Training Industry.com, a leading industry portal, has announced its selections for 2020 Top Companies lists for eLearning authoring tools. HurixDigital is named as one of the companies in their 2020 watch list for its eLearning authoring tool - KITABOO Author.

Training Industry is a leading research and information resource for corporate L&D leaders. It publishes the Training Industry Top 20 report on critical sectors of the training marketplace. To inform and update L&D professionals on the best training services and technologies available and their providers.

Kitaboo Author from HurixDigital is a cloud-based authoring platform for creating native digital content. It has cross-device compatibility with responsive design and the content can be published in reflowable ePUB format and previewed for different devices and layouts.

The companies listed were selected on the basis of specific criteria such as leadership and innovation of authoring tool, breadth and quality of authoring tool features and capabilities, company size and growth potential, quality and number of clients, awards, recognition and competitive differentiation.

“We’re happy to be recognized among the Training Industry’s watch list companies. Our endeavor is to help our clients in delivering best quality digital-first output. Keeping our clients’ as well as the end users’ needs in mind, we have designed our authoring tool to create native digital content. With an easy-to-use interface and the ability to create engaging content, our authoring platform is well equipped to meet the content creation needs of publishers, enterprises and institutions.”, says Vishal Dani, SVP & Head – Cloud Platforms & Technology, HurixDigital.

Hurix also offers content transformation services such as PDF to ePUB3 conversion, WCAG 2.1 and Accessibility solutions. Along with Flash to HTML5 conversion, where legacy Flash-based content is converted to HTML5 format, complete with interactive widgets and multimedia elements. KITABOO - HurixDigital’s flagship eBook platform has over 10 million users in 20 countries.

About Hurix

HurixDigital is a pioneer in delivering digital content solutions for publishers and enterprises globally. We enable multinational corporations in their digital transformation journey with our cloud-based platforms, leading-edge products and solutions. We also deliver digital marketing solutions that help clients stay ahead of the curve. At HurixDigital we foster thought leadership and innovation that help us add value to our clients’ business.

Unplanned Downtime and Systems Outages Increase Costs, Affecting 58% of Respondents 

CLEVELAND, Ohio –March 17, 2020– Keyfactor, the leader in securing digital identities, and the Ponemon Institute today released the 2020 UK edition of “The Impact of Unsecured Digital Identities”, a benchmark report exploring enterprises’ ability to manage increasing numbers of cryptographic keys and digital certificates securing network connections.

Regulatory measures such as GDPR put focus on data privacy at design, tightening requirements and guiding IT security controls like Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Continued adoption of IoT, cloud and mobile technologies are increasing the number of digital certificates and keys that ensure secure connections and identity authentication through PKI. 

“This research demonstrates that despite heightened compliance focus, businesses struggle to manage foundational security like PKI and the tools and processes that maintain it. This is concerning, especially as the number of digital certificates and keys within enterprise continues to multiply,” said Chris Hickman, chief security officer at Keyfactor.

Half of respondents indicate regulatory compliance as a strategic priority and two-thirds say their organisation is adding additional layers of encryption to comply with regulations and IT policies. However, undocumented or unenforced key management policies are problematic, with respondents averaging more than four failed audits or compliance experiences in the last 24 months. 

“Less than half of respondents say they have sufficient staff dedicated to PKI,” said Hickman. “A lack of program ownership, combined with the constant care and feeding that digital identities need, has introduced new risk, creating an exposure epidemic. Unless leaders invest in in-house processes and outsourced resources to manage PKI, enterprise will risk failed audits, fines and worse, a security breach.”

Additional key findings reveal:

• A rise in security incidents: on average, organisations experienced a Certificate Authority (CA) or rogue man-in-the-middle (MITM) and/or phishing attack four times in the last 24 months, facing a 32% likelihood of a MITM or phishing attack over the next 24 months.

• Staffing shortages: on average, 15% of IT security budget is spent on PKI deployment annually, yet just 43% of respondents say their organisation has enough IT security staff members dedicated to PKI deployment.

• Lack of visibility: 70% of respondents say their organisation does not know how many digital certificates and keys it has within the business.

• Cryptography related security incidents undermine trust: 68% of respondents say failure to secure keys and certificates undermines the trust their organisation relies upon to operate.

• Cryptography lacks a center of excellence: despite the rising cost of PKI and growth of cryptography-related incidents, just 40% of companies have the ability to drive enterprise-wide best practice.

• Spending trend:represented organisations are spending an average of £37M on IT security annually, with £1.37M dedicated to PKI.

“Our 2019 reportin North America was a wake-up call in many ways – it was the first report of its kind to investigate the role that digital certificates and keys play in creating trust and supporting security,” said Dr. Larry Ponemon, founder of the Ponemon Institute. "This year we expanded the report’s boundaries to examine the state of PKI within the United Kingdom. While UK-based organisations score slightly higher than their North American peers on overall PKI program management, they’re struggling in compliance-related categories, which may expose greater operational and security risk.”

The study was conducted by Ponemon Institute on behalf of Keyfactor and included responses from more than 400 IT and IT security practitioners in the United Kingdom across 14 industries including: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and automotive.

To view the complete 2020 UK edition of “The Impact of Unsecured Digital Identities” report, visit: https://info.keyfactor.com/en-gb/the-impact-of-unsecured-digital-identities-2020-report-featuring-the-critical-trust-index-united-kingdom-edition.

