set long-term AI strategy and vision, and develop the company's AI Center of Excellence through its research and development center, oLabs.
Ben Buchanan has written "A National Security Research Agenda for Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence." It's really good -- well worth reading....
Accenture has acquired Byte Prophecy, an automated insights and big data analytics company based in Ahmedabad, India, to meet the growing demand for enterprise-scale AI and digital analytics solutions across the region. "Beyond advanced technology capabilities, Accenture brings our clients a co-innovation mindset, and in Byte Prophecy we found a partner with the right mix of technology and consulting skills, and a client-centric innovation culture."
Alipay, the world's leading open digital lifestyle platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, unveiled the enhanced version of the AI-powered risk engine AlphaRisk, the core of its world-leading risk and security technologies. "The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the globe. Businesses and services which can adapt quicker to this growing trend will be in a stronger position to serve customers. Meanwhile, rapid digitization also comes with new challenges in risk and security," said Dr. Zhao Wenbiao, Vice President of Ant Group and Chief Scientist of Alipay Security Lab in his keynote speech.
Sony announced the upcoming release of two models of intelligent vision sensors, the first image sensors in the world to be equipped with AI processing functionality. Including AI processing functionality on the image sensor itself enables high-speed edge AI processing and extraction of only the necessary data, which, when using cloud services, reduces data transmission latency, minimizes any privacy concerns, and reduces power consumption and communication costs.
More than 200,000 users and a multitude of enterprise clients worldwide already trust Dathena's end-to-end AI-powered solutions to identify, classify, and protect sensitive information and ensure regulatory compliance. Dathena's patented AI tools can unlock crucial new efficiencies, facilitate regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of costly data breaches.