17.4.20

InterSystems lance une nouvelle version de la plate-forme de données InterSystems IRIS ®


La nouvelle version du logiciel leader du marché facilite encore plus le développement et le déploiement d'applications en temps réel, basées sur l'apprentissage automatique, qui relient les données et les silos d'applications
Cambridge, Mass. - InterSystems, un fournisseur de technologies de données créatives dédié à aider les clients à résoudre les problèmes les plus critiques en matière d'évolutivité, d'interopérabilité et de vitesse, vient d’annoncer la disponibilité d’une nouvelle version  de la plate-forme de données InterSystems IRIS® (InterSystems IRIS® data platform). Il s’agit de la troisième version majeure d'InterSystems IRIS, la plateforme de données phare de l'entreprise, qui permet aux entreprises de résoudre leurs problèmes les plus critiques d’interopérabilité, d’évolutivité et de vitesse.
InterSystems IRIS propose maintenant une version bêta d'IntegratedML, permettant aux développeurs d'applications et d’SQL de développer des algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique (ML) et de les intégrer de manière simple, intuitive et évolutive dans des applications sophistiquées. IntegratedML améliore aussi la productivité des scientifiques qui traitent des données en automatisant une grande partie du travail fastidieux nécessité par le développement d'algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique.
« Cette nouvelle version de la plate-forme InterSystems Iris accroit son utilité pour développer des applications hautes performances, basées sur l'apprentissage automatique, qui couvrent les données et les silos d'applications », explique Scott Gnau, responsable plates-formes de données chez InterSystems. « Nous continuons à piloter la plate-forme en fonction des besoins de nos clients qui mettent activement en œuvre leurs initiatives de transformation numérique. »
En plus du lancement d’IntegratedML, InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.1 comporte des fonctionnalités avancées et des améliorations de performances significatives. Celles-ci sont :
·       Rapidité et évolutivité. La nouvelle version améliore encore les performances et l'efficacité. Ces performances ont été testées pour être jusqu'à 200 fois plus rapides que celles d’autres technologies de gestion des données. De plus, elle permet aux utilisateurs de faire évoluer plus facilement les déploiements et cela avec des capacités supplémentaires pour la gestion d’environnements distribués.
·       Cloud et déploiement. Désormais, InterSystems IRIS propose des améliorations supplémentaires qui étendent et simplifient la prise en charge du cloud public et privé, du déploiement multi-cloud, sur site, hybride et les options cloud tout comme le support améliorée de Kubernetes.
La nouvelle version d’InterSystems IRIS comporte également une amélioration de l’interopérabilité, de la sécurité et des  fonctionnalités et simplifie la migration à partir d'autres technologies de gestion des données. InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.1  est disponible dès maintenant.
Pour en savoir plus et pour recevoir gratuitement la  version d’essai, visitez https://gettingstarted.intersystems.com/.