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About Keyfactor
Keyfactorempowers enterprises of all sizes to escape the exposure epidemic – when breaches, outages and failed audits from digital certificates and keys impact brand loyalty and the bottom line. Powered by an award-winning PKI as-a-service platform for certificate lifecycle automation and IoT device security, IT andInfoSec teams can easily manage digital certificates and keys. And product teams can build IoT devices with crypto-agility and at massive scale. Exceptional products and a white-glove customer experience for its 500+ global customers have earned Keyfactor a 98.5% retention rate and a 99% support satisfaction rate. Learn more at www.keyfactor.com.

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The Language associations and collaborative support network of the European Centre for Modern Languages belonging to the Council of Europe had its Twitter account (@LACSECML) taken over by a group of hackers on March 9th.

In it the hackers mentioned that the Muscovite metro stations of Dubrovka, the famous Russian landmark Ostankino Tower, Paveletsky railway station and flights belonging to Russian national carrier "Aeroflot" and also the British Airways has been contaminated by them with COVID-19 virus, which is the viral agent of an ongoing global outbreak in which the WHO had declared a pandemic.

The hackers used the names of "Thomas Little Evil Utoyo", "Calton", "David Law" and "Thanthom" as tweet signatures while at the same time claiming that individuals with names of "Calvin Goh", "Hendy", "Gideon W", "Audentis", "Mister Eriee O", "Khengwin", "T-Zehang" and "曾 家 顺" were involved in the alleged bioterrorist deeds. Moreover they threatened attacks against RKA Mission Control Center that is the mission control center of the Russian Federal Space Agency in the near future.

As of time of writing the tweets in question has not been taken down yet.

First-hand source:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200311184829/https://twitter.com/LACSECML/status/1236916101348548609

 Techment Technology is the leading provider of innovative software products and services in Chhattisgarh. It was founded by two visionaries, Manish Agrawal & Somesh Sharma, in the year 2013.

Techment has announced the opening of its new development center in Indore; its third in India. Being the vanguards of developing a software ecosystem in Chhattisgarh, Techment has been able to empower careers, and create job opportunities in the Tier-II city Bhilai. Leveraging its good corporate governance practices, the organization  expects the new center to create significant value and propel growth further. 

Manish Agrawal, co-founder & CEO, shared Techment's fascinating journey from a small startup with a team of "3" to an organisation with 150+ team members, who has made a mark in the global technology community. "The opening of this new office is a logical step in our business growth strategy, as diversity will further strengthen our innovative capabilities" he added, while sharing Techment's grand vision of becoming a trendsetting digital catalyst.

Somesh Sharma, co-founder and COO, spoke passionately about Techment's potential catalytic role in creating career opportunities for local talent of Indore, and MP. The opening of the new office, he said, was part of the ambitious expansion plan. He spoke of Techment's distinguished culture of learning, and winning, about Techment 2.0 and the mass hiring of software engineers.

Awards and Accolades

Techment's process automation tool "Transassured" was acquired by a US based organisation AVO, in 2019. The acquisition brought forth Tecment's capabilities as a world-class software product and services organisation.

Techment also received the prestigious award by Entrepreneur Organisation (EO) for the "Most Innovative Business Model", in 2019.

 The presence of distinguished dignitaries, CEOs, CTOs, bureaucrats and other senior leaders from the world of technology added immense grace and gravity to the event.

About Techment Technology

Techment is a product focused development company that enables organisations at global level to solve business challenges with the help of technology. Their team consists of passionate techno-functional experts that bring an outside-in approach and work as an extension of client teams. This, in combination with their high-velocity agile delivery model, leads to operational efficiency gains that result in higher engagement ROI for the clients. The organisation is industry agnostic and works with companies of all sizes, including disruptive startups. Headquarter in Bhilai (India), Techment has offices in Bangalore and Dallas, USA.

Techment is driven strongly by the principle of Agility, Simplicity and Innovation. 

For more information, please visit: http://www.techment.com 

Montreal - While the “Tinder” app recently made headlines for its Coronavirus prevention message to its users, another, more discreet company had already created through Wordpress, an original global support movement by spreading a message of hope through the collaboration of its thousands of users.

In early March, a Canadian company, "PAGUP", specializing in the design of Wordpress (CMS) Plugins (programs to execute specific functionalities on a website), deployed a small feature through one of them, "Better-Robots.txt", allowing its users to display a message of support in their respective robots.txt (monsiteweb.com/robots.txt) for all people directly affected by this virus.

Upon approval of its users, the plugin in question, whose main function is to create a robots.txt (a file essentially containing instructions intended for search engines - Google, Bing, Yahoo,… - and crawlers), adding, with no consequences whatsoever for the targeted website, a message consisting of both a warning (geek humor) against the Virus “TO CORONAVIRUS / COVID-19, DO NOT CRAWL & INDEX HUMANITY” (compared here to a traditional robot / crawler)  but also health advice for everyone (washing hands, wearing a mask, etc.).

The message ends with a note of hope: “Never give up! We will come out of this stronger ”. See here: https://better-robots.com/robots.txt

# TO CORONAVIRUS / COVID-19, DO NOT CRAWL & INDEX HUMANITY.

User-agent: Coronavirus/Covid-19

Disallow: /

# To you, who will maybe read this message: WASH your hands frequently, AVOID touching eyes, nose and mouth, PRACTICE respiratory hygiene and NEVER GIVE UP!

# We will come out of this stronger.

This message (available in 5 languages), which looks more like a bottle in the sea, was voluntarily deployed by several tens of thousands of users and website owners from around the world (USA, France, Canada, England, Spain, Sweden, …) as a sign of support, and continues its spread on a regular basis.

An initiative that has been welcomed by many Internet users and which is becoming more and more popular.

For more information:

Want to try this plugin and be part of this Movement? https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-robots-txt/

https://pagup.com/  (the company making these plugins)

https://pagup.com/robots.txt  (their robots.txt used by thousands of websites)