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Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro

Soundcore, Anker Innovations’ premium audio brand, today introduces the next generation in its popular Liberty true-wireless earbud line, the Liberty Air 2 Pro, featuring advanced active noise-cancellation (ANC), transparency and PureNote driver technology.

The Liberty Air 2 Pro was designed to sound great, even with noise-canceling turned on. To do this, Soundcore engineers developed PureNote driver technology, that utilizes ten hardened nano layers to make up the 11mm driver in each earbud, offering accurate sound and clarity at all frequencies. Soundcore then worked to tune the earbuds, both with ANC turned on and off, to make sure that music always sounded like artists originally intended.

The Liberty Air 2 Pro offers users the ability to change between three noise cancellation modes including Transport mode, when needed to block out low frequency noises from airplanes, trains or city buses; Outdoor mode, which use a less powerful ANC setting but wider bandwidth to block out street noise, and finally Indoor mode, which primarily reduces mid-range frequencies to help block out voices that are commonly found in an office or at a café.

Additionally, the Liberty Air 2 Pro also features Transparency mode with two different settings. Mode 1 is for total transparency which helps enhance all ambient sounds. This is ideal for runners and bicyclists that need to safely hear noises around them on a city street. The second transparency mode focuses on vocals to enhance voices in the immediate vicinity while simultaneously reducing background noise. This mode is ideal for users who may be waiting for a flight or a bus but still need to hear announcements from a P.A. speaker or flight attendant.

OPPO RENO5 SERIES The Reno5 series establishes itself as the photography expert in any scenario with AI-powered features that allow users to master every single moment. The new AI Highlight Video, available on both Reno5 Pro 5G and Reno5 5G, combines OPPO’s Ultra Night Video Algorithms and Live HDR Algorithms to significantly enhance video quality in dim light and backlit scenes. Together with a 32MP front camera, 16MP Ultra Wide-angle Camera, 13MP Telephoto Camera, 2MP Macro camera, and a Color Temperature Sensor, the 50MP Sony IMX766 on the OPPO Reno5 Pro 5G supports All-Pixel Omni Focus, in which every pixel is used in focusing the image. The result is a significantly superior video and photo shooting experience that provides consistent high-quality images with optimum brightness and sharp focus even in the most challenging of circumstances. A brand new dual-view video enables both the front and rear OPPO has launched its new, first-ever, all-5G Reno5 cameras to work simultaneously, effortlessly stitching the series comprising Reno5 Pro 5G, Reno5 5G and Reno5 Z shooter and the subject in the same video frame – ideal for smartphones. vloggers who always want to remain in the action.

Avaya collaboration devices

Avaya has announced new devices designed to significantly improve workstream collaboration. This includes a redesigned Avaya Vantage K155 with Amazon Alexa builtin, as well as a new Avaya IP Conference Phone B129, and Avaya Huddle Camera HC010.

The Avaya Vantage K155 has been redesigned to deliver a new level of simplicity and productivity for the home office worker, providing a horizontal touch screen and physical keypad. It is integrated with the Avaya Spaces workstream collaboration platform for immersive virtual communications and team collaboration, and extends Avaya’s Composable Home Office. Leveraging the Avaya OneCloud portfolio of UCaaS, CCaaS and CPaaS solutions, the Composable Home Office empowers businesses to create personalised and more productive home office experiences for employees and customer service agents. Avaya Vantage K155 provides a highdefinition camera, wideband audio, wireless connection and new “screen shifting” technology to enable new flexibility when participating in a meeting. Content, meeting participants, or both can be shifted to a larger screen based on the meeting dynamics at any given moment. For presenting content, one touch on the Avaya Vantage opens the same meeting on a laptop to enable presentation sharing options.

LENOVO HPC SOLUTIONS EMERSON ROSEMOUNT Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) has 4390 SERIES announced new Emerson introduces a complete corrosion and erosion industry leading monitoring portfolio with digital capabilities and ThinkSystem and full integration with the Plantweb digital ecosystem ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions to through the new Rosemount 4390 series of corrosion support edge-to-cloud computing. These new and enhanced and erosion wireless transmitters and Plantweb hybrid cloud solutions are designed to help organisations of Insight Non-Intrusive Corrosion application. The all sizes, modernize, better secure their IT infrastructure, and monitoring portfolio turns existing offline corrosion deliver faster data insights – all powered by the new AMD probes into online tools to monitor for the risk EPYC 7003 Series processors. Specifically optimised to run of corrosion or erosion in oil and gas processing. demanding cloud computing workloads such as VDI, database Combined with Emerson’s class-leading range of nonand analytics, artificial intelligence and more, these solutions intrusive Rosemount Wireless Permasense sensors have built-in security features to help protect against data for monitoring metal thickness, which is a major factor integrity and firmware threats. in determining the health of piping and other fixed