16.4.20

ESET Foundation ondersteunt Slowaakse onderzoek tegen COVID



Vorsers van de Slowaakse bedrijven MultiplexDX, Lambda Life en ProScience Tech werken samen met virologen van het Biomedical Research Center van de Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAV) om een reagenskit te ontwikkelen volgens de protocollen van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO) voor betrouwbare detectie van SARS-CoV-2.
In een eerste fase zijn ze van plan 100.000 PCR-tests te produceren en beschikbaar te stellen. De ESET Foundation heeft de ontwikkeling van de kit ondersteund en zal de eerste 100.000 tests financieren, die als donaties in natura aan de Slowaakse Republiek zullen worden aangeboden.
Sleutelcomponenten werden aan het project toegevoegd door MultiplexDX, een bedrijf gespecialiseerd het ontwikkelen en producuren van innovatieve moleculaire diagnostische reagentia. De Slowaakse PCR-test wordt gevalideerd in samenwerking met een team wetenschappers van BMC SAV. De voorlopige resultaten van de nieuwe test laten niet alleen nominale functionaliteit zien, maar ook een goede gevoeligheid in vergelijking met de momenteel gebruikte diagnostische tests. “Door betrouwbaarheid en precisie te combineren, is het mogelijk om met onze test patiënten in een vroege fase te diagnosticeren. We zijn in staat om de belangrijkste componenten voor 100.000 PCR-tests binnen twee weken te produceren ”, aldus Pavol Čekan, oprichter van MultiplexDX.
"Als onderdeel van de validatie en registratie van het rapport werken we samen met CCCT SK, een non-profitorganisatie. Deze fase duurt ongeveer drie weken ', zegt Adam Andráško van ProScience Tech.
"De detectie van het virus bestaat uit het nemen van een staal, het isoleren van het RNA en het uitvoeren van een diagnostische PCR-test, waarbij onze gezamenlijke inspanningen gericht zijn op deze laatste stap", verduidelijkt Ivan Juráš van Lambda Life.
"Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat de inspanningen van onze wetenschappers succesvol zullen zijn en dat we genoeg PCR-tests zullen laten produceren uit eigen middelen voor de detectie van coronavirus. Zo  zullen we niet alleen Slowakije kunnen helpen door de nodige tests uit te voeren, maar ook een reserve creëren in geval van een tekort aan tests op wereldvlak, ”zegt Robert Mistrík, lid van de permanente crisisstaf.
De ESET Foundation ondersteunt de ontwikkeling van de test en financiert de eerste 100.000 eenheden voor een effectieve diagnose en preventie van COVID-19. Deze tests worden geschonken aan Slowaakse openbare instellingen. 'Het doel van deze schenking  is om op grote schaal een effectieve diagnose mogelijk te maken, wat alleen kan door wetenschappelijke samenwerking. De huidige crisis geeft het belang aan van ondersteuning van de wetenschap in Slowakije, waar de ESET Foundation zich al lang voor inzet ', aldus Richard Marko, CEO van ESET.
De productiecapaciteit - inclusief de eerste 100.000 tests - wordt voornamelijk ter beschikking gesteld aan Slowaakse diagnose labo’s. “We zijn bereid om samen te werken met openbare labo’s door flexibel in te spelen op hun behoeften en door hen op een efficiënte manier tests te leveren. Als we aan de behoeften van Slowaakse labo’s hebben voldaan, kunnen we onze producten vervolgens aanbieden aan andere landen die ze nodig hebben ", aldus de testontwikkelaars.

15.4.20

Is global Privacy an oxymoron?




While in France a citizen of Brazil who resides in California books a bungee jump in New Zealand. Is it a leap of faith into the unknown for both the operator and the thrill-seeker?

By Tony Anscombe

The internet has created truly global markets for businesses that would have once remained local and may have struggled to reach a large enough audience to be profitable. Access to any website, from nearly anywhere in the world, and the willingness of the business behind it to engage with customers and deliver services or products to faraway places, has revolutionized business opportunities for entrepreneurs.

This increased opportunity brings about many challenges – for example, checkout, payment options and tax regulations may differ from country to country. Fortunately, businesses can utilize a number of outsourcing service providers and rely on them to provide the needed expertise for e-commerce and payment systems that comply with local laws and regulations. The entrepreneur is then free to focus on delivering goods or services to customers. This opens the opportunity for even the smallest business to trade on a global basis.

Conducting business online typically requires the collection of data about customers and visitors to a web site; this takes the form of web analytics, newsletter subscriptions, ad targeting, or it may be a service subscription or product purchase. Depending on the location of the business, and the location, residency or citizenship of the visitor or customer, the company may need to comply with data privacy legislation. As a consumer, I am an advocate for the need to protect my personal information through robust legislation, but companies doing global business may be stepping into a minefield.

In February I delivered a presentation at CyberSecCon2020 in Auckland, New Zealand on the lessons learned around the requirements of the data privacy regulations of both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ahead of the forthcoming New Zealand Privacy Bill, which is currently working its way through the legislative procedure and is expected to become law in the coming months.
There are over 100 countries in the world having some form of data privacy legislation, ranging from limited all the way through to robust. Then add do that a number of countries, like the USA, that have individual legislation state-by-state. This is a complex subject!

