Technology Record - Issue 25: Summer 2022

29 Akamai has revealed three new research reports, focusing on three areas of web security: ransomware, web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs), and domain name system (DNS) traffic. The Akamai Ransomware Threat Report, Akamai Web Application & API Threat Report, and Akamai DNS Traffic Insights Threat Report analyse the modern attack landscape, focusing on trends and attack techniques as well as solutions to solve cybersecurity issues. “Akamai’s unparalleled visibility across much of the global threat landscape allows our researchers to analyse and correlate events that are seldom seen by other groups,” says Ofri Ziv, senior director of security research at Akamai. Download Akamai’s Web Application and API Threat Report here: www.akamai. com/resources/research-paper/akamai-web-application-and-api-threat-report Akamai reveals research on top three internet security threats Microsoft’s Rodney Clark moves to Johnson Controls Former Microsoft executive Rodney Clark has become the new chief commercial officer at Johnson Controls (JCI), an industry leader offering the largest portfolio of products, technologies, software, and services making buildings smarter, healthier and more sustainable. Microsoft and JCI are collaborating closely on the artificial intelligence-led digital transformation of the built environment, accelerating the deployment of digital twins, internet of things technology and energyefficiency solutions. Clark will now spearhead JCI’s commercial strategy for the partnership, which aims to create a new and more advanced compute architecture for buildings. “With buildings accounting for nearly 40 per cent of climate change emissions, the JCI and Microsoft initiative is incredibly important globally,” said Clark. Read more on page 62. Blackbird reveals need for optimised production tools Technology licenser, developer and seller Blackbird has demonstrated that natively optimised production tools can transform video production and streaming in its recent video industry study. The study, produced in collaboration with Caretta Research, found that 90 per cent of video professionals are using cloud production and remote editing as part of their content creation but that most of this remote editing is still implemented using inefficient and slow workflows. “These inefficiencies can be most evident in speed, cost and flexibility which also happen to be the most important factors in any cloud workflow, according to the data we have collected,” said Ian McDonough, CEO of Blackbird. “The encouraging news is that highly optimised, energy and carbon efficient cloud-native technologies exist to solve these issues.” Download the full report here: https://downloads.carettaresearch.com/cloud-production

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