March 2, 2017

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Industry News: Information and Communications

Putting your data in the cloud could actually be more secure: Raimund Genesedit

Mint

By Leslie D’Monte & Sanjay Gupta

With over 30 years of computer and network security experience, Raimund Genes is currently chief technology officer at Trend Micro Inc., one of the leading security solutions providers in the world. In an interview, Genes talks about keeping hackers at bay in an increasingly connected world, devising a security strategy for the Internet of Things (IoT) and how machine learning may impact security in future. He will also address EmTech India 2017—an emerging technology conference organized by Mint and MIT Technology Review—on 10 March in New Delhi.

Cyber SecurityIoT
Data is the new oil of the global economy: RBEIedit

Data Quest

By Onkar Sharma

Sri Krishnan, Vice President, RBEI tells that its data analytics offering has an entire range of solutions from data gathering, modeling, validating and deployment in the real world environment. With the advent of Internet-of-Things, data analytics has become an integral part of any connected eco-system. Its team is actively creating such end-to-end IoT solutions for business domains like mobility, industry 4.0, smart homes, healthcare, agriculture, and energy, etc. 

IoT
Check Point Software: Ransomware Attacks Doubled in Second Half of 2016edit

IT News Online

Check Point Software Technologies has released its H2 2016 Global Threat Intelligence Trends, revealing that ransomware attacks doubled during the period. Out of all recognized malware incidents globally, the percentage of ransomware attacks increased from 5.5 percent to 10.5 percent between July and December 2016.

Cyber SecurityIoT
Asia-Pacific IoT adoption pegged at 86% by 2019 on strong business gains: Reportedit

Mint

By Nandita Mathur

The report by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise firm, found that although 97% of the 1,150 respondents from Asia-Pacific have an understanding of IoT, many are still unclear of its exact definition and what value it brings to their organizations

IoT

Industry News: Education

Time for closer industry-academia tiesedit

The Hindu Business Line

To nurture entrepreneurship, higher educational institutions should create an ecosystem by providing mentoring, financial and technical assistance that will encourage students to come up with innovative ideas, says a report released by the ICT Academy. The report released by ICT Academy, a not-for-profit initiative of the Government of India, Tamil Nadu government and industry, has 50 recommendations based on inputs from 142 engineering and arts and science colleges in the State.

Higher Education
U.S. varsities welcome foreign studentsedit

The Hindu

The US Consul General in Mumbai, Tom Vajda, said on Monday American universities welcome foreign students for higher education. “U.S. universities value diversity and endeavour to provide students with a well-rounded education, and the American population is very accommodating towards foreign students. The personal connections that foreign students make during their time in the United States are among the bedrocks of the strong U.S.-India relationship,” he said.

Higher Education

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NTPC says generation grew 4.7 per cent so far this yearedit

ET Energy World

By Debapriya Mondal

India’s largest power generator NTPC Ltd’s generation has grown by 4.7 per cent so far this year as compared with last year’s performance. The maharatna’s power generation till February this year stood at 251.036 billion units against 239.845 billion units in the previous financial year.

PowerRenewable Energy
Corporation to promote solar energy in a big wayedit

The Hindu

The civic body that has installed 44 kW capacity solar panels atop the roof of Anna Maaligai, its office, at a cost of Rs 55 lakh in 2016, a first-of-its-kind in Tamil Nadu, is reaping the benefits now handsomely.

Solar Energy
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