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The new release brings together the capabilities of user and entity behavior analytics, endpoint data loss prevention, digital forensics and insider threat management into a cloud-native platform to empower customers to mitigate the risk of data and IP loss. "Our overarching goal at DTEX is to help our customers better understand their workforces, protect their data and make smarter, more informed business decisions more rapidly," said Mohan Koo, co- founder and CTO, DTEX Systems.

RSA announced the general availability of RSA NetWitness Detect AI, a cloud-native advanced analytics and machine learning solution that provides rapid detection and actionable insights on data captured by the RSA NetWitness Platform. RSA NetWitness Detect AI applies cloud-scale processing for behavior analytics and uses unsupervised machine-learning to detect and respond to threats without manual oversight.

Mr. Krishnan will report to Matthieu Caillat, Chief Operating Officer, AXA XL and will be based in London. Mr. Caillat said: "I am pleased to welcome Ashok to AXA XL. His extensive expertise and background in analytics and data science, combined with his knowledge of the P&C insurance market, will further strengthen AXA XL's innovation and technology-led approach as we accelerate our data strategy."

These bots work to expose and take advantage of vulnerabilities at a rapid pace, stealing critical personal and financial data, scraping intellectual property, installing malware, contributing to DDoS attacks, distorting web analytics and damaging SEO. Luckily, tools, approaches, solutions and best practices exist to help companies combat these malicious bots, but cybercriminals have not been resting on their laurels and are constantly working on ways to bypass the protections used to block bot activity. It is important to regularly review what tactics you are using to combat bot traffic and analyze your success rate, as this process will help you understand whether your mitigation approach has already been figured out and worked around by cybercriminals.

Amazon Web Services announced three new analytics capabilities that dramatically improve the performance of Amazon Redshift data warehouses, make it significantly easier for customers to move and combine data across data stores, and make it much simpler for end-users to get more value from their business data using machine learning. AWS customers use a wide variety of analytics tools for different use cases, including Amazon Athena for serverless querying, Amazon Elasticsearch Service for searching and visualizing log data, Amazon Kinesis for processing real-time data streams, Amazon Redshift for data warehousing, and Amazon EMR for running Apache Spark, Hive, Presto, and other big data frameworks.

Accenture has agreed to acquire End-to-End Analytics, a boutique analytics and data science consultancy based in Palo Alto, CA, with additional offices in Brazil. End-to-End Analytics' team of more than 70 professionals are highly skilled in the development of data and analytics strategy, and the application of optimization, machine learning and AI on a broad range of technology platforms.

Agile1 has launched Predictive Analytics Risk Scoring to provide technology executives the foresight to understand cyber risk exposure. The platform is designed to help organizations identify, prioritize and quantify cybersecurity risks with 78% fewer false positives.

Entersekt announced a partnership with NuData Security, a Mastercard company. This agreement allows the fintech to tightly integrate NuData's behavioral analytics solution NuDetect with the Entersekt Secure Platform.

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WekaIO together with Destiny Corporation have published a reference design that is capable of delivering 5X runtime and wall clock time improvements for SAS analytics long running jobs, while also providing among the best storage economics. "Our SAS analytics reference design solves these challenges and transforms data analytics for a more agile environment," said Shailesh Manjrekar, WekaIO's head of AI and strategic alliances.