The post Pega Collaborates with AWS to Deliver Pega EU Service Boundary appeared first on AiThority.

The CRA as written poses an unnecessary economic and technological risk to the EU; Open Source leaders wish to work with the European Commission on the CRA’s noble goal of secure software for all

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with Associaçāo de Empresas de Software Open Source Portuguesas (ESOP), CNLL, The Document Foundation (TDF), European Open Source Software Business Associations (APELL), COSS – Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions, Linux Foundation Europe, OpenForum Europe (OFE), Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA), Open Source Initiative (OSI), Open Systems and Solutions (COSS), OW2, and Software Heritage Foundation today released an open letter in response to the Cyber Resilience Act and its potential to negatively impact technological and economic development across the European Union.

AiThority Interview Insights: AiThority Interview with at Brian Sathianathan, Co-Founder and CTO at Iterate.ai

In this letter co-signed by the twelve open source software leadership organisations, the group collectively offers their expertise directly to the EU and member states to make constructive changes to the legislation in support of strengthening cybersecurity without harming the open source software community, which underpins commerce and public benefit concerns alike. Interested parties can view a copy of this letter and its signees in multiple languages :

Dear Members of the European Parliament,
Dear Representatives to the Council of the European Union,

We, the undersigned, represent leading governance institutions within the European and global open source software community. We write to express our concern that the greater open source community has been underrepresented during the development of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) to date and wish to ensure this is remedied throughout the co-legislative process by lending our support.

Open source software (OSS) represents more than 70% of the software present in products with digital elements in Europe. Yet, our community does not have the benefit of an established relationship with the co-legislators. The software and other technical artefacts produced by us are unprecedented in their contribution to the technology industry along with our digital sovereignty and associated economic benefits on many levels. With the CRA, more than 70% of the software in Europe is about to be regulated without an in-depth consultation.

As acknowledged in the EU’s Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023, open source software plays a critical role in the digital economy, powering everything from cloud infrastructure to mobile applications to public transportation systems. In Europe alone, we represent about €100 billion in economic impact. It is therefore essential that any legislation that impacts the software industry takes into account the unique needs and perspectives of open source software, as well as our modern methodologies used to create software.

Read More about AiThority Interview: AiThority Interview with Thomas Kriebernegg, Managing Director & Co-Founder at App Radar

We deeply share the CRA’s aim to improve the cybersecurity of digital products and services in the EU and embrace the urgent need to protect citizens and economies by improving software security.

However, our voices and expertise should be heard and have an opportunity to inform public authorities’ decisions. If the CRA is, in fact, implemented as written, it will have a chilling effect on open source software development as a global endeavour, with the net effect of undermining the EU’s own expressed goals for innovation, digital sovereignty, and future prosperity.

Moving forward, we urge you to engage with the open source community and take our concerns into account as you consider the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act. Specifically, moving forward, we urge you to:

1. Recognise the unique characteristics of open source software and ensure that the Cyber Resilience Act does not unintentionally harm the open source ecosystem.
2. Consult with the open source community during the co-legislative process.
3. Ensure that any development under the CRA takes into account the diversity of open and transparent open source software development practices.
4. Establish a mechanism for ongoing dialogue and collaboration between the European institutions and the open source community, to ensure that future legislation and policy decisions are informed.

The undersigned organisations collectively represent the governance of much of the open source software which industry and society rely on. We offer our collective expertise, including envisioning how these professional organisations may support a more inclusive and effective process to inform the CRA today. The same increase in dialog and collaboration will continue to support the CRA’s successful implementation in this new regulatory paradigm. We are prepared to send a representative delegation to meet with the members now.

We appreciate your attention to this matter and look forward to working with you to ensure that the Cyber Resilience Act reflects the concerns and contributions of the entire software industry, including the open source community.

 Latest AiThority Interview Insights : AiThority Interview with Joshua Wilson, Commercial Director, JAPAC at Crimtan

 [To share your insights with us, please write to sghosh@martechseries.com] 

The post The Eclipse Foundation and Leading Open Source Organisations Deliver Open Letter to European Commission Regarding the Cyber Resilience Act appeared first on AiThority.

• CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager helps organizations meet compliance requirements and support data governance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments

• Latest Bring Your Own Key integrations include support for encryption in Google Gmail and stronger control over keys for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and SAP Data Custodian

Thales announced the latest innovations of CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager that help organizations address digital sovereignty requirements across major public clouds including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, SAP and Salesforce. Organisations that leverage these cloud providers can now leverage CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager’s Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) capabilities for enhanced data security and encryption key ownership.

Read More About AI News : Role of AI in Helping B2B companies that are Missing Out on Buyer Intent Data

According to the 2022 Thales Cloud Security Study, multi-cloud adoption is accelerating, with 72% of all organisations surveyed using multiple cloud service providers. In addition, 52% of respondents in the study said that they manage the keys to their cloud encrypted data in the cloud provider console.

With BYOK functionality, customers can centralise key management across all clouds with external key management services ensuring full encryption capabilities and key lifecycle management to maintain control of sensitive data across multiple public clouds.

CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager, the industry-leading multi-cloud encryption key lifecycle management solution, enables customers to migrate to the cloud and manage both native cloud keys as well as Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK). The Thales service supports growing preference among enterprises to maintain and control their own keys outside of the cloud where their sensitive data is stored, achieve regulatory compliance, and unlock the full potential of their multi-cloud environment.

Todd Moore, VP, Encryption Products at Thales, said: “Businesses across every industry are moving to the cloud and migrating their sensitive information in the process. While this presents significant benefits, IT professionals also have to contend with this shift’s newfound security implications. We help customers address critical challenges in data governance, risk, and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments while responding to the growing preference among enterprises to centralise, maintain and control their high-quality keys for use in the cloud.”

Browse The Complete News About AI : Anari AI Launches Thor X to Enhance Cloud-based 3D Applications

These latest integrations help strengthen customer trust with their cloud migration, knowing that their data will always stay private and encrypted regardless of the location or state of the data. CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager now supports:

• Amazon Web Services with BYOK for AWS GovCloud, BYOK for AWS China Cloud, and support for AWS CloudHSM
• Google Cloud with Customer Managed Encryption Keys, External Key Management (HYOK), and Ubiquitous Data Encryption
• Google Workspace with Client Side Encryption for Drive, Meet, Calendar, and Gmail – marking the first BYOK encryption support for Gmail
• Microsoft Azure with BYOK for Microsoft Azure GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Microsoft Azure Managed HSM
• Microsoft Office365 with BYOK via Azure Key Vault
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with BYOK
• Salesforce/Sandbox with BYOK and Cache-Only Key Service (HYOK)
• SAP with BYOK for Data Custodian

CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager provides a single pane of glass solution that unifies different interfaces across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, presenting them in a consolidated, centralised view, offering the following key benefits to customers:

• Delivering data sovereignty controls in the cloud: Providing the necessary tools to customers to protect data anywhere and in any state — at-rest, in-motion, or in-use – bringing operational efficiency and increased security to their cloud deployment.
• Enabling customer choice in all clouds: Enabling cloud migration through maximising integrations and data controls, irrespective of the cloud or combination of clouds used.
• Managing risk across an evolving compliance landscape: Ensuring vendor independence by demonstrating risk assessment and compliance, enabling portability across clouds.

Thales’ ongoing partnership with multiple cloud service platforms helps customers confidently work through potential challenges, mitigating risk, ensuring compliance, and building operational resiliency across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments

Future of AI-driven Customer Relationship:  Microsoft’s Viva Sales and the Future of AI-driven Customer Relationship and Experience Management

[To share your insights with us, please write to sghosh@martechseries.com] 

The post Thales Encryption Key Management Innovations Help Organizations Achieve Digital Sovereignty Across Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments appeared first on AiThority.

Topcon Positioning Germany is one of 22 partners involved in CampusOS; a research project with the goal of developing a modular ecosystem for open 5G campus networks based on open radio technologies and interoperable network components. As part of the German technology program titled “Campus networks based on 5G communication technologies,” innovative solutions for open 5G networks are being developed and tested in conjunction with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. The program was launched at the beginning of 2022 and will run through 2025.

Latest Aithority Insights : AiThority.com Joins the Digital Transformation Forum 2022 (South Africa) as Media Partner

“We will put a lot of time and energy into this project, because 5G campus networks are an important key technology for the construction site of the future.”

The use of artificial intelligence in the operation of autonomous plants and construction machinery requires the highest level of digital sovereignty. If Construction 4.0, including far-reaching automation, is to become a reality in Germany and the rest of the world, the processes of such data-driven solutions must run reliably, quickly and autonomously.

Sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Economics

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection is providing around 18.1 million euros in funding for the technology program over the next three years, which will cost around 33 million euros in total. The Fraunhofer Institutes FOKUS and HHI are coordinating the project. 22 partners from industry and research are involved. They include Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, Robert Bosch and more.

“To enable companies to operate their own campus networks, certain requirements must be met; from standardized technology building blocks to network structures. As the sole representative of the construction industry, Topcon will test the technologies on reference test sites and therefore, will help shape the solutions for the future,” explains Ulrich Hermanski, Chief Marketing Officer of the Topcon Positioning Group. “We look forward to working with our research partners to take the digital construction site to the next level.”

Browse The Complete News About Aithority : Tigo Energy to Unveil Record-Setting Inverter Compatibility Database at Intersolar Europe

The future of the construction industry is digital

With this research project, construction companies will one day be able to operate plants and machinery autonomously in open campus networks. This will allow the fluid and uninterrupted monitoring of construction sites in real time, as well as the networking of all sensors and construction machines in use on construction sites.

Completely autonomous from public networks, 5G technology guarantees seamless machine-to-machine communication and transmits data ten times faster than 4G. The campus networks required for this, based on 5G frequencies, are practically digital ecosystems. They operate with open radio technologies and dialog-enabled components. The campus networks are geographically limited and can operate on a factory floor or on a construction site.

Hermanski explains: “We will put a lot of time and energy into this project, because 5G campus networks are an important key technology for the construction site of the future.”

Read More About Aithority News : Atos Launches Innovative Edge to Cloud 5G and AI-enabled Solution

 [To share your insights with us, please write to sghosh@martechseries.com]

The post Topcon Represents Construction Industry in “CampusOS” 5G Research Project appeared first on AiThority.