Drata, the leading continuous security and compliance automation platform, today announced the launch of two highly anticipated capabilities: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and User Access Reviews (UAR). The addition of Role-Based Access Control enables even more partitioned access to various elements of the Drata platform to better manage compliance programs. And with Drata's User Access Reviews offering, customers can automate the pulling of access levels of all employees across all the applications they use and easily review that access on a recurring basis. Both will be showcased at the company's inaugural Drataverse Digital, a virtual product launch event being held on October 24 at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET.

Full visibility into a compliance program requires managing and monitoring employee access and permissions—it's a fundamental capability that allows GRC teams to maintain compliance and build trust effectively. Role-Based Access Control gives Drata customers the ability to ensure that employees and teams only have access to the necessary information required for their job roles, minimizing risk and protecting business-sensitive data. User Access Reviews automates the access management review process, making it easy to spot unwanted user access issues while integrating with common ticketing solutions such as Jira and ServiceNow to track and provide evidence of remediation across organizations. The addition of Role-Based Access Control and User Access Reviews to Drata allows multiple teams to securely work together, eliminating the use of time-consuming, fragmented tools to ensure that only the people that should have access to systems, have access.  

"Role Based Access Control is a must-have for us in order to help protect business-sensitive information. This latest addition from Drata provides us greater configurability to ensure that our teams and those involved only have access and visibility to what they need to, while still being able to collaborate on our compliance needs," said Brian Zabeti, Security and Compliance Manager at Pliancy.

"With User Access Reviews, Drata allows us to automatically pull relevant data from all of our Okta-connected integrations, giving us much needed granular visibility into the level of user access with critical systems," said Lesley Heizman, Risk and Compliance Manager at Lucidworks. "We're continuously impressed by the evolution of the Drata platform and how much we are able to further seamlessly manage our GRC program."

In addition to Role-Based Access Control and User Access Reviews, Drata is also launching:

• Control Readiness Approval enhancements that provide customers with greater flexibility and control when managing and determining a control's readiness status in Drata.
• Evidence Library with Cloud Storage to simplify the control evidence upload, linking, and storage process. Evidence Library has been updated to allow customers to connect to a cloud storage provider (such as Google, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) and upload evidence directly from their cloud storage drive.

"Whether you're an emerging startup or enterprise organization, all companies need to have a solid understanding and ability to govern the entry points and access levels to their systems; it's foundational in maintaining a healthy security compliance posture," said Adam Markowitz, Drata Co-Founder and CEO. "Our latest enhancements give our customers the flexibility to proactively manage and automate access reviews within Drata as well as increase their control over their tech stack, all in one centralized platform."

New tools will aim to streamline the ability of finance professionals to analyze lengthy financial reports and disclosures using Google Cloud's generative AI

Moody's Corporation and Google Cloud today announced a new strategic partnership to explore bringing together Moody's expertise in financial analysis and Google Cloud's advanced generative AI (gen AI) technologies to help Moody's customers and employees leverage new large language models (LLMs) to glean new financial insights and summarize financial data faster.

The partnership is premised on three core objectives:

Building LLMs to Accelerate Financial Analysis: Powered by Google Cloud's gen AI platform, Vertex AI, and leveraging Moody's unique analytical expertise, Moody's and Google will explore co-creation of fine-tuned LLMs purpose-built for financial professionals, enabling customers to perform faster, deeper analyses of financial reports, disclosures and other materials. For example, customers will be able to interrogate, analyze, and draw decision-ready insight directly from financial disclosures.

Enabling Access to Moody's Data in BigQuery for Financial Insights: Moody's will enable access to its proprietary datasets through BigQuery, Google Cloud's serverless data warehouse, which helps customers manage, query, and analyze data. This integration will allow customers to combine Moody's vast databases with their native data assets, and use them in combination with LLMs in Vertex AI. Customers will be able to build and access AI models, accelerating time-to-value through increased efficiency and individualized use cases for financial services professionals.

Enhancing Enterprise Search for Financial Data: Moody's will introduce Vertex AI Search to increase efficiencies by automating manual workflows and combining multiple data sets for easier summation, deeper insights, and overall improved productivity.

