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A company is suing the Police Digital Service over a framework worth up to £18m after losing a bid to provide a mass surveillance platform, claiming police managers broke laws on the awarding of public contracts. Excession Technologies Ltd is suing the organisation formerly known as the Police ICT Company on the grounds that it broke the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations after allegedly misunderstanding Excession's platform was capable of doing.

Digital Guardian announced new enhancements to its endpoint DLP visibility and security controls specifically to secure a hybrid work model. "According to a recent Gallup polli, seven in 10 U.S. white-collar workers are still working remotely and many organizations have turned to Secure Access Service Edge to secure those employees, despite some clear gaps in those solutions," said Mordecai Rosen, Digital Guardian CEO. "Our new endpoint DLP features are purpose-built to address those SASE gaps and the market is responding as evidenced by Digital Guardian's record year over year new business sales bookings and revenue growth."

Digital trailblazers: Only 10% enterprises have the most advanced digital operating models, connectivity platforms and strategies ensuring secure and trusted operations. Digital migrants: 52% of enterprises have limited digitalization in their business, but still need to improve in several areas of digital capability.

Nutanix and Cyxtera announced their partnership to launch the first Nutanix Federal Innovation Lab, powered by Cyxtera's digital exchange and Enterprise Bare Metal. The Federal Innovation Lab, located in a Cyxtera data center in Northern Virginia, provides U.S. Federal customers as well as industry partners with an environment to build proofs of concept and test mission-critical applications using on-demand infrastructure that readily supports hybrid multicloud solutions via a single operating platform.

As the prevalence of digital fraud attempts on businesses and consumers continues to rise, TransUnion's analysis found that fraudsters are re-focusing their efforts from financial services to the travel and leisure and gaming industries. Gaming and travel and leisure were the two most impacted industries globally for the suspected digital fraud attempt rate, rising 393.0% and 155.9% in the last year, respectively.

ACI Worldwide announced a collaboration with PayPal to bring digital wallet payment options to ACI's biller clients like Monroe County Water Authority. PayPal and Venmo will be integrated with ACI Speedpay, giving consumers more options to make bill payments conveniently and securely using the digital methods that suit them best.

ProcessMAP announced that during the first half of the calendar year 2021, the company released more than 150 innovations to meet the rapidly evolving needs of customers in the areas of digital transformation, data analytics, regulatory compliance, and risk management. Workbenches provide a 360-degree view of data and links to various program areas such Incident Reporting & Investigation, Risk Management, and Action Plan Management; and enable users to create and share their views by using the ProcessMAP widget library.

Fraudsters are increasingly focusing on digital accounts, whether that is by compromising existing user accounts or creating fake new accounts to commit fraud, an Arkose Labs report reveals. More than ever, fraudsters are attacking both of these digital touchpoints, which makes ensuring digital account integrity more vital than ever for businesses.

Google Cloud and Workday announced a strategic partnership that will enable businesses across the world to further their digital transformations. As a Workday preferred cloud partner across core industries-such as healthcare, financial services, and retail-Google Cloud will help businesses run Workday enterprise applications for finance, HR, and planning in a public cloud environment, with ease-of-management, and low network latency.

The COVID-19 pandemic engendered new vulnerabilities in the digital ecosystem for threat actors to exploit, resulting in items like vaccines, fraudulent vaccine certificates, and other COVID-19 related items being sold in dark marketplaces and underground forums, a Constella Intelligence report reveals. The research analyzed the value of personally identifiable information, drawing links between the breach economy, PII, and a range of emerging digital threats to executives and brands.