Taking a leap of faith
Let’s imagine a fictional customer – Francisco – a citizen of Brazil, who is a legal resident of California and travels frequently on business. Francisco has decided to check off a life goal and bungee jump in the home of bungee, New Zealand. He travels from California to France on business and will then travel to New Zealand, but while in France he books a bungee experience with a company based in New Zealand.
·       For the purpose of my example, let’s imagine that 50,000 California residents a year visit the bungee business in New Zealand. As a California resident, Francisco is protected by CCPA, since the legislation applies to the state’s residents regardless of where they, or the businesses they are transacting with, are located.
·       The transaction was initiated in France, a country that is part of the European Union (EU). The EU’s GDPR legislation covers anyone located in an EU country at the time of the personal information being collected.
·       The website Francisco is transacting with is based in New Zealand, where the proposed legislation applies to agencies (businesses) located there.

Which legislation should the company in New Zealand comply with? Last year when I asked a similar hypothetical question of someone in the European Commission, they responded with “that’s a great question”.
The confusion is likely to exist from Francisco’s perspective as well. As a Brazilian citizen, he may think that the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) provides protection, or that as a California resident the CCPA provides his protection.

Let’s extend the hypothetical scenario: Francisco returns home to California and requests the bungee company to delete his personal information and they refuse or fail to confirm the request. To which regulator should he make a complaint? It’s highly probable that consumers may not understand their rights when companies are in countries where they are not residents, or they could assume the process to be too complicated when a company holding their personal data is in another country.

Each of the regulations in my example has different requirements: the GDPR is opt-in for data collection, the CCPA is opt-out. The GDPR states that data must be encrypted; CCPA and the proposed New Zealand Privacy Bill both state that reasonable security measures should be taken but do not specify any further detail. The differences in the requirements are numerous and in the unfortunate instance of a data breach occurring, who should be notified, and could fines be levied by multiple regulators in different countries? And which of the several legal systems will apply, or will several? There may be legal precedent for which regulation takes priority, but this is not clear to me, a non-lawyer.

Confused? Probably. I know I am!
Our entrepreneur from earlier needs clarity so that data privacy does not inhibit anyone from conducting business in any location. And consumers should be able to visit any business online with assurance that there is protection of their data and accountability regardless of where they or the business is located, including in countries without specific legislation.

One rule to ring them all
The internet is a global marketplace and there are some existing data privacy agreements in place that attempt to provide a baseline. These are limited in participation and regional; a list can be found on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website.
Is it time for one common set of rules on data privacy regardless of residency, citizenship or location? There is precedent for such rules; for example, 123 countries signed the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Marrakesh Agreement in 1994, which regulates international trade between nations. If we accept that data is now a commodity item that has a value and is traded, then maybe it could be included in a standard agreement, in the same way the WTO regulates trading rules. A truly international standard would need to adopt core principles and countries could always supplement these with their own amendments, in the same way countries adopt trade agreements between each other on top of the current WTO standard.

I am using the WTO as an example, but there are numerous global organizations where a centralized data privacy agreement could reside. Probably the most important element of any widely agreed international regulation would be defining which regulator is responsible and when, clarifying whether a citizen, resident or their location takes precedence or whether a business is responsible by location or place of transaction.

At CyberSecCon2020, all the attendees I talked to were clearly engaged in preparing for the New Zealand Privacy Bill, but at a security conference covering data privacy this is probably to be expected. It’s the people who don’t attend that are the challenge. Many companies may want to comply and have a desire to sell and transact globally but are confused about what they should comply with.

There are core principles for data privacy that are common in the majority of the regulations and legislation:
·                 The reasons why personal information is collected, where it is collected and how it is          collected.
·                How the personal information is protected from unauthorized access and how the data is stored.
·               The right for an individual to know what personal information is being held about them.
·              The ability to request the correction of inaccurate data and the right to request data be deleted.
·               Limitations on how organizations can use the information collected.

Unfortunately, the same core principles are not so clear when it comes to security requirements, as some legislation details specific requirements and others talk about “reasonable” security. Prior to the CCPA taking effect in January, I co-authored a white paper that gives a view on what could be considered essential security requirements. I recommend that any business collecting or storing data follows the principles listed in the ESET’s guide to reasonable security section of that white paper.