"Moody's deep expertise in understanding financial data, disclosures, and reporting uniquely position us to anchor development of fine-tuned large language models," said Nick Reed, Chief Product Officer, Moody's Corporation. "Through this partnership, research teams at Moody's and Google Cloud will collaborate on fine-tuned LLMs and AI applications that will enable financial service professionals to produce new, proprietary insights faster than ever before."

"Our collaboration with Moody's is a blueprint for how advanced gen AI technology can drive efficiencies for financial institutions and employees in the financial services industry," said Phil Moyer, VP, Global AI Business and Solutions, Google Cloud. "By combining Google Cloud's cutting-edge gen AI capabilities with Moody's expertise, we can help customers make better decisions and employees be more productive."

CUJO AI, the leading provider of device intelligence and home network security solutions, today announced that it will offer an additional service on its platform to detect, identify, and secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices that use the Thread mesh network protocol and the Matter fabric. These capabilities further enhance CUJO AI's commitment to providing comprehensive, future-proof device intelligence and network security to consumers and network operators.

Thread, the low-latency wireless mesh protocol for IoT devices, is one of the core technologies behind the growing adoption of Matter, an application-level protocol supported by an international community of over 540 technology companies, including Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and IKEA. Until now, Thread networks and devices stayed essentially invisible to network service providers (NSPs), limiting the range and granularity of insights into IoT device adoption and security issues.

The low-power protocol is supported and promoted by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), which has created the Matter standard. Matter simplifies and secures IoT device interoperability across platforms and aims to have a streamlined certification process and reduce IoT manufacturer expenses associated with supporting multiple standards. The standard simplifies the setup and management of IoT devices for consumers, eliminating the need for numerous applications and other major obstacles to widespread adoption of consumer IoT technology.

IoT devices have many publicly known vulnerabilities, some of which can allow an attacker to penetrate the entire home network and cause a lot of damage. As the growing adoption of Matter is likely to spark a new surge in IoT devices in consumer homes, the visibility of Thread devices can pose significant cybersecurity challenges to network service providers, as vulnerable IoT devices are being targeted by malicious actors, according to the data from the 2023 cybersecurity report by CUJO AI Labs.

The addition of Thread and Matter into CUJO AI's advanced device intelligence capabilities offers significant enhancements for network operators even beyond consumer cybersecurity. With CUJO AI Explorer and Lens, operators can achieve industry-leading device identification for Thread and Matter devices, providing valuable insights into technology adoption and its impact on core services. This enables network service providers (NSPs) to predict the increased demand for network connectivity, anticipate the need for automation, and optimize the quality of service. By leveraging CUJO AI's device intelligence, NSPs can make informed decisions, streamline operations, and deliver exceptional connectivity and services to their customers.

"CUJO AI is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge device identification cybersecurity solutions that adapt to the evolving IoT landscape," said Remko Vos, CEO, CUJO AI. "By integrating with Matter and Thread, we are at the forefront of providing our customers with comprehensive protection and valuable insights for a full range of connected devices."

With the recent announcement of Matter standard 1.1 and strong support from industry leaders, including Apple, Google, Ikea, and Samsung, Matter-enabled devices are set to become increasingly popular. CUJO AI continues to deliver on its mission to provide advanced device intelligence and network security solutions that meet the evolving needs of the IoT landscape.

Dahua Technology, a world-leading video-centric AIoT solution and service provider, recently held its 5th Partner Day in Ibiza, Spain. Under the theme "Think# as One", the event highlighted Dahua's dedication to expanding partnerships in multiple fields, jointly creating a mutually beneficial and win-win ecosystem for the sustainable development of the AIoT industry.

The grand event witnessed the presence of more than 370 distinguished leaders and representatives from key sectors such as cybersecurity, smart city, transportation, retail, energy, and education across Europe. In addition to technical partners, this event also brings together system integrators, end users, and organizations from various fields.

Mr. David Shen, President of Dahua WEU, opened the event by expressing his gratitude to the attendees. His opening remarks delivered the core message of comprehensive collaboration with diverse fields including hardware, software, training, certification and delivery, working as one to create a more inclusive ecosystem.

