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Christy-Uher-Ferguson

Contingency plans imperative for any event activities says Gartner

Contingency plans will minimise the business impact of canceled or postponed events and enable organisations to overcome associated disruptions due to coronavirus, according to Gartner. Respondents to the 2019 ...

GEMS

GEMS delivers 4.3M+ remote learning sessions with near 100% attendance

GEMS Education schools in the UAE have rolled out exceptional remote learning plans for students and parents since the mandated closure of schools and the move to E-learning last month. In excess of 4.3 million...

Dr-Johannes-Ullrich

SANS reports increased risk to companies using RDP post COVID-19 outbreak

SANS Institute, the global leader in cyber security training and certifications, has identified a 30% increase in attacker interest in Remote Desktop Protocol, RDP, servers during the month of March 2020. This ...

Richard-Marko

ESET Foundation to finance 100,000 COVID-19 kits and tests in Slovak Republic

Scientists from the Slovak companies MultiplexDX, Lambda Life and ProScience Tech have joined forces with virologists from the Biomedical Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, BMC SAV, to develop a reagent ...

WHO

UN: Now is ‘not the time’ to reduce funding for the WHO in COVID-19 fight, urges Guterres

“As I said on 8 April, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most dangerous challenges this world has faced in our lifetime. It is above all a human crisis with severe health and socio-economic consequences”, he ...

Safty-at-store

UN: Growth forecast at -3 per cent, as IMF offers debt relief 

Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the IMF’s Research Department, said in a blog post that following the global lockdown in response to the coronavirus, “the magnitude and speed of collapse in a...

Dr-Jassim-Haji

First responders not leveraging AI enough to control pandemic

As the global epidemic of the COVID -19 plagues the world, we are in danger of not learning from many of our past disasters and to really utilise and re-emphasize the many fields where artificial intelligence a...

Alain-Kaddoum

Is this the right time for hypermarkets to automate their warehouses

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across countries and with the government’s mandate to practice social distancing, retailers have witnessed a rapid surge in e-grocery sales, a development which could cause a se...

Brian-Kropp

Learning from Asian businesses who successfully managed remote work

Organisations around the world find themselves in different phases of managing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the challenges vary by location, industry and business maturity, identifying and impleme...

Rajesh-Ganesan

AI, ML systems may be hacked by privileged users

Prominent limitations of cybersecurity solutions include the lack of large-scale threat analytics that leverage ML for both structured and unstructured data, the inability to empower end-user devices to detect ...