To help customers maximize their IT investments, Lenovo equipment, Emerson now offers a comprehensive extends the ThinkSystem server portfolio to include the new solution to monitor both the risk of corrosion or 2-socket Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 and SR665 and new erosion, and the impact of that risk on the health of Lenovo ThinkSystem 1-socket SR635 and SR655 servers, the plant or asset. powered by AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors. These When instrumented with inline probes, changes in solutions can take advantage of the AMD EPYC 7003 series corrosion risk can be detected in minutes, enabling processors’ ~25% more generational performance in its 16 sites to take corrective actions before damage occurs. core category. The combination of Lenovo’s industry leading The Rosemount 4390 series of corrosion and erosion server reliability and performance enhancements are ideal transmitters leverage WirelessHART for reliable and for customers building their edge-to-cloud infrastructure. robust data retrieval and work with Emerson’s inline Beneficial for research and development, financial services, probes that measure the corrosive and erosive nature of retail and manufacturing, these new platforms are designed to the fluid and provide early risk detection for a site. The accelerate computational power to deliver business insights. Plantweb Insight Corrosion applications allow users to

Lenovo launches new ThinkAgile VX Series hyperconverged access and analyze data from pipe thickness monitoring platforms combined with third-generation AMD EPYC sensors and inline probes at their desk and gainrealprocessors. These solutions are tightly integrated with time advanced analytics to assess the risk and impact of VMware vSAN to enable public cloud-like simplicity, in a corrosion or erosion on the asset or plant. private or hybrid cloud environment.

EMPOWERING YOUR SOC

SUNIL PAUL, MD OF FINESSE, ON HOW TO TRANSITION TO AN INTELLIGENT SOC

Cyber adversaries have pushed the boundaries of engagement, expanding the ever-evolving attack surface, especially as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Security chiefs across the globe have their hands full addressing immediate threats brought on by digitalisation and large workforces moving to remote working models. The UAE alone recorded at least a 250% increase in cyber-attacks over the past year, according to the country’s Government Cybersecurity Head Mohamed al-Kuwaiti.

Even as we gradually settle into the new normal, cybercrime shows no sign of abating. In fact, during this year, we can expect to see a cyber-attack incident occur every 11 seconds, costing the world in excess of $6 million annually, revealed a Cybersecurity Ventures report.

It’s not that businesses are not taking any action – a recent Canalys forecast expects cybersecurity investments to increase by 10% worldwide in the best-case scenario in 2021. But is this enough to face what we are up against? Many businesses have introduced or doubled down on Security Operations Centers (SOCs). But the traditional SOC may drastically come up short when addressing today’s advanced cybercrime. Now more than ever, organisations must equip SOCs with all the right ingredients to make it an intelligent one.

This means ensuring your security professionals manning the SOCs have the right tools to do their jobs effectively. SOCs house people, software and hardware. It is the nerve center for security operations at an organisation. SOC analysts are tasked with monitoring and assessing systems for vulnerabilities, collecting and analyzing information, proactively taking action to prevent potential threats and so on. The volume of data and potential attack surfaces exponentially increases when businesses expand and grow their operations. But often the investments do not simultaneously translate to strengthening its cybersecurity postures. Without automated smart intelligent technologies and tools, the SOC teams are essentially set up for failure.

A powerful blend of cloud native and evolved SIEM tools, AI, machine learning, automation and advanced analytics capabilities form the core of a modern SOC. This allows for continuous threat detection and monitoring, intelligent and faster analysis of large datasets, and enables automated responses. An intelligent SOC helps a company derive maximum value across its security investments, namely people, process and technology. It also empowers SOC professionals to be more productive and make quick strategic decisions to secure the enterprise against digital risk.

Enterprises have to remember that investing in technologies solely is not sufficient. A huge challenge that CISOs face today is the shortage of skilled SOC professionals. Businesses must foster a learning culture and encourage collaboration and innovation to retain and upskill talent.

Switching to an intelligent next-gen SOC may not be a necessity right away for all businesses. Take the time to evaluate if your current business growth stage warrants additional security investments. If your SOC team is able to perform efficiently and is not struggling with a mountain of alerts, and the attack surface is well covered, then the transition could be gradual. But there is no denying that intelligent modern SOCs will shape the future of cyber resilience.