In the following keynote speech, Mr. Neil Ni, Vice President of Dahua Global Business, emphasized the importance of partnerships with ecosystem collaborators and their role in facilitating innovation and mutual growth in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Aligning with the company's business strategy and core AIoT capabilities, Mr. Ni outlined Dahua's ecosystem strategy in three key dimensions: awareness, framework, and operation, and how these contribute to the success of both industry customers and ecosystem partners. He stressed that Dahua will further deepen its ecosystem and open up capabilities at multiple levels including business, technology, and services to enhance experience and benefits of partners. "By combining our strengths, we can co-create value-driven solutions that transcend boundaries and address complex challenges. Through mutual empowerment, we can expand market reach, enhance product portfolios, and achieve sustainable growth that benefits all stakeholders," he concluded.

Mr. Nash Zhang, Managing Director of Dahua Global Enterprise Business mentioned EU's accelerated digital transformation in four key areas, including infrastructure construction, enterprise transformation, public services, and talent cultivation. He went on to share Dahua's application projects in aiding the digital transformation of industrial parks, education, and energy enterprises, as well as its active participation in low-carbon zone management in Spain, which has a positive impact on a safe, efficient, and green future.

Furthermore, a roundtable discussion regarding digital education was conducted among distinguished experts in the education industry, delving into the challenges and trends in different countries, the level of digitalization and IT, the balance of educational resources, and the advantages of online classrooms. It provided valuable insights for the development of a high-performing digital education ecosystem in Europe.

The event also showcased insights into Dahua's commitment to cybersecurity. These include an informative presentation from SGS Brightsight focusing on Dahua's Common Criteria EAL2 and EAL3 assessment and certification, as well as an in-depth outlook at Dahua's thermal imaging product testing project shared by CNPP. "Cybersecurity is Dahua's top priority. We have been exploring and applying industry best practices to ensure the security of our products and customer privacy and data. We will continue to consolidate our security capabilities, strengthen deep cooperation with third-party organizations like SGS Brightsight and CNPP, to help customers comply with GDPR and better respond to today's cybersecurity challenges," said Mr. Shen.

As one of the most important strategic initiatives of the company, Dahua always values open and comprehensive cooperation, committed to creating value for its partners, growing together with them, and contributing to their greater success. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, Dahua will remain dedicated to empowering various industries through technology integration and joint solutions, contributing to a green, safe, and efficient digital world together.

New HomePass features empower consumers to prioritize the throughput of the applications, devices, and people that are most important to them at any time

Network services and consumer experience pioneer Plume^® has introduced new AI-driven personalization features within its HomePass^® app. The company's Founder and CEO, Fahri Diner, will welcome this new era of user control in a headline keynote at Network X on Wednesday, October 25 at 9:50 AM CEST.

App Priority from Plume allows users to prioritize their own application-level traffic and ensure peak performance via a number of options: through general application categories across the home, through applications running on individual devices, or through applications being used by specific people on the WiFi network. Plume is also introducing a first-of-its-kind Security Boost feature that enables users to automatically prioritize network traffic for home security devices and applications when away from home or when the household is asleep.

These new developments are the consumer-facing features of Plume's recently announced Full Stack Optimization. Full Stack Optimization added the sophistication of application awareness needed to identify, measure, and prioritize application traffic flows. Plume expects to roll out the new features globally via the Plume HomePass app beginning in the first quarter of 2024.

Key User Benefits:

• App Category Priority—Users can boost the throughput and performance of bandwidth-intensive Gaming, Streaming, Video Calling, or Home Security app families across all devices and people in the home.
• Device Priority—Throughput to apps running on specific devices can be prioritized for increments of one hour, end-of-day, or indefinitely.
• People Priority—Application flows for the devices assigned to a specific user profile can also be prioritized for increments of one hour, end-of-day, or indefinitely.
• Home Security Boost—By combining App Category Priority with Plume's Sense™ service—which uses WiFi signals to detect movement and track each user's primary device inside the home—consumers can opt into "Away Mode" which will trigger the HomePass app to automatically boost throughput for home security devices and their associated apps when the home is empty or inactive.
• Dynamic traffic prioritization—In each case, non-urgent traffic, such as software updates, is deprioritized to reduce interference with real-time applications to bring additional optimization of the home network.
• Monitor app performance—Users can monitor each app family's performance rating on a scale of excellent, fair, or poor to gain visibility into the home network, make decisions around what to prioritize, and verify their boosts are achieving better connectivity.
• The new controls are entirely optional—Users can choose to allow Plume to optimize performance based on its AI-driven algorithms via the default Automated Mode. Plume's adaptive WiFi intelligently monitors the home network and tunes it for optimal performance based on multiple factors including usage patterns, load, and interference.
• Efficient and proactive support—The new prioritization-based feature set presents an opportunity for service providers to improve customer support. Application category-, device-, and people-level insights available through Plume's Haystack® Support Suite can enable service providers to diagnose and resolve network performance issues more rapidly, leading to reduced support calls, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced churn.

"Consumer experience is the new currency for the modern service provider," said Michael Philpott, Research Director at Omdia. "The days of focusing marketing campaigns on speed and price are numbered—our research shows that consumers now value experience over all else. This new development will bring them greater control over their in-home device and application experiences."

Partnership will offer new capabilities for advocacy groups to reach office holders with digital messaging

Statara Solutions, LLC has announced a partnership with civic engagement platform BallotReady to provide the first-of-their-kind distinct digital audiences of state and federal elected officials.

Through this partnership, Statara has matched BallotReady's list of all U.S. elected officials and made them available in online ad buying platforms for advocacy campaigns and other groups to include in their digital ads.

"We're excited to partner with BallotReady and provide new resources for advocacy groups to reach policy makers online with their messages," said Bryan Whitaker, CEO at Statara. "Statara is proud to be the first provider to offer this distinct targeting capability to causes across the country." 

Statara's Identity Insights, a data set of approximately 260 million individuals (U.S.), is produced through industry-leading data sourcing, modeling, enhancement, and auditing. Statara Identity Insights features over 800 attributes depicting contact information, demographics, consumer interests, buying behaviors, model scores, voting information, donation history, and more.

Bandwidth Inc., a leading global enterprise cloud communications company, today announced it will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023 after market close on Thursday, November 2, 2023.

Bandwidth will offer a live webcast of the conference call on the Investor Relations section of the company's website at https://investors.bandwidth.com, where a replay will also be available shortly following the completion of the conference call.

Conference call details:
Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Dial-in number (domestic): 844-481-2707
Dial-in number (international): 412-317-0663

Replay information:
Following the completion of the call through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, November 9, 2023, a replay will be available by dialing (877) 344-7529 for the U.S. or (412) 317-0088 for callers outside the U.S., and entering passcode 8162695.

With its state-of-the-art interface, DataVerse promises to redefine data visualization, offering a 360-degree perspective, to identify and resolve data policy noncompliance.

Traditionally, data management platforms are constrained by the limited amount of real estate visible in a 2D environment. This limitation makes it difficult for analysts to visualize the details of large complex data flows and nearly impossible to visualize anomalies introduced as the data moves. What if business and data teams could pinpoint the moment a data policy violation is introduced in a downstream system and mitigate the risk? Global IDs proudly introduces the next-generation DataVerse solution that allows companies to enforce data policies throughout the enterprise using a pioneering user interface that:

1. Zooms in and out to see the entire data lifecycle
2. Identifies where quality policy violations are introduced
3. Pinpoints the violation to analyze and raise a ticket for issue resolution

"I am delighted to introduce the Global IDs DataVerse, an Augmented Reality product that allows users to effectively govern their data as it moves throughout the ecosystem", said Dr. Arka Mukherjee, the Founder and CEO of Global IDs while announcing the release of DataVerse. "Our customers and business partners demand solutions at ecosystem scale which is why DataVerse showcases Augmented Reality to visualize the entire data lifecycle on screens as small as a cellphone.  DataVerse helps the business user discover and resolve quality policy noncompliance caused by data transformations, faulty ETL logic, and human error", added Dr. Mukherjee.

DataVerse users can visualize both the aggregate and granular changes in data flow at ecosystem scale on one screen. This UI innovation significantly increases productivity as the user does not lose context by switching screens. "DataVerse is a simple, centralized ML-based data governance product that is fully automated and built for the business user. I welcome you to try it", concluded Dr. Mukherjee.

DataVerse allows users to search for, select, and trace individual records to see how the record flows across the data landscape.This is useful, for example, when verifying the source of critical data elements or when troubleshooting the source of data leakage.

Master data and reference data teams will use DataVerse to understand all consumers of their master and reference data. The platform allows the same data quality policies used in master data and reference data systems to be consistently enforced across the enterprise.

Our market research indicates that these capabilities are novel.